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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help scientists learn more about this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has two sets of rings around its equator. The planet, which has four times the diameter of Earth, rotates on its side, making it different from all other planets in the solar system. Since Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, ast ... read more |
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Roman Space Telescope predicted to find 100,000 transiting planetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands ... more  
The largest European robotics and space event is counting down the time until take off!Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 European Rover Challenge (ERC) is an annual celebration of space enthusiasts. Starting in 2014, it is now the most important space-robotic event in Europe, bringing together hundreds of supporters a ... more  
Researchers discover new type of ancient crater lake on MarsProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 31, 2021 Researchers from Brown University have discovered a previously unknown type of ancient crater lake on Mars that could reveal clues about the planet's early climate. In a study published in Pla ... more 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes selfie with Mont MercouPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2021 At the start of March, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover began approaching an impressive rock formation that scientists dubbed "Mont Mercou," a nickname taken from a mountain in France. Standing about 20 ... more |
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Russian researchers reveal most common causes of death among cosmonautsMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2021 Humanity will mark the 60th anniversary of its first foray into space next month, with over 560 people from 41 countries reaching low Earth orbit, travelling beyond low Earth orbit, or even going to ... more 
The PI's Perspective: Far From HomeBoulder Co (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from Earth and the Sun. I'm going to focus this PI's Perspective on ... more 
Wright brothers' wing fragment to take flight again on MarsWashington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2021 A piece of cloth from the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 is set to become part of aviation history again - this time on Mars. Carillon Historical Park, the Ohio home of the Wright Brio ... more  
South Korea aims for moon landing vehicle by 2030Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2021 South Korea says it ranks seventh in satellites, after the country conducted a successful test of a domestically developed rocket for satellite launch. President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that ... more 
Engine of AtlantisParis (ESA) Mar 26, 2021 The second European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft on a crewed flyby of the Moon is fitted with a special engine at Airbus facilities in Germany. This engine belonged to S ... more |
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DLR laser terminal in space establishes contact with Japanese ground stationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 The resolution of cameras and other sensors on Earth observation satellites is continuously increasing. This leads to vast amounts of data, which are still being transmitted to Earth using radio sys ... more  |
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US military must accelerate use of artificial intelligence, JAIC chief saysWashington 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. ... more 
UK Space Agency launches multi-million pound drive to design hospital of the futureLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 The government has invited the UK's world-leading innovators to help design a new 'space age' hospital that could use technologies and techniques pioneered on missions to Mars or the International S ... more 
Even without a brain, Penn Engineering's metal-eating robots can search for foodPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 When it comes to powering mobile robots, batteries present a problematic paradox: the more energy they contain, the more they weigh, and thus the more energy the robot needs to move. Energy harveste ... more 
Photosynthesis could be as old as life itselfLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 29, 2021 Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth. The finding also challenges expectations for ... more  
Harnessing light to enable next-generation microwave systemsWashington 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 |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2021 
A piece of cloth from the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 is set to become part of aviation history again - this time on Mars.
Carillon Historical Park, the Ohio home of the Wright Brio home of the Wright Brothers National Museum, said NASA officials got in contact in 2019 about finding a way to connect Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., with the ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2021 
South Korea says it ranks seventh in satellites, after the country conducted a successful test of a domestically developed rocket for satellite launch.
President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that his goal is to ensure South Korea has a launch vehicle capable of landing on the moon by 2030 and to help local enterprises become leading aerospace manufacturers like SpaceX, the firm founded by Elo ... more |
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 Boulder Co (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from Earth and the Sun.
I'm going to focus this PI's Perspective on a major upcoming mission mile marker - namely, New Horizons being 50 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun next month. But first, some mission news.
Our biggest news is that most of our latest f ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands of planets using two different techniques as it surveys a wide range of stars in the Milky Way.
Roman will locate these potential new worlds, or exoplanets, by tracking the amount of light comi ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Mar 30, 2021  A fourth Starship rocket prototype for Elon Musk's SpaceX launch company exploded after a test flight on Tuesday morning in South Texas.
As with previous test flights, SpaceX flew Starship - model SN11 - to over 6 miles high above the launch facility about 180 miles south of Corpus Christi. The rocket then glided on wing flaps back to the launch pad.
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 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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2021 
A major component of NASA's Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the phase known as assembly, test, and launch operations is now underway. Over the next year, the spacecraft will finish assembly and undergo rigorous checkout and testing before it's shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for an August 2022 launch to the main ast ... more |
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 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 |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 
The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center successfully delivered the fifth Space Based Infrared System satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) to the processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The satellite traveled across the country from the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Center satellite integration facility in Sunnyvale, California via a C-5M Super Galaxy on March ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 
Buried beneath 20 kilometers of ice, the subsurface ocean of Enceladus--one of Saturn's moons--appears to be churning with currents akin to those on Earth.
The theory, derived from the shape of Enceladus's ice shell, challenges the current thinking that the moon's global ocean is homogenous, apart from some vertical mixing driven by the warmth of the moon's core.
Enceladus, a tiny fr ... more |
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 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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 La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Mar 26, 2021 
Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic matter, which is the "normal" matter composing stars, planets, and living beings. However for decades almost one half of this matter has not been found either.
Now, using a new technique, a team in which the Instituto de Astrofisica de ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 30, 2021 
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson on the string theoretical effects outside the black hole photon sphere has been selected for the "Editors' Suggestion" of the journal Physical Review D. Their paper was published on March 24, 2021.
In a quantum theory of point particles, ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 01, 2021 
European Rover Challenge (ERC) is an annual celebration of space enthusiasts. Starting in 2014, it is now the most important space-robotic event in Europe, bringing together hundreds of supporters and representatives of the world of science, technology, and business interested in developing innovative solutions in the field of mobile and space robotics. The event enjoys great popularity and pres ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) March 26, 2021 
Six years after Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen, booby-trapped drones have made the Huthi rebels a potent threat, enabling them to target distant Saudi cities and heavily guarded oil facilities.
While Riyadh has been locked in a hunt for an elusive enemy, the guerrillas have made great strides in developing unmanned aerial vehicles that have become their go-to weapon after long relying on C ... more |
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