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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston - the official visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center- has selected 22 qualifying teams to compete in the competition round of Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge. Eligible teams will advance to the final virtual competition round, which will begin in late January. Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge, is a $1 million prize competition to advance autonomous robotic operations for space exploration missions on ... read more |
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Major space station components cleared for operationsBeijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Experts f ... 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  
Kaman KD-5600 Family of Digital Differential Measuring Systems Ideal for Wide Range of Applications, IndustriesMiddletown CT (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 The Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, Inc., the world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance position measurement systems, announces that the KD-5600 family of digita ... more  
Making methane on MarsIrvine CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to fly back to Earth? Houlin Xin, an assistant professor in physics an ... more |
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Astronomers finally measure polarized light from exoplanetAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 An international team led by Dutch astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly captured polarized light from an exoplanet. They c ... more  
NASA, Japan formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis ProgramWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement strengthens the ... more 
Curiosity Rover reaches its 3,000th day on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2021 It's been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making new discoveries during its gradual climb up Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-ki ... more  
Why do some regions on the dwarf planet Ceres appear blueBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'sta ... more 
China's space station core module, cargo craft pass factory reviewBeijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, t ... more |
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 'Say ahh': Chinese robots take throat swabs to fight Covid outbreak 
NASA readies Astrobee flying robots for serious space scienceWashington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2021 NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing new Astrobee flying robots to enhance science on the orbiting laboratory - a technology that could be vital to future deep space exploration. ... more  |
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Pandemic's robot 'heroes' highlight their value at tech showWashington (AFP) Jan 12, 2021 Robots that helped people survive and stay safe over the past year are touting their value at the tech industry's annual extravaganza amid a pandemic which has given fresh momentum to the robotics sector. ... more 
Programming tweak helps AI software imitate human visual learningWashington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2021 Using a novel programming tweak, a pair of neuroscientists have managed to replicate human visual learning in computer-based artificial intelligence. ... more  
New Horizons spacecraft answers question: how dark is spaceBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble ... more  
Russia starts mass vaccinations in cosmonaut centreMoscow (AFP) Jan 12, 2021 Russia's cosmonaut training centre said Tuesday it has begun vaccinating employees against the coronavirus ahead of future space missions. ... 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 |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars exploration concept.
Hamilton is the principal investigator on a project that has been awarded a $3.1 million NASA grant to develop a new concept combining rovers and unmanned aerial systems, co ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission is taking one more step closer to its flight to the Moon. On Jan. 14, the spacecraft was lifted out of the stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers have meticulously outfitted it with thousands of components and tested its systems and subsystems to ensure it can a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 
NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest planet through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life. This expansion tasks Juno with becoming an explorer of the full Jovian system - Jupiter and its rings and moons - with multiple rendezv ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  An international team led by Dutch astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly captured polarized light from an exoplanet. They can deduct from the light that a disk of dust and gas is orbiting around the exoplanet in which moons are possibly forming. The researchers will soon publish their findings in the journal Astronomy and ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  With NASA astronaut Victor Glover monitoring aboard the International Space Station, an upgraded SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Docking Adapter on the station's space-facing port of the Harmony module at 9:05 a.m. EST.
It is the first undocking of a U.S. commercial cargo craft from the complex. Previous cargo Dragon spacecraft were attached and removed from ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 
Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Experts from the agency, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp reviewed the design, construction and test reports on the space station's Tianhe core module, the Tianzh ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'star' on the shoulder of the bull-shaped constellation, Taurus. But the position of the star was changing each night. Piazzi had discovered Ceres, the largest body in the vast space between the planets M ... 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 15, 2021 
Northrop Grumman began outfitting six portable buildings to be used as command posts for Poland's air and missile defense program, it announced.
The company took delivery of shelters at its Huntsville, Ala., facility that will be fitted with equipment making them engagement operations centers for the Integrated Battle Command System designed by the U.S. Army.
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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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 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Scientists have used a "galaxy-sized" space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself.
The new findings, which appeared recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called the North American Nanohertz Observatory ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity - the theory that connects space, time, and gravity - is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped.
For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a particle disintegration could draw energy from ... 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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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the initial development phase of components for a type-certifiable detect-and-avoid (DAA) system.
The resulting system will enable UAS to safety operate beyond v ... more |
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