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Russia may delay manned space launch after crashMoscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2011 Russia may delay the next manned launch for the International Space Station (ISS) after an unmanned space vessel crashed into Siberia instead of reaching orbit, a report said Friday. The planned September 22 launch could be delayed to give specialists time to work out the precise cause of the crash of the Progress cargo vehicle, Interfax-AVN, the specialist military arm of the Interfax news agency, quoted a source in the rocket and space industry as saying. The planned return to Earth from the ... read more |
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  A Planet Made of Diamond A once-massive star that's been transformed into a small planet made of diamond: that's what astronomers think they've found in our Milky Way. The discovery has been made by an international r ... more | .. |
  First Soyuz launch from Kourou to go ahead: Arianespace The maiden flight of a Soyuz from Europe's space base will go ahead as scheduled on October 20, as it is a different version from the rocket involved in Wednesday's launch failure by Russia, Arianespace said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Next Generation Robotic Lander Gets Sideways During Test During a recent test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the robotic lander prototype, known as Mighty Eagle, performed a hover test flying up to three feet and then translat ... more | .. |
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 Moon Express Gets Thumbs-Up from NASA for Developing New Lunar Landing Technology Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, announced that it has successfully demonstrated a critical component of its lunar landing technology to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration ... more | .. |
 NASA Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... more | .. |
  Glonass-M satellite launch postponed for additional check The launch of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite was postponed for an additional equipment check, Russia's Space Forces commander said on Thursday. The launc ... more | .. |
 Resupply Craft Lost While Crew Focuses on Departure and Science The ISS Progress 44 spacecraft and nearly 3 tons of supplies for the International Space Station were lost Wednesday when the launch vehicle experienced a failure during the climb to orbit. Th ... more |
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 Thales Alenia Space's Cygnus PCM shipped to United States Thales Alenia Space reports it has shipped its first Pressurized Cargo Module, designed to transport cargo to the International Space Station, to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Th ... more | .. |
 New Report Analyzes Development Paths of Emerging Space Nations and Sustainable Use of Outer Space While the advent of emerging space nations certainly creates opportunities, it also raises new concerns. Balancing these new sets of opportunities and risks requires an understanding of the rational ... more | .. |
  Mexican Government Gains Satellite Management Efficiency from Optimal Satcom Integrated Software System Optimal Satcom has been awarded a subcontract by Integral Systems to provide the Mexican government with a highly-efficient satellite capacity management system for its new MEXSAT satellite system. ... more | .. |
 Russia 'grounds Soyuz rockets' after space crash Russia on Thursday grounded its Soyuz rockets after a space ship carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station (ISS) crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off, officials said. ... more |
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 The fifth Ariane 5 of 2011 is ready for integration of its dual-satellite payload Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 ECA for its fifth heavy-lift mission of 2011 at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit the Arabsat-5C and SES-2 telecommunications satellites ... more | .. |
 Neil Armstrong urges return to the Moon Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. ... more | .. |
 Russian spaceship crashes back to Earth An unmanned Russian spaceship with tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off Wednesday in the latest blow to the country's embattled space programme. ... more | .. |
 ISS crew safe despite supply failure: Russia, US Russian mission control and NASA said Wednesday there was no need to evacuate the six-member crew from the International Space Station despite the launch failure of a vessel carrying tonnes of supplies. ... 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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  Avoiding An Ape-pocalypse This is a story about how a mob of intelligent, institutionalized, drugged-up apes organize to overthrow their human oppressors and ignite a planetary revolt. But enough about my graduate school day ... more | .. |
 Recent grad's astro feats regarded as research crown 'joule' Look out, Richard Dean Anderson. There's a new MacGyver in town. His name is 2nd Lt. Michael Trubilla, and a prestigious award is in the 2011 Air Force Academy grad's very near future: Trubilla is s ... more | .. |
 Robonaut successfully passes first test on ISS The first human-like robot and permanent resident of the International Space Station, Robonaut 2 or R2, has successfully passed its first test, the official Robonaut`s microblog reported on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Interstellar Crashes Could Toss Out Habitable Planets Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bo ... more |
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 NRL Set to Launch Experimental TacSat-4 Spacecraft The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex, Tuesday, September 27, 2011, aboard an Orbital ... more | .. |
 Draper Spacesuit Could Keep NASA Astronauts Stable, Healthier in Space Draper Laboratory began work this month on a new spacesuit that could keep NASA astronauts healthy during long-duration space exploration missions and stabilize them while they work in microgravity. ... more | .. |
  New probe to uncover mechanisms key to fusion reactor walls A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton University to learn precisely what happens when extremely hot plasmas to ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White 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 ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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