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September 05, 2019

NASA engineers attach Mars Helicopter to Mars 2020 rover

Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019
NASA engineers have installed the miniature helicopter on the space agency's Mars 2020 rover. The Mars Helicopter, nicknamed Scout, will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Earlier this year, NASA Administrator Bridenstine detailed the agency's plans for exploring Mars through the air. "For the first time, we are going to fly a helicopter on another world with the Mars Helicopter," Bridenstine said in March. This week, engineers took another step in realizing that prom ... read more

ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface ... more

NASA's Mars Helicopter Attached to Mars 2020 Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019
Engineers attached NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover in the High Bay 1 clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laborator ... more

NASA Invites Students to Name Next Mars Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019
Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission. Starting Tuesday, K-12 students in ... more

ExoMars rover ready for environment testing
Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2019
The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment. The fina ... more

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'Game-Changer' for Cosmic Research: NASA Chief Touts Nuclear Powered Spacecraft
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019
Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (N ... more

Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019
This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most rem ... more

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars anal ... more

A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2019
Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the gas in the planet's atmosphere. The methane puffing from a huge ... more

Roscosmos postpones joint ESA ExoMars mission after failed parachute tests
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a statement on Thursday that the launch of the joint Russian-European ExoMars-2020 astrobiology mission, aimed at searching for evidence of life on ... more

NASA's portable trash bin-sized nuclear power module to be ready by 2022
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019
The reactor is expected to fulfil a variety of tasks on the red planet, ranging from supplying astronauts with heat and air, to powering 3D printers that will be used for constructing buildings. ... more

All instruments onboard Rosalind Franklin rover
Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2019
The full suite of scientific instruments, including cameras that will give us our eyes on Mars, the drill that will retrieve pristine soil samples from below the surface, and the onboard laboratory ... more

Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2019
The bit carousel - a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet - has been incorporated into NAS ... more

Ancient Mars was warm with occasional rain, turning cold
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 20, 2019
Scientists have long known that water was abundant on ancient Mars, but there has been no consensus on whether liquid water was common, or whether it was largely frozen in ice. Was the temperature h ... more

Methane not released by wind on Mars, experts find
Newcastle UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
Wind erosion has been ruled out as the primary cause of methane gas release on Mars, Newcastle University academics have shown. Methane can be produced over time through both geological and bi ... more

NASA descends on Icelandic lava field to prepare for Mars

Optometrists verify Mars 2020 rover's perfect vision
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2019
Equipped with visionary science instruments, the Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) underwent an "eye" exam after several cameras were installed on it. The rover contains an armada of ... more

Dark meets light on Mars
Paris (ESA) Aug 09, 2019
ESA's Mars Express has captured the cosmic contrast of Terra Cimmeria, a region in the southern highlands of Mars marked by impact craters, water-carved valleys, and sand and dust in numerous chocol ... more

New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2019
NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current locati ... more

MEDLI2 installation on Mars 2020 aeroshell begins
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2019
Hardware installed onto NASA's Mars 2020 entry vehicle this week will help to increase the safety of future Mars landings. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA's Artemis ... more

World first as kits designed to extract metals from the Moon and Mars blast off for space station tests
London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2019
Astronauts will test the devices on board the International Space Station, following the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (at 23:01 BST, Thursday 25 July) from NASA's Kenne ... more

Mars 2020 rover does biceps curls
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2019
The robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover does not have deltoids, triceps or biceps, but it can still curl heavy weights with the best. In this time-lapse video, taken July 19, 2019, in the clean ro ... more

Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions
New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019

There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with an interesting twist on the old concept of space lift, which should, in theory, significantly cut the cost of future Lunar missions, The Daily Star re ... more

+ Chandrayaan-2 Completes Second De-Orbiting Manoeuvre Ahead of Historic Landing: ISRO

+ SLS Rocket Engine Section Completed for Artemis I

+ Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna

+ NASA offers $7B in contracts to accelerate work towards 2024 Moon landing target

+ Chandrayaan-2's Third Lunar-Bound Orbit Manoeuvre Performed Successfully: ISRO

+ Chandrayaan-2 Captures First Image of Moon Showing Mare Orientale Basin, Apollo Craters

+ China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar day

China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019

Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more

+ China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality

+ China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites

+ Chinese scientists say goodbye to Tiangong-2

+ China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth

+ From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challenges

+ China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit

+ Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection
Paris (ESA) Sep 04, 2019

Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progress in their common goal: an ambitious double-spacecraft mission to deflect an asteroid in space, to prove the technique as a viable method of planetary defence. This combined mission is known as the Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment, or AIDA f ... more

+ OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D

+ UCF Student Working as Image Analyst for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Recovery Mission

+ Australia set to welcome JAXA's Hayabusa2

+ Arecibo Observatory Gets $19M NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids

+ Monster Asteroid Nearly Twice as Big as London's Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth - Report

+ New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation

+ The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu - a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019

Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more

+ ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's storms

+ Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet

+ Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed

+ Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's Core

+ Young Jupiter Was Smacked Head-On by Massive Newborn Planet

+ Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter

+ Jupiter's auroras powered by alternating current

A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings
Los Angeles CA (The Conversation) Aug 15, 2019

Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with them, and if, having done so, observe Saturn and its rings. Whether our time-traveling astronomer would be able to observe Saturn's rings is debatable. Have the rings, in some shape or form, exi ... more

+ Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly mission

+ SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space exploration

+ The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034

+ Dragonfly Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life

+ NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life

+ "Bathtub rings" around Titan's lakes might be made of alien crystals

+ Cassini reveals new sculpting in Saturn rings

Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate Science
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019

NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts. The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more

+ Raytheon-built space sensor will fly aboard NASA satellite to measure coastal and ocean ecosystems

+ NASA's ECOSTRESS Detects Amazon Fires from Space

+ New Landsat Infrared Instrument Ships from NASA

+ Capella Space partners with SpaceNet to expand access to SAR data

+ GRACE-FO shows the weight of Midwestern floods

+ Monitoring the Matterhorn with millions of data points

+ Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases

Company Claims Orbital Hotel to Host 400 Space Tourists Will Be Operational By 2025
Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019

The creators of the space hotel will offer luxury cruise-liner levels of comfort, artificial gravity, earthly cuisine and hot showers. And they say they can have it up and running a mere six years from today. A company named Gateway Foundation unveiled its design for a "space hotel" they say will be operational by 2025. Named "The Von Braun Space Station," the hotel is a ring-shaped struct ... more

+ Europe Unlikely to Abandon Soyuz Once US Revives Space Shuttles - German Space Center

+ UAE Wants to Train More Astronauts for Arab World - Emirati Official

+ Space Station science return and spacecraft shuffle

+ Circus reinvented in Montreal, this time with high-tech vibe

+ China's satellite tests pulsar navigation for future deep space exploration

+ No-fly boys: new Russian space suit clashes with pee ritual

+ Introducing the first line of adaptive commercial spacesuits

Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planets
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019

A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that could significantly change the current model of planetary formation. The impacts, such as the one that is thought to have caused the formation of the earth's moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, could cause random fluctuations in core and mantle pressures that would expl ... more

+ Potassium Detected in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

+ Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archives

+ Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument

+ Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

+ Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprint

+ The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

+ Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth

Iran unveils new reconnaissance and attack drone
Tehran (AFP) Sept 1, 2019

Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard. The drone comes in two models capable of ... more

+ Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack

+ Hughes partners with startup to extend LTE Coverage using helicopters and UAVs

+ Drone buzzes above vineyard helping Luxembourg winegrower

+ Skyfront Perimeter Drone Performs The First Beyond-Line-of-Sight Flight under FAA Part 107

+ AFRL conducts first flight of robopilot unmanned air platform

+ Teams test swarm autonomy in second major OFFSET field experiment

+ S.Korea tests drone delivery in remote regions

NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space Weather
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2019

NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth. The proposals examine what drives different parts of that system and ultimately could help us predict and mitigate its effects on spacecraft and astronauts, as NASA's Artemis program looks to send the first woma ... more

+ Streaks in Aurora Found to Map Features in Earth's Radiation Environment

+ Proposals selected for small satellites to study interplanetary space

+ NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

+ Parker Solar Probe completes 2 orbits of Sun

+ Magnetic plasma pulses excited by UK-size swirls in the solar atmosphere

+ Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma "burps" on Earth

+ Airbus brings a SMILE to ESA

Russia Launches Rokot Space Rocket to Orbit Military Satellite
Plesetsk, Russia (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019

Russia's Space Forces have launched a Rokot carrier rocket with a military spacecraft from the Plesetsk space centre in the north of the country, the Defence Ministry said. "All pre-launch operations and the launch of the Rokot space rocket were successful. The ground assets of the Space Forces carried out control over the launch and the flight of the launch vehicle", the ministry said. ... more

+ Trump says US 'not involved' in Iranian rocket failure

+ Engine Section for NASA's SLS Rocket Moved for Final Integration

+ US Sanctions Iran's Space Agency, Space Research Centre Days After Failed Satellite Launch

+ Dynetics, Raytheon producing glide bodies for hypersonic weapon prototypes

+ Arianespace will launch Ovzon-3 satellite

+ NASA prepares for green run testing, practices lifting SLS Core Stage

+ Lockheed Martin's Expertise In Hypersonic Flight Wins New Army Work

Observed explosion of monster star requires new supernova mechanism
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019

Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe. First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more

+ NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash

+ Study Reveals 'Radical' Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

+ Telescope for NASA's WFIRST Mission Advances to New Phase of Development

+ Scientists discover a new type of pulsating star

+ Space dragons: Researchers observe energy consumption in quasars

+ Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen

+ Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019

Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect. In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more

+ Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies

+ Chameleon Theory Could Change How We Think About Gravity

+ Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction

+ Researchers find quantum gravity has no symmetry

+ Development of a displacement sensor to measure gravity of smallest source mass ever

+ Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists say

+ UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment

Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber
Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Sep 02, 2019

The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied, it is not possible to send this information over a classical network. Quantum information must be transmitted by quantum particles, and special interfaces are required for this. The Innsbruck-based e ... more

+ Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory

+ From crystals to glasses: a new unified theory for heat transport

+ General Atomics Orbital Test Bed Satellite Payload Commissioning Underway

+ NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic Clock

+ Providing a solution to the worst-ever prediction in physics

+ AI learns to model our universe

+ DARPA making progress on miniaturized atomic clocks for future PNT applications

'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules
Geneva (AFP) Sept 2, 2019

Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency". Some two dozen high-ranking representatives of the global and Swiss economies, as well as scientists and academics, met in Geneva for the first Swiss Global Digital Summit aimed at seeking agreeme ... more

+ CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS

+ Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid development

+ NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge

+ Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delay

+ Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space

+ Amazon, Microsoft, 'putting world at risk of killer AI': study

+ Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other people

China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019

+ China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality

+ China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites

+ Chinese scientists say goodbye to Tiangong-2

+ China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth

+ From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challenges

+ China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit

+ Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets

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