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  Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 09, 2021 Dust is a nuisance on Earth. Thankfully, we can simply pull out a vacuum or grab a rag to rid ourselves of the concoction of dust mites, fibers, soil, pollen, and other tiny bits. Beyond Earth's atmosphere, dust is insidious. On the Moon, it's made of crushed rock and is damaging to everything from lunar landers to spacesuits and human lungs if inhaled. As NASA readies to return to the Moon with the Artemis program, a team at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is working to mitigate dust's ... read more |
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First images of Ganymede as Juno sailed byPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2021 The first two images from NASA Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth. The photos - one from the Jupiter orbiter's JunoCam imager and the other from ... more  
China releases new Mars image taken by Tianwen 1 probeBeijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2021 The China National Space Administration (CNSA) Monday released a new image taken by the Tianwen 1 probe, showing the country's first Mars rover and its landing platform on the red planet's surface. ... more  
New connector for sustainable structures on Earth and in spaceLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 08, 2021 During his time at EPFL under the Erasmus program, Romain van Wassenhove came up with an idea for a connector that could be used to make modular structures out of sustainable bamboo rather than wood ... more  
Space travel weakens our immune systemsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2021 Microgravity in space perturbs human physiology and is detrimental for astronaut health, a fact first realized during early Apollo missions when astronauts experienced inner ear disturbances, heart ... more |
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ExoMars rover twin begins Earth-based mission in 'Mars Terrain Simulator'Turin, Italy (SPX) Jun 06, 2021 The replica ExoMars rover that will be used in the Rover Operations Control Centre to support mission training and operations is fully assembled and has completed its first drive around the Mars Ter ... more 
Moon habitat blueprint at Venice BiennaleParis (ESA) Jun 04, 2021 A detailed concept for a lunar habitat, created by one of the world's leading architectural firms with ESA technical support, is currently on show at the Biennale in Venice. Skidmore, Owings and Mer ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx celebrates perfect departure maneuver from Asteroid BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 328,000 miles, or 528,000 kilometers, away from the asteroid Bennu, having fired its engines on May 10 to initiate a return trip to Earth. The spacecraft is on track ... more 
InSight Mars Lander Gets a power boostPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2021 The team behind NASA's InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft's energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander's robotic arm trickled sa ... more 
Leiden astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronologically orderLeiden, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort cloud in its entirety. Until now, only parts of the history had been studied separately. ... more |
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One small step for cephalopods: SpaceX carrying research squids to ISSWashington (AFP) June 3, 2021 A SpaceX rocket took off Thursday for the International Space Station carrying supplies for scientific experiments, including some surprising passengers - squids and virtually indestructible microorganisms called tardigrades. ... more  
Frozen rotifer reanimated after 24,000 years in the Arctic tundraWashington DC (UPI) Jun 7, 2021 Move over water bears, rotifers are pretty tough too. ... more 
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact of a small astronomical body could enable aqueous alteration and organic solid formation to occur on the ... more  
UMD team demonstrates swarm of photons that somersault in lockstepCollege Park MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 Spinning or rotating objects are commonplace, from toy tops, fidget spinners, and figure skaters to water circling a drain, tornadoes, and hurricanes. In physics, there are two kinds of rotati ... more 
New Zealand signs Artemis AccordsWellington NZ (SPX) Jun 03, 2021 New Zealand has joined a growing list of countries to sign the Artemis Accords. Dr. Peter Crabtree, head of the New Zealand Space Agency, signed the document during a ceremony May 31 in Wellington. ... more |
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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Jun 06, 2021 
The replica ExoMars rover that will be used in the Rover Operations Control Centre to support mission training and operations is fully assembled and has completed its first drive around the Mars Terrain Simulator at ALTEC, in Turin, Italy.
The rover 'Ground Test Model' (GTM) will play a critical role in the coming months as rover operators prepare for Rosalind Franklin's arrival in Oxia Pl ... more |
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A detailed concept for a lunar habitat, created by one of the world's leading architectural firms with ESA technical support, is currently on show at the Biennale in Venice. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, originator of many of the world's tallest skyscrapers, worked with ESA on a semi-inflatable habitat design which could be part of a long-term vision for an international Moon settlement.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2021 
The first two images from NASA Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth. The photos - one from the Jupiter orbiter's JunoCam imager and the other from its Stellar Reference Unit star camera - show the surface in remarkable detail, including craters, clearly distinct dark and bright terrain, and long structural features possibly linked to tectonic fa ... more |
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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 
A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact of a small astronomical body could enable aqueous alteration and organic solid formation to occur on the surface of an asteroid. They achieved this by first conducting high-velocity impact cratering experiments using an asteroid-like target material and measuring the post-impact heat distribution around ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 3, 2021 
SpaceX launched tiny squids, medical experiments and improved solar panels for the International Space Station from Florida on Thursday afternoon.
The 7,300-pound cargo mission rose into a mostly cloudy sky aboard a Falcon 9 rocket as planned at 1:29 p.m. EDT from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
Eight minutes after launch, SpaceX recovered the first-stage booster by landing ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 02, 2021 
Tianzhou 2, a cargo spacecraft launched on Saturday evening, docked with Tianhe-the recently deployed core module of the country's permanent space station-early on Sunday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The Long March 7 rocket, carrying Tianzhou 2, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan at 8:55 pm Sat ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2021 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 328,000 miles, or 528,000 kilometers, away from the asteroid Bennu, having fired its engines on May 10 to initiate a return trip to Earth. The spacecraft is on track to deliver an asteroid sample to Earth on September 24, 2023.
Mission engineers had planned to do a small thruster firing last week to ensure the spacecraft stays on the correct path back to Ear ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 1, 2021 
The USS Paul Ignatius fired two Standard Missile-3 interceptors at the end of May in order to engage ballistic missile targets launched from the Hebrides Guided Weapon Range off the west coast of Scotland, the Navy announced on Tuesday.
The test was carried out as part of a cooperative engagement with the Royal Netherlands Navy, which used its advanced combat system suite to warn the ma ... more |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 08, 2021 
Finding the hypothetical particle axion could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the Universe a second after the Big Bang, suggests a new study published in Physical Review D on June 7.
How far back into the Universe's past can we look today? In the electromagnetic spectrum, observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background - commonly referred to as the CMB - allow us to se ... more |
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 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 robot would need fingers that were slender enough to penetrate the sand, mobile enough to wriggle free when sand grains jam, and sensitive enough to feel the detailed shape of the buried object.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (AFNS) Jun 09, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has created a new video animation that realistically depicts THOR (Tactical High-power Operational Responder) destroying swarms of enemy drones in a base defense scenario.
In an effort to counter the increasing threat posed by enemy drones and other airborne threats, the Air Force developed THOR.
THOR is a prototype Directed Energy (DE) weapon used t ... more |
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