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  Washington DC (UPI) Jul 12, 2021 Photos from the Mars helicopter Ingenuity's ninth flight released by NASA on Monday are helping engineers and scientists plot the next destinations for the Perseverance rover. The aircraft was sent toward some possible science targets for the mission, flying over a sandy dune area known as Séítah that might be hazardous for the rover. The photos showed the dunes and rocky outcroppings with much greater detail than NASA has obtained of the region from cameras on orbiters, the agency sai ... read more |
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Scientists solve 40-year mystery over Jupiter's X-ray auroraLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 A research team co-led by UCL (University College London) has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes. The X-rays are part of Ju ... more  
Icequakes likely rumble along geyser-spitting fractures in Saturn's icy moon EnceladusWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 Tidal stresses may be causing constant icequakes on Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus, a world of interest in the search for life beyond Earth, according to a new study. A better understanding o ... more  
An antioxidative stress regulator protects muscle tissue in spaceIbaraki, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 Most kids dream of growing up to be astronauts; but the downside of spending extended amounts of time in low gravity is that astronauts' muscles tend to shrink and weaken through disuse. Now, resear ... more  
NASA, Northrop Grumman finalize Moon outpost living quarters contractWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit ... more |
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Homemade spacesuits ensure safety of Chinese astronauts in spaceBeijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2021 China's self-developed spacesuits have ensured the safety of astronauts during their stay in the space station core module Tianhe and while performing extravehicular activities (EVAs) outside the mo ... more 
Tiangong: astronauts are working on China's new space station - here's what to expectMelbourne, Australia (The Coversation) Jul 07, 2021 Three astronauts on China's new space station have just performed the country's first space walk and are busy configuring the module for future crews. Named Tiangong ("heavenly palace"), the station ... more 
Exercise bike in space helps keep crew fitBeijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2021 During a recent video sent from the core module of China's space station Tianhe (Harmony of Heavens), an exercise bike attracted lots of attention from viewers. China launched its seventh mann ... more  
NASA orders satellite container and trolley from RUAG SpaceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 08, 2021 RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space industry, received a direct order from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and will deliver a large satellite container and a multip ... more 
Mechanical arm is Chinese astronauts' space helperBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2021 The mechanical arm installed on China's space station core module Tianhe has played an important role in assisting the astronauts with their extravehicular activities (EVAs) on Sunday. The mec ... more |
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Methane in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 07, 2021 An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists at the U ... more  
Ancient diamonds show Earth was primed for life's explosion at least 2.7 billion years agoWashington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2021 A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere which makes it suitable for life's explosion of diversity was laid down at least 2.7 billio ... more 
Flight 9 was a nail-biter, but Ingenuity came through with flying colorsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2021 It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred Monday, July ... more 
Meet the open-source software powering NASA's Ingenuity Mars HelicopterWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovered above the Red Planet April 19 on its maiden voyage, the moment was hailed as the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. Figurin ... more  
DARPA Announces Research Teams to Develop Intelligent Event-Based ImagersWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 DARPA has announced that three teams of researchers led by Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Northrop Grumman have been selected to develop event-based infrared (IR) camera technologies under the Fast Even ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2021 
Today, Mars is a planet of extremes - it's bitterly cold, has high radiation, and is bone-dry. But billions of years ago, Mars was home to lake systems that could have sustained microbial life. As the planet's climate changed, one such lake - in Mars' Gale Crater - slowly dried out. Scientists have new evidence that super salty water, or brines, seeped deep through the cracks, between grains of ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis program. NASA and its commercial and international partners are building Gateway to support science investigations and enable surface landings at the Moon, w ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
A research team co-led by UCL (University College London) has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.
The X-rays are part of Jupiter's aurora - bursts of visible and invisible light that occur when charged particles interact with the planet's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon occurs on Earth, creating the northern lights, but ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for more advanced life on exoplanets. This NASA-funded research is presented at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference.
Since the first discovery of exoplanets (planets orbiting distant stars) in 1992, scientists have been looking for worlds wh ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jul 07, 2021 
Skyroot Aerospace, India's leading private space launch company, is set to take the global stage with help from its recent $11 million Series A capital raise. The funding will be used to acquire new talent and complete the development of its Vikram-1 launch vehicle.
The company aims to reach orbit, with 90 percent less development cost than its competitors, as early as next year. This disr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2021 
During a recent video sent from the core module of China's space station Tianhe (Harmony of Heavens), an exercise bike attracted lots of attention from viewers.
China launched its seventh manned spaceflight Shenzhou XII, on June 17, with three astronauts aboard for a three-month mission, during which they require regular exercise.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
Scientists know that the Earth was bombarded by huge impactors in distant time, but a new analysis suggest that the number of these impacts may have been x10 higher than previously thought.
This translates into a barrage of collisions, similar in scale to that of the asteroid strike which wiped out the dinosaurs, on average every 15 million years between 2.5 and 3.5 billion years ago. Some ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) June 21, 2021 
Israel has used an airborne laser to shoot down drones in a series of tests, officials said Monday, calling it a "milestone" to update its already powerful defence systems.
During the tests, which took place "over the last week," a prototype of the high-power laser system carried on a small civilian plane "successfully intercepted several UAVs", said Yaniv Rotem, head of the defence ministry ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 13, 2021 
The CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment Block 1 - part of MDA's Nanosat Testbed Initiative - uses small, low-cost satellites to demonstrate networked radio communications between nanosatellites while in orbit. MDA will conduct a 90-day demonstration, with a mission extension of up to one year, to ensure the two CubeSats can navigate properly, receive and send signals to radios and networ ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
Tidal stresses may be causing constant icequakes on Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus, a world of interest in the search for life beyond Earth, according to a new study. A better understanding of seismic activity could reveal what's under the moon's icy crust and provide clues to the habitability of its ocean.
Enceladus is about 500 kilometers in diameter and almost entirely covered in ... 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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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 
"Detecting primordial black holes opens up new perspectives to understand the origin of the Universe, because these still hypothetical black holes are supposed to have formed just a few tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Their study is of great interest for research in theoretical physics and cosmology, because they could notably explain the origin of dark matter in the Universe". ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 08, 2021 
Imagine a dust particle in a storm cloud, and you can get an idea of a neutron's insignificance compared to the magnitude of the molecule it inhabits.
But just as a dust mote might affect a cloud's track, a neutron can influence the energy of its molecule despite being less than one-millionth its size. And now physicists at MIT and elsewhere have successfully measured a neutron's tiny effe ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
DARPA has announced that three teams of researchers led by Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Northrop Grumman have been selected to develop event-based infrared (IR) camera technologies under the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics (FENCE) program.
Event-based - or neuromorphic - cameras are an emerging class of sensors with demonstrated advantages relative to traditional imagers ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) July 5, 2021  US forces shot down an armed drone above their embassy in Baghdad on Monday night, Iraqi security officials said, hours after a rocket attack on a base housing US soldiers in the west of the country.
American defence systems fired rockets into the air in Baghdad, according to AFP reporters, with Iraqi security sources saying the salvos took out a drone that was laden with explosives.
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