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June 01, 2021
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Canadian manipulator on ISS holed by space debris



Moscow (Sputnik) May 31, 2021
Space debris hit the Canadian remote robotic system onboard the International Space Station (ISS), leaving a small hole in it, but the incident did not affect the operation of the device, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) said on Friday. "While the utmost precautions are taken to reduce the potential for collisions with the ISS, impacts with tiny objects do occur. One such hit was noticed recently during a routine inspection of Canadarm2 on May 12. Experts from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and NA ... read more

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ESA's Space Environment Report 2021
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2021
Imagine driving down a road which has more broken cars, bikes and vans lining the street than functioning vehicles. This is the scene our satellites face in Earth orbit. In fact, since the start of ... more
MARSDAILY
NASA's Curiosity rover captures shining clouds on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2021
Cloudy days are rare in the thin, dry atmosphere of Mars. Clouds are typically found at the planet's equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest from the Sun in its oval-shaped or ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA administrator Bill Nelson supports $10B boost for moon landing
Washington DC (UPI) May 28, 2021
NASA needs about a 40% boost - $10 billion - in its budget to foster competition that could aid future astronaut missions to the moon, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. ... more
MOON DAILY
Lockheed and GM team up for Lunar rovers for Artemis program
Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2021
Lockheed Martin and General Motors Co. are teaming up to develop the next generation of lunar vehicles to transport astronauts on the surface of the Moon, fundamentally evolving and expanding humani ... more
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Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien life
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 31, 2021
While scientists know the discovery of alien life would be a game-changing, interstellar event for humanity, the search to date has been unsuccessful. But now, they have a new tool capable of identi ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Europa's interior may be hot enough to fuel seafloor volcanoes
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2021
New research and computer modeling show that volcanic activity may have occurred on the seafloor of Jupiter's moon Europa in the recent past - and may still be happening. NASA's upcoming Europa Clip ... more
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Newly discovered glaciers could aid human survival on Mars
London, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2021
With Elon Musk keen to settle on Mars, and NASA planning its own human missions, there's more to it than finding a safe place to land on the red planet. When it's no longer just robots, rovers and d ... more
MOON DAILY
Measuring Moon dust to fight air pollution
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 27, 2021
Moon dust isn't like the stuff that collects on a bookshelf or on tables - it's ubiquitous and abrasive, and it clings to everything. It's so bad that it even broke the vacuum NASA designed to clean ... more
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Thirty year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets
Kamuela HI (SPX) May 27, 2021
Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the unive ... more
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New advances inspire China's deep space exploration

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Enabling human control of autonomous partners
Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2021
A major benefit of increasingly advanced automation and artificial intelligence technology is decreased workload and greater safety for humans - whether it's driving a vehicle, piloting an airplane, ... more
MARSDAILY
Surviving an in-flight anomaly: what happened on Ingenuity's 6th flight
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2021
On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight. The flight was designed to expand the flight envelope and d ... more
ROBO SPACE
Slender robotic finger senses buried items
Boston MA (SPX) May 27, 2021
Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects - as long as they're out in the open. Discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a rob ... more
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RUAG Space dispenser places 200th OneWeb satellite in orbit
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 31, 2021
On Thursday, May 27, OneWeb will launch further 36 broadband internet satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia. OneWeb is building a communications network wi ... more
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NASA software unlocks Martian rover productivity
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2021
Productivity pundits know lots of tricks to make the most of your day, so you can schedule enough time for important tasks while guarding against overload. Planning a day of work for a Martian rover ... more
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NASA's Curiosity rover captures shining clouds on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2021
Cloudy days are rare in the thin, dry atmosphere of Mars. Clouds are typically found at the planet's equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest from the Sun in its oval-shaped orbit. But one full Martian year ago - two Earth years - scientists noticed clouds forming over NASA's Curiosity rover earlier than expected. This year, they were ready to start documenting these ... more
+ Newly discovered glaciers could aid human survival on Mars
+ Surviving an in-flight anomaly: what happened on Ingenuity's 6th flight
+ NASA software unlocks Martian rover productivity
+ Salts could be important piece of Martian organic puzzle
+ China's Zhurong rover moves onto Martian surface to begin scientific operations
+ China's first Mars rover starts exploring red planet
+ New ExoMars parachute ready for high altitude drop




