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Next Mars Rover Nears CompletionPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2011 Assembly and testing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is far enough along that the mission's rover, Curiosity, looks very much as it will when it is investigating Mars. Testing continues this month at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on the rover and other components of the spacecraft that will deliver Curiosity to Mars. In May and June, the spacecraft will be shipped to NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where preparations will continue for launch in the period ... read more |
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  Newly Discovered Asteroid Is Earth's Companion Astronomers from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have found that a recently discovered asteroid has been following the Earth in its motion around the Sun for at least the past 250,000 yea ... more | .. |
  New Crew Members Set For Wednesday Arrival Expedition 27 Flight Engineers Ron Garan, Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko are set to dock to the station's Poisk module at 7:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday aboard the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, brin ... more | .. |
  Jugnu Set To Go Into Space In June Jugnu, the satellite being developed by IIT-Kanpur, will be launched from Srihari Kota in June. IIT-K director SG Dhande said that ISRO officials, who came to the institute a month back, had evaluat ... more | .. |
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  Life And Physical Sciences Research Program Helps Human Space Missions By elevating its life and physical sciences research program, NASA could achieve the biological understanding and technical breakthroughs needed to allow humans to be sent deeper into space, includi ... more | .. |
 Mitsubishi Electric's ST-2 Satellite Arrives In French Guiana A milestone telecommunications satellite has been delivered to the Spaceport in French Guiana for Arianespace's Ariane 5 VA202 heavy-lift mission, which will be performed as part of the company's bu ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces Winners Of 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race NASA has announced the winners of the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race - and it's Puerto Rico's year. Teams representing Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, sna ... more | .. |
 Branson unveils 'flying' sub to plumb ocean depths British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled plans Tuesday to pilot a "flying" mini-submarine down to the furthest depths of the oceans, in his latest record-breaking adventure. ... more |
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 SpaceX Antes Up With Falcon Heavy Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket. ... more | .. |
  100-Year Starship Study Strategic Planning Workshop Held The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the NASA Ames Research Center announced their 100-Year Starship Study in October. This study is examining the business model needed to devel ... more | .. |
 Mars In Spain Similar to small volcanoes, these formations until now had only been described in Australia and closely resemble gigantic forms found on Mars. The study may shed new light on the origin of these for ... more | .. |
 Space Debris No Threat To ISS The Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station did not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite made its closest pass at ... more |
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 Dawn Keeps Rolling Along Three and a half years after launch, Dawn continues its travels around the sun, maneuvering to take the same orbital path as Vesta. Following its usual pattern, the spacecraft has spent most of the ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Kicks Off Yearlong Campaign Of Mercury Science This afternoon, MESSENGER began its yearlong science campaign to understand the innermost planet. The spacecraft will fly around Mercury 700 times over the next 12 months, and its instruments will p ... more | .. |
 ILS And Melco Announce Contract For Launch Of Turksat Satellites International Launch Services (ILS) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan, announced a new contract for the launch of Turksat 4A and Turksat 4B on ILS Proton. Turksat 4A is sch ... more | .. |
 Vesta: Asteroid or planet? As a U.S. spacecraft nears a rendezvous with the asteroid Vesta, a centuries old debate has reignited - is it an asteroid or should it be considered a planet? ... 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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 SpaceX unveils heavy launcher SpaceX unveiled Tuesday what its chief executive Elon Musk has called the world's most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which will have its first demonstration flight at the end of 2012. ... more | .. |
 Spaceship with Russians, American docks with ISS A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American on Thursday successfully docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day journey, TASS news agency quoted the mission control centre as saying. ... more | .. |
 India's GSAT-8 Delivered To French Guiana A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation ... more | .. |
 Russia And US To Discuss Nuke-Powered Spaceship Project Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA will discuss the development of a nuclear-powered spaceship on April 15, agency director Anatoly Perminov said on Monday. Not only the United S ... more |
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Astronauts head to ISS on spaceship Gagarin Three astronauts on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station in a spaceship named after the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in honour of his historic flight 50 years ago. ... more | .. |
  iRobot Delivers More Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles iRobot has announced that the U.S. Army plans to procure two additional low-rate initial production brigade sets of model 320 SUGVs. The Defense Acquisition Board formalized its approval to pu ... 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 NASA Test Stand Passes Review For Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing 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 mileston ... 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 |
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 Poison Could Have Set Stage For Life Formaldehyde, a poison and a common molecule throughout the universe, is likely the source of the solar system's organic carbon solids - abundant in both comets and asteroids. Scientists have long s ... more | .. |
 Three New ISS Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launched in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT Monda ... 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 | .. |
 US lawmakers eye plan to compete with Asia on robotics US senators unveiled an initiative Monday to try to narrow the US gap with Asian nations more advanced in robotics, proposing exposing American high school students to a curriculum heavier on technology and science. ... more |
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