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August 25, 2021
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Russia postpones lunar mission over 'problems during testing'



Moscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2021
Russia revealed Tuesday it postponed its first mission to the moon's surface in decades as a result of "problems" encountered during tests of the Luna-25 spacecraft. The country's space agency Roscosmos announced last week that the mission - originally scheduled for October 1 - from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East had been moved to May 2022. The Luna-25 mission to the Moon's south pole aims to probe ice deposits there. It is set to be Russia's first mission to the moon's surface in 45 ... read more

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China's rover travels over 1 km on Mars
Beijing (XNA) Aug 25, 2021
China's Mars rover Zhurong had traveled more than 1,000 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Monday, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administratio ... more
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Xplore receives USAF contract to develop a commercial navigation and timing service for cislunar space
Redmond WA (SPX) Aug 25, 2021
Xplore Inc., an innovative commercial space company providing Space as a Service has announced a follow on contract with the U.S. Air Force, (USAF) to continue developing their positioning, navigati ... more
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NASA Mission to Asteroid Psyche one year out from launch
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2021
With NASA's Psyche mission now less than a year from launch, anticipation is building. By next spring, the fully assembled spacecraft will ship from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Souther ... more
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Intuitive Machines selects MDA lunar landing sensors to support moon mission
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 25, 2021
MDA Ltd has signed an agreement with Intuitive Machines, LLC to provide Lunar landing sensors to support its upcoming IM-1 and IM-2 missions. As a result, MDA landing sensors will support the first ... more
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Martian snow is dusty, could potentially melt, new study shows
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 24, 2021
Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed from orbital satellites like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But determining th ... more
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Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid discovered
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2021
The Sun has a new neighbor that was hiding in plain twilight. An asteroid that orbits the Sun in just 113 days-the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in ... more
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Blue and Gold satellites headed to Mars in 2024
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2021
An interplanetary mission led by the University of California, Berkeley, to put two satellites - dubbed "Blue" and "Gold" - into orbit around Mars has been officially authorized to prepare for launc ... more
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Chinese astronauts out of spacecraft for second time EVA
Beijing (XNA) Aug 23, 2021
Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming had both slipped out of the space station core module Tianhe by 10:12 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Friday to conduct extravehicular activities (EVAs) for a s ... more
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Planetary scientists find evidence of solar-driven change on the Moon
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 23, 2021
Tiny iron nanoparticles unlike any found naturally on Earth are nearly everywhere on the Moon-and scientists are trying to understand why. A new study led by Northern Arizona University doctoral can ... more
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A 'True' Blue Moon occurs this weekend

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China's astronauts make spacewalk to upgrade robotic arm
Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2021
Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. ... more
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NASA awards grants in Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
Huntsville 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
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Curiosity Mars Rover explores a changing landscape
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-wid ... more
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NASA benefits from Lunar surface simulant testing
Kennedy 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
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Firefly Aerospace selects Redwire as key mission partner in 2023 Lunar lander mission
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 ... more
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China's rover travels over 1 km on Mars
Beijing (XNA) Aug 25, 2021
China's Mars rover Zhurong had traveled more than 1,000 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Monday, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. China's Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, lander, and rover, was launched on July 23, 2020. The lander, carrying the rover with an expected lifespan of at least 9 ... more
+ Curiosity Mars Rover explores a changing landscape
+ Martian snow is dusty, could potentially melt, new study shows
+ Blue and Gold satellites headed to Mars in 2024
+ NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 12th Mars flight
+ Trio of orbiters shows small dust storms help dry out Mars
+ Aviation Week awards NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with laureate
+ Is Curiosity exploring surface sediments or lake deposits