Lockheed and GM team up for Lunar rovers for Artemis program
Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2021
Lockheed Martin and General Motors Co. are teaming up to develop the next generation of lunar vehicles to transport astronauts on the surface of the Moon, fundamentally evolving and expanding humanity's deep-space exploration footprint. NASA's Artemis program is sending humans back to the Moon where they will explore and conduct scientific experiments using a variety of rovers. NASA sought ... more
+ NASA administrator Bill Nelson supports $10B boost for moon landing
+ Measuring Moon dust to fight air pollution
+ Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology chosen to design Lunar charging station
+ Republic of Korea signs onto Artemis Accords for lunar exploration
+ NASA rover to search for water, other resources on Moon
+ Canada to send rover to Moon by 2026: minister
+ SSTL Lunar to lead consortium for ESA Moonlight
Jupiter antenna that came in from the cold
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2021
An instrument destined for Jupiter orbit is checked after completing eight days of cryogenic radio-frequency testing at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands. The Sub-millimetre Wave Instrument of ESA's Juice mission will survey the churning atmosphere of Jupiter and the scanty atmospheres of its Galilean moons. Testing took place in ESA's custom-built Low-temperature Near- ... more
+ Europa's interior may be hot enough to fuel seafloor volcanoes
+ Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain inside Jupiter and Saturn
+ Deep water on Neptune and Uranus may be magnesium-rich
+ Juice arrives at ESA's technical heart
+ New Horizons reaches a rare space milestone
+ New research reveals secret to Jupiter's curious aurora activity
+ NASA's Europa Clipper builds hardware, moves toward assembly


Thirty year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets
Kamuela HI (SPX) May 27, 2021
Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawai?i, the 30-year planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars. ... more
+ Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien life
+ Deep oceans dissolve the rocky shell of water-ice planets
+ Origins of life researchers develop a new ecological biosignature
+ Shrinking planets could explain mystery of universe's missing worlds
+ Alien radioactive element prompts creation rethink
+ Coldplay beam new song into space in chat with French astronaut
+ How planets form controls elements essential for life
NASA stacks elements for upper portion of Artemis II Core Stage
New Orleans LA (SPX) May 28, 2021
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) team fully stacked three hardware elements together May 24 to form the top of the rocket's core stage for the Artemis II mission. NASA and core stage prime contractor Boeing connected the forward skirt with the liquid oxygen tank and intertank flight hardware inside an assembly area at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Teams had previously st ... more
+ A passion for hypersonics propels success at AFRL Lab
+ PLD Space receives ESA contract to study reusing MIURA 5 boosters
+ Russian rocket launches UK telecom satellites after delay
+ Competitor fears Musk's SpaceX could 'monopolise' space
+ Launch postponed for Soyuz rocket with UK telecom satellites
+ SpaceX cargo mission to carry water bears, baby squids to space station
+ UK spaceflight to become reality as govt provides launchpad for spaceports




China cargo craft docks with space station module
Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2021
A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station on Sunday, state media said. A Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft - loaded with essentials such as food, equipment and fuel - blasted off late Saturday from the Wenchang launch site on the tropical southern island of Hainan, the Xinh ... more
+ New advances inspire China's deep space exploration
+ China postpones launch of robotic cargo spacecraft
+ Space station core module in orbit to prep for next stage of construction
+ China postpones launch of rocket carrying space station supplies
+ China's core space station module Tianhe completes in-orbit tests
+ Tianzhou 2, carrier rocket transported to launchpad for liftoff
+ 'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong rover touches down on Red Planet
Rare 4000-year comets can cause meteor showers on Earth
Mountain View CA (SPX) May 21, 2021
Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar system altogether that their meteor showers are hard to detect. From a new meteor shower survey published in the journal Icarus, researchers now report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and are known t ... more
+ Heavy metal vapors unexpectedly found in comets throughout our Solar System
+ Nickel atoms detected in the cold gas around interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
+ NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
+ US space probe Osiris-Rex heads home with asteroid dust
+ Lessons learnt from simulated strike
+ New View of Asteroid Ryugu's Surface
+ New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids




AFRL directed energy industry days
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
+ Israel unveils laser-guided 'precision' mortar system
+ Army partners with Air Force's THOR for base defense
+ SHiELD set to receive critical assembly
+ MDA awarded first production contract for the Canadian Surface Combatant Project
+ Second test of Air Force's drone-killing laser may start later this year
+ AFRL holds new directed energy wargaming event
+ DARPA seeks compact, deployable electron accelerator
MDA test does not intercept target
Washington DC (AFNS) May 31, 2021
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, conducted Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1 on May 29, 2021. The objective of the test was to demonstrate the capability of a ballistic missile defense (BMD)-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium range ballistic missile target with a salvo of two Standard Missile-6 Dual II (BMD-init ... more
+ First modernized SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite under Space Force control
+ ULA postpones launch of missile detection satellite
+ SBIRS GEO-5 encapsulated ahead of upcoming launch
+ GAO report: Missile Defense Agency missed 2020 delivery, testing goals
+ Greece to lend Patriot battery to Saudi as Huthi attacks spike
+ Missile Warning Satellite Delivered to Cape Canaveral
+ Lockheed Martin awarded $3.7B to modernize key missile defense mission




