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MESSENGER Provides New Data about MercuryLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 17, 2011 After nearly three months in orbit about Mercury, MESSENGER's payload is providing a wealth of new information about the planet closest to the Sun, as well as a few surprises. The spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft ever to do so. Tens of thousands of images of major features on the planet - previously seen only at comparatively low resolution - are now available in sharp focus. Measurements of the chemical composition of Mercury's surface a ... read more |
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  Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Ji ... more | .. |
  CMU and Astrobotic Technology Complete Structural Assembly of Lunar Lander Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The hal ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and ... more | .. |
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  Countering Contamination for Mars Spacesuits To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredien ... more | .. |
  Keeping Cool With Heat Pipes on the Space Station What happens when electronics overheat? The short answer is: nothing good! In microgravity, natural convection does not occur, which makes cooling equipment a challenge. So how do you keep electroni ... more | .. |
  Iran to put a monkey into space: report Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Shuttle program's end leaves pension bill NASA says it plans to spend about a half-billion dollars to refill the pension fund of a contractor who supplied workers to the U.S. space shuttle program. ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 MESSENGER Adjusts Its Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its first orbit-correction maneuver to reset its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of MESSENGER's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's sur ... more | .. |
 International Conference On Low-Cost Planetary Missions Devising ways to explore space in tight fiscal times tops the agenda of the 9th International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions, set for June 21-23, 2011, at the Johns Hopkins University App ... more | .. |
  Arianespace receives the next Ariane 5 for launch in 2011 The Spaceport's Final Assembly Building has welcomed its fourth Ariane 5 of 2011 as preparations in French Guiana advance for Arianespace's upcoming mission with the ASTRA 1N and BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Endeavour - A Lasting Legacy Space program employees, media and several hundred thousand spectators held their breath in rapt attention as the minutes ticked down to launch - then space shuttle Endeavour's main engines ignited ... more |
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 From Backpacking to Space Trekking Water - it's essential for life. When future space explorers venture beyond low Earth orbit, their only water supply will be on board their spacecraft. During the final space shuttle flight, NASA sc ... more | .. |
  Plasma Spectrometer Operations on Hold Mission managers for NASA's Cassini spacecraft suspended operation of the Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, after a series of voltage shifts on the spacecraft. They w ... more | .. |
  End of Our Tether Tethers have been used in space for decades. They can help spacecraft to fly in close formation, as some surveillance satellites do. They can allow satellites to dip into the upper atmosphere, trans ... more | .. |
 Recalculating the Distance to Interstellar Space Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier than ... 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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 Japan astronaut tweets about space sickness Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa has tweeted from the International Space Station that he suffers from travel sickness in space. ... more | .. |
 Atlantis' tanking test under way The tanking test for the space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tanks began Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... more | .. |
 The story behind Paolo's Space Station photos When the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli had a special job to do: capture unique images of the orbital outpost with the Shuttle and ... more | .. |
 An Alien Safari For Enquiring Minds At the most recent NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, a panel of scientists discussed different types of planets where we might find alien life. In part six of this series, the panelists answer a ... more |
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 Endeavour Lands, Atlantis at Launch Pad Space shuttle Endeavour completed its final flight by delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during the STS-134 mission. "I think we all should be really ... more | .. |
 Thales delivers First Cygnus PCM to Orbital Thales Alenia Space announced that it has delivered to Orbital Sciences its first Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) developed to transport cargo to the International Space Station. This first PCM will ... more | .. |
 Atlantis in place as Endeavour returns The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was wheeled to the launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Wednesday as the shuttle Endeavour completed its final mission. ... more | .. |
 Looking at the volatile side of the Moon Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to fin ... 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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 THAICOM 6 Satellite Project THAICOM Public Company has announced that the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has approved the THAICOM 6 satellite that was proposed by the Company and the Board of Directors of ... more | .. |
 NC State Students Look To Support Manned Mission To Mars What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advan ... more | .. |
 The Shape of Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft, recently injected into orbit about the Solar Systems' inner-most planet is already yielding important new information about Mercury. This spacecraft carries a laser altimet ... more | .. |
 Camera Duo on Mars Rover Mast Will Shoot Color Views Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA's next Mars rover will complement each other in showing the surface of Mars in exquisite detail. They are the left and right eyes of the Mas ... more |
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 Opportunity Breaks Backward Driving Record Opportunity completed a drive-by imaging campaign of another small, but young crater, named "Gemini 5." On Sol 2616 (June 3, 2011), Opportunity set a new one-sol backwards driving distance rec ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes Delta System Definition Review of Crew Space Transportation Design Boeing on May 19 completed the Delta System Definition Review (SDR) of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 space capsule design. The milestone follows NASA's award of a Commercial Crew ... more | .. |
 Russia's Mission Control raises ISS orbit by 19.2 km Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 19.2 kilometers (11.9 miles) to 364.6 km (226.5 miles), a spokesman for the Mission Control sai ... more | .. |
  CoRoT's new detections highlight diversity of exoplanets Ten new exoplanets have been discovered by the European satellite, CoRoT. Confirmed via meticulous, ground-based observations, these exoplanets exhibit a wide variety of masses, densities, orbital p ... more |
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