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WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' AsteroidPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2011 An asteroid recently discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may be a bit of an oddball. Most near-Earth asteroids - NEAs for short - have eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits that take the asteroids right through the inner solar system. The new object, designated 2010 SO16, is different. Its orbit is almost circular such that it cannot come close to any other planet in the solar system except Earth. However, even though the asteroid rides around with Earth, it never gets that ... read more |
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![]() BRP To Contribute To Canadian Moon And Mars Exploration Programs BRP, in cooperation with the Centre de technologies avancees BRP-Universite de Sherbrooke (CTA), will develop the chassis and locomotion systems for a Lunar Exploration Light Rover and a Mars Explor ... more | .. |
![]() Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more | .. |
![]() Several Drives This Week Put Opportunity Over 17-Mile Mark Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with great dispatch, driving on four of the last six sols. On Sols 2554 and 2556 (April 1 and 3, 2011), the rover drove over 100 meters ... more | .. | ||
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![]() PSLV Launch On April 20 Preparations for the launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) carrying RESOURCESAT-2 satellite are progressing well at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. In this mission, PSLV-C16 w ... more | .. |
![]() Last legends of early space flight laud Gagarin The last living legends of the early years of human space flight in the Cold War met in a rare encounter on Monday to laud the achievement of Yuri Gagarin 50 years after his historic voyage into space. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA to announce museums for retiring space shuttles The US space agency said it will announce the museums that will host the three retiring space shuttles on Tuesday during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle launch. ... more | .. |
![]() Asia's star ever brighter in space Asia's extraterrestrial ambitions have rocketed from nowhere in the 50 years since the first human space flight, with China shooting for the moon while India and Japan fuel up their own programmes. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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![]() Gagarin anniversary: Are manned missions a waste of space? On Tuesday, the world will be awash with talk of courage and vision as it looks back on 50 years of manned space flight, a trail blazed by Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute trip around the planet. ... more | .. |
![]() Heavenly gadgets: Spinoffs from space programmes What do ceramic teeth braces, artificial hearts, airbags, insulin pumps and Olympics-calibre swimsuits have in common? ... more | .. |
![]() Thermophiles Lurking In Your Basement Ever wondered what exotic life forms may be lurking in the dark, hidden corners of your home? Scientists wonder too. Studies have shown that our modern plumbing systems provide sanctuary to a menage ... more | .. |
![]() Spacelinq The First European Space Liner Dutch initiative SpaceLinq announces that it will operate as Europe's first spaceflight operator from within Holland's territory. Lelystad Airport is the proposed home base for the future EU Spacepo ... more |
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![]() Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar ... more | .. |
![]() US Leaves Space For Russia By the end of this year, NASA will no longer be able to send humans into space. According to Barack Obama's plan, responsibility will go to private companies, which are expected to come up with chea ... more | .. |
![]() Titan Shaped By Weather Not Ice Volcanoes Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published anal ... more | .. |
![]() WISE Mission Spots Horseshoe Asteroid An asteroid recently discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may be a bit of an oddball. Most near-Earth asteroids - NEAs for short - have eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits th ... more |
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Cane toad invasion threatens Pilbara biodiversity and culture
Amazonian forests altered by human actions show broad changes in diversity and evolutionary patterns
Climate's influence reshapes East African rift dynamics | .. |
![]() Russia Looks To Grab Half Of World Space Launch Market Russia needs to increase its presence on the global space market and increase its share of launches from 40% to 50%, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "Our country presently prov ... more | .. |
![]() NASA to decide shuttle display locations NASA officials are gravitating toward a decision on where several retired space shuttles will be displayed for future generations. ... more | .. |
![]() UN Declares April 12 As International Day Of Human Space Flight The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution at a special session on Thursday declaring April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight. The resolution was initiated by Russia, which c ... more | .. |
![]() Time and space: Gagarin flight broke psychological barriers Viewed at the time through the narrow lens of Cold War rivalry, Yuri Gagarin's flight is now seen in a wider angle as forcing mankind to look beyond nationalism and at its own place in the cosmos. ... more |
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![]() Deep-Space Travel Could Create Heart Woes For Astronauts Astronauts anticipate more trips to the moon and manned missions to Mars. But exposure to cosmic radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field could be detrimental to their arteries, according to a s ... more | .. |
![]() Russia seeks to regain Gagarin spirit in space Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, Russia still prides itself on launching more satellites than anyone else and will soon have full responsibility for taking Americans into space. ... more | .. |
![]() 50 years after Gagarin, US space flight sputters Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the US space shuttle program is winding down leaving former rival Russia as the only nation able to carry astronauts into orbit. ... 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 |
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Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Dawn Approaches Asteroid Vesta After 3 .5 years of thrusting silently through the void, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on the threshold of a new world. It's deep in the asteroid belt, less than 4 months from giant asteroid Vesta. ... more |
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![]() Project Morpheus To Begin Testing At NASA's Johnson Space Center Neighbors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston may notice some loud noises coming from the 1,600-acre site in the coming weeks. Johnson's Engineering Directorate is ready to begin testing ... more | .. |
![]() New heights for Australian beer lovers The first space tourist flights may be several years away but a group of thirsty Australian scientists are at work on the critical question - what makes a top zero-gravity beer? ... more | .. |
![]() Key dates in the history of space exploration Following are key dates in the history of space travel and exploration, 50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin became the first man in space: ... 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 |
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