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  Greenbelt MD (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions. Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier. "Drive forward 10 meters, turn to an azimuth of 45 degrees, now turn on your autonomous capabilities and drive." The Curiosity rover executes the commands, ... read more |
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BFR Spawns New Mars TV Series with Homesteading and ProfiteersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2018 Hollywood, California, November 8, 2018 (SPX) Then the screen thundered as space is understood to require brute force to get there. Then the complexities of living on Mars is brought too life in a n ... more 
Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on MarsChelmsford UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. ... more 
Oxia Planum favoured for ExoMars surface missionParis (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 The ExoMars Landing Site Selection Working Group has recommended Oxia Planum as the landing site for the ESA-Roscosmos rover and surface science platform that will launch to the Red Planet in 2020. ... more 
Landing site selected for UK's ExoMars rover in 2021London, UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 A group of scientists and engineers in Leicester has recommended Oxia Planum as the best landing site for the British-built Mars rover. Due to land in 2021, the ExoMars rover will be the first ... more |
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Curiosity on the move againPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2018 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover drove about 197 feet (60 meters) over the weekend to a site called Lake Orcadie, pushing its total odometry to over 12 miles (20 kilometers). This was Curiosity's longest ... more 
Water cycle along the northern rim of Hellas Basin throughout Mars' historyMountain View CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 The northeastern rim region of Hellas impact basin, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, contained numerous ephemeral lakes throughout Mars' history, a new study reveals. A new paper publishe ... more 
Naturally occurring 'batteries' fueled organic carbon synthesis on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Mars' organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals, according to new analyses of three Martian meteorites from a team led ... more 
Five things to know about InSight's Mars landingPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2018 Every Mars landing is a knuckle-whitening feat of engineering. But each attempt has its own quirks based on where a spacecraft is going and what kind of science the mission intends to gather. ... more 
NASA launches a new podcast to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2018 NASA has a new mission to Mars, and it's taking podcast listeners along for the ride. Launching this week, the eight-episode series "On a Mission" follows the InSight lander as it travels hund ... more |
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 NASA will keep trying to contact stalled Mars rover Opportunity 
Desert test drive for Mars rover controlled from 1,000 miles awayLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 29, 2018 A UK-built Mars rover was taken for a test drive in Spain's Tabernas Desert this week, under remote control from the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire - 1,000 miles away. The ExoFiT Mars ro ... more  |
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Third ASPIRE test confirms Mars 2020 parachute a goWallops Island, VA (SPX) Oct 29, 2018 In the early hours of Sept. 7, NASA broke a world record. Less than 2 minutes after the launch of a 58-foot-tall (17.7-meter) Black Brant IX sounding rocket, a payload separated and began its dive b ... more 
Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloudParis (ESA) Oct 26, 2018 Since 13 September, ESA's Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet's equator. ... more 
NASA's InSight will study Mars while standing stillPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2018 You don't need wheels to explore Mars. After touching down in November, NASA's InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm ... and stay put. Unlike the space agency's rover ... more  
NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesatPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2018 NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO - which stands for Mars Cube One - has Mars in sight. ... more 
NASA Mars team actively listening out for OpportunityPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2018 The dust storm on Mars has ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around typical values of 1.0 to 1.1. No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 
The powerhouse that will help NASA's Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Exploration Mission-1 arrived from Germany at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to begin final outfitting, integration and testing with the crew module and other Orion elements.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 
Ralph, one of NASA's most well-traveled space explorers, has voyaged far and accomplished much: on the New Horizons mission, Ralph obtained stunning flyby images of Jupiter and its moons; this was followed by a visit to Pluto where Ralph took the first high-definition pictures of the iconic minor planet. And, in 2021, Ralph journeys with the Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
A Southwest Research Institute team using internal research funds has made several discoveries that expand the range and value of a future Pluto orbiter mission. The breakthroughs define a fuel-saving orbital tour and demonstrate that an orbiter can continue exploration in the Kuiper Belt after surveying Pluto. These and other results from the study will be reported this week at a workshop on fu ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Guildford, UK (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received an order from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for two high precision reference mirrors to accelerate the precise alignment and testing of their Earth Observation Satellite Telescopes.
Based in Guildford, UK, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) manufacture and operate small to medium sized satellites, covering a range of use cases, from tele ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Throughout space, hundreds of satellites are orbiting Earth and other celestial planets, continuously collecting data about the vast universe. Communicating with these satellites is a complex and evolving challenge.
As the U.S. prepares for human travel to the Moon and beyond and NASA missions venture farther into the universe than ever before, the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light - a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a "feasibility study," appears in The Astrophysical Journal. The ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford have examined how Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) may have a substantial impact on the future of urban tourism.
When we think of automated vehicles it seems to be a topic that sits firmly in science fiction, from cars with character in The Love Bug (19 ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone - the previous record was set by Helios B in 1976 and broken by Parker on Oct. 29 - and this maneuver has exposed the spacecraft to intense heat and solar radiation in a complex solar wind environment.
"Parker Solar Probe was ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The first heavy-lift Angara A5V carrier rocket equipped with a hydrogen space tug will be launched from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East in 2026, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday.
The rocket's launch was initially set to take place in 2027, according to the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
"On Vostochny [space center]... 2026 - the be ... more |
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 Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Physicists at the University of Alberta in Canada have developed a new way to build quantum memories, a method for storing delicate quantum information encoded into pulses of light.
"We've developed a new way to store pulses of light - down to the single-photon level - in clouds of ultracold rubidium atoms, and to later retrieve them, on-demand, by shining a 'control' pulse of light," said ... more |
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 Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics.
Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but hiding behind this messy cloud of material are two supermassive black holes, nestled at the center of each of the galaxies, that are now excitingly close, giving astronomers the best view yet of the pair marching toward coalescence into one mega black ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technologies.
The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail.
The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018,' will last for abou ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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