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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2021 NASA is one step closer to robotically refueling a satellite and demonstrating in-space assembly and manufacturing thanks to the completion of an important milestone. In April 2021, NASA and Maxar Technologies successfully completed the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission spacecraft accommodation Critical Design Review (CDR). This milestone demonstrates that the maturity of the design for the OSAM-1 spacecraft bus is appropriate to support proceeding with fabrication ... read more |
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US watching Chinese rocket's erratic re-entry: PentagonWashington (AFP) May 6, 2021 The Pentagon said Wednesday it is following the trajectory of a Chinese rocket expected to make an uncontrolled entry into the atmosphere this weekend, with the risk of crashing down in an inhabited area. ... more  
China wants to send spacecraft to edge of solar system to mark 100th year of PRCBeijing (XNA) May 07, 2021 Chinese scientists are evaluating the feasibility of a project to send spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, said Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program. Accordin ... more  
Volcanoes on Mars could be active, raise possibility of recent habitable conditionsTucson AZ (SPX) May 07, 2021 Evidence of recent volcanic activity on Mars shows that eruptions could have taken place within the past 50,000 years, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist David Horvath says. ... more 
Why Ingenuity's fifth flight will be differentPasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2021 Around the time of our first flight, we talked a lot about having our "Wright brothers moment" at Mars. And that makes a lot of sense, since those two mechanically-minded bicycle builders executed t ... more |
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UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planetsKelowna, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2021 Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life. Now, new r ... more 
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet GrowsBaltimore 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 ab ... more 
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to begin new demonstration phasePasadena 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 h ... more 
US not planning to shoot down errant Chinese rocket: defense chiefWashington (AFP) May 6, 2021 The US military has no plans to shoot down an out -of-control Chinese rocket now hurtling towards Earth, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday. ... more  
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 |
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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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China's Long March-5B rocket booster set for uncontrolled reentry Washington DC (UPI) May 05, 2021 A U.S. astrophysicist is raising concerns about a Chinese carrier rocket used last week to launch the main module of a space station, as the rocket's core could be falling out of the Earth's orbit. ... 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 
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 
NASA extends Mars helicopter mission to assist roverWashington DC (UPI) Apr 30, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been so successful, the space agency on Friday said it would extend the mission so the mini-aircraft can act as a scout for the rover Perseverance. ... more 
Mars Ingenuity helicopter given new scouting missionWashington (AFP) April 30, 2021 After proving powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter has new orders: scout ahead of the Perseverance rover to assist in its search for past signs of microbial life. ... 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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 Fayetteville AK (SPX) May 05, 2021 
A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including Ellen Czaplinski, a University of Arkansas graduate student researcher at the Arkansas Center for Planetary Sciences and first author of a paper published in The Planet ... more |
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has come 'home' to ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands to undergo an extreme environment test in Europe's largest thermal vacuum chamber to prepare for its journey to the outer Solar System.
The spacecraft arrived at ESTEC, ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre, from Airbus Friedrichshafen in Germany last week. It is now being unpa ... more |
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 Kelowna, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2021 
Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life.
Now, new research from UBC's Okanagan campus is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life.
"The discovery of any planet is pretty exciting, ... more |
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SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts.
The test flight represents a major win for the hard-charging company, which eventually wants to carry crew inside Starship for missions to Mars.
"Starship landing nominal!" tweeted founder Elon Musk triumphantly, after th ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 07, 2021 
Chinese scientists are evaluating the feasibility of a project to send spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, said Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program.
According to the project, the Chinese spacecraft will cover a distance about 100 times than that between the sun and Earth by 2049, when the People's Republic of China celebrates its 100th founding anniversar ... more |
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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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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2021 
New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an intriguing look into Saturn's interior, suggesting that a thick layer of helium rain influences the planet's magnetic field.
The models, published this week in AGU Advances, also indicate that Saturn's interior may feature higher temperatures at the equatorial region, with lower temperatures at the high latitudes at the top of the helium ra ... 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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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 05, 2021 
A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to create a complex simulated universe in less than a day. The technique, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, brings together machine learning, high-performance computing and astrophysics and will help to usher in a new era of high-resolution cosmology simulations. ... 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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 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (SPX) May 07, 2021 
The Skyborg leadership team conducted a two-hours and ten minute flight test April 29 of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical unmanned vehicle at Tyndall AFB, Florida.
Termed Milestone 1 of the Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation (AAAx) campaign, the ACS performed a series of foundational behaviors necessary to characterize safe system operatio ... more |
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