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  Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2021 NASA has postponed the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, the first controlled flight on another planet, to work through a software problem. The flight had been planned for Thursday and then delayed to Sunday. NASA didn't immediately set a new target date for the flight. "Our best estimate of a targeted flight date is fluid right now, but we are working toward achieving these milestones and will set a flight date next week," the agency said in a news release. NASA's Mars rov ... read more |
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China sets up expert advisory committee for lunar samplesBeijing (XNA) Apr 14, 2021 China has set up an expert committee for lunar samples, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Tuesday. According to the regulations on lunar sample management, the CNSA establish ... more 
Work progresses toward Ingenuity's First Flight on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2021 The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter's rotors. Over the week ... more  
Chinese rocket for space station mission arrives at launch siteWenchangBeijing (XNA) Apr 13, 2021 China's Long March-7 Y3 rocket, which will launch the cargo craft of China's space station, has arrived at its launch site in southern China's Hainan Province. The rocket, alongside the Tianzh ... more  
Study warns of 'oxygen false positives' in search for signs of life on other planetsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 In the search for life on other planets, the presence of oxygen in a planet's atmosphere is one potential sign of biological activity that might be detected by future telescopes. A new study, howeve ... more |
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New laser to help clear the sky of space debrisCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 13, 2021 Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have harnessed a technique that helps telescopes see objects in the night sky more clearly to fight against dangerous and costly space debris. ... more 
Northrop Grumman and Intelsat make history with docking of 2nd Mission Extension VehicleDulles VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2021 Northrop Grumman and the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, have successfully completed the docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) to the Intelsat 10-02 (IS-10-02) co ... more 
DARPA Selects Performers for Phase 1 of Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) ProgramWashington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2021 DARPA has awarded contracts for the first phase of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The goal of the DRACO program is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsio ... more  
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 
Hands-free: Monkey plays video game - with its brainSan Francisco (AFP) April 10, 2021 Elon Musk's startup devoted to meshing brains with computers was closer to its dream on Friday, having gotten a monkey to play video game Pong using only its mind. ... more |
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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  |
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A molecule that responds to lightKarlsruherw, Germany (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 Light can be used to operate quantum information processing systems, e.g. quantum computers, quickly and efficiently. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Chimie ParisTech/CNRS ... more  
Phoenix receives contract from DOE for fusion energy technologyMadison WI (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 Phoenix has received a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement jointly awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science - Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program and the Advanced Research Projects Ag ... more 
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 
People may trust computers more than humansAthens GA (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, people may be more willing to trust a computer program than their fellow humans, especially if a task becomes too challengi ... more  
Swiss watch expo switches to Shanghai after virtual debutZurich (AFP) April 13, 2021 Geneva's international expo of fine watches switches to Shanghai on Wednesday for a physical version after staging an online edition to keep the prestigious fair going during the pandemic. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2021 
The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter's rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity's flight control software is the most robust path for ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 14, 2021 
China has set up an expert committee for lunar samples, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Tuesday.
According to the regulations on lunar sample management, the CNSA established the committee as an expert advisory institution for the management of lunar samples.
The committee aims to give full play to the scientific value of lunar samples and standardize their manage ... 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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 WenchangBeijing (XNA) Apr 13, 2021 
China's Long March-7 Y3 rocket, which will launch the cargo craft of China's space station, has arrived at its launch site in southern China's Hainan Province.
The rocket, alongside the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft that has already been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, will be assembled and tested at the launch site, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said on Mo ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 09, 2021 
The almost 15-million-year-old Nordlinger Ries is an asteroid impact crater filled with lake sediments. Its structure is comparable to the craters currently being explored on Mars. In addition to various other deposits on the rim of the basin, the crater fill is mainly formed by stratified clay deposits.
Unexpectedly, a research team led by the University of Gottingen has now discovered a ... 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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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 
Extremely precise measurements are possible using atom interferometers that employ the wave character of atoms for this purpose. They can thus be used, for example, to measure the gravitational field of the Earth or to detect gravitational waves. A team of scientists from Germany has now managed to successfully perform atom interferometry in space for the first time - on board a sounding rocket. ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 
All supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies appear to have periods when they swallow matter from their close surroundings. But that is about as far as the similarities go. That's the conclusion reached by British and Dutch astronomers from their research with ultra-sensitive radio telescopes in a well-studied region of the universe. They publish their findings in two articles in the ... more |
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 Washington 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.
"The first thing is we have got to do is to take this competition seriously, and we need to win it," Robert O. Work, commission vice chair, told reporters at the Pentagon.
He recommended that the Defense Department should s ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 
End State Solutions and Near Space Corp have entered an agreement to provide aerospace companies a single-source for a full suite of flight testing and Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) certification services. Unmanned, manned and optionally piloted aircraft developers can obtain speed-to-market through the leadership and experience the companies provide.
End State Solutions advances new ae ... more |
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