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  Ipswich MA (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 COSM Advanced Manufacturing Systems will begin working on final development and build of electron beam 3D metal printing systems for a variety of future in-space, lunar, and Martian applications. The work is funded by a SBIR contract from NASA to support the Artemis program's return to the Moon. The technology advanced by COSM uses an electron beam to deposit metal from a spool of wire into a large complex part. Capitalizing on decades of experience using charged particle beams systems for imaging ... read more |
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Dynetics achieves critical NASA milestone and delivers key data on lunar lander programHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, has submitted its proposal for Option A of the Human Landing System (HLS) for NASA's Artemis Program. The Dynetics team has also completed the HLS Cont ... more  
A Tale of Planetary ResurrectionPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 Years after its detection, astronomers have learned that a planet called KOI-5Ab orbits in a triple-star system with a skewed configuration. Shortly after NASA's Kepler mission began operations bac ... more 
A rocky planet around one of our galaxy's oldest starsHonolulu HI (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 "They should have sent a poet," says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy. Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar ... more 
Astronomers find evidence for planets shrinking over billions of yearsHonolulu HI (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 A team of astronomers led by University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student Travis Berger has shown that an intriguing class of Neptune-sized planets shrinks over billions of y ... more |
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Seven things to know about the NASA rover about to land on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 07, 2021 With only about 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) left to go in its 293-million-mile (471-million-kilometer) journey, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is nearing its new planetary home. Th ... more  
Chinese space enterprise gears up for record-breaking 40-plus launches in 2021Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2021 The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the leading force of the country's space industry, has released a plan for more than 40 space launches for 2021, a new high following t ... more  
Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its waterProvidence RI (SPX) Jan 06, 2021 Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers ... more  
Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligenceQuebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolut ... more  
Light-carrying chips advance machine learningMunster, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2021 In the digital age, data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. The demands on computing power for applications in artificial intelligence such as pattern and speech recognition in particular, o ... more |
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 China Focus: 400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planet 
Tianwen 1 robotic probe to enter Mars orbit in FebBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 robotic Mars probe had traveled more than 400 million kilometers by Sunday morning and is set to enter a Mars orbit next month, according to the China National Space Administration ... more  |
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UK eyes plan to send first rover to Moon in 2021Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 05, 2021 According to the report, the robot, designed by London-based Spacebit, is expected to join the NASA mission, landing on the lunar surface next summer, which will be the first step towards Britain ha ... more 
A robotic revolution for urban natureLeeds UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife. International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University ... more 
Army research leads to more effective training model for robotsAdelphi MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 Multi-domain operations, the Army's future operating concept, requires autonomous agents with learning components to operate alongside the warfighter. New Army research reduces the unpredictability ... more 
Danes staying in origami-inspired 'Lunar' camp in Greenland end their missionMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2021 The two architects built the foldable futuristic-looking shelter as part of an experiment to establish whether ordinary people without training could survive in harsh conditions, including those on ... more  
NASA studies fruit flies to understand astronaut sleep cyclesOrlando FL (UPI) Jan 01, 2021 Tiny fruit flies are helping NASA study how brain activity and sleep patterns change when organisms live in the microgravity of space. An experiment on the International Space Station will bui ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 11, 2021  The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured remnant frost deposits in a region near Sisyphi Tholus, in the high southern latitudes of Mars (74S/246E).
This image was taken during the early morning of a midsummer day in the southern hemisphere.
At these high latitudes, carbon dioxide ice and frost develop. Frost can be seen within polygonal cracks in the terrain, ... more |
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 Hampton VA (SPX) Jan 11, 2021  This little black camera looks like something out of a spy movie - the kind of device one might use to snap discrete photos of confidential documents.
It's about half the size of a computer mouse.
But the only spying this camera - four of them, actually - will do is for NASA researchers wondering what happens under a spacecraft as it lands on the Moon.
It's a tiny technology wi ... 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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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
"They should have sent a poet," says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy. Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar system planets) are confined to the plane of the Milky Way, unable to glimpse such a sweeping vista of our galaxy. However, astronomers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) usin ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 11, 2021  By capsule, helicopter, boat, plane, and car, space station science experiments are about to make a first of a kind journey back to researchers on Earth.
On Jan. 11, the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft carrying out the company's 21st commercial resupply services (CRS-21) mission for NASA undocks from the International Space Station, heading for splashdown off ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2021 
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the leading force of the country's space industry, has released a plan for more than 40 space launches for 2021, a new high following the already busy and fruitful 2020.
The construction of China's space station, the key space mission in the year, will enter a crucial stage, according to the CASC.
The country plans to lau ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jan 06, 2021 
Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are using data from the spacecraft's other instruments to reveal new details about the asteroid's past.
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers offer an explanation for why Ryugu i ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial uses such as generating X-rays for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics, food sterilization, and even enabling precise external radiation treatments to destroy cancer cells without damaging surroun ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 7, 2021 
Israel delivered the second of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries to the U.S. Army this week.
"The delivery of the Iron Dome to the U.S. Army once again demonstrates the close relations between the Israel Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense, the effectiveness of the system against various threats, and the excellent technological capabilities of Israeli industries, ... 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.
Prior to its deorbit in September of 2017 ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 
For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials.
Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrica ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Data from Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has been used to help detect the first possible hints of low-frequency disturbances in the curvature of space-time.
The results were presented at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which was held virtually, and are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Arecibo Observatory is managed by the University of Central Flo ... more |
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 Hefei, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, the team led by academician GUO Guangcan from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) made progress in high dimensional quantum teleportation. The researchers demonstrated the teleportation of high-dimensional states in a three-dimensional six-photon system.
To transmit unknown quantum st ... more |
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 Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, as reported by the prestigious journal Nature.
Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning ... more |
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 Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2021  Metawave Corporation has been awarded a prime, Phase One contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) to provide a high-precision, all-weather sensing solution for electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The initial Metawave study outlined by the contract will identify modifications needed for the company's existing "SPEKTRA" radar for aerial operations, all of which will be a ... more |
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