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  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 They might be small, but they're also mighty. Very small and innovative spacecraft called CubeSats are poised to play a role in NASA's Artemis program, which will return humans to the Moon by 2024. Advancements in consumer electronics and miniaturized sensors enable small spacecraft to be powerful tools for space exploration. "A number of things have coalesced to create what is termed the SmallSat and CubeSat revolution," says Christopher Baker, Small Spacecraft Technology program executive ... read more |
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NASA asks Commercial Moon Delivery Partners to fly rover to search for water iceMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile r ... more  
Ultraviolet instrument delivered for ESA's Jupiter missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupite ... more  
Boeing buying Russian components for StarlinerWashington DC (Sputnik) Feb 26, 2020 In development for nearly a decade, the Starliner programme was Boeing's answer to the decommissioning of the Space Shuttle programme in 2011, which left NASA and allied space agencies dependent on ... more 
NSW Government establishes a home for space industry initiativesSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The NSW Government has announced its partnership with the SmartSat CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) to establish a NSW node of the CRC, to be based in the National Space Industry Hub. The nod ... more |
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Europlanet launches 10M euro Research Infrastructure to support planetary scienceLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Europlanet has launched a 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), to provide open access to the world's largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis fac ... more  
Optimised flight routes for climate-friendly air transportBraunschweig, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 On 19 and 20 February 2020, the new project 'Greener Air Traffic Operations' (GreAT) held its launch event at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Institute o ... more  
How scientists will track astronauts' mental performance on mars missionsVictoria, Canada (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 A journey to Mars is not going to be easy and there are a number of problems that need to be solved before we go. One interesting problem is how do we monitor the astronauts themselves. Of course, i ... more  
Scientists predict state of matter to conduct both electricity and energy perfectlyChicago IL (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 Three scientists from the University of Chicago have run the numbers, and they believe there may be a way to make a material that could conduct both electricity and energy with 100% efficiency - nev ... more  
Five millimeter diameter motor is powered directly with lightWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland and China used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a rotary micromotor powered with ligh ... 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  |
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AFRL, Masten Space Systems, NASA, collaborate on successful testing of methane engineEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Masten Space Systems Inc. successfully tested a liquid methane rocket engine, the first of its kind tested at AFRL ... more  
Exotrail Secures Contract with AAC Clyde Space to equip their customers' spacecraftsParis, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 Exotrail, a French company dedicated to providing innovative on-orbit transportation solutions for the small satellite market have signed a contract with AAC Clyde Space, Europe's leading nanosatell ... more  
Seismic activity on Mars resembles that found in the Swabian JuraCologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 Mars is a seismically active planet - quakes occur several times a day. Although they are not particularly strong, they are easily measurable during the quiet evening hours. This is one of many resu ... more 
Gemini South telescope captures exquisite planetary nebulaHilo HI (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relativ ... more 
Joining forces to solve the neutrino mass puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Among the most exciting challenges in modern physics is the identification of the neutrino mass ordering. Physicists from the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JG ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.
Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.
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 Elkton MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully completed its third and final qualification test of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS).
"The qualification test is a critical step toward Artemis II, Orion's first flight with astronauts," said Pat Nolan, vice president, missile products, Northrop Grumman. "Co ... more |
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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 ke ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
The maiden flight of the Long March-5B rocket carrying a trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship is expected to take place in April, indicating the imminent start of construction of China's space station.
The rocket, the prototype core capsule of the space station and the experimental manned spaceship are undergoing tests at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Europlanet has launched a 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), to provide open access to the world's largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities, as well as a global network of small telescopes, data services, and community support activities. Europlanet 2024 RI aims to widen participation in planetary science and provides the infrastr ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 
Reciprocity isn't always a good thing.
In physics, for example, it concerns electromagnetic and acoustic waves. The idea is that waves travel the same way backward as they do forward. Which is fine, except that waves encounter obstacles (skyscrapers, wind, people) that cause them to lose energy.
But what if you could break that rule and guide waves around those obstacles? Or have an ... more |
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 University 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 recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas.
The HPF provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby low-mass stars, an ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... 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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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile robot that will look for water ice at one of the Moon's poles.
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample vario ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 
On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than the Eiffel Tower is tall, will streak by Earth at 30 kilometers per second, grazing the planet's sphere of geostationary satellites. It will be the closest approach by one of the largest asteroids crossing Earth's orbit in the next decade.
Observations of the asteroid, known as 99942 Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos, once sugg ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
NASA is partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Space Agency, Air New Zealand and the University of Auckland to install next-generation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflectometry receivers on passenger aircraft to collect environmental science data over New Zealand.
The program is part of NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Sat ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Victoria, Canada (The Conversation) Feb 26, 2020 
A galaxy cluster can be likened to a great city of galaxies, a galactic conurbation where each galaxy represents an individual, twinkling structure. Just as an archaeologist might seek evidence of the oldest cities on Earth, astronomers have long sought to discover the oldest galaxy clusters in the universe - each the cosmic equivalent of an ancient civilization like Jericho or Ur.
I have ... more |
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 Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 
In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have "held" individual atoms in place and observed previously unseen complex atomic interactions.
A myriad of equipment including lasers, mirrors, a vacuum chamber, and microscopes assembled in Otago's Department of Physics, plus a lot of time, energy, and expertise, have provided the ingredients to investigate this quantum pr ... more |
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