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Detecting Wandering Worlds That Host LifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) May 13, 2011 Interstellar planets - those without stars to orbit - could serve as havens for life. They are often thought to be nearly invisible, since they are much dimmer than stars and do not have any suns nearby to illuminate them. Now, however, research suggests these worlds might be detected by their auroras. Interstellar planets might either be rogue planets that were originally born around a star and were later cast out by gravitational tugs of war, or sub-brown dwarfs that formed alone in interstellar ... read more |
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  NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to achieve orbit around Vesta on July 16, ... more | .. |
  Endeavour crew in Florida for shuttle launch Six astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday ahead of the second to last US space shuttle flight, with Endeavour set to lift off on Monday after a technical delay. ... more | .. |
  Andrews Space Delivers Cargo Module Power Unit for Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced that it has successfully delivered the first of four fight-qualified Cargo Module Power Units (CMPUs) that will supply power to payloads aboard Orbital's Cygnus ... more | .. |
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 The Sabatier System: Producing Water on the ISS Drinkable water is one of the primary and most important assets for human survival. So when preparing for a journey, whether to sea or to space, planners must take this vital resource into considera ... more | .. |
  JPL Facility has Built Famed Spacecraft for 50 Years The Spacecraft Assembly Facility of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was constructed in 1961 to support NASA's Ranger and Mariner missions to the moon, Venus and Mars. Ame ... more | .. |
  'Dwarf planet' is covered in crystal ice A bizarre mini-planet that orbits the Sun in deep space is covered with crystallised water, European astronomers reported on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Flipping Hot Jupiters More than 500 extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than the sun - have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these syste ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more | .. |
 Texas Space Alliance Celebrates New Space "Tourism" Law The Texas Space Alliance congratulated the governor and legislature on passing what it hopes will be the first of a new wave of pro-commercial space laws in the last weeks, and called for the Texas ... more | .. |
 India designing reusable spacecraft Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, P S Veeraraghavan on Wednesday said India`s space scientists are designing a reusable space craft, which is likely to be launched ... more | .. |
  Mayflower Test Satellite Proves Successful During Recent SpaceX Mission Northrop Grumman and Applied Minds have announced the success of a recent launch and orbit of a Mayflower test microsatellite. Data gathered from around the world was analyzed, showing all tested sy ... more |
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 Astronauts Learn Ropes Strapping in Crews Astronauts climbing into a space shuttle are typically thinking about lots of things, from trajectories and abort scenarios to systems and when to talk to the launch team and mission controllers. No ... more | .. |
 Dawn - first visual contact with Vesta The camera system on board the Dawn spacecraft has acquired its first image of the massive asteroid Vesta. Although the mission's first target is still about 975,000 kilometres away, appearing as ju ... more | .. |
 What a scorcher: 'Hot Jupiter' puzzle explained Scientists on Wednesday said they could explain why heat-seared giant planets in other solar systems can mysteriously orbit their star the "wrong" way. ... more | .. |
 Broadband Lidar Instrument Successfully Tested on NASA's DC-8 How do instruments end up on satellites orbiting the Earth? For many of them, long before they are ever launched into space, they are tested from NASA airplanes. One of the objectives of the NASA Ai ... 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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 Soyuz launch from Europe space base set for October The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe's space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 AFIT education paves way to space How far can a higher education take you? About 220 nautical miles - straight up. That's at least true for retired Col. Steve Lindsey, an astronaut with NASA and graduate of the Air Force Institute o ... more | .. |
 Putting the Common Housefly onto the dinner plate A continuous, self funded research effort begun in Oregon in 1975 has resulted in a mature system for the intensive farming of Musca domestica, the Common Housefly. Fly Farm Systems has a patent pen ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch No Earlier Than May 16 NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also extended the length of Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the Inter ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace Delivers Deployable Reflector to Astrium for Alphasat I-XL Spacecraft Astro Aerospace has delivered its fourth deployable AstroMesh reflector to Astrium in Toulouse, France, this one for the Alphasat I-XL spacecraft that will provide commercial, broadband telecommunic ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU Guides MESSENGER Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury Northrop Grumman's space navigation aid recently provided key guidance and control information that allowed NASA's MESSENGER to become the first spacecraft to successfully orbit Mercury, marking the ... more | .. |
 Engineering Tests Leading The Way For NASA's Next Neemo Mission To determine how best to explore asteroids in the future, NASA scientists and engineers are taking their experiments underwater in the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, ... more | .. |
 Fundamental question on how life started solved For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bo ... 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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NASA expects shuttle Endeavour to launch May 16 NASA said Monday it expects repairs to be done in time for the space shuttle Endeavour to launch as planned on May 16, after a trio of delays due to technical problems in a fuel heating line. ... more | .. |
  ST-2's installation on SYLDA marks the start of final payload integration for Ariane 5's next mission Arianespace's third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has entered its final preparations with installation of the ST-2 satellite on the launcher's SYLDA dual-passenger dispenser system, positioning it for the ... more | .. |
 All Eyes on the Shuttle Perhaps one of the most impressive images is that of a space shuttle lifting off the launch pad. But more than just an impressive sight, images play a critical role in shuttle flight safety. Each su ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects 'Whipple' Mission for Technology Development As part of its Discovery Program, NASA has selected three potential missions for 2016 that would look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial ocean on one of Saturn's moons; ... more |
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 NASA, Space Community Remember 'Freedom 7' On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The slender, 82-foot-t ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spaceward Bound Takes Teachers Trekking across the Mojave Desert What clues found on Earth do NASA scientists use to help them deduce that there may be life on other planets? Can the same process be applied in the classroom to inspire and motivate the next genera ... more | .. |
Endeavour shuttle launch delayed again: NASA The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed for a third time, until at least May 16, as engineers try to fix an electrical problem, NASA announced Friday. ... more | .. |
  Robot Based on Carnegie Mellon Research Engages Novice Computer Scientists Learning how to program a computer to display the words "Hello World" once may have excited students, but that hoary chestnut of a lesson doesn't cut it in a world of videogames, smartphones and Twi ... more |
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