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New International Standard For Spacecraft DockingParis, France (ESA) Oct 21, 2010 Partners in the International Space Station programme have agreed on a new standard for docking systems, which will be capable also of implementing berthing. The agreement allows a range of compatible, but not necessarily identical, mechanisms for spacecraft docking. A first agreed version of the Interface Definition Document will be released on 25 October. The International Docking System Standard (IDSS) provides the guidelines for a common interface to link spacecraft together. It builds on the ... read more |
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  Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot On An Exoplanet Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. The gas-giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around its star, with o ... more | .. |
  Cassini Clocks Nine Moons In 62 Hours Taking a long-weekend road trip, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully glided near nine Saturnian moons, sending back a stream of raw images as mementos of its adrenaline-fueled expedition. The spa ... more | .. |
 New techniqe aiding planet searches Astronomers in Chile say they've obtained images of a planet in a much closer orbit around its parent star than any other extrasolar planet previously found. The discover was made possible by tec ... more | .. |
  NASA to buy private moon data NASA has signed contracts with U.S. six teams competing to design, build and launch private moon probes to purchase their lunar data, agency officials say. The six teams are competing in the Goog ... more | .. |
  Reaching The Mid-Mission Milestone On The Way To Pluto On Sunday, Oct. 17, at 3:24 Universal Time, we passed the halfway mark in the number of days from launch to Pluto encounter - the last of our halfway milestones en route to Pluto! From here, we have ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The recent visit of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to China has generated a high level of attention and controversy. Relations between the USA and China are not exactly cordial at the moment, for a variety of reasons. The problems are so acute that high-placed voices in the USA have questioned if Bolden should even visit China at all, let alone try to forge any links. Let's put aside a ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2010NASA selected 215 proposals for negotiation of Phase II contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $129 million. NASA will award the contracts to 162 small high technology firms in 35 states. The SBIR program works with NASA's mission directorates to competitively select ventures that address researc ... more  
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 18, 2010Instruments designed by a UT Dallas professor to measure atmospheric components on the surface of Mars have uncovered important clues about the planet's atmosphere and climate history. The findings, published in a recent issue of the journal Science, reveal how carbon dioxide isotopes have reacted to volcanic activity, water and weathering - thus forming a more complete picture of the curr ... more |
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How To Weigh A Star Using A MoonBoston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 How do astronomers weigh a star that's trillions of miles away and way too big to fit on a bathroom scale? In most cases they can't, although they can get a best estimate using computer models of stellar structure. New work by astrophysicist David Kipping says that in special cases, we can weigh a star directly. If the star has a planet, and that planet has a moon, and both of them cross in front of their star, then we can measure their sizes and orbits to learn about ... read more |
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