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![]() Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 14, 2011 As the Satellite 2011 conference kicked off in Washington, D.C., Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and SES today announced an agreement to launch an SES satellite using the Falcon 9 rocket. SES is one of the largest satellite operators in the world, and the deal marks what will be the first geostationary satellite launch using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The firm launch agreement with SpaceX also includes an option for a second SES launch. It supplements SES' existing multi-launch agreements w ... read more |
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![]() LRO Images Lunar Farside In Stunning Detail Because the moon is tidally locked (meaning the same side always faces Earth), it was not until 1959 that the farside was first imaged by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft (hence the Russian names for pr ... more | .. |
![]() Russia delays ISS launch for 'technical reasons' Russia is delaying the planned launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station on March 30 due to a technical problem with the spacecraft, space agency Roskosmos said Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() Arianespace Moves To New Launcher Designation For Ariane, Soyuz And Vega The launcher components for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 arrived this week in French Guiana, marking the first step in preparations for a heavy-lift flight with the ST-2 and GSAT-8 t ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Color View From Orbit Shows Mars Rover Beside Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has nearly completed its three-month examination of a crater informally named "Santa Maria," but before the rover resumes its overland trek, an orbiting cam ... more | .. |
![]() Vesta - An Asteroid In 3D What might asteroid Vesta look like? In a new animation, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have recreated the asteroid in 3D. In the animati ... more | .. |
![]() Houston To Name Avenue After Soviet Cosmonaut Gagarin The Russkiy Mir foundation will next week name a park avenue in the U.S. city of Houston after the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. To mark the 50th anniversary of the histor ... more | .. |
![]() Shuttle Endeavour At Launch Pad Liftoff Practice Set After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 11, space shuttle Endeavour now awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming flight to the International S ... more |
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![]() United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Fourth NRO Mission In Six Months A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 here at 6:38 p.m. local time EST Friday (Mar 11). Designate ... more | .. |
![]() How Do People Respond To Being Touched By A Robot For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil ... more | .. |
![]() Shot US lawmaker expected at shuttle launch US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is expected to attend next month's space shuttle launch commanded by her astronaut husband, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Testing Mars Missions In Morocco "This site is called Moon 2," says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, "I don't remember the re ... more |
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![]() The Future For Space Missions A new report from the National Research Council recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries abo ... more | .. |
![]() Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs On Asteroid Apophis On January 31 University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid ... more | .. |
![]() Daylight saving has downside While people groan and mumble about lost sleep with the "spring forward" of daylight saving time, there can be even harsher effects, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice! The same applies to N ... more |
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![]() Moon of Saturn a 'hot' research subject Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, is a veritable heat factory, pumping out heat energy equivalent to 20 coal-fueled power stations, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
![]() Planetary Society Statement On Planetary Science Decadal Survey For 2013-2022 The Planetary Science Decadal Survey committee faced a nearly impossible task: to set priorities for NASA's robotic exploration within a tight budget. They did a great job in laying out a plan for s ... more | .. |
![]() How Can Robots Get Our Attention Getting someone's attention can be easy with a loud noise or a shout, but what if the situation calls for a little more tact? How can a robot use subtle cues to attract a human's notice and tell whe ... more | .. |
![]() NASA green lights Discovery launch for Thursday NASA gave the green light for the space shuttle Discovery to blast off Thursday, saying the countdown to the aging shuttle's final mission before retirement was going "beautifully." ... more |
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![]() A New Dawn Coming To Vesta Deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn continues thrusting with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is making excellent progress in reshaping its orbit around the sun to match that of its destination ... more | .. |
![]() Indian Space Agency To Now Launch Three Satellites In April The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) proposes to launch the latest remote sensing satellite and two others in the second week of April, seeking to replace a crucial component in its fully-a ... more | .. |
![]() Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss ... more | .. |
![]() Rover Snaps Close-Up of 'Ruiz Garcia' Opportunity is completing the last in-situ (contact) study at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover bumped 5.35 meters (18 feet) forward to approach the target "Ruiz Garci ... more |
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![]() Voyager Seeks The Answer Blowin' In The Wind In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting NAS ... more | .. |
![]() SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more | .. |
![]() MESSENGER Poised For Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft--carrying seven science instrum ... more | .. |
![]() US shuttle Discovery on track for final landing The US space program's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, was on track to make its final Earth landing Wednesday after a near-perfect last mission at the International Space Station. ... more |
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![]() Cassini Finds Enceladus Is A Powerhouse Heat output from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus is much greater than was previously thought possible, according to a new analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. T ... more | .. |
![]() Abundant Ammonia In Ancient Asteroid An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State Univ ... more | .. |
![]() Astrobotic's Mission To The Moon Releases Guide For Payload Developers Astrobotic Technology has released a new guide for researchers on preparation of their instruments for the company's robotic expedition to the surface of the Moon. The expedition, based on tec ... more | .. |
![]() The Scars Of Impacts On Mars ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of proj ... more |
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