A 'True' Blue Moon occurs this weekend
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2021
The full Moon of Sunday, August 22nd, will be a "Blue Moon" according to the original - but not the most popular - definition of the phrase. In modern usage, "Blue Moon" has come to refer to the second full Moon in a month (the last of these occurred on October 31, 2020) - but that hasn't always been the case. This colorful term is actually a calendrical goof that worked its way into the p ... more
+ Firefly Aerospace selects Redwire as key mission partner in 2023 Lunar lander mission
+ Xplore receives USAF contract to develop a commercial navigation and timing service for cislunar space
+ NASA awards grants in Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
+ Planetary scientists find evidence of solar-driven change on the Moon
+ Indian space agency seeks proposal to utilise data from Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter
+ Russia postpones lunar mission over 'problems during testing'
+ NASA benefits from Lunar surface simulant testing
A few steps closer to Europa: spacecraft hardware makes headway
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
+ Juno joins Japan's Hisaki satellite and Keck Observatory to solve "energy crisis" on Jupiter
+ Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor on Ganymede
+ NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission
+ Juno tunes into Jovian radio triggered by Jupiter's volcanic moon Io
+ Ride with Juno as it flies past Jupiter and Ganymede
+ The mystery of what causes Jupiter's X-ray auroras is solved
+ Surface of Jupiter's moon Europa churned by small impacts


Did nature or nurture shape the Milky Way's most common planets
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
+ New ESO observations show rocky exoplanet has just half the mass of Venus
+ Small force, big effect: How the planets could influence the sun
+ Astronomers find evidence of possible life-sustaining planet
+ Astronomers show how planets form in binary systems without getting crushed
+ Galileo Project to search for ET artifacts in galactic space
+ From the sun to the stars: A journey of exoplanet discovery begins
+ ALMA images moon-forming disk around alien world
Ariane 5 upper stage for Webb heads for Europe's Spaceport
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
+ Altius Space Machines to support of Eta Space and NASA's LOXSAT Cryogenic Fluid Management Mission
+ ISRO soon to carry out static test of solid fuel engine for small rocket
+ Virgin Orbit selects Redwire to provide digital engineering to support rapid development
+ SpaceX 23rd resupply mission will carry bone and plants studies to ISS
+ Vibration tests for Moon rocket help ensure safe travels on road to space
+ Gilmour Space signs first European partnership agreement with Exolaunch
+ Musk says next Moon landing will probably be sooner than in 2024




China's astronauts make spacewalk to upgrade robotic arm
Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2021
Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on state television, is part of China's heavily promoted space programme which has already seen the nation land a rover on Mars and send probes to the moon. In June, three crew arrived at the station, where th ... more
+ Chinese astronauts out of spacecraft for second time EVA
+ Chinese astronauts to conduct extravehicular activities for second time
+ Mars mission outcomes to advance space research
+ Chinese rocket for Tianzhou-3 mission arrives at launch site
+ Tianhe astronauts use free time to watch ping-pong and exercise
+ Shanxi company helps astronauts keep fit in space
+ China's space propaganda blitz endures at slick new planetarium
Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid discovered
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2021
The Sun has a new neighbor that was hiding in plain twilight. An asteroid that orbits the Sun in just 113 days-the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in our Solar System after Mercury-was discovered by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard in evening twilight images taken by Brown University's Ian Dell'Antonio and Shenming Fu. The newfound asteroid, cal ... more
+ Comet Atlas may have been a blast from the past
+ NASA Mission to Asteroid Psyche one year out from launch
+ Fizzing sodium could explain Asteroid Phaethon's comet-like activity
+ DART Gets Its Wings: Spacecraft Integrated with Innovative Solar Array Technology and Camera
+ Traces of Ceres' icy crust found at Occator Crater
+ OSIRIS-REx helps scientists model the orbit of hazardous asteroid Bennu
+ Only slight chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth: NASA




