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  Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik. "I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry should be able to deliver," Woerner said. "I am very clear and very strong in the message that we shoul ... read more |
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InSight lander captures audio of first likely 'quake' on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake." The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure ... more 
All-woman engineering team heads to NASA Mars competitionBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 NASA has named a University of Colorado Boulder team a finalist in a competition to design a greenhouse for use on Mars. The annual NASA BIG Idea Challenge is set for April 23-24 in Hampton, V ... more 
A small step for China: Mars base for teens opens in desertJinchang, China (AFP) April 17, 2019 In the middle of China's Gobi desert sits a Mars base simulator, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers on a school trip. ... more 
Things Are Stacking Up for NASA's Mars 2020 SpacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2019 For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 sp ... more |
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British instruments help reveal secrets of Mars atmosphereLondon (ESA) Apr 10, 2019 The 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is the first in a series of Mars missions to be undertaken jointly by the two space agencies, ESA and Roscosmos. A key goal of this mission is to gain a better und ... more  
NASA selects two new space tech research institutes for smart habitatsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 As exploration missions venture beyond low-Earth orbit and to the Moon - and eventually Mars - NASA must consider automated technologies to keep habitats operational even when they are not occupied ... more 
NASA's MAVEN Uses Red Planet's Atmosphere to Change OrbitGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 NASA's MAVEN spacecraft achieved a tighter orbit around Mars to act as a telecommunications relay. The two-month campaign began February 11 and ended April 5. MAVEN's navigation team slowed th ... more 
Mysterious Martian Methane Bursts ConfirmedTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 Martian methane releases are rare, episodic, and often debated, but scientists have discovered evidence of a methane emission in June 2013, which constitutes the first confirmation of a methane rele ... more 
Life on Mars?Washington DC (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 According to NASA, scientists are in agreement that there is no life on Mars. However, they continue to assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Now, r ... more |
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 Curiosity Captured Two Solar Eclipses on Mars 
After the Moon in 2024, NASA wants to reach Mars by 2033Washington (AFP) April 2, 2019 NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet - the US space agency confirmed that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033. ... more  |
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Scientists find likely source of methane on MarsParis (AFP) April 1, 2019 The mystery of methane on Mars may finally be solved as scientists Monday confirmed the presence of the life-indicating gas on the Red Planet as well as where it might have come from. ... more 
Mars Express matches methane spike measured by CuriosityParis (ESA) Apr 01, 2019 A reanalysis of data collected by ESA's Mars Express during the first 20 months of NASA's Curiosity mission found one case of correlated methane detection, the first time an in-situ measurement has ... more 
NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight TestsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2019 Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. ... more 
New evidence of deep groundwater on MarsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2019 In mid-2018, researchers supported by the Italian Space Agency detected the presence of a deep-water lake on Mars under its south polar ice caps. Now, researchers at the USC Arid Climate and Water R ... more 
Results of BIOMEX, the Biology and Mars Experiment on the ISSBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 Earth is a very special planet. It is the only celestial body in the solar system on which we know life exists. Could there be life on other planets or moons? Mars is always the first to be mentione ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night.
The lander woke up at 7:40 a.m. Monday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Both are in normal working condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 01, 2019 
China's retired space tracking ship Yuanwang-2 will start its new mission of public education in the city of Jiangyin, in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The Yuanwang-2 was donated to the Jiangyin municipal government on Sunday. The vessel will start its new mission in science popularization education after serving China's aerospace development for more than 40 years.
Both China's fir ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were collected by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.
The team's findings suggest that impacts early in Earth's history by similar asteroids could have delivered as much as half of our planet's ocean wat ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
A 'deep learning' approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to UCL and University of Arizona researchers.
The new technique, called PlanetNet, identifies and maps the components and features in turbulent regions of Saturn's atmosphere, giving insights into the processes that drive them.
A study, published in Natur ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study.
Using 23 years of satellite data, the new findings show the Great Whirl is larger and longer-lived than scientists previously thought. At its peak, the giant whirlpool is, on average, 275,000 s ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 02, 2019 
RSC Energia mission specialists have developed a one-orbit flight profile for a rendezvous with the International Space Station within about 2 hours.
The main advantage of such a profile is the reduction of the time spent by cosmonauts in a small volume of a spacecraft. One more advantage of this one-orbit rendezvous profile is a quick delivery of various biomaterials to the Station to con ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science.
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, has announced the launch of Casia - the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous vehicles.
Providing the "eyes and brain" for drones, Casia enables missions beyond visual line of sight.
For the first time, there ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it.
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 02, 2019 
A company that supplied faulty aluminium parts for rocket launches will pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defence, and other victims of its fraud scheme.
Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI), an aluminium manufacturer based in Oregon and one of NASA's suppliers in 2009 and 2011, pleaded guilty to fraud, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. According to the court documents released on A ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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 Fort Collins CO (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing.
The Colorado State University professor of physics studies the fundamental matter particles known as neutrinos, and an exceedingly rare instance of radioactive decay in which neutrinos - otherwise present in such decays - are nowhere to be found.
This theorized but never-before-observed process, called "neutrinoless double-beta decay," would ro ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2019  A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of tiny robots to precisely and non-invasively remove that buildup?
A team of engineers, dentists, and biologists from the University of Pennsylvania developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew. ... more |
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Nanjing (XNA) May 01, 2019
China's retired space tracking ship Yuanwang-2 will start its new mission of public education in the city of Jiangyin, in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The Yuanwang-2 was donated to the Jiangyin municipal government on Sunday. The vessel will start its new mission in science popularization education after serving China's aerospace development for more than 40 years.
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