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NASA Test Stand Passes Review For Next-Generation Rocket Engine TestingStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a milestone in preparation for its third major rocket engine test project. A facility readiness review in mid-March indicated all major modifications have been completed on the historic A-2 stand to begin testing the next-generation J-2X rocket engine this summer. The new test project comes as Stennis celeb ... read more |
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  NASA Tweaks End Of Shuttle Contracts NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. If all options ... more | .. |
  Aerojet Propulsion Assists Voyager 1 Precision Maneuver At The Edge Of The Solar System Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O ... more | .. |
 Launch Pad Inspections Set For Saturday Following TCDT Conclusion Friday Technicians and engineers on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will begin detailed inspections of space shuttle Endeavour and its external fuel tank Saturday afternoon. They' ... more | .. |
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  Blood Simple Circuitry For Cyborgs Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic lim ... more | .. |
  Station Fires Engines To Avoid Orbital Debris At 10:36 p.m. EDT, ground controllers moved the International Space Station away from a piece of orbital debris. The object is a relic from a collision between the COSMOS 2251 and Iridium 33 satelli ... more | .. |
 Successful First Mission For Aerospace Breakup Recorder A Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) carried aboard the Japanese HTV2 vehicle during its fiery plunge into the South Pacific Ocean successfully collected data during the breakup of the HTV2 vehicle and ... more | .. |
  Black box for spacecraft tested The first black box flight recorder designed to endure a re-entry from space survived a fiery return from low Earth orbit, its manufacturer said. ... more |
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 Russian Soyuz set for Tuesday launch A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has been transported to its launch pad in Kazakhstan in advance of its Tuesday blastoff for a manned mission into space. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Arianespace Flight VA201: Interruption Of The Countdown 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 ... more |
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
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 |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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 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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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