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  Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2021 Space is getting crowded. Old satellites, rocket bodies and fragments of both are leaving little space for new satellites to reside in that is free from debris. The risk of collision with debris and even functioning satellites is increasing, especially in low-Earth orbit, putting many of Earth's climate, ocean and land monitoring missions in harm's way. ESA is working alongside private business to clean up space by developing new missions and technologies that will remove debris from orbit. ... read more |
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Turkish lake with likely clues to Mars gains unwanted fameLake Salda, Turkey (AFP) April 28, 2021 Boasting azure waters and white sands, a Turkish lake that NASA thinks hides secrets about Mars threatens to become too popular for its own good. ... more 
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on MarsMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2021 Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a bulky spacesuit with puffy gloves on, under a time constraint because you don't want to run out of oxygen. That's what the ... more 
Hot and cold space radio testingParis (ESA) Apr 29, 2021 ESA's newest radio-frequency test facility allows direct measurement of antenna systems in the very vacuum conditions and thermal extremes they will work in, including the chill of deep space. It wi ... more 
Space law and the fight against space debrisSydney, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 29, 2021 Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning satellites. Large ... more |
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Core capsule launched into orbitBeijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2021 Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin undertook mankind's first space journey, China launched the core capsule of its space station on Thursday morning, formally embarking on the construction of one of the ... more 
China launches space station core module TianheWenchang, China (XNA) Apr 30, 2021 China on Thursday sent into space the core module of its space station, kicking off a series of key launch missions that aim to complete the construction of the station by the end of next year. ... more 
China's space station takes shared future concept to spaceBeijing (XNA) May 01, 2021 China successfully launched the core module of its space station on Thursday, giving humankind a new foothold in space. The space station will become a common outpost for space-faring countrie ... more 
York Space Systems begins production of larger LX-CLASS platformDenver CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 York Space Systems has begun producing its new LX-CLASS spacecraft, a larger and more powerful platform scheduled for delivery in 2022 for a commercial constellation customer. The LX-CLASS leverages ... more 
China's 'space dream': A Long March to the Moon and beyondBeijing (AFP) April 29, 2021 The launch of the first module of China's new space station - "Heavenly Palace" - on Thursday underlined how far the country has come in achieving its space dream. ... more |
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Robotic solution for disinfecting food production plants wins agribusiness prizeBoston MA (SPX) May 04, 2021 The winners of this year's Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize got a good indication their pitch was striking a chord when a judge offered to have his company partner with the team f ... more  |
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Mindblowing: advances in brain tech spur push for 'neuro-rights'Santiago (AFP) May 4, 2021 As sci-fi thriller "Inception" topped box offices across the world, audiences were delighted and appalled by its futuristic story of a criminal gang invading people's dreams to steal valuable data. ... more 
New brain-like computing device mimics associative learningWashington DC (UPI) Apr 30, 2021 Researchers have developed a computing device that is capable of learning by association, essentially merging storage and memory capacity. ... more 
AI, captain! First autonomous ship prepares for maiden voyagePlymouth, United Kingdom (AFP) April 30, 2021 The "Mayflower 400" - the world's first intelligent ship - bobs gently in a light swell as it stops its engines in Plymouth Sound, off England's southwest coast, before self-activating a hydrophone designed to listen to whales. ... more 
3D motion tracking system could help autonomous technologies 'see'Washington DC (UPI) Apr 23, 2021 A new 3D motion tracking system could help autonomous technologies navigate their environs without the help of cameras or LiDAR. ... more 
'Surreal dream': Romanian startup makes Wall Street splashBucharest (AFP) April 29, 2021 Born in the small Bucharest apartment of a once aspiring writer, software firm UiPath has grown into a $40 billion tech star after becoming Romania's first Wall Street-listed company. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 01, 2021 
The Red Planet rotorcraft will shift focus from proving flight is possible on Mars to demonstrating flight operations that future aerial craft could utilize.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, exploring how aerial s ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2021 
Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter or redder, for example, due to its phases, its position in the solar system or smoke in Earth's atmosphere. (It is not made of green cheese, however.)
Another factor in its appearance is the size and shape of moon dust particles, the small rock grains that cover the moon's surface. Rese ... 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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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 04, 2021 
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
"We just don't know very much about how giant planets grow," said Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin. "This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness material falling onto a planet. Our results open ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 2, 2021  A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed down off Panama City early Sunday, a NASA livestream showed.
Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
The crew reported they were feeling well, NASA said.
The capsule splashed down at 2:56 am (0656 GMT) in the dark in the Gulf of Mexi ... more |
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 Wenchang, China (XNA) Apr 30, 2021 
China on Thursday sent into space the core module of its space station, kicking off a series of key launch missions that aim to complete the construction of the station by the end of next year.
The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the Tianhe module, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan at 11:23 a.m. (Beijing Time).
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 Paris (ESA) May 01, 2021 
In an alternate reality playing out at this year's international Planetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, 'destroying' a region about 100 km wide near the Czech Republic and German border. The scenario was imagined, but the people who took part are very real, and the lessons learnt will shape our ability to respond to dangerous asteroids for years to come.
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 28, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency did not meet 2020 goals, with only 62% of deliveries and 22% of interceptor missile tests completed, a report on Wednesday said.
While the Government Accountability Office noted that MDA "made progress" toward on individual systems of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, the agency "did not complete its overall planned deliveries or annual testing," according ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) May 04, 2021 
Understanding how light waves oscillate in time as they interact with materials is essential to understanding light-driven energy transfer in materials, such as solar cells or plants. Due to the fantastically high speeds at which light waves oscillate, however, scientists have yet to develop a compact device with enough time resolution to directly capture them.
Now, a team led by MIT resea ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 29, 2021 
Understanding how an experimental payload will respond to the conditions of space is crucial to a researcher's ability to confirm designs or make necessary adjustments before progressing to more costly orbital deployments.
To do so, scientists often meet at "the edge of space" on a modified airplane that achieves periods of variable gravity through a series of maneuvers called parabolas. T ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 04, 2021 
A new study led by University of Minnesota astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insight into how the Universe became reionized, a problem that astronomers have been trying to solve for years.
The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal, a peer-reviewed scientific jou ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 04, 2021 
The winners of this year's Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize got a good indication their pitch was striking a chord when a judge offered to have his company partner with the team for an early demonstration. The offer signified demand for their solution - to say nothing of their chances of winning the pitch competition.
The annual competition's MIT-based grand-prize winner ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 
University of South Australia researchers have drawn inspiration from a 300-million-year-old superior flying machine - the dragonfly - to show why future flapping wing drones will probably resemble the insect in shape, wings and gearing.
A team of PhD students led by UniSA Professor of Sensor Systems, Javaan Chahl, spent part of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown designing and testing key parts of ... more |
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