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  Jacksonville FL (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 Redwire, a leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, has been awarded a subcontract from Firefly Aerospace to provide avionics and critical navigation systems for their Blue Ghost lunar lander. Firefly Aerospace was awarded a contract to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023 for NASA's Artemis program. The award is part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services ( ... read more |
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NASA awards grants in Break the Ice Lunar ChallengeHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 As NASA prepares to go to the Moon with the Artemis program, in-situ resource utilization is paramount, and there is no hotter commodity than water. To that effect, 13 teams from across the United S ... more  
Curiosity Mars Rover explores a changing landscapePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 18, 2021 Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA's Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wid ... more 
NASA benefits from Lunar surface simulant testingKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 18, 2021 To safely reach the Moon, a lunar lander must fire its rocket engines to decelerate the spacecraft for a soft touchdown. During this process, the engine exhaust stirs up regolith - the dust and rock ... more 
Blue Origin sues NASA over SpaceX Moon contractWashington (AFP) Aug 16, 2021 Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is suing the US government over its decision to award a massive Moon exploration contract to its competitor SpaceX, it said in a statement Monday. ... more |
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Mars mission outcomes to advance space researchBeijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission has generated a great deal of engineering and scientific data that will extensively advance research about the planet and support future exploration, according to miss ... more 
Trio of orbiters shows small dust storms help dry out MarsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2021 By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out the Red Planet. Dust storms heat up highe ... more 
Jeff Bezos' rocket company sues, creates additional delay for moon landingWashington DC (UPI) Aug 16, 2021 Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has sued the U.S. government in federal court to overturn NASA's decision awarding SpaceX a contract for a lunar lander - an action likely to further delay a U.S. return to the moon. ... more  
Fizzing sodium could explain Asteroid Phaethon's comet-like activityPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2021 As a comet zooms through the inner solar system, the Sun heats it, causing ices below the surface to vaporize into space. The venting vapor dislodges dust and rock, and the gas creates a bright tail ... more 
Chinese rocket for Tianzhou-3 mission arrives at launch siteWenchang, China (XNA) Aug 17, 2021 China's Long March-7 Y4 rocket, which will launch the new cargo craft of China's space station, on Monday arrived at its launch site in southern China's Hainan Province. The rocket, alongside ... more |
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Traces of Ceres' icy crust found at Occator CraterTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 16, 2021 Anomalies in the distribution of hydrogen at Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres reveal an icy crust, says a new paper led by Tom Prettyman, a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institut ... more 
OSIRIS-REx helps scientists model the orbit of hazardous asteroid BennuWashington 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. ... 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 
Spacebound study began with astronaut medical mysteryHouston TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2021 An 18-year-old high school graduate has developed an elegant new way to gauge the liver health of astronauts-and it could someday help solve an enduring medical mystery in space. Each year, th ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 18, 2021 
Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA's Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) basin of Mars' Gale Crater. The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, highlights those features in a panorama captured on July 3, 2021 (the 3,167th Martian day, or sol, of the mission).
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 Jacksonville FL (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 
Redwire, a leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, has been awarded a subcontract from Firefly Aerospace to provide avionics and critical navigation systems for their Blue Ghost lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace was awarded a contract to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2021 
The hardware that makes up NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is rapidly taking shape, as engineering components and instruments are prepared for delivery to the main clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. In workshops and labs across the country and in Europe, teams are crafting the complex pieces that make up the whole as mission leaders direct the elaborate ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 10, 2021 
A Carnegie-led survey of exoplanet candidates identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Satellite Survey (TESS) is laying the groundwork to help astronomers understand how the Milky Way's most common planets formed and evolved, and determine why our Solar System's pattern of planetary orbits and sizes is so unusual.
Carnegie's Johanna Teske, Tsinghua University's Sharon Wang (formerly of ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2021 
The upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket which will launch the James Webb Space Telescope later this year, is on its way to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Webb will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. As part of an international collaboration agreement, ESA is providing the telescope's launch service using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2021 
China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Tuesday that astronauts currently in China's space station core module Tianhe will carry out extravehicular activities for a second time within the next few days.
The three Chinese astronauts have been working and living in orbit for two months. They were sent into space on board the Shenzhou-12 spaceship and entered Tianhe on June 17.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2021 
As a comet zooms through the inner solar system, the Sun heats it, causing ices below the surface to vaporize into space. The venting vapor dislodges dust and rock, and the gas creates a bright tail that can extend millions of miles from the nucleus like an ethereal veil.
Whereas comets contain lots of different ices, asteroids are mainly rock and not known for producing such majestic disp ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2021 
The U.S. Army says it's developed a combat-capable prototype of a high-energy laser weapon.
The laser, which has been 24 months in the making, can be mounted on a Stryker military vehicle and used to defend troops against drones as well as rockets, artillery and mortars, according to an Army press release this week.
Over the summer, the new weapon was successfully tested in Fort ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 
Northrop Grumman recently opened its new Missile Defense Futures Lab (MDFL) in Huntsville. The company's MDFL is pioneering change with speed and precision to develop, test and field an integrated missile defense system.
"Partnering with our customers, Northrop Grumman is leading the way as the defense industry undergoes digital transformation," said Lisa Brown, vice president, missile def ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2021 
In the same way that earthquakes cause our planet to rumble, oscillations in the interior of Saturn make the gas giant jiggle around ever so slightly. Those motions, in turn, cause ripples in Saturn's rings.
In a new study accepted in the journal Nature Astronomy, two Caltech astronomers have analyzed those rippling rings to reveal new information about the core of Saturn. For their study, ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 16, 2021 
Precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) are ideal for developing practical catalysts for chemical reactions. However, their catalytic activity is reduced either due to protective molecules called "ligands" surrounding them or aggregation resulting from ligand removal. In a new study, scientists from Japan elucidate the ligand removal mechanism for gold NCs and irradiate them with UV light to prevent ag ... more |
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 Haifa, Israel (SPX) Aug 16, 2021 
The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in physics: it concerns the motions of systems of three bodies, like the Sun, Earth and the Moon - how their orbits change and evolve due to their mutual gravity. The three-body problem has been a focus of scientific inquiry ever since Newton.
When one massive object comes close to another, their relative motion follows a trajectory dict ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 
When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations in 2022, one of its first tasks will be an ambitious program to map the earliest structures in the universe. Called COSMOS-Webb, this wide and deep survey of half-a-million galaxies is the largest project Webb will undertake during its first year.
With more than 200 hours of observing time, COSMOS-Webb will survey a large pat ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 19, 2021 
Whether a robot or a person delivers your package, the carbon footprint would essentially be the same, according to a University of Michigan study that could help inform the future of automated delivery as the pandemic fuels a dramatic rise in online shopping.
The researchers examined the environmental impacts of advanced residential package delivery scenarios that use electric and gas-pow ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 16, 2021 
Unmanned systems were successfully used to detect underwater mines in the U.S. Navy's Large Scale Exercise 2021, the branch said on Monday.
The Navy Expeditionary Combat Command's Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures, or exMCM, Company 2-3, tied to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6, EOD Group 2, embarked on amphibious ship, USS Arlington, Aug. 3-9, for the exercise, the branch ... more |
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