Glenn researchers study new, futuristic concept to explore Titan
Cleveland OH (SPX) May 13, 2021
Science and technology advancements start with big ideas and creativity. Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland have imagined a new, early-stage concept for a lander to Saturn's moon Titan. The team is exploring technologies capable of collecting surface samples and returning them to Earth for laboratory analysis. The team's futuristic idea was selected for a $125,000 NAS ... more
+ Johns Hopkins Scientists Model Saturn's Interior
+ Ocean currents predicted on Enceladus
+ Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn
+ Saturn's Tilt Caused By Its Moons
+ Astronomers estimate Titan's largest sea is 1,000 feet deep
+ SwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at Enceladus
Nano-Bio Materials Consortium introduces new AFRL-Industry Co-Development Program
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) May 31, 2021
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Nano-Bio Materials Consortium is currently in contract negotiation with hopes of starting projects by June that use a new process of industry and AFRL personnel in co-developing smart medical technology innovations. NBMC awarded contracts to 12 organizations from industry and academia Feb. 15, totaling $20.4 million, which leveraged $10.7 million of cost ... more
+ Nanostructured device stops light in its tracks
+ Scientists use DNA technology to build tough 3D nanomaterials
+ New "metalens" shifts focus without tilting or moving
+ Nanowire could provide a stable, easy-to-make superconducting transistor
+ New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles
+ Scientists see competition of magnetic orders from 2D sheets of atoms
+ Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale




Scientists find new insights into the elusive continuous waves from spinning neutron stars
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 28, 2021
Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), are continuing the hunt for new discoveries and insights into the Universe. Using the super-sensitive, kilometre-sized LIGO detectors in the United States, and the Virgo detector in Europe, the team have witness ... more
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+ NASA Marshall team soars to success in microgravity
+ The gateway to weightlessness, the edge of space
+ Fibertek to develop satellite-based charge management system for LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory
+ Atom interferometry demonstrated in space for the first time
+ New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
+ A brighter future for gravitational-wave astronomy
Quark-gluon plasma flows like water, according to new study
London, UK (SPX) May 28, 2021
What does quark-gluon plasma - the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang - have in common with tap water? Scientists say it's the way it flows. A new study, published in the journal SciPost Physics, has highlighted the surprising similarities between quark-gluon plasma, the first matter thought to have filled the early Universe, and water that comes ... more
+ Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
+ Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
+ Astrophysicists launch largest sky survey yet to map the Universe
+ Small galaxies likely played important role in evolution of the Universe
+ A new window to see hidden side of magnetized universe
+ Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages with a Lunar radio telescope
+ Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations




Enabling human control of autonomous partners
Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2021
A major benefit of increasingly advanced automation and artificial intelligence technology is decreased workload and greater safety for humans - whether it's driving a vehicle, piloting an airplane, or patrolling a dangerous street in a deployed location with the aid of autonomous ground and airborne squad mates. But when there's a technology glitch and machines don't function as designed, human ... more
+ Slender robotic finger senses buried items
+ Air Force unveils exoskeleton to aid aerial ports in lifting
+ Helping robots collaborate to get the job done
+ Artificial intelligence can boost power, efficiency of even the best microscopes
+ Robotic solution for disinfecting food production plants wins agribusiness prize
+ New brain-like computing device mimics associative learning
+ AI, captain! First autonomous ship prepares for maiden voyage
Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 27, 2021
Commercial UAV Expo Americas is North America's leading trade show and conference focusing on the integration and operation of commercial UAS. Industries covered include Construction; Drone Delivery; Energy and Utilities; Forestry and Agriculture; Infrastructure and Transportation; Mining and Aggregates; Public Safety and Emergency Services; Security; and Surveying and Mapping. ... more
+ AFRL completes Golden Horde Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb flight demonstrations
+ Northrop Grumman Maritime Autonomous system surpasses 40,000 flight hours
+ Europe's Future unmanned Combat Air System
+ Poland becomes first NATO country to buy Turkish drones
+ U.S. Navy drones to move from Guam to Japan
+ New drone attack targets US forces in Iraq
+ Skyborg ACS has successful first flight
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