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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 The urine-reclaming system helps decrease the amount of water that needs to be shipped to the ISS via cargo spacecraft. Russian cosmonauts on board of the International Space Station are getting ready to test the effectiveness of a new experimental water recycling system. The new piece of equipment, designated SRV-U-RS and installed in the Rassvet module of the station, allows extracting water from humane urine, to be used for drinking. As Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner explained on Twi ... read more |
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Despite pandemic-related setbacks, the NewSpace industry has new players enter the fieldLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layo ... more  
AI helps scientists discover fresh craters on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2020 Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012, a meteor streaked across the Martian sky and broke into pieces, slamming into the planet's surface. The resulting craters were relatively small - just 13 fe ... more  
A roadmap for science on the moonBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the Moon. Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or propose ... more  
Detection of gravitational wave "lensing" could be some way offBirmingham UK (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Gravitational wave scientists looking for evidence of 'lensing,' in which the faintest gravitational wave signals become amplified, are unlikely to make these detections in the near future according ... more |
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Russia may send mission to Venus to study biomarkers in atmosphere in 2027Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 Russia may send an urgent space mission to Venus in 2027 to study possible signs of life in the planet's atmosphere, a spokesperson for the Russian aerospace company NPO Lavochkin said. Russia ... more  
Stellar explosion in Earth's proximityMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 When the brightness of the star Betelgeuse dropped dramatically a few months ago, some observers suspected an impending supernova - a stellar explosion that could also cause damage on Earth. While B ... more  
First direct observation of exoplanet Beta Pictoris cGarching, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet "Beta Pictoris c" ... more 
Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beatTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Einstein's general theory of relativity - the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime - has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test by University of Arizona ... more  
MUSC researchers test brain stimulation in zero gravityCharleston SC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 "It's exciting. I love this stuff!" said Bashar Badran, Ph.D. "This is so fun." Not many researchers get the chance to float, weightless, 32,000 feet above the Earth. Medical University of South Car ... more |
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Graphene-based circuit yields clean, limitless powerWashington DC (UPI) Oct 02, 2020 Scientists have developed a new graphene-based circuit capable of producing clean, limitless power. Researchers suggest the energy-harvesting circuit - described Friday in the journal Physical Review E - could be used to power small, low-voltage devices and sensors. ... more  |
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New study on the space durability of 3D-printed nanocompositesHouston TX (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Thermoplastics such as Kapton or Teflon, which become soft when heated and harden when cooled, are used in aerospace applications such as wire insulation, thermal blankets, and metal surface coating ... more  
Scientists capture candid snapshots of electrons harvesting light at the atomic scaleBerkeley CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising solution relies on photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells - water-splitting, artificial-photosynthesis devices that turn sunlight ... more 
AFRL repairs next generation composite materials with lightWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory and Hanyang University are developing smart structural composites that are robust and photothermally responsive, enabling next generation composite ma ... more  
Helping robots avoid collisionsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointmen ... more 
Subterranean Challenge Identifies Qualified Teams for Cave Circuit Virtual CompetitionWashington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will host its Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, which focuses on innovative solutions to map, navigate, and search complex, simulated cave environments November ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 
Russia, for the first time in 11 years, plans to launch two new modules to the International Space Station (ISS) in April and September 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik.
In late July, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin announced that the launch of the Nauka (Science) module was set for April 2021.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 02, 2020 
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the U.S. military's latest model of Global Positioning System satellite from Florida on Friday night 2 seconds before the planned liftoff, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning.
The satellite was to carried aloft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:43 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - the company's third GPS launc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 05, 2020 
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the martian surface on 10 June 2023, at around 17:30 CEST (15:30 UTC).
The weather at Mars, the type of launcher and the laws of physics governing the planets determined a 12-day launch window starting on 20 September 202 ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 
The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning.
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and the last four will be mission payload specialists, the agency said in a ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020  In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layoffs of other technology-focused industries and emerged relatively unscathed from recent economic downturns. 2020 started on an exciting foot with 22 successful launches and $1.2 billion in investments. By springtime, however, progress began to falter as the world went into lockdown from Covid-19. ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resolved cosmic radiation for the first time. Earlier devices could only record the entire 'mission dose'.
In its current issue, the scientifi ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet "Beta Pictoris c" is in a close orbit around its parent star, this is the first time that the faint glint of the exoplanet next to the glare of the star has been directly observed. With these observations, astronomers ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  A new study authored by Southwest Research In-stitute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and Buie utilized data obtained by the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON), a citizen science research net-work dedicated to observing the outer solar system. The study was published this month in The Astrophy ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
Because marine organisms observe changes in their environment using a combination of senses, they offer unique insights into the underwater world that are difficult to replicate using traditional engineering techniques.
DARPA's Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program aims to leverage this phenomenon to augment the Department of Defense's existing, hardware-based maritime monitorin ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on Sept. 21 in preparation for its upcoming launch on Sept. 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 15-minute launch window opens at 9:55 p.m. EDT.
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the Moon.
Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the Moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the dawn of the cosmos - collecting unprecedented data on an epoch in the life of the universe before the first st ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered "empty ecliptic." This has important implications for mode ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 29, 2020 
China has successfully launched two environmental monitoring satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday.
A Long March-4B rocket carrying the HJ-2A and HJ-2B satellites took off at 11:23 a.m. (Beijing Time), according to the launch center.
They will replace the HJ-1A and HJ-1B, the previous generation of environmental monitoring satellite ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 01, 2020 
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that measure the conditions surrounding the spacecraft.
The instruments contributing data to the release are the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Ma ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
A University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely powerful celestial object, for what may be the most elusive substance in the universe: dark matter.
In two recent studies, Jeremy Darling, a professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, has taken a deep look at PSR J1745-2900. This body is a magnetar, or a typ ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 
Using the Very Large Telescope, a powerful observatory in Chile, astronomers have identified six galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole when the universe was just 900 million years old.
The discovery, described Thursday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, helps explain how supermassive black holes got so big so soon after the Big Bang.
"This research was ... more |
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