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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will keep it from backing out of its hole on Mars, as it did twice in recent months after nearly burying itself. ... read more |
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NASA wants your help designing a Venus rover conceptPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for ... more  
China-France oceanography satellite put into serviceBeijing (XNA) Feb 24, 2020 The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat) has been put into service after completing in-orbit tests, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. During the 8-month in-orbit test, th ... more  
NASA selects proposals for student aeronautics, space projectsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 NASA has awarded more than $39.8 million through the agency's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project to increase student and faculty engagement in STEM at community colleges, technical ... more  
Navy installs ODIN laser weapon system to counter aerial dronesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 20, 2020 The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that it has installed a laser weapon system that allows ships to counter aerial drones. ... more |
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Electric flight from Mannheim to Berlin in a 19-seater aircraftCologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 Following on from the first electrically powered small aircraft, the next big step for electric flight will be in the commuter class, with 19-seater aircraft. The German Aerospace Center has teamed ... more  
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finderUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and rec ... more  
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planetsCharlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion ... more 
XMM-Newton reveals giant flare from a tiny starParis (ESA) Feb 21, 2020 A star of about eight percent the Sun's mass has been caught emitting an enormous 'super flare' of X-rays - a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for astronomers, who did ... more 
A Cosmic Jekyll and HydeBoston MA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 A double star system has been flipping between two alter egos, according to observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Karl F. Jansky Very Large Array ( ... more |
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Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmingsBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is observed on our planet. As numerical weather prediction models have improved, including better representa ... more  |
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Producing single photons from a stream of single electronsCambridge UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a novel technique for generating single photons, by moving single electrons in a specially designed light-emitting diode (LED). This techniq ... more  
Quantum technologies: New insights into superconducting processesMunster, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which classical computers can only solve with great effort or not at all - this is the goal currently being pursued by an ever-growing ... more 
The atmosphere as global sensorWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Sensors are usually thought of in terms of physical devices that receive and respond to electromagnetic signals - from everyday sensors in our smartphones and connected home appliances to more advan ... more 
Beyond the Brim, Sombrero galaxy's halo suggests turbulent pastBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled "brim" of the Sombrero galaxy's disk may be concealing a turbulent past. Hubble's sharpness and sensitivity resolv ... more 
NASA prepares for new science flights above coastal LouisianaPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2020 Delta-X, a new NASA airborne investigation, is preparing to embark on its first field campaign in the Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana. Beginning in April, the Delta-X science team, led ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Feb 20, 2020 
US astronauts will launch into space from American soil using American-built rockets before the summer, Vice President Mike Pence told workers at NASA's Langley Research Centre on Wednesday.
"Before we even get to the summer... the United States will return American astronauts to space on American rockets from American soil. We're going back and we're going back from the USA", Pence said. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2020 
SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily cost more than $100 million.
The company signed the deal with Space Adventures, which is based in Washington and served as an intermediary to send eight space tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) via Russia ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2020 
From Feb. 17 to Feb. 29, 2020, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will go on hiatus from its science mission and its relay operations while engineers on Earth conduct long-distance maintenance. During the hiatus, other orbiters will relay data from the Mars Curiosity rover and Mars InSight lander to Earth.
The maintenance work involves updating battery parameters in the spacecraft's ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, headquartered in Luxembourg, secured a euro 3.1 million loan agreement with Dubai-based family office Winance to progress its commercialisation plans and repay the extant convertible note. Winance will further provide optional euro 6.0 million through a convertible note agreement, subject to final ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A new version of the game of "chicken" is evolving in outer space. According to Gen. John Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief, Russian "inspector" satellites are threatening the tenuous stand-off stability between adversarial spacefaring nations. The U.S. Space Command has been tracking these satellites since launch on November 25.
They have apparently been positioned near a U.S. national ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 
Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, are spurring innovative approaches by both government and private organizations, according to a panel of experts speaking at a meeting of the American ... more |
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 Columbia, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
NASA recently announced that it has selected four science investigations as a step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities in the 2020's as part of its Discovery program.
Among these are the Trident and DAVINCI+ mission concepts. Trident's Principal Investigator is the Universities Space Research Association's (USRA) Louise Prockter, Director of the Lunar and Planetary Ins ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2020 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin with a $12.3 million contract for phase one of the the Manta Ray program.
The contract funds research, development and demonstration of an extra-large underwater drone.
According to DARPA, the purpose of the Manta Ray program is to create a new class of long duration, long range, payload-capable undersea dr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 17, 2020 
Four satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and started operation in the network, according to China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
The four satellites include the 41st, 49th, 50th and 51st satellites of the BDS family.
The 41st BDS satellite, launched on Nov. 1, 2018, is operating in geostationary orbit, and t ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 19, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing time), and the rover awoke at 5:55 p.m. Monday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administra ... more |
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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and partially burning up. One day after the observations, a citizen in Flensburg found a stone weighing 24.5 grams and having a fresh black fusion crust on the lawn of his garden.
Dieter He ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is observed on our planet. As numerical weather prediction models have improved, including better representation of the stratosphere, an extensive amount of studies have been investigating forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings (MSSWs), which affect all layers of the atmosphere, changing wind cir ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 18, 2020 
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the magnetometer on board is in good health following a successful deployment of the spacecraft's instrument boom.
Solar Orbiter, ESA's new Sun-exploring spacecraft, launched on Monday 10 February. It carries ten scientific ins ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.
Most of the stars in the universe are accompanied by planets. These planets a ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a novel technique for generating single photons, by moving single electrons in a specially designed light-emitting diode (LED). This technique, reported in the journal Nature Communications, could help the development of the emerging fields of quantum communication and quantum computation.
A single photon, the elementary particle of ... more |
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