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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 This first HiRISE image of the Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars also shows many parts of the descent system that got it safely there. Each inset shows an area about 650 feet (200 meters) across. The rover itself sits at the center of a blast pattern created by the hovering skycrane (labeled as "descent stage") that lowered it there. The skycrane flew off to crash as at a safe distance creating a V-shaped debris pattern that points back toward the rover it came from. Earlier in the l ... read more |
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Ice frozen under Mars' surface offers major resource to aid future settlementsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 Frozen water is hiding beneath the dust-covered surface of Mars, and scientist Ali Bramson wants to find it. She sees a chance to both sustain future human explorers and answer questions about the r ... more  
China has over 300 satellites in orbitBeijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2021 China's satellite application system has made great progress in 2020, with more than 300 satellites in orbit for various applications, according to a recent report released by the China Aerospace Sc ... more  
NASA grants renewal and funding for deep space health protectionsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 After a favorable program review in December 2020, NASA has exercised its option to renew the Houston-based Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) until 2028. TRISH works closely ... more  
Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter's asteroidsBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That's why many road travelers break up their arduous journey by making rest stops along the way. Astronomers found that at least one roaming comet i ... more |
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Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree PanoramaPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam- ... more  
SwRI scientists image a bright meteoroid explosion in Jupiter's atmosphereSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter's clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrogra ... more  
Imaging space debris in high resolutionPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 Litter is not only a problem on Earth. According to NASA, there are currently millions of pieces of space junk in the range of altitudes from 200 to 2,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface, which ... more 
L3Harris Technologies Awarded Second Year of Space Object-Tracking Modernization ContractMelbourne FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 L3Harris Technologies (has been awarded $89 million for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects ... more  
Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive processNarragansett RI (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 February 26, 2021 - A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sed ... more |
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Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolationTokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic. ... more  |
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Canada to join US mission to moonOttawa Canada (XNA) Mar 01, 2021 Canada announced on Thursday that it will send an astronaut to orbit the moon in 2023 as part of NASA's Artemis II mission. "It's official!" Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Indust ... more 
Martian moons have a common ancestorZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 23, 2021 Phobos and Deimos are the remains of a larger Martian moon that was disrupted between 1 and 2.7 billion years ago, say researchers from the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich and the Physics Inst ... more  
Keeping an eye on the fusion futureBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 "That was your warmup. Now we're really in the thick of it." Daniel Korsun '20 is reflecting on his four years of undergraduate preparation and research at MIT as he enters "the thick" of graduate s ... more 
An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power developmentBoston MA (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sci ... more 
Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighboursPerth, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies. In research published this week astronomers have discovered that these small ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 
This first HiRISE image of the Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars also shows many parts of the descent system that got it safely there. Each inset shows an area about 650 feet (200 meters) across.
The rover itself sits at the center of a blast pattern created by the hovering skycrane (labeled as "descent stage") that lowered it there. The skycrane flew off to crash as at a safe dist ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2021 
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon's subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be studied in more detail, each addressing different phases of a potential mission.
Through these five Sysnova studies, three mission scenarios were developed - one to perform a preliminary scout of entry pits and undergroun ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter's clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) team studied the data and determined that they had captured a bolide, an extremely bright meteoroid explosion in the gas giant's upper atmosphere.
"Jupiter undergoes a huge number of im ... more |
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 Narragansett RI (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
February 26, 2021 - A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules.
The team discovered that the creation of these chemicals is amplified signifi ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 26, 2021 
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023.
The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher orbit.
Firefly has existed for only four years, and would join a small, but growing, group ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2021 
China's satellite application system has made great progress in 2020, with more than 300 satellites in orbit for various applications, according to a recent report released by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Among them are Beidou navigation satellites, remote sensing satellites for meteorological and marine monitoring, and communication satellites.
China start ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That's why many road travelers break up their arduous journey by making rest stops along the way.
Astronomers found that at least one roaming comet is doing the same thing. The wayward object made a temporary stop near giant Jupiter. The icy visitor has plenty of company: It has settled near the family of captured asteroids known as Trojans that a ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (AFNS) Feb 26, 2021 
In an effort to counter the increasing threat posed by enemy drones and other airborne threats, the U.S. Army is making an investment in directed energy prototype technology, with the Tactical High Power Operational Responder, or THOR, system, developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, playing a key role.
THOR is a prototype dir ... more |
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 Fort Belvoir VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
On 27 January, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Aegis Technical Representative (TECHREP) witnessed the successful demonstration of the first software release of the Japanese J7.B Aegis Weapon System equipped with SPY-7 radar in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Overall, there has been significant program progress since Japan's Aegis SPY-7 system selection in July 2018, and this demonst ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
Recent o ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses to focus light and produce sharp images, whether the object in view is a single cell, the page of a book, or a far-off galaxy.
Changing focus to see clearly at all these scales typically requires physically moving a lens, by tilting, sliding, or otherwise shifting the lens, usuall ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
NASA teamed up with a group of researchers from Dr. Jacob Chung's lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the Aerospace Corporation based in El Segundo, California, to test two technologies to reduce the amount of cryogenic propellant consumed during future space missions. Instead of working in a typical lab, a plane following a parabolic flight path briefly suspended the technologie ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced the neutrino to a black hole tearing apart a star, a rare cataclysmic occurrence called a tidal disruption event.
"Astrophysicists have long theorized that ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 
Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.
Smart home assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have found success worldwide, but tech firms in Japan are reporting huge demand for more humanlike alternatives, as people seek solace during coronavi ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
The Counter-UAS Online Summit will provide a forum for military leaders, program executive officers, industry executives, academics and researchers to focus on CUAS operations across the US Military, Federal Government, Critical Infrastructure, public sector, and other soft target areas.
The event will take place Online this March 31 - April 2. Make sure to check out the most-up-to-date br ... more |
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