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SpaceX plans November test flight to space stationWashington (AFP) Aug 15, 2011 California-based rocket maker SpaceX said Monday that it will make a test flight in late November to the International Space Station, now that NASA has retired its space shuttle program. "SpaceX has been hard at work preparing for our next flight - a mission designed to demonstrate that a privately-developed space transportation system can deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS)," the company, also called Space Exploration Technologies, said in a statement. The mission i ... read more |
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  NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx1 spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will intercept asteroid 199 ... more | .. |
  China successfully launches maritime satellite China successfully launched a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday Beijing Time. The orbiter, Haiyang-2, was boosted by a Long March-4B ... more | .. |
  No Toilet for Tiangong We're getting closer to the launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory. We've seen video footage and artwork of the exterior of this vehicle, but so far, information on Tiangong's interior has be ... more | .. |
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  Jodie Foster helps keep search for aliens alive "Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  NASA moves forward in manned spaceflight NASA says it has created a new department, the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, to oversee manned spaceflight in the post-shuttle era. ... more | .. |
  US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ... more | .. |
  Lava, not water, said cause of Mars beds A U.S. researcher says large, river-like channels seen on Mars were created not by water but by massive, fast-moving lava flows of a type we don't see on Earth. ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  GRAIL Launch Less Than One Month Away NASA's twin lunar probes - GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. T ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data The Dawn spacecraft has completed a graceful spiral into the first of four planned science orbits during the spacecraft's yearlong visit to Vesta. The spacecraft started taking detailed observ ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Reaches Endeavour Crater Opportunity has arrived at Endeavour crater after a 1000-sol, 13.36 mile (21.5 kilometer) odyssey across the plains of Meridiani. On Sol 2681(Aug. 9, 2011), Opportunity drove 203 feet (62 mete ... more | .. |
  Alien World is Blacker than Coal Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight fal ... more |
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 NASA Selects Seven Firms To Provide Near-Space Flight Services NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA's Flight ... more | .. |
 Strange planet is blacker than coal A planet orbiting a distant star is darker than coal, reflecting less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, according to a paper published on Thursday. ... more | .. |
US military loses contact with hypersonic aircraft US military scientists on Thursday launched a hypersonic aircraft but lost contact with the experimental plane in its second test flight, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Russia space chief regrets focus on manned missions The new chief of Russia's space agency on Thursday said it had put too much emphasis on manned space flight and needed to increase financing on projects that brought a tangible return. ... 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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 NASA selects Virgin Galactic for Suborbital Flights Virgin Galactic has been selected by NASA to provide flight opportunities for engineers, technologists and scientific researchers to fly technology payloads into space. This arrangement marks ... more | .. |
  Tracking infinity and beyond The landing of the shuttle Atlantis July 21 marked the end of an era of space exploration. Behind the scenes, thousands of people have helped the U.S. space program make history while only a few fac ... more | .. |
 No Convenience Stores Between Earth and Mars... Yet Here's a summer reading suggestion from the University of Virginia that involves space travel - and it's not science fiction. Even though the space shuttle program has ended, it's not the end ... more | .. |
  Rehab robots lend stroke patients a hand Robot-assisted therapy has measurable benefits for patients with a weaker arm following a stroke. This is according to new research featured in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, published by SAGE ... more |
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 Arabsat-5C is welcomed in French Guiana for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch The second of two passengers for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission arrived in French Guiana this week, with the Arabsat-5C satellite now joining SES-2 - which was delivered to the Spaceport ea ... more | .. |
  Structural and Thermal Model of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter arrives at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) STM arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, during the night of 29/30 July. It had trave ... more | .. |
 The Lunar Farside And The Ancient Big Splat The mountainous region on the far side of the moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more | .. |
 SES-2 Satellite Launch Preparations Kick off in Kourou SES S.A. reports that the SES-2 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The SES-2 spacecraft, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, will now be readi ... 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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 Teams Practice Lifting Shuttles at Airports It will take two large cranes, a specially built sling, four masts and about 45 people to perform the complex maneuvers to safely lift a space shuttle off the back of a modified 747. Because it hasn ... more | .. |
 Opportunity For A Captain Cook At Endeavour Crater After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized ... more | .. |
 Opportunity On Final Rove To Endeavour Crater The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field's distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission's long-term goal ... more | .. |
  'Housekeeping' could solve space junk mess The growing problem of space junk orbiting Earth could be tackled by specialized "housekeeping" spacecraft, an Italian researcher has proposed. ... more |
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Toys for Tiangong Wanna buy a spaceship? No, you can't have the real thing. But you can buy a model at a reasonable price. That's been the driving force behind a strongly entrenched space modeling industry for decade ... more | .. |
 Meteorites as tool kits for creating life on Earth Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth. Since the 1960s, sc ... more | .. |
 DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The resea ... more | .. |
 Wearable device that vibrates fingertip could improve sense of touch A little vibration can be a good thing for people who need a sensitive touch. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a glove with a special fingertip designed to improve t ... more |
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