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Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To RestPasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2011 NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempts. Extensive communications activities during the past 10 months also have explored the possibility that Spirit might reawaken as the solar energy available to it increased after a stressful Martian winter without much sunlight. With inadequate ene ... read more |
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  NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation System NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that the system will be based on d ... more | .. |
 Welcome home, Paolo! ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Thermal Vac Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with th ... more | .. |
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  Spacewalkers Prepare for Third Excursion STS-134 Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will conduct the third spacewalk of the mission Wednesday. They will be trying a new pre-breathe protocol designed to replace the overnight c ... more | .. |
 Orbit of GSAT-8 Satellite Raised Further In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 12:22 hrs IST (May 23, 2011), the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GSAT-8 was fired for 35.8 minutes by commanding the satellite from ISRO's Mast ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. A crane lift of the har ... more | .. |
 New deep space vehicle to be based on Orion: NASA NASA said Tuesday that a new spacecraft to ferry humans into deep space will be based on designs for the Orion crew exploration vehicle and built by Lockheed Martin. ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 Astronauts to try spacewalk 'hokey pokey': NASA US astronauts on Tuesday will try out a new set of exercises to prepare them for the change in pressure they encounter on their spacewalk outside the International Space Station, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 ISS astronauts land safely in Kazakhstan: mission control A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - Part 1 Once you've been to Antarctica, you just really want to go back. There is a sign in the lunch room here at Marambio base, that says (with poetic license thanks to Pablo): "When you arrived you barel ... more | .. |
 Expedition 27 Crew Undocks from Station After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli undocked from the station ... more |
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Orbit Raising Operation of GSAT-8 Satellite Conducted Successfully The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-8 was successfully conducted at 03:58 hrs (IST) this morning (May 22, 2011) with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GS ... more | .. |
  Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in prepa ... more | .. |
  Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems Just Keeps Growing NASA's Kepler spacecraft is proving itself to be a prolific planet hunter. Within just the first four months of data, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of tho ... more | .. |
  NASA Hopes It's Time To Explore Titan The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence that implies the possible existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. In fact, Titan has been characterized as ... 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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 Endeavour Crater Just Three Miles Away For Opportunity Mars Rover Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater, now less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away. The rover drove on four of the last six sols. On Sol 2595 (May 13, 2011), Opportunit ... more | .. |
  Shuttle Tile Inspection Clears Endeavour For Return To Earth Mission managers cleared Endeavour's thermal protection system for re-entry after analysis of data and images from an early-morning focused robotic inspection of the tiles. A conversation with ... more | .. |
 Bennett team discovers new class of extrasolar planets University of Notre Dame astronomer David Bennett is co-author of a new paper describing the discovery of a new class of planets - dark, isolated Jupiter-mass bodies floating alone in space, far fro ... more | .. |
  ILS Proton Successfully Launches Telstar 14R And Estrela do Sul 2 for Telesat International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 into orbit on an ILS Proton for Telesat, a leading global fixed satellite services operator. The ILS P ... more |
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 Climate scientists reveal new candidate for first habitable exoplanet The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exop ... more | .. |
 NASA's Atlantis Moves To Launch Pad May 31 For Final Shuttle Launch Space shuttle Atlantis will begin moving to its launch pad at 8 p.m. EDT on May 31, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The six-hour rollout from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building is a majo ... more | .. |
 Satellites for Asia and India are orbited on Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve on ... more | .. |
Pope makes first ever video call to astronauts in space Pope Benedict XVI chatted with astronauts floating high above Earth Saturday as the Vatican linked up with the International Space Station for the first-ever papal video call to space. ... 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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 Endeavour astronauts wrap up second space walk Two astronauts completed a second of four scheduled space walks of the Endeavour shuttle's final mission to the International Space Station on Sunday, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
 ISS astronauts inspect tile damage, chat with pope Astronauts completed an inspection of the heat shield tiles on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour Saturday after a first-ever papal video call to space from Pope Pope Benedict XVI. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan, Singapore launch satellite Taiwan's leading telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom has launched its second commercial communications satellite in a joint venture with Singapore Telecommunications, local media said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Russia sends two Soyuz carrier rockets to French Guiana Two Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rockets are on the way from Samara to St. Petersburg to be shipped to French Guiana for future launches from the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said. ... more |
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 Which technologies get better faster Some forms of technology - think, for example, of computer chips - are on a fast track to constant improvements, while others evolve much more slowly. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and othe ... more | .. |
 Damaged shuttle tile to get closer look: NASA NASA plans to take a closer look Saturday at a damaged heat shield tile on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour, but mission managers downplayed the inspection as no cause for concern. ... more | .. |
  Seeing the Planets for the Trees In the search for life on other planets, scientists are looking beyond single-celled organisms and are developing techniques that would help them detect multicellular life. In a recent study publish ... more | .. |
  Measuring the Magnetic Field of Mercury MESSENGER carries a sensitive Magnetometer that measures the vector magnetic field at the location of the spacecraft. The instrument is mounted on the end of a 3.6-m-long boom that extends away from ... more |
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