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  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2019 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT). On average, MRO takes 112 minutes to circle Mars, whipping around at about 2 miles per second (3.4 kilometers per second). Since entering orbit on March 10, 2006, the spacecraft has been collecting daily science about the planet's surface and atmosphere, including detailed views with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRIS ... read more |
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How Venus and Mars can teach us about EarthParis (ESA) May 14, 2019 One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish - but it wasn't always that way. The atmospheres of our two neighbours Venus an ... more 
How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into spaceMoscow, Russia (SPX) May 15, 2019 Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer space ... more  
NASA Awards $106 Million to US Small Businesses for Technology DevelopmentWashington DC (SPX) May 15, 2019 Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies NASA is looking to develop with small business awards totaling $106 million. ... more 
New water cycle on Mars discoveredGottingen, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2019 Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: only there and only in this season can water vapor efficiently rise from the lower into the ... 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 
Curiosity Tastes First Sample in 'Clay-Bearing Unit'Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2019 Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its f ... more |
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First results from the ExoMars Trace Gas OrbiterParis (ESA) Apr 12, 2019 New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack of methane, are among the scientific highlights of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orb ... more  |
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ExoMars carrier module prepares for final pre-launch testingParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations. The module, along with electrical ground s ... more
Martian soil detox could lead to new medicinesParis (ESA) Apr 09, 2019 Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of humankind's major long-term health challenges. Now research into helping humans live on Mars could help address this looming problem. Dennis Claes ... more 
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 |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 16, 2019 
A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon, and it has collected new evidence from the largest crater in the solar system, clarifying how the moon may have evolved.
A theory emerged in the 1970s that in the moon's infancy, an ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2019 
China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, according to an annual industry report.
The data was published in the White Paper on the Development of China's Satellite Navigation and Location Services Industry (2019), which was released by the ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 
Researchers have been proposing to set a special "tripwire" that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occur in just a few hundred years. At that point, there would only be 60 years left to try to offset the detrimental effects.
A team of scientists have come up with a proposal, whereby a so-called " ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Discovered in 2004, Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Pluto's orbit in a region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was demoted from the category of fully fledged planets in 2006 because of the discovery of Haumea and other dwarf planets.
Haumea was officially recognized as a dwarf planet in 2008. Its ellipsoidal shape resembles that of the ball used in rugby or America ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy raindrops.
While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long ice feature that wraps nearl ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 08, 2019 
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field - and it's something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Without that protection, life on E ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 16, 2019 
Funding for the proposed Space Development Agency could be limited until the Defense Department submits to Congress a detailed plan for the new agency.
In a draft of the Defense Department funding bill for fiscal year 2020, released on Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee appropriators would block funding for the SDA until 90 days after the secretary of defense submits a detailed pl ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun - Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days - is also the smallest. But NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of systems full of very large planets - called super-Earths - in very small orbits that zip around their host star several times every 10 days.
Now, rese ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 13, 2019 
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $163.6 million contract for support services on the U.S. Army's fleet of MQ-5B Hunter drones.
The company will operate, engineer, reconfigure and maintain the unmanned aerial systems as part of the new contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Work will be performed at Northrop Grumman's plant in Sierra Vista, Ariz., with the contract es ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 
A NASA expert in space-weather phenomena has won a patent for an idea that, if fully implemented, would create the world's largest scientific instrument for detecting a condition that has caused power outages in the past.
Antti Pulkkinen, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his team have started implementing the idea. They've installed scientific s ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) May 15, 2019 
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is set for its third-ever launch June 22, carrying 24 payloads for the U.S. Air Force and other government clients, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It's the first time the U.S. military will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, and it will reuse the two boosters that launched Falcon Heavy's Arabsat-6A mission in April.
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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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history.
At 6:32 a.m. on May 2, their experimental pump designed for use in zero-gravity environments, named "Blue Dawn ," completed its flight into a low-Earth orbit and freefall - thereby becoming the first space payload developed and built entirely ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 09, 2019 
Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as massively bright accumulations of hydrogen and helium gas. Within the cores of these first stars, extreme, thermonuclear reactions forged the first heavier elements, including carbon, iron, and zinc.
These first stars were likely immense, short-lived fireballs, and scientists have assumed tha ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 07, 2019 
According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Global Market Insights, Inc, the Space Robotics Market worth over $3.5bn by 2025. The space robotics market is experiencing a rapid technical development owing to the integration of AI technologies into the systems developed for space exploration. Several companies are developing AI-based robots that provide ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2019
China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, according to an annual industry report.
The data was published in the White Paper on the Development of China's Satellite Navigation and Location Services Industry (2019), which was released by the ... more |
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