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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2021 The half-a-kilometer-wide asteroid Bennu is already one of the most well-studied asteroids prior to the OSIRIS-REx mission. By ysing positional data collected over the course of the two-year sample return mission, however, scientists were able to improve their knowledge of Bennu's trajectory by a factor of 20, NASA scientists said at a press briefing. "The OSIRIS-REx mission collected positional data for Bennu to a level never captured before on any asteroid," Lindley Johnson, planetary ... read more |
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Scientists detect characteristics of the birth of a major challenge to harvesting fusion energy on EarthPrinceton NJ (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 A key challenge for scientists striving to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is preventing what are called runaway electrons, particles unleashed in disrupted fusion e ... more  
Aviation Week awards NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with laureatePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2021 The "little helicopter that could" has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network in the form of a 2021 Laureate Award. The Laureate Awards h ... more  
Dragonfly mission to Titan announces big science goalsIthaca NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 Among our solar system's many moons, Saturn's Titan stands out - it's the only moon with a substantial atmosphere and liquid on the surface. It even has a weather system like Earth's, though it rain ... more  
Blobs in space: Slime mould to blast off for ISS experimentParis (AFP) Aug 10, 2021 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as "the Blob" blasts off into orbit on Tuesday. ... more |
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Is Curiosity exploring surface sediments or lake depositsHong Kong (SPX) Aug 10, 2021 In 2012, NASA landed the rover Curiosity in the Gale crater on Mars because the crater was thought by many scientists to be the site of an ancient lake on Mars more than 3 billion years ago. Since t ... more  
Advanced Space passes preparatory test for pathfinder mission to the moonWestminster CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2021 Advanced Space LLC., a leading commercial space solutions company, is overseeing the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, a NASA-suppo ... more 
NASA is recruiting for yearlong simulated Mars MissionWashington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 Mars is calling! NASA is seeking applicants for participation as a crew member during the first one-year analog mission in a habitat to simulate life on a distant world, set to begin in Fall 2022. ... more 
Mars rock drilling begins after NASA's helicopter helps plan rover's routeWashington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2021 Aided by the latest photos from Mars helicopter Ingenuity, NASA's robotic rover Perseverance prepared to drill its first rock sample, the space agency said. ... more  
Scientists Have New Data on the Nearest Planet to the SunYekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 An international team of planetary scientists from Russia, Finland, and the United States has analyzed for the first time the factors that determine the number of boulders on the surface of the near ... more |
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Mars Perseverance team assessing first sampling attemptPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2021 Data sent to Earth by NASA's Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during the initial sampling ... more 
Lunar samples solve mystery of the moon's supposed magnetic shieldRochester NY (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 In 2024, a new age of space exploration will begin when NASA sends astronauts to the moon as part of their Artemis mission, a follow-up to the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Some of t ... more
CAPSTONE's cubesat prepares for Lunar missionWashington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 Small spacecraft will play a big role in lunar exploration, including a Moon-bound CubeSat launching later this year. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ... more 
China's Mars rover travels over 800 meters on red planetBeijing (XNA) Aug 06, 2021 China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 800 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Ad ... more 
NASA begins recruitment for long-duration Mars Mission Analog StudyWashington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 As NASA ventures farther into the cosmos, the astronaut experience will change. In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA will study how highly motivated individua ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 
As NASA ventures farther into the cosmos, the astronaut experience will change. In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA will study how highly motivated individuals respond under the rigor of a long-duration, ground-based simulation.
NASA is now accepting applications for participation as a crew member during the first one-year analog mission in a habita ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 
In 2024, a new age of space exploration will begin when NASA sends astronauts to the moon as part of their Artemis mission, a follow-up to the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s.
Some of the biggest questions that scientists hope to explore include determining what resources are found in the moon's soil and how those resources might be used to sustain life.
In a paper published i ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2021 
Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of sunlight received, the average temperature in the planet's upper atmosphere should be about minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit or a chilly minus 73 Celsius. Instead, the measured value soars to around 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426 Celsius. The source of this extra he ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 
A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus - the lightest exoplanet ever to be measured using the radial velocity technique - an ocean world, and a possible plane ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 
Hermeus has signed a $60 million U.S. Air Force partnership for flight testing its first Marc 5 aircraft - Quarterhorse.
Quarterhorse will validate the company's proprietary turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine, based around the GE J85 turbojet engine, and is the first in a line of autonomous high-speed aircraft. By the end of the flight test campaign, Quarterhorse will be the fastes ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 06, 2021 
Chinese astronauts on board the Tiangong space station have enjoyed watching matches from the Tokyo Olympic Games, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
"Technically, we can connect them to live broadcasts, but they've chosen to watch transmitted recordings during their time off, because there are so many tasks for them to complete," the agency said in an article on its WeChat accoun ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2021 
The half-a-kilometer-wide asteroid Bennu is already one of the most well-studied asteroids prior to the OSIRIS-REx mission.
By ysing positional data collected over the course of the two-year sample return mission, however, scientists were able to improve their knowledge of Bennu's trajectory by a factor of 20, NASA scientists said at a press briefing.
"The OSIRIS-REx mission coll ... 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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 Azusa CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) mission payload. The completion of the Next-Gen OPIR subsystems and payload CDR meets aggressive U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin program objectives to ensure national security posture stays ahead of emerging glo ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 
Among our solar system's many moons, Saturn's Titan stands out - it's the only moon with a substantial atmosphere and liquid on the surface. It even has a weather system like Earth's, though it rains methane instead of water. Might it also host some kind of life?
NASA's Dragonfly mission, which will send a rotorcraft relocatable lander to Titan's surface in the mid-2030s, will be the first ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 
Based on the principle of interaction between matter and light, a new method has been developed to track and observe the Brownian motion of fast-moving nanometer-sized molecules, and measure the different fluorescence signals of each biological nanoparticle.
The nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) system is the most commonly used nanoparticle quantification method in the world. It is a me ... 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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 
A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The X-ray images of the giant rings have revealed new information about dust located in our Galaxy, using a similar principle to the X-rays performed in doctor's offices and airports.
The black hole is part of a binary system called V404 Cygni, located ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2021 
Army researchers developed ground-breaking technology that will enhance how Soldiers and robots communicate and carry out tasks in tactical environments.
This research sets out to develop a natural language understanding, or NLU, pipeline for robots that would be easily ported over to any computational system or agent and incrementally tames the variation that we see in natural language, s ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 
If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly fastest through an obstacle course. But the faster drones fly, the more unstable they become, and at high speeds their aerodynamics can be too complicated to predict. Crashes, therefore, are a common and often spectacular occurre ... more |
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