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  Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 25, 2020 Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and a lesser-known company, Huntsville, Ala.-based Dynetics, are preparing for a major decision by NASA early in 2021 about which company will build human-carrying landers for trips to the moon. The three space firms were selected in April to submit proposals early this month. Having done that, they now await NASA's decision, which is scheduled for February. The space agency has indicated it could pick one or two of the proposals. At stake is the ... read more |
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Chandrayaan-2 Mission : Initial data releaseSriharikota, India (SPX) Dec 25, 2020 India's second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22nd July 2019 from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. The Orbiter which was injected into a lunar orbit on 2nd Sept 2019, car ... more  
Knowledge of asteroid composition to help avert collisionsHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 21, 2020 The European Space Agency ESA and NASA are working together to determine how the Earth might be protected against the threat posed by asteroids by altering their trajectory. VTT is taking part in th ... more 
The Subaru Telescope photographs the next target asteroid for Hayabusa2Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 21, 2020 On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2's extended mission. The positional data for 1998 KY26 collected during ... more  
Fluvial Mapping of MarsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 25, 2020 It took fifteen years of imaging and nearly three years of stitching the pieces together to create the largest image ever made, the 8-trillion-pixel mosaic of Mars' surface. Now, the first study to ... more |
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Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteoritesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 21, 2020 Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other organic molecules, including some used by life. The discove ... more 
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanetIthaca NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Bootes. The signal could b ... more 
China ponders moon base within five yearsBeijing (Sputnik) Dec 18, 2020 According to a report, China's national space agency said it would invite other agencies and foreign partners to work jointly on the project if possible, with the next lunar mission likely to take p ... more  
U.S. Army, Clemson University partner on autonomous vehicle projectWashington DC (UPI) Dec 18, 2020 The U.S. Army and Clemson University announced a partnership to study conversion of Bradley tanks and armored personnel carriers to autonomous use. ... more 
How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back againBrisbane, Australia (The Conversation) Dec 23, 2020 There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the Interna ... more |
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 A Martian Roundtrip: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes 
EMXYS and Royal Observatory, Belgium to participate in planetary defence Hera space missionAlicante, Spain (SPX) Dec 23, 2020 EMXYS and the Royal Observatory of Belgium have been selected by the European Space Agency to provide a gravimeter for the Juventas spacecraft that will land on asteroid Dimorphos as part of the Eur ... more  |
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Astroscale Ships ELSA-d Spacecraft to Launch SiteTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has shipped its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) satellite to Baikon ... more  
China's Chang'e-5 orbiter embarks on new mission to gravitationally stable spot at L1Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 22, 2020 Having finished its primary mission, the part of China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft that remained in space has departed for a new mission: exploring an unusual area of space known as a Lagrangian point. ... more 
Innovative Hydraulics awarded contract to support NASA's Artemis programWausau WI (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 Innovative Hydraulics LLC has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture fluid power products in support of NASA's Artemis program. With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first wo ... more  
Baghdad's wristwatch repairman is a timeless treasureBaghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2020 Youssef Abdelkarim's storefront on one of Baghdad's most historic streets is a time capsule - literally. Thousands of wristwatches fill the tiny shop, where three generations have repaired Iraq's oldest timepieces. ... more  
Developing smarter, faster machine intelligence with lightWashington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 Researchers at the George Washington University, together with researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the deep-tech venture startup Optelligence LLC, have developed an optical ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 23, 2020 
NASA has shown what it will look like when its Perseverance rover touches down on Mars, a challenging sequence that the agency describes as "7 minutes of terror."
The Perseverance rover was launched in the summer and is scheduled to arrive on Mars in February.
Once it reaches Mars' atmosphere on its way to Jezero Crater, it must slow down from its speed of 12,000 mph in a span of ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 25, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and a lesser-known company, Huntsville, Ala.-based Dynetics, are preparing for a major decision by NASA early in 2021 about which company will build human-carrying landers for trips to the moon.
The three space firms were selected in April to submit proposals early this month. Having done that, they now await NASA's decision, which is scheduled ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet.
The storm, which is wider than the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the planet's northern hemisphere and discovered by Hubble in 2018. Observations a year later showed that it began drifting southward toward the equator, where such storms ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Bootes. The signal could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.
The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris - Paris S ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 18, 2020 
Initial investigations, conducted right after the launch with the available data, identified a problem related to the integration of the fourth-stage AVUM Thrust Vector Control (TVC) system as being the most likely cause of the loss of control of the launcher.
Arianespace (the launch service provider) and the European Space Agency (ESA - the launch system development authority) immediately ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 22, 2020 
Having finished its primary mission, the part of China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft that remained in space has departed for a new mission: exploring an unusual area of space known as a Lagrangian point.
On December 16, the orbiter vehicle performed the final task of its primary mission when it dropped off the capsule carrying samples from the lunar surface. The capsule plunged back to Earth, bei ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 21, 2020  On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2's extended mission. The positional data for 1998 KY26 collected during the observations will be used to more accurately determine the orbital elements of this object.
Operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 delive ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 22, 2020 
Congress has added $1.3 billion into the Missile Defense Agency's fiscal 2021 budget, in excess of what the agency asked for in February.
The agency had requested $9.13 billion, a $1.27 billion decrease from last year's budget, but also submitted a list of unfunded requirements that totaled nearly $1 billion.
In the bill, lawmakers describe a "concerning" disconnect between the M ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the possibility that a varied metabolic menu could support a potentially diverse microbial community in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon's icy facade.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls.
Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems.
Changing the shape of nanoscale particles changes their electromagnetic properties, said Matt Jones, the Norman an ... 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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
This missing black hole should be in the enormous galaxy in the ce ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 18, 2020 
The U.S. Army and Clemson University announced a partnership to study conversion of Bradley tanks and armored personnel carriers to autonomous use.
The study for the conversion of existing Army equipment to self-driving vehicles is enabled by an $18 million Defense Department grant in the school's Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems, and a partnership between the U.S. Army Ground Vehi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 23, 2020 
The $3.2 trillion spending package approved this week by Congress includes $286 million for MQ-9 Reaper drones - weapons previously slated for elimination.
The U.S. Air Force eliminated a line item in its Fiscal Year 2021 budget calling for the MQ-9, instead requesting $172 million in funding to help shut down production at General Atomics' manufacturing facility in Poway, Calif.
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