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  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 15, 2021 MDA Ltd. been awarded the full contract from Mitsubishi Electric in Japan to provide a Laser Rangefinder (LRF) altimeter for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission. MDA will be providing two redundant flight units (laser range finder - LRF) altimeters and one engineering development unit (EDU) LRF altimeter. Scheduled to launch in Japanese Fiscal Year 2024, MMX is a mission to travel to Mars and explore the red planet's two moons: Phobos and Dei ... read more |
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Curtin research shines a light on Moon's oldest geologic imprintsPerth, Australia (SPX) Sep 15, 2021 New Curtin research has found the Moon may have been subjected to much greater impacts from asteroids and other bodies than previously thought, building on our understanding of the Moon's earliest g ... more 
NASA selects five US companies to mature Artemis Lander conceptsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2021 NASA has selected five U.S. companies to help the agency enable a steady pace of crewed trips to the lunar surface under the agency's Artemis program. These companies will make advancements toward s ... more  
Antennas searching for ET threatened by wildfireMountain View CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2021 The Allen Telescope Array, an ensemble of 42 antennas used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), is once again threatened by wildfires. The scientists and engineers normally on-sit ... more  
Affordable housing in outer space: Scientists develop cosmic concrete from space dust and astronaut bloodManchester UK (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds - making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists at The University of Man ... more |
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Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient lifeWashington (AFP) Sept 10, 2021 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet. ... more 
Mars rover's first rock samples reveal lengthy water exposureWashington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2021 The first two rock samples examined by NASA's Mars rover Perseverance give scientists a firm belief that water inundated Jezero Crater for a sustained period of time, the agency announced Friday. ... more 
Earthlike planets in other solar systems? Look for moonsUrbana IL (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Finding an exact copy of the Earth somewhere in the universe sounds like a far-fetched notion, but scientists believe that because Earth happened in our solar system, something similar is bound to e ... more  
ESO captures best images yet of peculiar "dog-bone" asteroidMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra. The observations ... more 
NASA Mars mission begins a new chapter of science with a new leaderGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Dr. Shannon Curry, planetary scientist and the deputy assistant director of planetary science at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, has assumed leadership ... more |
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Men may sleep worse on nights during the first half of the lunar cycleUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 Men's sleep may be more powerfully influenced by the lunar cycle than women's, according to a new study from Uppsala University, now published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. ... more 
Smart T-shirt measures astronauts' vital signsCologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 At the end of October 2021, it will be time for German astronaut Matthias Maurer to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon. His first ISS mission has been name ... more  
Elon Musk's Tesla Bot raises serious concerns - but probably not the ones you thinkTempe 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 ... more 
Mars: Perseverance rover takes a sample, Ingenuity notches 13th flightWashington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has drilled and encapsulated the first rock sample ever taken on another planet, while the accompanying helicopter Ingenuity has completed its 13th flight. ... more  
D-Orbit UK signs contract with ESA for development of debris removal technologyHarwell 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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2021 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named "Montdenier," Sept. 6, the team collected a second, "Montagnac," from the same rock Sept. 8.
Analysis of the rocks from which the Montdenier and Montagnac samples were taken and from the rover's previ ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 10, 2021 
School is also back in session for ESA astronaut Andrea Mogensen (right) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. Together with European Astronaut Centre engineer Robin Eccleston (far left), the trio are taking part in this year's Pangaea field training campaign to become better field scientists.
With all eyes set on the Moon, the three-week campaign has increasingly focussed on lunar geology. ... 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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 Urbana IL (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 
Finding an exact copy of the Earth somewhere in the universe sounds like a far-fetched notion, but scientists believe that because Earth happened in our solar system, something similar is bound to exist someplace else. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researcher Siegfried Eggl and his colleagues say orbiting moons may play a key role in keeping planets habitable over long periods and iden ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2021 
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth's weather, oceans, and environment, as well as real-time mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2021 
For the majority of species living during the Cretaceous period, the asteroid responsible for Mexico's Chicxulub crater spelled doom. But for those that survived, the catastrophe offered opportunity.
According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs triggered a period of accelerated diversification among snakes. / ... 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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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 
Northrop Grumman in conjunction with Boeing has completed a critical non-intercept flight test (BTV-03) of the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The flight test successfully demonstrated company-developed software that enables upgraded booster capability and enhances America's homeland defense.
"This flight test demonstrated a Northrop Grumman-design ... more |
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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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 Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2021 
A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe - fundamentally changing from particle-like to fluid-like dynamics, the team reports in Nature Communications.
Working with colleagues from the University of Texas at Dallas and Florida State University, Boston College Assistant Professor o ... more |
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 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.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2021  Boeing said Tuesday it's used a MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aircraft to refuel a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jet for the first time.
This was the third mission in three months for the Boeing-owned aircraft that was built primarily for mid-air refueling missions.
The T1 prototype refueled F/A-18 Super Hornet in June, making it the first time an unmanned aircraft refueled anot ... more |
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