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  Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2020 The orbiter-reentry capsule combination of China's Chang'e 5 robotic probe carried out its first moon-Earth transfer injection maneuver on Saturday morning, placing itself in an elliptical lunar orbit, according to China National Space Administration. The combination had been traveling in a near-circular lunar orbit for nearly six days before conducting the maneuver, which is intended to enable the spacecraft to shift toward a moon-Earth transfer trajectory, the administration said in a statement. ... read more |
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter MysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2020 Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent history's first probe into the atmosphere of the solar system's largest planet. But the information returned by the Galileo probe during its descent into Jupiter cau ... more  
Research identifies Earth's extreme environments as best places for life to growEl Paso TX (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 A faculty member from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is at the forefront of research that is shaping new realities about the potential for new organisms to thrive in seemingly harsh, deso ... more  
Research develops new theoretical approach to manipulate lightExeter UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 The quest to discover pioneering new ways in which to manipulate how light travels through electromagnetic materials has taken a new, unusual twist. An innovative research project, carried out ... more  
'The robot made me do it': Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in peopleSouthampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understan ... more |
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Water on Mars not as widespread as previously thought, study findsFayetteville AK (SPX) Dec 11, 2020 Water on Mars, in the form of brines, may not be as widespread as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. Researche ... more 
Hubble identifies strange exoplanet that behaves like a "Planet Nine"Munich, Germany (ESA) Dec 11, 2020 The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hy ... more 
Israel sets sights on 2024 unmanned moon landingJerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface. ... more  
Japan begins space capsule analysis hoping for asteroid sampleTokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2020 Scientists in Japan on Tuesday began analysing a capsule sent back to Earth by a probe, hoping to find asteroid material that could offer clues on how the universe was formed. ... more 
NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon MissionsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 NASA has selected 18 astronauts from its corps to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Vice Presid ... more |
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 Chang'e 5 set to start journey to Earth 
NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe Ryugu asteroid dustGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 On Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from about 120 miles (or 200 kilometers) above Earth's sur ... more  |
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Ascender of Chang'e 5 leaves lunar orbit, lands on moonBeijing (XNA) Dec 09, 2020 The ascender of China's Chang'e 5 probe departed from the lunar orbit under ground commands at 6:59 am and landed on the moon at 7:30 am Tuesday (Beijing Time), sources with the China National Space ... more 
Image-based navigation could help spacecraft safely land on the moonTroy NY (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 In order for future lunar exploration missions to be successful and land more precisely, engineers must equip spacecraft with technologies that allow them to "see" where they are and travel to where ... more 
NASA defines science priorities for first crewed Artemis landing on MoonWashington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 NASA has identified the agency's science priorities for the Artemis III mission, which will launch the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024. The priorities and a candidate set of activities ... more 
Five hidden gems are riding aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars 2020 roverPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2020 More than halfway to the Red Planet, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover isn't just shuttling sophisticated science instruments and tubes to be filled with Earth-bound rock samples. It's carrying symbols ... more 
Simulations could unlock mystery of the Moon's formationDurham UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of "biomining" will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they need to build a long-term presence beyond Earth.
The BioAsteroid experiment will take up match-box sized containers carrying asteroid rock, that will then be used to grow bacteria and fungi in an i ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 
Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface.
The original Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis", was a tall, oddly shaped 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) spacecraft built by Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2020 
Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent history's first probe into the atmosphere of the solar system's largest planet. But the information returned by the Galileo probe during its descent into Jupiter caused head-scratching: The atmosphere it was plunging into was much denser and hotter than scientists expected.
New data from NASA's Juno spacecraft suggests that these "hot spots" are much wider ... more |
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 Riverside CW (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 
UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's eight new research teams tackling questions about the evolution and origins of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond our solar system.
The teams comprise the inaugural class of NASA's Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The UCR-led team is motivated by the fundamental question of how to det ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 
NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 (VCLS Demo 2) contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three companies selected to provide these commercial launch capabilities, and the value of their firm fixed-price contracts, are:
+ Astra Space Inc. of Alameda, C ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2020 
Scientists in Japan on Tuesday began analysing a capsule sent back to Earth by a probe, hoping to find asteroid material that could offer clues on how the universe was formed.
Officials from Japan's space agency said they were jubilant about the successful return of the capsule, which landed in Australia on Sunday after separating from the Hayabusa-2 probe.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Lockheed Martin has announced the U.S. Space Force has determined the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) is complete and ready for launch in 2021.
Built in a record time and at no additional cost to the government for the upgrade, SBIRS GEO-5 is the first military space satellite built on the company's modernized, modular LM 2100 combat bus ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2020 
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes e ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 10, 2020  The positively charged protons in atomic nuclei should actually repel each other, and yet even heavy nuclei with many protons and neutrons stick together. The so-called strong interaction is responsible for this. Prof. Laura Fabbietti and her research group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now developed a method to precisely measure the strong interaction utilizing particle colli ... more |
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 Southampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020  New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practiCal and policy implications, which this study set out to explore.
Dr Yaniv Hanoch, Associate Professor in Risk Manag ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2020 
X-61A unmanned aerial vehicles flew successfully in a test but could not be retrieved by a cargo plane, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.
It was the third test of the vehicles, nicknamed Gremlins Air Vehicles. Three were launched at an undisclosed location in tests beginning in late October, DARPA said in a statement on Thursday.
While all autonomous flying posi ... more |
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