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Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far sideSt Louis MO (SPX) Jul 26, 2011 Analysis of new images of a curious "hot spot" on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province and the surprising composition of the lava that formed it offer tantalizing clues to the Moon's thermal history. The hot spot is a concentration of a radioactive element thorium sitting between the very large and ancient impact craters Compton and Belkovich that was first detected by Lunar Prospector's g ... read more |
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  Ball Aerospace Develops Flight Computers for Next-Generation Launch Vehicles Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has completed development of prototype launch vehicle flight computers equipped to bring safety and reliability to future human spaceflight systems. These ... more | .. |
  SwRI suborbital astronaut payload specialists move to flight planning phase, release mission patch Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the devel ... more | .. |
  Spotlight Time for Tiangong The upcoming launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will come at a critical time. The US space program has just retired its fleet of Space Shuttles, and currently lacks any means of launching ... more | .. |
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 Graybiel Lab poised for next chapter of space exploration A 30-year chapter in the history of space travel has ended with the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis, and what comes next is still unknown. But whatever direction the story takes, researchers o ... more | .. |
  Closing In On The Famous Pioneer Anomaly Scientists working with recovered data from the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions are closing in on a solution to the famous Pioneer Anomaly. Their just-published results show that the mysterious effect on ... more | .. |
 Neptec's TriDAR technology to take off on Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft Neptec Design Group, a leader in space, defence and industrial systems and applications, has announced it will provide its TriDAR rendezvous and docking sensors to Orbital Space Science Corp.'s Cygn ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Closing In On Spirit Point At Endeavour Crater Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 GSAT-12 Communication Satellite placed in Geosynchronous Orbit The GSAT-12 Communication Satellite, launched onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17), has been successfully placed in Geosynchronous Orbit with a perigee of 35,684 km, apogee of 35,715 ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more | .. |
 MAVEN Mission Completes Major Milestone The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review (CDR). MAVEN, scheduled for lau ... more | .. |
 Gantry's First Splash Test Is a Booming Success The principle is the same one that allows a kid to swing from a bank into a pond on a long rope hanging from a tree to beat the summer heat. On Wednesday, the "kid" was 2,300 pounds of steel, ... more |
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 NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled to launch late this year and lan ... more | .. |
 New Russian carrier rockets to the Moon Russia is working on two large-scale space projects simultaneously, including the next generation of the "Soyuz" spaceships and a principally new space system with the Rus-M carrier rocket. The laun ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong scientists 'show time travel is impossible' Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - demonstrating that outside science fiction, time travel is impossible. ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thin ... 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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 Distant planet aurorae modeled Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, are spectacular, but on a distant "hot Jupiter" they could be 1,000 times brighter, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
  Atlantis Carries Adult Stem Cells Into Space On its 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program, the shuttle Atlantis carried the stem cells of six adults to the International Space Station. Alberto Sant Antonio, MD, a Weston, Florida gen ... more | .. |
 NASA says Mars mountain will read like 'a great novel' The US space agency's unmanned Curiosity rover will explore a mountain on Mars that should read like "a great novel," revealing if signs of life ever existed on the red planet, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side. The large structure near the south pole that showed up so prominently in previous images ... more |
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 Space Shuttle final landing marks end of an era Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth. The Shuttle era is now over and the door is open to the next generati ... more | .. |
  Off to a Rocky Start Today was the first day of "sub ops" in the Pavilion Lake Research Project's (PLRP's) exploration of Kelly Lake. For the past couple of days, engineers and technicians worked to put in place the bar ... more | .. |
 Space Program Mavens Comment on the Future of Space Exploration As space shuttle Atlantis lands for the last time, marking the end of NASA's space shuttle program, Maven, the Global Knowledge Marketplace, surveyed space program experts to ask the question: "what ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Era Ends with Atlantis Landing Space shuttle Atlantis touched down on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21. After 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles, the landing at NASA's Ken ... 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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Russia declares 'era of Soyuz' after shuttle Moscow on Thursday declared it was now "the era of the Soyuz" after the US shuttle's last flight left the Russian system as the sole means for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Commander, NASA savor moment as Atlantis lands The commander who brought shuttle Atlantis to a final homecoming Thursday said US space exploration would carry on, as he lauded the vessel for changing "the way we view the world." ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more | .. |
 Cigars and flowers as NASA savors shuttle's end Cigars were passed around, flowers brightened desktops and pictures snapped from all angles as NASA employees hugged, laughed and cried after the shuttle Atlantis landed one final time. ... more |
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 NASA Deputy Administrator Is Keynote Speaker At NewSpace 2011 NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will provide opening keynote remarks at the Space Frontier Foundation's annual NewSpace Conference at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 28. Media are invited to atten ... more | .. |
 This Time It's Both Rocket Science AND Surgery Not all great collaborations are planned. In fact, many of the best partnerships are the work of timing and serendipity. This is the case with two friends who met to talk over their lives and work a ... more | .. |
 NASA Begins Commercial Partnership With ULA Through a new agreement, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will provide technical information to NASA about using the Atlas V rocket to launch astronauts into space. The announcement was made Monday at U ... more | .. |
 Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around Vesta After almost four years traveling through space, the NASA Dawn spacecraft reached its destination and entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on 16 July 2011. On board Dawn, among other instruments, ... more |
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