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  Paris (ESA) May 31, 2019 The ExoMars rover has a brand new control centre in one of Europe's largest Mars yards. The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) was inaugurated in Turin, Italy, ahead of the rover's exploration adventure on the Red Planet in 2021. The control centre will be the operational hub that orchestrates the roaming of the European-built laboratory on wheels, named after Rosalind Franklin, upon arrival to the martian surface on Kazachok, the Russian surface platform. "This is the crucial place on E ... read more |
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay CachePasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2019 NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the "clay-bearing unit," is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets cal ... more 
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on MarsPasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2019 Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. E ... more 
Getting ready for Mars - on the Space StationParis (ESA) May 28, 2019 From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars. As ... more 
NASA photo showcases landing site for Mars 2020Washington UPI) May 28, 2019 A new photo captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shared online this week features the landing site for the space agency's Mars 2020 mission. ... more |
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On Mars, sands shift to a different drumTucson AZ (SPX) May 24, 2019 Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling up sand dunes, carving out rocky escarpments or filling impact craters has eluded scientists until now. In the most ... more 
Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet's historyAustin TX (SPX) May 23, 2019 Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scient ... more 
After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033...or 2060Washington (AFP) May 18, 2019 On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon "followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations." ... more 
NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars RoverPasadena CA (JPL) May 22, 2019 Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names - stenciled on chips - to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, ... more 
Exploring life on Mars in the Gobi desertLanzhou (XNA) May 21, 2019 "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids," as an Elton John hit goes. However, a Mars simulation base in the middle of China's Gobi desert might be the perfect place to introduce young ... more |
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Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2019 In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock predominates on the Red Planet, virtually the entire Earth fossil record com ... more  |
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Mars 2020 Is Coming TogetherPasadena CA (JPL) May 21, 2019 An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet, prior to a test in the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasaden ... 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 
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 
NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around MarsPasadena 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 circ ... 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 |
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 Washington (AFP) May 25, 2019 
As Earth grew ever smaller below his spacecraft, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford made an unusual request to mission control.
The year was 1969, and his vessel was the first to be equipped with a color camera, which was beaming live images to an awestruck global audience.
"I was feeling real high," recalled Stafford, who is now 88 and the last surviving member of the crew.
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 Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019  The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning.
The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation.
Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more |
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 Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) May 27, 2019 
GomSpace's subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission.
Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning. A "12U" CubeSat spacecraft configuration is envisioned for t ... more |
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 Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019 
With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 31, 2019  4A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere, which interfere with communication and technology systems, will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between June 9 - 21, 2019.
This the second flight of the Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, or WINDY, mission. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019  Without accurate timekeeping, space navigation would be impossible. As NASA goes forward to the Moon with the Artemis missions, precise measurements of time are key to mission success.
To calculate where a spacecraft is in the solar system, NASA must measure the time it takes for electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light to flow between the spacecraft and known locations, like ... more |
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 Rosalind Franklin Rover at ExoMars 
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2019
On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An 'Inclination Change Manoeuvre' will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, enabling it to pick up crucial status signals from the ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin, due to land on the Red Planet in 2021.
After completing a complex series of manoeuvres during 2017, ExoMar ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 30, 2019 
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $65 million contract for parts for production and delivery of drones for the U.S. Navy and the Australian government.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, calls for long-lead production components for three Lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft. The contract also covers equipment and materials for ground stations for all three dr ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Scientists from Ireland and France have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun's atmosphere.
The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood "fourth state of matter". Known as plasma, this matter could hold the key to developing safe, clean and ... more |
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 Michoud LA (SPX) May 30, 2019 
NASA and Boeing technicians have begun the second of three major activities to join the large structural parts of the core stage for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System. When this task is completed, four of the five major core stage structures - most of the massive 212-foot stage-- will be assembled. Boeing and NASA will add the engine section and the four RS-25 engines to complete ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, and because of the limits of current technology, we can only see these worlds as points of light. However, the number of exoplanets that have been directly imaged is growing over time. When NASA's Jame ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2019 
One of the most unknown phenomena in modern physics is gravity. Its measurement and laws remain somewhat of an enigma. Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed important information about a new aspect of the nature of gravity by probing the smallest mass-scale.
Professor Nobuyuki Matsumoto has led a team of researchers to develop a gravity sensor based on monitoring the displacement ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 27, 2019 
What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA missions, Athena and LISA, would allow us to study these cosmic clashes and their mysterious aftermath for the first time.
Supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from millions to billions of Suns, sit at the core of most massive galaxies across the Universe. We don't know exactly ... more |
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 Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) May 23, 2019 
A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned regarding previous tasks.
The North Carolina State University researchers, funded by the Army, have also demonstrated that using the framework to learn a new task can make the AI better at per ... more |
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Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019 The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning.
The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation.
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