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NASA awards $270 million in spaceship contractsWashington (AFP) April 18, 2011 NASA on Monday announced it has awarded nearly 270 million dollars to four companies, including Boeing and SpaceX, to help their pursuit of making a spacecraft to replace the US space shuttle. The Houston, Texas-based aviation giant Boeing received the biggest contract - $92.3 million - as part of the second round of NASA commercial crew development program, or CCDev2. Sierra Nevada Corporation, a Colorado-based company that is at work on its DreamChaser shuttle, won the second largest sum at ... read more |
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  A Tale Of Two Deserts Because the surface of Mars today is bone-dry and frozen all year round, it's difficult to find any place on Earth that is truly Mars-like. But two locations, Antarctica's Upper Dry Valleys and the ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Moves NPP Satellite To Thermal Vacuum Chamber For Final Testing Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has moved the NPOESS Preparatory Satellite (NPP) to the thermal vacuum chamber for final testing. NPP was lowered into Ball's chamber on March 2, 2011, to ... more | .. |
  India Starts Countdown For Launch Of Three Satellites The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday began a 54-hour countdown for the launch of three satellites, an ISRO press secretary said. Remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, as w ... more | .. |
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  NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort. Each company will receive between $22 million and $92.3 million to advance ... more | .. |
 LockMart Commends Congressional Action On NASA Spacecraft Following months of short-term, stop-gap funding for NASA, Lockheed Martin welcomes final passage of the FY 2011 budget by the Congress, which has been sent forward for President Obama's signature. ... more | .. |
 ITT's Commercial Imaging Payload Passes Major Milestone ITT reached a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the imaging payload for WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe's high-resolution commercial Earth imaging satell ... more | .. |
  Roberto Vittori's DAMA Mission To ISS ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori is set to fly on the next Space Shuttle mission in late April to deliver the large Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer science payload to the International Space Station. Dedic ... more |
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  Thousands of shuttle workers losing jobs Almost 2,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be laid off after the last shuttle flight, a contractor says. ... more | .. |
 NASA mission control named for Chris Kraft NASA says its Mission Control Center will be renamed to honor Christopher C. Kraft Jr., America's first flight director of human space missions. ... more | .. |
 No Fleet Future For X-37B The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite ... more | .. |
NASA spared cuts in US spending bill passage NASA breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Congress approved a government spending bill that secured $18.5 billion for the US space agency, sparing it from the prospect of cuts. ... more |
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Boosters for final shuttle mission ready The last solid rocket booster for the last shuttle flight was assembled in Florida Friday, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Titan-Like Exoplanets A new study says that worlds that orbit red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon T ... 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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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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 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 | .. |
  Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes. Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Esse ... more | .. |
 Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart A new analysis of one of the most well-known meteorites on Earth provides strong evidence that the prevailing view of many asteroids is wrong. Rather than randomly mixed blobs of rock and dust stuck ... more |
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 Kazakh Space Launch Project Delayed Until 2017 The commissioning of a key space launch facility has been postponed again to 2017 due to errors in the draft design and slow progress in relevant flight tests, a Kazakh national space agency officia ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover's 'Gagarin' Moment Applauded Exploration A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vosto ... more | .. |
 Mars Flight Possible After 2035 An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anat ... more | .. |
  The PI's Perspective: Pinch Me! New Horizons is healthy and on course. In mid-March, our spacecraft passed the orbit of Uranus, more than 19 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. In fact, we're now almost 20 times as far from 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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 Northrop Grumman To Test Heat Management System On ISS Northrop Grumman will use an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads. The payload, the Massive Heat Transfer Experiment (MHTEX ... more | .. |
 Putin Urges Ukraine To Join New Russian Space Center Project Ukraine should participate in the construction of the Vostochny Space Center in Russia's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Kiev on Tuesday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baik ... more | .. |
 Yury Gagarin's Flight Remembered On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers shar ... more | .. |
 Russia's Medvedev Gives State Honors To Cosmonauts President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Fifty years ... more |
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  Drugs in space may need special handling Drugs intended to treat minor illnesses of astronauts in space may need special handling to remain stable in the environment of space, NASA scientists say. ... more | .. |
 The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning For Preserving Samples The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part o ... more | .. |
 Jeffrey Hoffman On The Space Shuttle At 30 Thirty years ago, on April 12, 1981, the U.S. Space Shuttle made its first voyage into space. Four years later, on the same date, rookie astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman made the first of his five flights ... more | .. |
Arianespace to launch ASTRA 2E Satellite In the frame of the "Multi Launch Agreement" with Arianespace, the Luxemburg operator of satellites SES has confirmed to Arianespace the launch of the ASTRA 2E satellite slated for the second semest ... more |
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