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![]() Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2011 NASA and SpaceX, based in California, have agreed on the private spacecraft company's first date with the International Space Station, the space agency says. The SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Nov. 30 and will rendezvous and dock with the ISS Dec. 7, NewScientist.com reported Tuesday. The original plan had been for two missions, one for a rendezvous and a second for the actual docking, but after a successful test flight SpaceX requested that NASA combine the ... read more |
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![]() Herschel confirms Enceladus as primary water supply for Saturn atmosphere Observing Saturn, Herschel has detected evidence of water molecules in a huge torus surrounding the planet and centred on the orbit of its small moon, Enceladus. The water plumes on Enceladus, which ... more | .. |
![]() Turksat turns to GMV for control of its satellites MELCO (Mitsubishi Electronics) has awarded GMV a contract for developing the ground segment for the 4A and 4B satellites of the Turkish satellite operator Turksat. GMV is the leading ground systems ... more | .. |
![]() MIT students to build imaging instrument to fly aboard mission to an asteroid The asteroid 1999 RQ36 may not be a household name, but astronomers predict that in less than 200 years, it may make an unforgettable impact. According to radar and optical observations, the space r ... more | .. | ||
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![]() A hot species for cool structures A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg Universi ... more | .. |
![]() Sandia National Labs completes final scan of space shuttle program Nine engineers from Sandia National Laboratories helped ensure Atlantis' safety from Mission Control at Johnson Space Center as the shuttle made its final flight, marking the end of NASA's 30-year s ... more | .. |
![]() NASA and International Partners Discuss New Uses for Space Station The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will ... more | .. |
![]() Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technolog ... more |
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![]() Certification for ISS onboard astronaut The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has been providing basic training to be certified as an astronaut for the International Space Station (ISS) to astronaut candidates Kimiya Yui, and Takuya Ohni ... 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far side 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 a ... more | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor As workers continue to grapple with the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, the crisis has shone a spotlight on nuclear reactors around the world. In June, The Associated Press re ... more |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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