Army successfully tests high-energy laser weapon
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
+ Israel says used 'airborne laser' to down drones
+ AFRL holds high power electromagnetic wargaming event
+ AFRL directed energy industry days
+ Israel unveils laser-guided 'precision' mortar system
+ Army partners with Air Force's THOR for base defense
U.S. Army conducts live fire test of its first Iron Dome Defense System Battery
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 23, 2021
The U.S. Army has successfully executed live-fire test of its first Iron Dome Defense System (IDDS-A) Battery, the branch announced Monday. The execution of the live-fire test of the first of two IDDS-A batteries, which the U.S. Army acquired from Israel, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was "a critical step" forward, the U.S. Army said in a statement. Soldiers from ... more
+ Northrop Grumman Opens Missile Defense Futures Lab in Huntsville
+ Raytheon Intelligence and Space completes Next Gen OPIR Block 0 Milestone
+ General says sensors pinpointing missile threats worldwide are critical capability
+ Pentagon works toward bridging air, missile defense capability gaps
+ Lockheed Martin completes new round of PAC-3 flight tests
+ Northrop Grumman completes CDR for Next-Gen OPIR missile warning mission payload
+ Chinese eyes Russia's S-500 for possible purchase for PLA




Saturn makes waves in its own rings
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
+ Dragonfly mission to Titan announces big science goals
+ Icequakes likely rumble along geyser-spitting fractures in Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
+ Methane in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
+ Glenn researchers study new, futuristic concept to explore Titan
+ Johns Hopkins Scientists Model Saturn's Interior
+ Ocean currents predicted on Enceladus
+ Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn
Striking Gold: A Pathway to Stable, High-Activity Catalysts from Gold Nanoclusters
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
+ Tracking the movement of a single nanoparticle
+ Researchers demonstrate technique for recycling nanowires in electronics
+ Custom-made MIT tool probes materials at the nanoscale
+ Nano-Bio Materials Consortium introduces new AFRL-Industry Co-Development Program
+ Nanostructured device stops light in its tracks
+ Scientists use DNA technology to build tough 3D nanomaterials




On chaos, drunks and a solution to the chaotic three-body problem
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
+ Astrophysicist outlines plans for the gravitational wave observatory on the moon
+ AstroAccess opens applications to disabled crew participants for space training on zero gravity flight
+ A new type of gravitational wave detector to find tennis ballsized black holes
+ Scientists find new insights into the elusive continuous waves from spinning neutron stars
+ Cramming it all into three hundred and thirty seconds of microgravity
+ NASA Marshall team soars to success in microgravity
+ The gateway to weightlessness, the edge of space
Mapping the Universe's Earliest Structures with COSMOS-Webb
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
+ New chip scale atomic clock best yet for extreme environments
+ Beating the curse of dimensionality
+ This exotic particle had an out-of-body experience; these scientists took a picture of it
+ Accessing high-spins in an artificial atom
+ Giant magnetic pulse rounds up spins far and wide
+ How ions get their electrons back
+ Supersolid in a new dimension




Making machines that make robots, and robots that make themselves
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2021
After a summer of billionaires in space, many people have begun to wonder when they will get their turn. The cost of entering space is currently too high for the average citizen, but the work of PhD candidate Martin Nisser may help change that. His work on self-assembling robots could be key to reducing the costs that help determine the price of a ticket. Nisser's fascination with engineer ... more
+ Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs
+ 'Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions
+ Package delivery robots' environmental impacts: Automation matters less than vehicle type
+ Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
+ Army award-winning research to transform Soldier-robot communication
+ Artificial Intelligence learns better when distracted
+ Kitchen robot in Riga cooks up new future for fast food
All-female crew conducts refueling flight for Women's Equality Day
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2021
In honor of Women's Equality Day, an all-female crew supported an "unmanned" KC-10 aerial refueling mission, the 380th Expeditionary Wing announced Tuesday. The "unmanned" KC-10 Extender aircraft took off on Aug. 1 from Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, the 380th Expeditionary Wing said in a press release. Aerial refueling missions to extend airborne time in support of re ... more
+ Global Hawk connects Joint Force in Advanced Battle Management System Exercise
+ Russia Working on Airborne Launch and Recovery Drones
+ Unmanned systems used to detect mines in U.S. Navy's Large Scale Exercise
+ US Department of Defense awards Citadel Defense contract for integrated counter drone system
+ System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds
+ Draganfly commences training for Texas EMS drone delivery services
+ With drones and bananas, China coaxes wayward elephants home
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