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First Messenger Image From Orbital Planned For March 29Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2011 This first planned image is scheduled to be taken on March 29, 2011, 7:40 UTC, or 3:40 am EDT. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER will acquire 364 images in total before beginning to downlink the data to Earth. This image will be acquired during the commissioning phase of the MESSENGER mission, during which the spacecraft and instrument performance will be verified through a series of specially designed checkout activities. During the commissioning phase, MDIS will acquire 1549 images. ... read more |
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 CU-Boulder Space Scientists Ready For Orbital Insertion Of Mercury Spacecraft NASA's MESSENGER mission, launched in 2004, is slated to slide into Mercury's orbit March 17 after a harrowing 4.7 billion mile journey that involved 15 loops around the sun and will bring relief an ... more | .. |
 First Spacecraft To Orbit Mercury Carries U-Michigan Device On March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) vehicle will begin to orbit the planet Mercury, and continue to orbit the environmentally hostile ... more | .. |
  Super Full Moon Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big ... more | .. |
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  Arianespace's Success Is Built On Transparency At this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace addressed an important "hot button" issue for the global launch services sector - and underscored its continued leadership a ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM And SpaceX Set Plans To Launch Satellites On Next Falcon 9 ORBCOMM and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have announced plans to carry the first two ORBCOMM next-generation OG2 satellites to orbit on the next Falcon 9 launch this year. Falcon 9 ... more | .. |
  DLR Center Takes Over Operation Of The Swedish PRISMA Satellite Mission On 15 March 2011, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen took over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. The Swedish Space Corporat ... more | .. |
 Arianespace To launch Argentina's Arsat-2 Satellite ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2. Participating in this week's S ... more |
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  X-37B - This Is Only A Test We are regularly warned on emergency speakers that an upcoming alarm signal is only a test. It's a necessary precaution to prevent panic. Some members of community need a similar heads-up about anot ... more | .. |
  Physicists propose collider 'time travel' Two U.S. physicists say if their theory is right, the Large Hadron Collider, the world largest atom smasher, could be the world's first time machine. ... more | .. |
 LRO Delivers Treasure Trove Of Data NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. ... more | .. |
  Launch Pad 39A Operations Resume Today Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A are resuming processing operations today in preparation for space shuttle Endeavour's upcoming launch. This morning, NASA and United S ... more |
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  Paolo Nespoli's MagISStra Mission At Midway Point ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is now half way into his six-month mission on the International Space Station. Monday's handover of command heralds the departure of three crewmembers and the arrival of ... more | .. |
A 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause The Japanese Earthquake Just to be clear, the Moon did not cause the earthquake in Japan. Several scientists have posted articles online clarifying the topic, and all of them, in no uncertain terms, agree that the the upco ... more | .. |
 Finally! NASA Prepares To Orbit Mercury On March 17th, NASA's MESSENGER probe will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. It's a seminal moment in planetary exploration. Researchers can finally take a good long look at a rocky worl ... more | .. |
 FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Fasting For Science On ISS With almost half of the MagISStra mission behind him, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli has not had much free time on the International Space Station. In addition to his heavy workload, he has also been o ... more | .. |
 NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22. The Horizontal Integration Facility ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Partners To Manage Night Rover, Nano-Sat Launcher Challenges NASA is seeking partner organizations to manage the agency's upcoming Night Rover and Nano-Satellite Launcher Centennial Challenges. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technolog ... more | .. |
  Time Is Now For Human Mission To Mars "The time for a human mission to Mars is now," write the editors of "A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet," a collection of articles published in book form this month by the Journal ... more |
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 US, Russia sign deal to transport astronauts until 2016 The US space agency has renewed a contract to use Russian spaceships to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) up to 2016, the Russian space agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Japan disaster timeline The following is a list of key events since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on Friday, March 11: ... more | .. |
 NASA books seats on Soyuz through 2015 NASA says it has signed a $753 million agreement with the Russian space agency Roscosmos for 12 round trips for astronauts to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Goddard's Chief Scientist Talks About The 'Supermoon' Phenomenon Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, answers your questions about the 'supermoon' phenomenon. b>Question: What is the definition of a supermoon and why is ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
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 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 | .. |
 Winds blowing radioactivity offshore, away from Japan: WMO The UN weather agency said Tuesday that winds are currently blowing radioactive material towards the ocean, and that there were "no implications" for Japan or countries nearby. ... more | .. |
 Health experts sound warning over iodine rush Japan's nuclear crisis has sparked panic buying of iodine pills, with online bids exceeding $500 for one packet, but health experts hosed down the hysteria and warned the pills are of limited use. ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Moves To Final Assembly Building The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace's second launch of 2011 is now in the Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, where it will be fitted with the dual payload of Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more |
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