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  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea - even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory - but Alcubierre's proposal contained problems that seemed insurmountable. Now, a recent paper by US-based physicists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire has resolved many of those i ... read more |
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Space physicist explains why a helicopter flew on Mars is a big dealMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 Yesterday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter - which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February - took off from the Martian surface. More importantly, it h ... more 
Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA's Ingenuity HelicopterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter departed Earth for its 293 million mile trip to Mars aboard the Perseverance Rover last July. However, Ingenuity's most important journey was only about 10 feet. That's ... more 
China to announce name of its first Mars roverBeijing (XNA) Apr 21, 2021 China will announce the name of its first Mars rover on the Space Day of China, which falls on April 24, according to the China National Space Administration. Nanjing, capital city of East Chi ... more  
Accion Systems set for launch of two TILE 2 in-space propulsion systemsBoston MA (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 Accion Systems today announces that two TILE 2 in-space propulsion system units will launch onboard an Astro Digital micro-satellite aboard the June 2021 SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare launch. Astro Digi ... more |
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Hide and Seek - How NASA's Lucy Mission Team Discovered Eurybates' SatelliteSan Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 On Jan. 9, 2020, NASA's Lucy mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy's path, has a small sa ... more 
NASA's Mars helicopter succeeds in historic first flightWashington (AFP) April 19, 2021 NASA successfully flew its mini helicopter Ingenuity on Mars early Monday, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat the agency likened to "our Wright brothers moment." ... more
Key things to know about NASA's Ingenuity Mars HelicopterWashington (AFP) April 19, 2021 NASA has made history by successfully flying the mini helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet. ... more  
Tracking the progress of fusion power through 60 years of neutral particle analysisWashington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2021 As the world's energy demands grow, so too does growing concern over the environmental impact of power production. The need for a safe, clean, and reliable energy source has never been clearer. Fusi ... more  
Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheresSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2021 In a novel laboratory investigation of the initial atmospheres of Earth-like rocky planets, researchers at UC Santa Cruz heated pristine meteorite samples in a high-temperature furnace and analyzed ... more |
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 Researchers identify five double star systems potentially suitable for life 
Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars: NASAWashington (AFP) April 19, 2021 NASA successfully flew the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on Monday, according to data and images sent back to Earth. ... more  |
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UAE to send rover to the Moon in 2022Dubai (AFP) April 14, 2021 Lunar exploration firm iSpace said Wednesday it will transport a United Arab Emirates unmanned rover to the Moon next year, as the Gulf state seeks to expand its space sector. ... more 
Osiris-Rex leaves its mark on Asteroid BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 16, 2021 Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Bennu. Now, new images - taken during the spacecraft's final fly-over on April 7 - reveal the aftermath of its hi ... more 
Elon Musk's SpaceX wins $2.9B contract to build lunar landerWashington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2021 Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a $2.9 billion contract to develop the company's Starship rocket as a lunar lander to carry astronauts on Artemis moon missions, NASA announced Friday. ... more  
China Orbiting 400 Satellites, Heading for 1,000 by 2030, US Space Command Chief SaysBeijing (Sputnik) Apr 21, 2021 China now has 400 satellites in orbit, second only in number to the United States and it is projected to have at least one thousand of them deployed by the end of this decade, Space Command chief Ar ... more 
When the atmosphere isn't enoughParis (ESA) Apr 21, 2021 Why has life flourished on Earth, but nowhere else - that we know of - in the Solar System? The answer is our delicately thin, but hugely consequential atmosphere. Ask the dinosaurs however, and the ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 
Yesterday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter - which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February - took off from the Martian surface. More importantly, it hovered for about 30 seconds, three metres above the surface and came right back down again.
It may not sound like a huge feat, but it is. Ingenuity's flight is the first powered flight of an air ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 
There could be as many as 15 Moon Trees in the UK - trees grown from seeds flown around the Moon by NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. But where are they now? The Royal Astronomical Society and the UK Space Agency would love to know, in their joint quest to find these living pieces of space history.
Roosa took around 500 seeds from trees like the Sycamore - in th ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2021 
In the weeks following its launch in early 2006, when NASA's New Horizons was still close to home, it took just minutes to transmit a command to the spacecraft, and hear back that the onboard computer received and was ready to carry out the instructions.
As New Horizons crossed the solar system, and its distance from Earth jumped from millions to billions of miles, that time between contac ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2021 
Telescopes are getting better and better at detecting the components of exoplanet atmospheres. But what can those components tell us about a planet's climate? It turns out that water vapor may be especially useful in this regard.
As we find more and more exoplanets, we're realizing that our solar system may be the exception to the rule! The menagerie of exoplanets we've discovered so far i ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 21, 2021  A crewed SpaceX mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to concerns over the weather, NASA said Wednesday.
The flight had been scheduled for Thursday but because of an unfavorable weather forecast along the flight path it will now be set for 5:49 am (0949 GMT) Friday, the US space agency said.
A SpaceX rocket is to carry four astronauts to the ISS in th ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Apr 21, 2021 
Space-tracking ship Yuanwang 5 departed from a port in East China's Jiangsu province on Tuesday for a maritime monitoring mission in the Pacific Ocean.
Before this voyage, the crew members have examined onboard facilities and replenished their supplies for the upcoming mission, after the ship returned from a mission on March 29.
Yuanwang 5, China's third-generation space-tracking shi ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 
On Jan. 9, 2020, NASA's Lucy mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy's path, has a small satellite.
Though searching for satellites is one of the mission's central goals, finding these tiny worlds before Lucy is launched gives the team the opportunity to investigate their orbits and p ... 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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 Riyadh (AFP) April 20, 2021 
Greece will lend a Patriot missile battery to Saudi Arabia to protect its critical energy infrastructure, Greek officials said Tuesday, as the Gulf kingdom grapples with growing attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels.
Saudi Arabia, the top crude exporter which leads a military coalition against the Huthis, relies heavily on US-made Patriots to intercept missiles and drones fired at the kingdom on a ... 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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 Jerusalem, Israel (SPX) Apr 14, 2021 
The "three-body problem," the term coined for predicting the motion of three gravitating bodies in space, is essential for understanding a variety of astrophysical processes as well as a large class of mechanical problems, and has occupied some of the world's best physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for over three centuries. Their attempts have led to the discovery of several important fi ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 
Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes that can identify violators anywhere at any time, according to a new Stanford University-led study. The paper, published the week of April 19 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), demonstrates how artificial intelligence combined with satellite imagery c ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2021 
The U.S. Navy announced the start of its first manned and unmanned capabilities exercise on Monday at Naval Base San Diego.
Executed by the Navy's 3rd Fleet, "Unmanned Battle Problem 21" will "generate warfighting advantages in integrating multi-domain manned and unmanned capabilities into the most challenging operational scenarios," a Navy statement said.
Unmanned systems, including ... more |
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