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US military must accelerate use of artificial intelligence, JAIC chief says Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 The U.S. military must scale up its artificial intelligence use or be left behind by adversaries, Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told an industry conference this week. Data must be standardized, cloud services must be adopted and AI must be integrated into military operations, Groen, chief of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, told the National Defense Industrial Association conference on Tuesday. While current military use of AI "is a step in the right direction, we need to st ... read more |
Harnessing light to enable next-generation microwave systems Washington DC (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 Electronic oscillators lie at the heart of virtually all microelectronic systems, generating the clock signals used in digital electronics and the precise frequencies that enable radio frequency (RF ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2021 NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Before the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 In the quest for habitable planets beyond our own, NASA is studying a mission concept called Pandora, which could eventually help decode the atmospheric mysteries of distant worlds in our galaxy. On ... more Washington DC (UPI) Mar 23, 2021 NASA plans to fly its Mars helicopter Ingenuity on the Red Planet - the first powered aircraft flight on another planet - as early as April 8, space agency officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn's vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet's northern hemisphere summer transitions to fall as shown in this series ... more Washington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021 Making androids more lifelike requires more than just a bigger vocabulary and more demonstrative hand gestures - facial expressions are an essential part of human communication. ... more Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design and high-fidelity sensors. Cornell University researchers created micron-sized shape me ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2021 Like millions of people around the world, David Shuster and his 7-year-old daughter cheered wildly as the Perseverance rover was lowered by sky crane to the Martian surface on Feb. 18 to start years ... more Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 22, 2021 In a comment published in Nature Astronomy, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, challenges assumptions about the possibility of modern life on ... more |
Swiss kids suit up for 'Mission to Mars' Paris (AFP) March 21, 2021 The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will swing closest on Sunday, giving astronomers a rare chance for a good look at a space rock that formed at the dawn of our solar system. ... more |
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Trinity researchers tackle the spiders from Mars Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have been shedding light on the enigmatic "spiders from Mars", providing the first physical evidence that these unique features on the planet's surface can be f ... more San Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute scientists helped identify incredibly powerful winds in Jupiter's middle atmosphere for the first time. The team measured ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2021 As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot's six wheels as they rolled over M ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2021 Living for nearly 2 months in simulated weightlessness has a modest but widespread negative effect on cognitive performance that may not be counteracted by short periods of artificial gravity, finds ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 18, 2021 A pocket atlas of Mars has been published that uses geographic techniques developed for terrestrial maps to reveal a wealth of information about the surface of the Red Planet, as well as its climate ... more |
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NASA's Mars helicopter may fly as early as April 8 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 23, 2021 NASA plans to fly its Mars helicopter Ingenuity on the Red Planet - the first powered aircraft flight on another planet - as early as April 8, space agency officials said Tuesday. But first, the helicopter must detach from the bottom of the rover Perseverance in Jezero Crater, where the robotic explorer landed Feb. 18, mission controllers said at a media briefing at the Jet Propulsion ... more |
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China's lunar rover travels 682 meters on far side of moon Beijing (XNA) Mar 24, 2021 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have been switched to dormant mode for the lunar night after working stably for a 28th lunar day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration. The lander was switched to dormant mode at 2 a.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 5:09 p.m. Saturday, said th ... more |
SwRI scientists help identify the first stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter San Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute scientists helped identify incredibly powerful winds in Jupiter's middle atmosphere for the first time. The team measured molecules exhumed by the 1994 impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 to trace winds in excess of 900 miles per hour near Jupiter's poles. Jupiter's distinctive red and white bands of swirling clouds a ... more |
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Pandora Mission Would Expand NASA's Capabilities in Probing Alien Worlds Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 In the quest for habitable planets beyond our own, NASA is studying a mission concept called Pandora, which could eventually help decode the atmospheric mysteries of distant worlds in our galaxy. One of four low-cost astrophysics missions selected for further concept development under NASA's new Pioneers program, Pandora would study approximately 20 stars and exoplanets - planets outside of our ... more |
Arianespace signs with Avio for 10 additional Vega C launchers Paris, France (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 During the recent meeting in Rome between Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, and Giancarlo Giorgetti, Italian Minister of Economic Development, Arianespace announced the signature of an agreement with Avio to start production of 10 new Vega C launch vehicles. This agreement kicks off the procurement of long lead-time items and the initial activities for t ... more |
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China advances space cooperation in 2020: blue book Beijing (XNA) Mar 11, 2021 China actively promoted international space cooperation in 2020, offering satellite exports and launches, cooperative research and application services to the world, according to a recent report on China's aerospace industry. By the end of last year, 51 Chinese rockets had launched 59 foreign commercial satellites into space, said the 2020 Blue Book of China Aerospace Science and Technolog ... more |
No threat to Earth as huge asteroid zooms past Seoul (AFP) March 22, 2021 The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year has made its closest approach, posing no threat of a cataclysmic collision but giving astronomers a rare chance to study a rock formed during the beginning of our solar system. The asteroid was two million kilometres (1.25 million miles) away at its nearest, according to NASA - more than five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon b ... more |
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AFRL directed energy industry days Kirtland NM (AFRL) Mar 24, 2021 The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate will host a Virtual Briefing for Industry to introduce the new Directed Energy Technology Experimentation Research (DETER), Advanced Research Announcement (ARA) April 13 - 14 from 10 a.m. to noon Mountain Standard Time each day. "We are looking forward to hosting our first briefing for industry days," said Marcella Cantu, DETER ... more |
Lockheed Martin awarded $3.7B to modernize key missile defense mission Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in a competitive downselect phase, selected Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and partner Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) to deliver the nation's most advanced missile defense system, the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). The $3.7 billion contract for Next Generation Interceptor is the first step in the development and demonstration phase delivering on MDA's re ... more |
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Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn's vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet's northern hemisphere summer transitions to fall as shown in this series of images taken in 2018, 2019, and 2020 (left to right). "These small year-to-year changes in Saturn's color bands are fascinating," said Amy Simon, planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space ... more |
Scientists use DNA technology to build tough 3D nanomaterials Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2021 Researchers at Columbia University have found a way to marry the versatility of DNA nanotechnology with the toughness of silica-based materials. DNA technology can be used to design self-assembling, complexly organized nanoparticle structures. In theory, these structures can be designed for a variety of applications, but in reality, these structures are too soft and only stable i ... more |
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A brighter future for gravitational-wave astronomy Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2021 Future gravitational-wave detectors on Earth will use laser light with even higher power than in current instruments. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI), the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), and Leibniz University Hannover have now developed a new laser system for this purpose. They combined the custom tailored light from ... more |
World's first market-ready diamond-based quantum accelerator set for release Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian quantum computing startup from The Australian National University, will install the world's first diamond quantum accelerator at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Quantum Brilliance harnesses synthetic diamonds to build quantum accelerators that do not require near absolute zero temperature or complex laser systems to operate like mainframe q ... more |
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US military must accelerate use of artificial intelligence, JAIC chief says Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 The U.S. military must scale up its artificial intelligence use or be left behind by adversaries, Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told an industry conference this week. Data must be standardized, cloud services must be adopted and AI must be integrated into military operations, Groen, chief of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, told the National Defense Industrial Association c ... more |
Changes for military in Hawaii include additional unmanned aerial vehicles Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 The U.S. Marine Corps plans to have 18 MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial drones in the Indo-Pacific region, with six located in Hawaii, to counter threats from China. "The developing abilities of near-peer competitors drive the need for increased naval capability distributed over a wider area," a 40-page "Unmanned Campaign Framework," released last week by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, say ... more |
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