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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2021 NASA won't send astronauts to Mars for at least a decade, but the agency said interest is running high in applying for a year's stint in a simulated home base on the Red Planet. The space agency's simulation is to begin in fall 2022 inside a 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Applications are due Sept. 17. And being chosen for this simulation seems as difficult as making the grade for a seven-month journey to the Red Planet. To be picked as one of four men and ... read more |
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NASA plans yearlong Mars simulation to test limits of isolationWashington DC (UPI) Sep 1, 2021 NASA wants four people to test the limits of human isolation by placing them in a simulated Mars habitat for a year, cut off from the world except for delayed communication and possible simulated spacesuit walks. ... more 
The forecast for Mars? Otherworldly weather predictionsNew Haven CT (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 As scientists prepare for crewed research missions to nearby planets and moons, they've identified a need for something beyond rovers and rockets. They need accurate weather forecasts. Without ... more  
Israel Space Agency selects Ramon.Space for computing payloadYokneam, Israel (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 Ramon.Space has been selected by the Israel Space Agency to provide a space computing payload for a mission scheduled to launch in early 2022. As part of the mission, Ramon.Space digital payload wil ... more  
Geologists propose theory about a famous asteroidAthens, GA (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 The asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids have long played a ... more |
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Astronomer recruiting volunteers in effort to quadruple number of known active asteroidsFlagstaff AZ (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 The study of active asteroids is a relatively new field of solar system science, focusing on objects that have asteroid-like orbits but look more like comets, with visual characteristics such as tai ... more  
Nanoscale systems for generating various forms of lightBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 For decades, scholars have believed that the quantum statistical properties of bosons are preserved in plasmonic systems, and therefore will not create different form of light. This rapidly gr ... more  
NASA prompts companies for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle SolutionsHouston TX (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 NASA is asking American companies for additional input on approaches and solutions for a vehicle to transport Artemis astronauts around the lunar South Pole later this decade. The lunar terrain vehi ... more 
Spacecraft deorbiting device developed at Purdue ready for upcoming test launchWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 A drag sail that a team at Purdue University developed to pull launch vehicles in space back to Earth is scheduled to undergo a test launch on Thursday (Sept. 2). The mission, set to take off ... more 
Hidden bacterial hairs power nature's 'electric grid'New Haven CT (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria serves as a sort of on-off switch for nature's "electric grid," a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep o ... more |
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Humanoid robots catch the eye of humans when interactingGenova, Italy (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 Gaze is an extremely powerful and important signal during human-human communication and interaction, conveying intentions and informing about other's decisions. What happens when a robot and a human ... more 
Mars mission to pause for about 50 daysBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission will be inactivated for about 50 days from mid-September due to an expected disruption of its communications with Earth caused by solar electromagnetic radiation, the ... more  
Space exploration priority of nation's sci-tech agendaBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2021 President emphasizes cooperation on making bigger contributions to well-being of mankind China is working on several huge space programs that aim to push forward the frontiers of its science, ... more  
Cold planets exist throughout our Galaxy, even in the Galactic bulgeOsaka, Japan (SPX) Aug 31, 2021 Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our Galaxy is more than 100,000 light years across, making it di ... more  
Implantable drug delivery devices goes remote onboard the ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 From Novartis to Lamborghini, Alessandro Grattoni and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have partnered with big names to leverage the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laborator ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 1, 2021 
NASA wants four people to test the limits of human isolation by placing them in a simulated Mars habitat for a year, cut off from the world except for delayed communication and possible simulated spacesuit walks.
The simulation, planned for Johnson Space Center in Houston, won't be the first time the space agency attempts to mimic a stay on Mars, but it will be one of the longest.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 
NASA is asking American companies for additional input on approaches and solutions for a vehicle to transport Artemis astronauts around the lunar South Pole later this decade. The lunar terrain vehicle (LTV), an unenclosed rover that astronauts can drive on the Moon while wearing their spacesuits, will need to last at least 10 years, spanning multiple Artemis missions.
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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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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Aug 31, 2021 
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our Galaxy is more than 100,000 light years across, making it difficult to investigate the Galactic distribution of planets. But now, a research team has found a way to overcome this hurdle.
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, research ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 
The crew of Inspiration4 will partake in a first-of-its-kind health research initiative to increase humanity's knowledge on the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Once in orbit, the crew will perform carefully selected research experiments on human health and performance, which will have potential applications for human health on Earth and during future spaceflights.
Additionally, Sp ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2021 
President emphasizes cooperation on making bigger contributions to well-being of mankind
China is working on several huge space programs that aim to push forward the frontiers of its science, technology, engineering and exploration.
Once these programs are completed, the nation will have a massive space station, an unmanned outpost and more robots on the moon, and it is attempting to ... more |
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 Athens, GA (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 
The asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroids have long played a part in building popular fascination with space. "Marooned off Vesta" was the first story published by American writer Isaac Asimov, the third story he wrote, appearing in the March 1939 issue of the ... 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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 Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 
US and Dutch officials recently formalized an agreement for the Netherlands to purchase Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and related support equipment. With the signing, the Netherlands becomes the 12th customer of PAC-3 MSE and advances its missile defense technology from the PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) the country acquired in 2004.
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a natural laboratory to study the origins of life. Like Earth, Titan has a dense atmosphere and seasonal weather cycles, but the chemical and mineralogical makeup are significantly different. Now, earthbound researchers have recreated the moon's conditions in small glass cylinders, revealing fundamental properties of two organic molecules that are believed to exi ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2021 
ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs are opening the second round of their HyperGES fellowship, part of the Access to Space For All Initiative, offering student teams around the globe the chance to perform hypergravity experiments using the Large Diameter Centrifuge at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, with a particular focus on developing nations.
The L ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 
A new technique using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has allowed astronomers to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe, as reported in our latest press release. This is providing a way for astronomers to look at faint and distant X-ray objects in more detail than had previously been possible.
Astronomers used an alignment in space that shows "gravitatio ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 
Velodyne Lidar and MOV.AI report that the two companies are collaborating to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. The MOV.AI Robotics Engine PlatformTM, combined with Velodyne's lidar sensors, addresses the growing demand for automation in dynamic collaborative environments such as e-commerce ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) Sept 2, 2021 
Italian police said Thursday they had raided a company specialising in military drones that they believe was illegally bought by Chinese state firms as a way of acquiring its expertise.
The financial crimes police said they had identified three Italian and three Chinese managers suspected of breaking the law on the circulation of armaments and on the protection of strategic Italian companies ... more |
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