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![]() Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA201's launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting the final countdown. The Ariane 5 launcher and payload immediately switched to a safe mode. Data analysis is underway to determine the cause of the anomaly, and in parallel, the launcher will be transferred to the Final Assembly Building - where it will be returned to a flight-ready condition. ... read more |
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![]() Witnesses Say Future Of NASA Human Space Flight Is Uncertain today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle ... more | .. |
![]() Searching For Alien Life? Try Failed Stars The search for alien life usually focuses on planets around other stars. But a lesser-known possibility is that life has sprung up on planets that somehow were ejected from their original solar syst ... more | .. |
![]() Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft ASTRA investigates new technologies for making low cost observations of the physical parameters of the atmosphere. We develop and test platforms capable of delivering scientific instruments to altit ... more | .. | ||
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![]() White Dwarfs Could Be Fertile Ground For Other Earths Planet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade, though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable. But it could be that the best place to look for p ... more | .. |
![]() First Color Image Of Mercury From Orbit The first image acquired by MESSENGER from orbit around Mercury was actually part of an eight-image sequence, for which images were acquired through eight of the WAC's eleven filters. Here we ... more | .. |
![]() MSUA Honors KVH For Innovation In Satellite Communication In 2007, KVH Industries unveiled a revolutionary approach to satellite communications with the introduction of its mini-VSAT Broadband SM network and compact TracPhone V7 hardware. This breakt ... more | .. |
![]() Study Of 'Ruiz Garcia' Rock Completed Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact) investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover used the robotic arm (Instrument Deplo ... more |
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![]() Launch Training In Full Swing At Kennedy At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts and ground crews will begin training related to the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) today. The STS-13 ... more | .. |
![]() MESSENGER offers close-up of mysterious Mercury NASA celebrated Wednesday hundreds of stunning photographs from the Mercury MESSENGER probe as it began a year-long mission to orbit and map the solar system's mysterious innermost planet. ... more | .. |
![]() When Is An Asteroid Not An Asteroid On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to begin orbiting t ... more | .. |
![]() TEXUS 49 Lifts Off With Four German Experiments On Board The TEXUS 49 sounding rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 29 March 2011 at 06.01 CET. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) rocket, carrying four German exp ... more |
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![]() Japan's HTV-2 Cargo Spaceship Undocks From ISS Japan's HTV-2 Konotori robotic cargo space ship undocked from the International Space Station at 7.45 pm Moscow time (15.45 GMT), a Russian mission control center official said on Monday. The ... more | .. |
![]() Russia To Launch Space Freighter To ISS On April 27 A Russian cargo spacecraft will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 27, the Federal Space Agency said on Tuesday. The Progress M-10M will lift off atop a Soyuz-U carrier ... more | .. |
![]() NASA probe aims to unlock Mercury's secrets NASA scientists pored Wednesday over stunning new images of Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system's least-understood planet. ... more | .. |
![]() A Reusable Manned Deep - Space Craft Almost a year after Launchspace contributing editors suggested an exploration vehicle that would take crews from low Earth orbit to many solar system destinations such as asteroids and lunar circumn ... more |
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![]() NASA releases picture of Mercury's surface NASA on Tuesday released the first picture taken of Mercury's surface by the US space agency's orbiting Messenger craft. ... more | .. |
![]() China set to outstrip US in science research output China has shot to second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines and in a few years will take the top spot from the United States, according to a new report. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Announces 2011 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA has selected five potential discoverers as the recipients of the 2011 Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships, named after the late astronomer. The Carl Sagan Fellowship takes a theme-based approac ... more | .. |
![]() Future Engineers Unite At Robotics Competition The 20th season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, held at the Long Beach Convention Center, March 25 and 26, proved ... more |
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![]() Final Countdown Is Underway For Second Ariane 5 Flight Of 2011 Arianespace has begun the final countdown for today's heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Activities began with this morning's electrical systems checkout at the Sp ... more | .. |
![]() Next Ariane 5 Mission Ready For March 30 Liftoff Arianespace's second Ariane 5 mission of 2011 has been given the green light for its March 30 liftoff with the Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn satellites, clearing the way for this heavy-lift vehic ... more | .. |
![]() How The Space Shuttle Got Smarter Computers have been an integral part of NASA's space shuttles since its conception. But the time came when upgrades needed to be made to make the orbiters safer and easier to fly. And Roy Uyematsu, ... more | .. |
![]() Data Streaming In From Space Station To OSU Lab A prototype scanner aboard the International Space Station has been taking new images of Earth's coastal regions during the 16 months since it was launched, providing scientists with a new set of im ... more |
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![]() Unique Aerospace Invention Ready For Debut The first Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR), an instrument designed and constructed by engineers at The Aerospace Corporation, is set to plunge to Earth on March 29, shortly after 7 p.m. Two REB ... more | .. |
![]() Life Stinks Says New Analysis The origin of life may have been smelly, according to a recent, NASA-funded analysis of residue from a variant of classic experiments performed by Dr. Stanley Miller in the 1950s. "One of the ... more | .. |
![]() Another Ariane 5 Completes Its Initial Build-Up At The Spaceport Initial assembly has been completed for the Ariane 5 launcher that will orbit a dual-satellite payload of the ST-2 and GSAT-8 satellites on Arianespace's third heavy-lift mission of 2011 from the Sp ... more | .. |
![]() NASA computer servers vulnerable to attack: audit NASA's inspector general warned Monday that computer servers used by the US space agency to control spacecraft were vulnerable to cyber attack through the Internet. ... more |
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![]() NASA Makes Selection For Integrated Communications Services NASA selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Va., for the NASA Integrated Communications Services (NICS) contract. SAIC will provide managerial and technical ... more | .. |
![]() Goodbye To Blind Spots For Machine Operators Particular care must be taken in a production hall where robots and men work together, where even minor carelessness could result in serious accidents or stop production. At the Hannover Messe trade ... more | .. |
![]() China rockets to second in science publications China has rocketed into second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines, according to a report released Monday by the Royal Society in London. ... more | .. |
![]() Simulating Tomorrow's Accelerators At Near The Speed Of Light As conventional accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider grow ever more vast and expensive, the best hope for the high-energy machines of the future may lie in "tabletop" accelerators like BEL ... more |
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