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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2021 Following Flight 12's scouting images of "South Seitah," which were the most valuable Ingenuity has taken to date, we are taking Winston's advice for Ingenuity's 13th flight. We will again be venturing across into Seitah to scout an area of outcrops glimpsed in Flight 12 imagery - but we're taking these new pictures while looking back, pointing in the opposite direction. Taking place no earlier than Saturday, Sept. 4 at 5:08 p.m. PDT, or 12:04 LMST (local Mars time), the 193rd sol (Martian day) of ... read more |
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After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying highWashington (AFP) Sept 5, 2021 It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire. ... more  
Planetary radar observes 1,000th near-earth asteroid since 1968Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2021 Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged another, far larger object. On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA ... more  
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 
NASA's Perseverance Rover obtains first rock corePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2021 Data received late Sept. 1 from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate the team has achieved its goal of successfully coring a Mars rock. The initial images downlinked after the historic event show an i ... more |
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Exchange of lunar samples between NASA, China unlikely in near futureWashington (Sputnik) Sep 03, 2021 The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is not planning to share its lunar samples with China, although there are no amendments explicitly prohibiting such cooperation, NASA chie ... more 
Asteroid Ryugu in opposition to Hayabusa2Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2021 New analysis of Hayabusa2 data of the asteroid Ryugu reveals much of the surface reflects and scatters light in ways that are consistent with studies of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in the lab. ... more 
NASA's Mars simulation hopefuls face tough application processWashington 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. ... more 
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 |
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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 
The case of the missing mantleTempe AZ (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 In the early solar system, terrestrial planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are thought to have formed from planetesimals, small early planets. These early planets grew over time, through col ... 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 
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 
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 |
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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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 Colorado Springs (Sputnik) Sep 03, 2021 
The head of the German Space Agency at DLR, Walther Pelzer, has told Sputnik he plans to discuss the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) initiative with Roscosmos in an upcoming meeting that he hopes will be attended by its head Dmitry Rogozin.
In March, Russia reaffirmed its lunar exploration ambitions by signing a memorandum on cooperation with China's National Space Administrati ... 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) Sep 07, 2021 
A simple mechanism could underlie the growth and self-replication of protocells-putative ancestors of modern living cells-suggests a study publishing September 3 in Biophysical Journal. Protocells are vesicles bounded by a membrane bilayer and are potentially similar to the first unicellular common ancestor (FUCA). On the basis of relatively simple mathematical principles, the proposed model sug ... more |
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 Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Sep 03, 2021 
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is preparing a central component of its extensive test infrastructure for the future by expanding the European Space Agency (ESA) P5 large-scale test stand at the DLR site in Lampoldshausen. This means that the next generation of space propulsion systems can also be tested under flexible and reliable conditions.
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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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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2021 
New analysis of Hayabusa2 data of the asteroid Ryugu reveals much of the surface reflects and scatters light in ways that are consistent with studies of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in the lab. This research looks specifically at data taken while Ryugu was in opposition to the spacecraft and Sun, and utilizes Hayabusa2's near infrared spectrometer, NIRS3, and Optical Navigation Camera, ONC, ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 01, 2021 
In science fiction, "teleportation" is commonly portrayed as a means to transfer physical objects from one location to another one some distance away. But in physics, quantum teleportation only transfers quantum information, i.e., the quantum state of a particle, without any physical transmission of the particle itself.
The quantum protocol of teleportation was theoretically developed by B ... more |
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 Genova, 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 interact looking at each other? Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) investigated whether a humanoid robot's gaze influences the way people reason in a ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFR OH (AFNS) Sep 07, 2021 
Under the auspices of the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade, the U.S. Air Force has signed an agreement for joint development of Air Launched UAVs with India's Defence Research and Development Organization. The milestone agreement is the first such technical project agreement under the DTTI for joint cooperative research and co-development activities. The DTTI, which began in in 2012, aims ... more |
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