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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully placed the spacecraft's sample collector head into its Sample Return Capsule (SRC). After the head was seated into the SRC's capture ring, the spacecraft performed a "backout check," which commanded the TAGSAM arm to back out of the capsule. This maneuver is designed to tug on the collector head and ensure that the latches - which keep the collector head in place - are well secured. Following the test, the mission team received telemetry confirming that the h ... read more |
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Positive signs for Europe as ESA goes forward to the MoonParis (ESA) Oct 28, 2020 ESA Director General Jan Worner and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take Europe to the Moon. The historic agreement will see ESA Member States c ... more  
TCarta develops AI-based commercial bathymetric mapping technologiesDenver CO (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 TCarta Marine, a global provider of hydrospatial products, has announced development of new Machine Learning-based bathymetric mapping technologies - including creation of two software packages and ... more 
Aspectum and Planet enter into a partnershipSan Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 Aspectum and Planet have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to offer businesses turnkey change and object detection projects based on satellite imagery. From now on, Aspectum users a ... more 
Space companies use Earth-imaging satellites to combat climate changeOrlando FL (UPI) Oct 28, 2020 A growing number of space companies are launching satellites intended to combat climate change by using Earth-observation technology. Such satellites monitor a range of climate conditions, suc ... more |
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Rice rolls out next-gen nanocarsHouston TX (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Nanomechanics at Rice University and the University of Houston are getting ready to rev their engines for the second international Nanocar Race. While they'll have to pump the brakes for a bit ... more 
Rogue cubesats eye Hurricane Sally from spaceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 When Hurricane Sally hit the Gulf Coast region of the United States, an AeroCube was laser-focused on the eye of the storm. The Aerospace Corporation's Rogue Alpha/Beta CubeSats sent compellin ... more  
DLR robotic vehicles will support deliveries in difficult areas for the World Food ProgramWessling, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 As part of a new collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and a consortium o ... more  
"What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots"Boston MA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 As Covid-19 has made it necessary for people to keep their distance from each other, robots are stepping in to fill essential roles, such as sanitizing warehouses and hospitals, ferrying test sample ... more  
Rad-Hardened motor controller consolidates essential functions into a single chipChandler AZ (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 The need to reduce size, weight and power (SWaP) on satellites and other space systems continues to challenge the aerospace market. Combining more than 20 commonly used functions into a single chip, ... more |
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 US Space Force May Provide Security for Private Sector Assets in Future, Commander Says  
Irregular appearances of glacial and interglacial climate statesBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 During the last 2.6 million years of Earth's climate has altered between glacial and interglacial states. As such, there have been times in which the transition between the two climate states appear ... more  |
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Ice loss due to warming leads to warming due to ice loss: a vicious circlePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 The loss of huge ice masses can contribute to the warming that is causing this loss and further risks. A new study now quantifies this feedback by exploring long-term if-then-scenarios. If the Arcti ... more  
Atomic clocks experience the quantum phenomenon called superpositionWashington DC (UPI) Oct 23, 2020 Not even the most precise atomic clocks are immune to the quantum phenomenon known as superposition, according to a new theory developed by a team of physicists from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University. ... more 
Big data firm Palantir working with US on vaccine effortWashington (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 Big data company Palantir is working with US health officials on a project to track the production and distribution of future Covid-19 vaccines. ... more  
Cygnus delivers slew of research programs to Space StationKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 When Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 2, 2020, it was loaded with a multitude of research and technology development investigations ... more  
NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Midway to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2020 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30 - 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exa ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced five awarded projects from a joint solicitation for research in the general field of transport phenomena.
The solicitation sought investigators interested in leveraging resources onboard the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory for research in the areas o ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
A University at Buffalo research team has been awarded $8.5 million to study hybrid rockets, a technology that could provide a safer and less expensive way to explore outer space compared to conventional rockets.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy enables UB to establish the Center for Hybrid Rocket Exascale Simulation Technology (CHREST).
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 Athens GA (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
Humankind's next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to make scores of breakthrough advances, including learning how to grow crops on the red planet.
Practically speaking, astronauts cannot haul an endless supply of topsoil through space. So University of Georgia geologists are figuring out how best to use the materials already on the planet's ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2020 
China's manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four payload experts.
Flight engineers a ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 27, 2020 
SpaceX has launched public beta testing of its Starlink communications satellite program that aims deliver high-speed Internet globally, particularly in underserved areas.
The Elon Musk-founded aerospace manufacturer sent out emails to invite people who signed up on its Starlink website to hear updates about the program.
The initial Starlink service is called "Better Than Nothing ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco Italy (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 
D-Orbit, the in-orbit transportation company, announced the successful completion of the deployment phase of ORIGIN mission, the first of ION Satellite Carrier. ION, D-Orbit's satellite platform, successfully released 12 SuperDove satellites for Earth-imaging company Planet, in the precise orbital slots requested by the client.
The vehicle has been operational since September 3rd, when it ... more |
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 Kingston RI (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. Although marine sediment covers 70% of the Earth's surface, little was known about its global patterns of microbial diversity.
A team of researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the University of Hyogo, the University of ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often-pristine leftovers from our solar system's days of planet formation are called Kuiper Belt Objects, or Trans-Neptunian Objects. NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will examine an assortment of these icy bodies in a serie ... more |
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 Flint, United States (AFP) Oct 29, 2020 
Authorities say Flint's water meets federal safety guidelines, outperforming comparable cities. Residents remain unconvinced.
On a Tuesday morning this month, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs of bottled water.
These giveaways still happen three days a week, some six years after residents began complaining th ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) Oct 11, 2020 
Despite being affected by three typhoons and the COVID-19 epidemic, Song Jilin's 20 hectares of rice on the Qixing farm, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, embraced a bumper harvest this year.
There was a lack of hands during the spring plowing season because of the epidemic, but the unmanned rice transplanters equipped with China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) helped out ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.
SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon's ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully placed the spacecraft's sample collector head into its Sample Return Capsule (SRC). After the head was seated into the SRC's capture ring, the spacecraft performed a "backout check," which commanded the TAGSAM arm to back out of the capsule.
This maneuver is designed to tug on the collector head and ensure that the latches - which keep the collector h ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
Aspectum and Planet have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to offer businesses turnkey change and object detection projects based on satellite imagery. From now on, Aspectum users are able to access customized maps that feature analytics and high-resolution data from Planet's constellations of satellites.
Planet is the leading provider of global, near-daily satellite image ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020  Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up protons at kinetic energies between 10 and 100 megaelectronvolts, and electrons at 1-10 MeV. This covers most of the high-energy particle flux coming from the sun. The new detector can improve radiation protection for astronauts and spaceships, as well as advancing our understanding ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The method grows from simulation of the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) Experiment, a unique laboratory device that aims to demonstrate the MRI proces ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 23, 2020  Not even the most precise atomic clocks are immune to the quantum phenomenon known as superposition, according to a new theory developed by a team of physicists from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University.
Superposition describes the ability of an atom to simultaneously exist in multiple states. In a new study, published Friday in the journal Nature, scientis ... more |
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