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Shuttle repairs to take several days: NASAWashington (AFP) May 2, 2011 Engineers have identified the technical problem that caused the delay of the Endeavour shuttle launch last week, and expect it will take several days to fix, NASA said Monday. The next launch attempt has not been set, but will be determined in a meeting of mission managers "over the next day or two," NASA said in a statement, reiterating that liftoff would be "no earlier than May 8." The mission of the shuttle Endeavour is to be the US program's second-to-last flight to the International Space S ... read more |
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  Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically No wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie. An ESA rover ... more | .. |
  Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants - comets and asteroids. The data and imagery colle ... more | .. |
  Final preparations for Soyuz' first "virtual" flight Preparations for the simulated first flight of Soyuz from French Guiana are proceeding on schedule for a "liftoff" this week, confirming the medium-lift vehicle's readiness to join Arianespace's lau ... more | .. |
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  Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again ... more | .. |
  Astronomers unveil portrait of 'super-exotic super-Earth' An international team of astronomers have revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison. The planet, named 55 Cancri ... more | .. |
  Soyuz is in the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport The latest addition to Arianespace's launcher family made its world debut at the vehicle's new base of operations, as the first Soyuz was rolled out to the Spaceport's launch pad in French Guiana. ... more | .. |
 Asteroids collide at 11,000 miles per hour Scientists have captured and studied the collision of two asteroids for only the second time in the history of astronomy. In the May 20 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters (currently online ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  China sees smooth preparation for launch of unmanned module China is satisfied with preparatory work completed thus far for the launching of two unmanned space modules, the Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8, in the second half of this year, said deputy head of China ... more | .. |
 Progress Docks To ISS The ISS Progress 42 cargo craft docked to the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station at 10:28 a.m. EDT Friday, less than six hours before space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled lau ... more | .. |
 Spiders in Space - The Sequel The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters. In actuality, it is a scientific investigation called Commercial Generic Bioproc ... more | .. |
 Grad to take Academy experiment into space An Air Force Academy graduate will pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour and carry an Air Force Academy physics experiment into space. Endeavour is scheduled to launch April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT fr ... more |
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  Goddard Building Instrument To Study Reconnection Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Reconnection occurs wh ... more | .. |
 China to attempt first space rendezvous China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday. ... more | .. |
  UMaine Students Test Wireless Sensors on Rocket Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California's Mojave Desert. ... 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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 Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming back a ... more | .. |
 ESA prepares Soyuz for dry roll-out The first Russian Soyuz ST rocket built for launch from the European Space Agency's site at Kourou in French Guyana will be rolled out to the launch pad for dry systems tests on April 29, the Russia ... more | .. |
  Arianespace to launch ABS-2 in 2013 Arianespace has confirmed the launch date for the ABS-2 satellite for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS), one of the leading satellite operators in the Asia Pacific. ABS-2 will be launched by an Ariane ... more | .. |
 Voyager - The Love Story One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows--aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space cold, its ... more |
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  Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology The origins of my new book - "First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth" - lie more in journalism than in science. As a relatively recent convert to space and science ... more | .. |
 NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed ... more | .. |
 First Cuban cosmonaut receives award from Russian government The visiting vice leader of the Russian State Duma Wednesday conferred the "Russian Order of Friendship" on Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, the first Cuban and Latin American cosmonaut. The award, gran ... 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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 Engineers working to fix Endeavour fault NASA engineers say they have identified the likely source of a problem on space shuttle Endeavour that led to the scrubbing of last week's Florida launch. ... more | .. |
 New software to support interest in extreme science The University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science released a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha, on April 29. Based on previous software for simulating ex ... more | .. |
 Russia ferries supplies to space An unmanned Russian cargo vessel on Friday docked without a hitch at the International Space Station, bringing a fresh supply of oxygen and equipment to the six-member crew. ... more | .. |
 Endeavour shuttle to launch no earlier than May 8 NASA on Sunday delayed the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour until May 8 at the earliest, after technical problems uncovered last week proved more complex than originally thought. ... more |
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 Shuttle life ready to launch In addition to astronauts, Endeavour will carry a legion of microscopic passengers in the Planetary Society's Shuttle LIFE experiment when the space shuttle launches on its last flight on April 29. ... more | .. |
 NASA Receives European Commitment To Continue ISS The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Wednesday, April 27, to discuss increased efforts to use the station as a test-bed for exploration. ... more | .. |
 Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... more | .. |
 NNSA Announces New Space Debris Modeling All this week, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is highlighting its advanced supercomputing capabilities with a week of features demonstrating the science and technology work done ... more |
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