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Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow WhitePasadena CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2011 Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10-nicknamed Snow White-is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing volcanoes. The new findings also suggest that the red-tinged dwarf planet may be covered in a thin layer of methane, the remnants of an atmosphere that's slowly being lost into space. "You get to see this nice picture of what once was an active little world ... read more |
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  NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigat ... more | .. |
  Russian Progress space freighter set to undock from ISS Progress M-11M space freighter will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to be buried in the Pacific after conducting a nine-day scientific mission, Russia's Mission Control ... more | .. |
  Russian, European space agencies to team up for Mars mission With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip ... more | .. |
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 New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diame ... more | .. |
 Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters' An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar syste ... more | .. |
  Chinese orbiter launch failure will not affect unmanned space module launch The launch of a Chinese unmanned space module, the Tiangong-1, will not be affected by the failed launch of an experimental orbiter on Thursday, an expert said Friday. Qi Faren, a chief design ... more | .. |
  Man in the Moon Looking Younger Earth's Moon could be younger than previously thought, according to new research from a team that includes Carnegie's Richard Carlson and former-Carnegie fellow Maud Boyet. Their work will be publis ... more |
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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE | .. |
 Rocket malfunction causes satellite to not reach preset orbit An experimental satellite launched on Thursday failed to enter its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned. It was the first launch failure to occur in China since August 1996, when a Long M ... more | .. |
  Breathing new life into Earth Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare - if not co ... more | .. |
 France, Russia talk of Mars mission The European Space Agency says it will team up with Russia's space agency with the goal of launching the first manned mission to Mars. ... more | .. |
 China satellite aborts mission after 'malfunction' An "experimental" satellite launched by China failed to reach its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned, state media reported Friday. ... more |
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 Possibility of Mars microbial life eyed U.S. scientists say they'll recreate conditions on Mars in a laboratory to see if microbial life might exist in salt droplets observed on the red planet. ... more | .. |
 Chinese orbiter fails to enter designated orbit due to rocket malfunction China's experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, which was launched by a Long March II-C rocket Thursday, failed to enter the designated orbit due to a malfunction of the rocket. The rocket experienced ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17 at 8:45 a.m. EDT (5:45 a.m. PDT) Thursday. The 15-mile (2 ... more | .. |
 Pausing for Tiangong The recent failure of a Long March 2C satellite launch will certainly displease China's spaceflight community. It raises another interesting question. Will the launch failure affect the upcoming fli ... 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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 Do You Want Amino Acid In Your Alphabet Soup All life on Earth relies on a standard set of 20 molecules called amino acids to build the proteins that carry out life's essential actions. But did it have to be this way? All living creature ... more | .. |
 First 3D video transmission live from space Half a century after humankind entered outer space, an ESA-developed camera produced live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel - showing the International Space Stat ... more | .. |
  Sandia Labs' Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: pois ... more | .. |
  The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more |
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  SSTL's very high resolution satellite NigeriaSat-2 prepares for launch The latest Earth observation satellite from UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. NigeriaSat-2, one of ... more | .. |
 Robotic Refueling Module, Soon To Be Relocated to Permanent Space Station Position NASA's groundbreaking Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) will reach a key milestone in September when the International Space Station (ISS) robots transfer the module to its permanent home on space sta ... more | .. |
 Arrival in the Arctic After two days of travel from Clinton, Canada, where I had spent the previous week with the Pavilion Lake Research Project, I arrived in the evening in Resolute Bay, in Nunavut Territory, Canada. ... more | .. |
 Moon younger than previously thought Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed. This is concluded in new research ... 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 loses contact with new satellite The designer and manufacturer of a Russian satellite launched on Thursday has no information about its location or condition, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said. Russia's ... more | .. |
 Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet A group of astronomers led by an MIT professor has spotted an exoplanetary eclipse of a star only 40 light years away - right around the corner, astronomically speaking - revealing a "super-Earth." ... more | .. |
  NASA Uses MicroStrain Sensors to Monitor Vibroacoustic Shock During Shuttle Launches MicroStrain Inc. provided NASA Kennedy Space Center with the wireless sensor technology to remotely monitor lift off acoustics and vibration generated during the launch of both Endeavour and Atlanti ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects XCOR to Participate in Suborbital Flight Contract NASA has selected XCOR Aerospace to provide suborbital flight and payload integration services for research and scientific missions in a program that will offer up to $10 million dollars in contract ... more |
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  What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan? Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface? A research group led by Jonathan L. Mitchell, UCLA assistant profess ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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