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York Space Systems tackled Exotrail electric propulsion system for its Cislunar mission London, UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 On 16 August, Exotrail signed a contract with US-based aerospace company YORK SPACE SYSTEMS for the delivery of one ExoMGTM - cluster2, a product configuration from Exotrail high thrust and flexible electric propulsion product family, for delivery by Q2 2022. ExoMGTM - cluster2 system will be integrated onboard YORK SPACE SYSTEMS S-Class platform for a satellite mission aiming to orbit the moon and deliver Earth-to-Moon telecommunication services in support of Intuitive Machines' lunar south pole ... read more |
Researchers enlist robot swarms to mine lunar resources Tucson AZ(SPX) Sep 09, 2021 With scientists beginning to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the idea of space mining is growing in popularity. After all, if someone from Los ... more Harwell UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 The UK branch of D-Orbit signed a euro 2,197M contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for phase 1 of the development and in-orbit demonstration of a "Deorbit Kit" as part of ESA's Space Safet ... more Boston MA (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a fiel ... more Beijing (XNA) Sep 09, 2021 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a satellite for pursuing sustainable development. The satellite, SDGSAT-1, has already passed the round-the-clock and multi-load coordinated ... more |
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Space Health Institute launches the first commercial spaceflight medical research program Houston TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine has announced the first-of-its-kind research platform to study human health and performance in private spa ... more Hefei, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 Mars has a "bad reputation" for its high exposure to radiation and it has neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere to shelter its surface from high energy particles from outer space. In ... more Onna, Japan (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Rutgers University have used simple concepts from granular physics to explain the curious diamond shape ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2021 NASA's Perseverance rover has completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2021 Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the Moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on t ... more |
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ISRO developing microbe cultivation device for orbital biological experiments New Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 07, 2021 According to state scientific representatives, India's space agency (ISRO) must identify indigenous solutions to achieve its ambitious space program. Researchers also state that the device has separ ... more Washington (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 Pasadena 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 Pasadena 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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Sep 03, 2021 Space logistics and transportation company D-Orbit announced the signing of an agreement with HyImpulse Technologies aiming at a joint launch and deployment mission that will leverage HyImpulse's SL ... more |
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Buttes on Mars may serve as radiation shelters Hefei, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 Mars has a "bad reputation" for its high exposure to radiation and it has neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere to shelter its surface from high energy particles from outer space. In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, GUO Jingnan from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and international collaborators, analyzed ... more |
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Astronaut geology bound for the Moon Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2021 Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the Moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the Moon - humanity's next space destination to help us understand more about our Solar System. The course has come of age in its fourth edition with a greater focus on Earth's only natural satel ... more |
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 |
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The first cells might have used temperature to divide 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 |
Space industry grapples with COVID-19-related oxygen fuel shortage Washington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 A pandemic-related shortage of a key rocket propellant, liquid oxygen, could force rocket launches to be postponed in coming months, possibly delaying important scientific and national defense missions, industry observers said. In fact, NASA has pushed back the launch of its Landsat 9 climate and land use satellite from California one week to Sept. 23 because of delivery problems for re ... more |
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Space exploration priority of nation's sci-tech agenda 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 |
Diamonds in the sky Onna, Japan (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Rutgers University have used simple concepts from granular physics to explain the curious diamond shapes of two "near Earth" asteroids. Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the sun. What makes them fascinating to researchers is that they are made up of leftover materials-the matter that didn't g ... more |
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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 |
Netherlands completes deal to buy PAC-3 missile defense units 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. "We're h ... more |
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Titan-in-a-glass experiments hint at mineral makeup of Saturn moon 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 |
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 |
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ESA and UN offer worldwide access to hypergravity testing 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 |
New quantum algorithm calculates energy difference of an atom, molecule Washington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2021 Scientists in Japan have developed a new way to measure the energy difference of an atom and a molecule. The new algorithm, described Thursday in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, will help scientists study electronic states of atomic or molecular systems. Electronic states refer to the configuration of electrons within a system. Typically, scientists measure the t ... more |
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Elon Musk's Tesla Bot raises serious concerns - but probably not the ones you think Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor. Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots where everything goes horribly wrong. As tr ... more |
U.S., India sign $22M agreement to develop unmanned aerial vehicles Washington DC (UPI) Sep 3, 2021 The United States and India signed an agreement to co-develop air-launched unmanned aerial vehicles, the U.S. Air Force announced Friday. The agreement is the first project planned under the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative, which was designed to promote technology exchange, cooperative research and co-development of defense systems. "The United States and India ... more |
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