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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2021 The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a good look at a rocky relic that formed at the dawn of our solar system. Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) - or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. There is no threat of a collision with our planet now or for centuries to come. "We k ... read more |
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Canadian firm builds satellites to track space trashOrlando FL (UPI) Mar 12, 2021 A Canadian startup plans to launch the first-ever commercial fleet of satellites designed to track dangerous space trash in 2022. Montreal-based NorthStar Earth and Space has three of its Skyl ... more  
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphereBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2021 Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The pla ... more  
Perseverance SuperCam science instrument delivers first resultsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2021 The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and ... more 
Early Martian climate was intermittently warmStony Brook NY (SPX) Mar 11, 2021 A new study that characterizes the climate of Mars over the planet's lifetime reveals that in its earliest history it was periodically warmed due to the input of ... more |
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Juno data shatter ideas about origin of Zodiacal LightGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2021 Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up from the horizon. That luminous glow is the zodiacal light, or sunlight reflected tow ... more 
An astronaut's guide to out-of-Earth manufacturingParis (ESA) Mar 09, 2021 Improvising new stuff from the stuff you have is part of an astronaut's job description - think Apollo 13's crew refitting CO2 filters to save their own lives, or stranded Mark Watney in The Martian ... more  
One giant step: Moon race hots upParis (AFP) March 9, 2021 As Russia and China sign a deal for a shared lunar space station, we look at the new race to the Moon with Nokia even working with NASA to give it a 4G network. ... more 
Planetary pact: China and Russia to launch lunar space stationMoscow (AFP) March 9, 2021 Russia and China unveiled plans Tuesday for a joint lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to recapture the glory of its space pioneering days of Soviet times, and Beijing gears up its own extraterrestrial ambitions. ... more 
A giant, sizzling planet may be orbiting the star VegaBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2021 Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journa ... more |
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 Mars Express unlocks the secrets of curious cloud 
Moving into Cislunar SpaceBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2021 The space community is moving beyond Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and expanding more activities toward the Moon and in cislunar space, i. e., lying between the earth and the moon or the moon's orbit. Thus, ... more  |
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China selects astronauts for space station programBeijing (XNA) Mar 05, 2021 The crewmembers who will participate in the construction of China's space station have been selected and are being trained for their missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). ... more 
ExoMars goes for a spinParis (ESA) Mar 05, 2021 The full ExoMars 2022 mission comprising the carrier module, descent module, Kazachok surface platform and Rosalind Franklin rover have completed essential 'spin tests' in preparation for their jour ... more 
Planet-hunting eye of PlatoParis (ESA) Mar 05, 2021 Key technology for ESA's exoplanet-hunting Plato spacecraft has passed a trial by vacuum to prove the mission will work as planned. This test replica of an 80-cm high, 12-cm aperture camera spent 17 ... more  
AFRL collaborates with Purdue University on autonomy challenge projectWright-Patterson AFB Oh (AFNS) Mar 12, 2021 Air Force Research Laboratory researchers are collaborating with Purdue University students on an autonomy challenge project, projected for completion in May 2021. "Collaboration with Purdue i ... more 
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizationsSan Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Mar 11, 2021 A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for "technosignatures" -evidence for the use of technology or industrial activity in other ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2021 
The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research laboratories under the auspices of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The instrument delivered data to the French Space Agency's operations center in Toulou ... more |
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An orange pouch and a yellow cable are paving the way for missions to the Moon. By monitoring space radiation and enabling faster communications, the Dosis-3D experiment and the Columbus Ka-band or ColKa terminal, respectively, are providing the insights needed to enable safer missions father out in space.
Orange Dosis-3D pouches are everywhere in the Columbus laboratory on the Internation ... 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.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2021 
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity.
The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as a gaseous world with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere. Starting out at several times the diameter of Earth, this so-called "sub-Neptune" is belie ... more |
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 Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Mar 11, 2021 
NASA is targeting Thursday, March 18 for the second hot fire of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's core stage at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
After performing tests to demonstrate that a recently repaired liquid oxygen pre-valve was working, the team has continued to prepare the core stage, its four RS-25 engines, and the B-2 test stand for the second ho ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 05, 2021 
The crewmembers who will participate in the construction of China's space station have been selected and are being trained for their missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The construction of the space station has entered a crucial stage, said the CMSA, noting that this year will see several space missions including the launch of the station's core module, cargo reple ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2021 
The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a good look at a rocky relic that formed at the dawn of our solar system.
Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) - or 5 1/4 times the distance from ... 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.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 08, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency is again considering a radar defense array in Hawaii, with two sites under consideration, after previously dropping plans to build it because of adverse public reaction.
The proposed Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii, which MDA is accepting public comment on through April 12, would face North Korea and have properties similar to the Long-Range Discrimination Radar ... 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.
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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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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2021 
At one-sixth that of Earth, the unique gravity of the lunar surface is one of the many variable conditions that technologies bound for the Moon will need to perform well in. NASA will soon have more options for testing those innovations in lunar gravity thanks to a collaboration with Blue Origin to bring new testing capabilities to the company's New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket system.
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 Oldenburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 10, 2021 
Wormholes play a key role in many science fiction films - often as a shortcut between two distant points in space. In physics, however, these tunnels in spacetime have remained purely hypothetical. An international team led by Dr. Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo of the University of Oldenburg has now presented a new theoretical model in the science journal Physical Review Letters that makes microscop ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB Oh (AFNS) Mar 12, 2021 
Air Force Research Laboratory researchers are collaborating with Purdue University students on an autonomy challenge project, projected for completion in May 2021.
"Collaboration with Purdue is an on-going effort that began in 2020 when AFRL established an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Purdue," said Andrea Gilkey, a senior engineer with AFRL. "Through this EPA, multiple thre ... more |
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 Texas City TX (SPX) Mar 12, 2021 
Windhover Labs, an emerging leader in open and reliable flight software and hardware, announces the upcoming availability of its first hardware product, a low cost modular flight computer for commercial drones and small satellites.
This new line of flight computers was created with hardware and software developed in the United States and will be available as a low-cost consumer model, as w ... more |
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