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  Washington (AFP) April 10, 2021 NASA has delayed by at least several days the first flight of its mini-helicopter on Mars after a possible tech issue emerged while testing its rotors, the US space agency said Saturday. Ingenuity's trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for Sunday but is now on hold until at least April 14. A high-speed test of the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter's rotors on Friday ended earlier than expected due to an alert of a potential issue. "The ... read more |
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New research reveals secret to Jupiter's curious aurora activityFairbanks AK (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet's magnetic field and how that fie ... more  
Amounts of organic molecules in planetary systems differ from early onTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have studied the chemical composition of 50 protoplanetary-disk forming regions in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, ... more 
Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worldsLeiden, Germany (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 Dutch astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands), together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar ... more 
Scientists shed more light on molecules linked to life on other planetsSydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do to rule out non-biological chemical processes. The search for life on other pla ... more |
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity performs well before first flightWashington DC (UPI) Apr 7, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity, the first powered aircraft on another planet, is free of the Perseverance rover that carried it and appears to be functioning well ahead of its first flight on Sunday, the space agency said. ... more 
SKF bearings help Mars Rover collect rock and regolith samples on the planet's surfaceGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Apr 08, 2021 Enabling the Mars Rover's core operations in the harsh environment on Mars are Kaydon RealiSlim thin-section ball bearings, designed and manufactured by SKF at the company's global thin-section bear ... more 
Probing for life in the icy crusts of ocean worldsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2021 Long before NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, one of its highest-level mission goals was already established: to seek out signs of ancient life on the Martian surf ... more 
First transiting exoplanet's 'chemical fingerprint' reveals its distant birthplaceWarwick UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2021 Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its original birthplace further away. Analysi ... more  
China's Chang'e 4 probe resumes work for 29th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Apr 08, 2021 The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for a 29th lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 9:43 pm Tuesday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jad ... more |
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 Asteroids are born big - and here is why!  
NASA awards contract for communicationless coordination of robotic swarmsWorcester MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 Geisel Software, a Massachusetts-based custom software development firm, and Arizona State University (ASU) are pleased to announce they have been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) ... more  |
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Report: U.S. military must speed up AI development to maintain edgeWashington DC (UPI) Apr 9, 2021 The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence vice chair said on Friday the United States lacks a strategy to compete with China in military AI. ... more  
German Space Agency Selects Lockheed Martin iSpace System For Space Situational AwarenessColorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 07, 2021 To obtain real-time awareness of the more than 300,000 objects orbiting the earth, the German Space Agency at DLR has selected Lockheed Martin's iSpace command and control system. The iSpace system ... more  
Ningbo to build $3.05b rocket launchpad siteBeijing (XNA) Apr 08, 2021 The port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province is building a 20 billion yuan ($3.05 billion) rocket launch site to meet surging demand for putting satellites into orbit and further develop the industr ... more 
Crustal mineralogy drives microbe diversity beneath Earth's surfaceWashington DC (UPI) Apr 9, 2021 Deep beneath the surface of the earth, microbes proliferate without sunlight and oxygen - eating and breathing minerals, these microbes colonize the rocks that buoy the planet's continents. ... more 
Origins of life could have started with DNA-like XNAsNagoya, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2021 Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor to the origins of life. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communica ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2021 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (4 meters) away in this image from April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Perseverance captured the image using a camera called WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering), part of the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminesce ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 09, 2021 
Calibration and validation (CAL/VAL) is a key technology for quantitative application of space-borne remote sensing data. However, the complex space environment can cause many uncertainties and degrade the calibration accuracy. In-flight calibration is always needed. The thermal emission of the Moon is stable over hundreds of years because there is no atmosphere and no significant physical or ch ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 
Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet's magnetic field and how that field operates.
New research about Jupiter proves that point - and adds to the intrigue.
Peter Delamere, a professor of space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institu ... more |
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 Leiden, Germany (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 
Dutch astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands), together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory.
The article, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and provides new information about the origin of ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 09, 2021 
When NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the Artemis I mission, the amount of data generated by the rocket, spacecraft, and ground support equipment will be about 100 megabytes per second. The volume and speed of this information demands an equally complex and robust computer system to process and deliver that ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 08, 2021 
The port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province is building a 20 billion yuan ($3.05 billion) rocket launch site to meet surging demand for putting satellites into orbit and further develop the industrial cluster of the commercial aerospace sector, according to the local authorities.
Highlighted in the recently revealed draft for mega projects in Zhejiang during the 14th Five-Year Plan period ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2021 
Why do asteroids in the solar system have the sizes we observe? Two researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have found an answer to that fundamental question: For the birth planets and planet precursors in our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, turbulence played a key role, helping to bring together pebble-like objects to form larger aggregations known as planetesimals. The presen ... 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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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 08, 2021 
The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists' best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics. This landmark result, made with unprecedented precision, confirms a discrepancy that has been gnawing at researchers ... more |
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 Worcester MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2021 
Geisel Software, a Massachusetts-based custom software development firm, and Arizona State University (ASU) are pleased to announce they have been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Phase I will focus on identifying and developing intent estimation and intent-expressive motion planning technologies that ... more |
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 Cochstedt, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2021 
The global air transport system is facing major challenges. The current generation of aircraft must be further improved and preparations made for the introduction of new products. However, this is not limited to alternative propulsion systems and fuels. It also includes new concepts such as unmanned flight. Unmanned air transport is undergoing rapid growth with the development of new technologie ... more |
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