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  Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 Arizona State University is partnering with Intuitive Machines on a mini extreme mobility lunar vehicle, called Micro-Nova, that will hop around the moon's surface and take the first-ever pictures inside craters close to the lunar south pole. On July 16, 2021, NASA awarded the project a $41.6 million "Tipping Point" contract to develop, fly and operate a deployable lunar "hopper lander" on the moon. For this mission design, Micro-Nova can carry a 1-kilogram payload more than 2.5 kilometers to acce ... read more |
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ASU-led LunaH-Map spacecraft safely delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space CenterTempe AZ (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 The ASU-led team that built NASA's Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper, or "LunaH-Map" for short, has safely delivered their spacecraft to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a launch ... more  
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to acquire first samplePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 22, 2021 NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist i ... more 
NASA seeks industry feedback for Artemis Moon Landing ServicesWashington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 NASA initiated collaboration with industry in the agency's first formal step in establishing regular crewed transportation to the lunar surface as a part of Artemis. In a request for information (RF ... more  
Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusionBoston MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2021 After decades of plasma physics research, Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is taking on magnets for MIT's new fusion effort. "You get the high field, you get the performance." Senior ... more |
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ExoMars orbiter continues hunt for key signs of life on MarsParis (ESA) Jul 20, 2021 The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has set new upper limits on how much methane, ethane, ethylene and phosphine is in the martian atmosphere - four so-called 'biomarker' gases that are potential si ... more  
China's five-star red flag flies proudly on red planetLanzhou, China (XNA) Jul 20, 2021 Four photos of Mars taken by the Tianwen 1 probe were unveiled in China last month, but the excitement generated by humanity's next great step in space exploration was shared around the world. ... more  
From the sun to the stars: A journey of exoplanet discovery beginsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now started its scientific mission at the WIYN 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizo ... more 
NASA rover preparing to take first Mars rock samplesWashington (AFP) July 21, 2021 The Perseverance Mars rover is preparing to collect its first rock sample from the site of an ancient lake bed, as its mission to search for signs of past life begins in earnest, NASA said Wednesday. ... more
Perseverance rover begins hunt for signs of Martian lifePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it car ... more |
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Reprogrammable satellite fuelled prior to launchParis (ESA) Jul 21, 2021 A sophisticated telecommunications satellite capable of being completely repurposed in orbit has been fuelled ready for its launch on 30 July. Developed under an ESA Partnership Project called ... more 
D-Orbit signs contract with the European Space Agency under the Boost! ProjectCornwall UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 The UK branch of D-Orbit, a leader in the orbital transportation industry, has announced the signing of a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Boost! Project with ESA's Commercial ... more 
Air Force tasks Rhea Space Activity to build rapid-response Lunar comsatsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2021 As U.S. operations in space steadily move further away from Earth orbit, the rapidly growing 'New Space' company Rhea Space Activity (RSA) is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Uni ... more  
Smart cards and robots: Saudi Arabia's 'digital hajj'Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AFP) July 21, 2021 Thirty years ago, it took Egyptian pilgrim Ibrahim Siam several hours to track down his children when they went missing in crowds of worshippers during the hajj in Saudi Arabia. ... more 
Lockheed Martin opens new spacecraft facility in FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2021 Lockheed Martin opened a new spacecraft facility Thursday to help build NASA's Orion lunar capsules near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... more |
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The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has set new upper limits on how much methane, ethane, ethylene and phosphine is in the martian atmosphere - four so-called 'biomarker' gases that are potential signs of life.
Searching for biomarkers on Mars is a primary goal of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. A key biomarker of interest is methane, as much of the methane found on Earth is produced by liv ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 
The ASU-led team that built NASA's Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper, or "LunaH-Map" for short, has safely delivered their spacecraft to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a launch expected later this year on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Artemis I rocket.
LunaH-Map is a fully functional interplanetary spacecraft about the size of a large cereal box and weighing about 3 ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 16, 2021 
By listening to the rain of electrons flowing onto Jupiter from its intensely volcanic moon Io, researchers using NASA's Juno spacecraft have found what triggers the powerful radio emissions within the monster planet's gigantic magnetic field. The new result sheds light on the behavior of the enormous magnetic fields generated by gas-giant planets like Jupiter.
Jupiter has the largest, mos ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 19, 2021 
An international team of astronomers have become the first in the world to detect isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It concerns different forms of carbon in the gaseous giant planet TYC 8998-760-1 b at a distance of 300 light years in the constellation Musca (Fly).
The weak signal was measured with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and seems to indicate that the planet is relat ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Jul 20, 2021 
China launched a Long March 2C carrier rocket on Monday morning at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province to place four satellites into space.
The rocket blasted off at 8:19 am and deployed three Yaogan 30-series remote-sensing satellites as well as a micro communication satellite into their orbits, said the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leadin ... more |
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 Lanzhou, China (XNA) Jul 20, 2021 
Four photos of Mars taken by the Tianwen 1 probe were unveiled in China last month, but the excitement generated by humanity's next great step in space exploration was shared around the world.
Just as eye-catching as images of the Martian surface itself was the Chinese national flag on the Zhurong rover's landing platform.
After the historic landing on May 15, the flag was slowly unr ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2021 
A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet has offered scientists a unique opportunity to study these remarkable structures, in new research presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2021.
Comet ATLAS fragmented just before its closest approach to the Sun last year, leaving its former tail trailing through space in the form of wispy clouds of dust and charged particl ... 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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 Damascus (AFP) July 22, 2021 
Syria's air defences intercepted Israeli missiles over Homs province early Thursday, the second airstrike this week, Syrian state media reported.
A military source told Syrian state news agency SANA that the attack had caused no casualties, inflicting only material damage.
"At 01:13 am... the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack targeting several positions in the Qusayr region of H ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 
An MIT physicist has built a new instrument of interest to MIT researchers across a wide range of disciplines because it can quickly and relatively inexpensively determine a variety of important characteristics of a material at the nanoscale. It's capable of not only determining internal properties of a material, such as how that material's electrical or optical conductivity changes over exquisi ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 
Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the surface of the moon. The experiment, dubbed Gravitational-Wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology, uses the moon's environment and geocentric orbit to analyze mergers of black holes, neuron stars and dark matter candidates within almost 70 percent of the entire ob ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2021 
Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state of the art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, the researchers resolve a 20-year long debate on the formation of stars. Joanna Piotrowska, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, will present the new work today (Tuesday ... more |
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 Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AFP) July 21, 2021 
Thirty years ago, it took Egyptian pilgrim Ibrahim Siam several hours to track down his children when they went missing in crowds of worshippers during the hajj in Saudi Arabia.
Fast forward to the modern day and things are far simpler, meaning Siam, now 64, need not worry about losing track of his family and friends thanks to new technologies.
For this year's hajj, the second to be st ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 20, 2021 
"The project's main objective is to integrate a certain degree of automation, so that an operator can control a small fleet of up to 10 drones from a single ground station," says Luis E. Moreno, LABYRINTH's coordinator and researcher at the UC3M's Robotics Lab.
"The idea is that the operator indicates the mission to be undertaken (for example, monitoring traffic in a particular area) and t ... more |
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