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![]() Moscow (XNA) Sep 01, 2011 Three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth on Sept. 16, later than previously scheduled due to a failed launch of the Progress cargo vehicle, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. "There is no any danger for the ISS crew. The crew possesses everything it needs for work," Roscosmos deputy head Vitali Davydov said during a television link between Moscow and Astana, the Interfax news agency reported. Davydov said two Russian cosmonauts and one ... read more |
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![]() Russia considering unmanned space station: official Russia's space agency Roskosmos is considering ending a permanent human presence in space, an agency official said Wednesday following last week's crash of a supply ship delivering precious cargo to the ISS. ... more | .. |
![]() Orbital Receives License for Taurus II COTS Demonstration Mission Orbital Sciences has received a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program ... more | .. |
![]() Canadian Robot Repairs Components on the Space Station Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully replaced a faulty circuit-breaker box on the orbiting lab. The robot swapped ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Opportunity Studies Rocks on Crater Rim Opportunity has begun the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2690 (Aug. 18, 2011), the rover began the approach to a large ejecta block, named ... more | .. |
![]() Progress 44 accident and its consequences for Space Station The six astronauts on the International Space Station are safe and continuing their normal work after the loss of their space-bound cargo craft on 24 August. While the cause of the accident is being ... more | .. |
![]() Third ATV begins its preparations for launch on Ariane 5 The preparation campaign for Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has begun in French Guiana as this large cargo resupply spacecraft is readied for a spring 2012 Ariane 5 launch by Ariane ... more | .. |
![]() Kazakhstan won't ban Russian rocket launches from Baikonur Kazakhstan does not plan to ban launches of Russian rockets from its space center in Baikonur after accident with Progress M-12M space freighter, Talgat Musabayev, the head of the Kazakh space agenc ... more |
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![]() Russian Firm Unveils Plan for Space Tourism A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for ... more | .. |
![]() Ariane 5's upper payload completes its integration at the Spaceport Integration of the upper portion of Ariane 5's dual-passenger "stack" has been completed, with the Arabsat-5C satellite and SYLDA dispenser system now encapsulated inside the launcher's payload fair ... more | .. |
![]() NASA fears leaving space station unmanned The possible first-ever evacuation of the International Space Station, if a Russian spacecraft is not launched in November, would risk the loss of the orbiting lab, a NASA official has warned. ... more | .. |
![]() Robonaut Wakes Up In Space After months of patiently snoring away in its storage bag, Robonaut 2 - the first dexterous humanoid robot in space - finally got its wakeup call on Monday. R2, as the robot is called, was del ... more |
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![]() Time Limits for Tiangong The launch date for Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, has been the subject of much confusion in recent months. It seems that a launch is not too far away, and could appear within a week. ... more | .. |
![]() Epic search for evidence of life on Mars heats up with focus on high-tech instruments Scientists are expressing confidence that questions about life on Mars, which have captured human imagination for centuries, finally may be answered, thanks in part to new life-detection tools up to ... more | .. |
![]() HDU Technologies Demonstrated in 2011 Field Testing A technique used in NASA's capability-driven architecture analysis is analog field testing in the high desert - an environment which simulates conditions that may be encountered on planetary surface ... more | .. |
![]() Express-AM4 Launch Failure Inter-Agency Commission Concludes Investigations The Inter-Agency Commission has completed its investigation of the off-nominal orbital injection of Express-AM4 launched on 18 August from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Based on its activities and ... more |
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![]() Chang'e-2 moon orbiter travels around L2 in outer space China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth b ... more | .. |
![]() Arianespace preps for next Ariane 5 mission to launch Arabsat-5c Payload integration for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2011 has begun with installation of the Arabsat-5C satellite atop the SYLDA dual-payload dispenser system at the Spaceport in French G ... more | .. |
![]() FAA Spaceport grants will strengthen America's commercial space industry If you're like me, you probably watched the final landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis last month with a strong sense of nostalgia for an astounding era in American space travel. The good news is t ... more | .. |
![]() Lost Russian satellite poses threat to space navigation The Russian heavy satellite Express-AM4 lost on Aug. 18 might pose a threat to other space vehicles, local media reported Friday. Citing a source in the space industry, Interfex news agency sa ... more |
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![]() Filling the pantry for the first voyages to the Red Planet A green thumb and a little flair as a gourmet chef may be among the key skills for the first men and women who travel to the Red Planet later this century, according to a scientist who reported here ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Space Taxi Goes on Strike Last Wednesday, an unmanned Russian spaceship carrying tons of cargo for ISS crashed in Siberia shortly after blast-off. Liftoff of the Soyuz booster carrying the Progress module from the Baikonur C ... more | .. |
![]() China State media says Tiangong 1 to launch in early Sept According to an unnamed source in a position of authority in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the remarkable Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1 will be launched soon. However, because th ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Aeronautics Is Focus Of Research And Technology Roundtable NASA officials will meet with aeronautics industry, academia, and government leaders Aug. 25 to kick off a series of roundtable discussions about future directions for aeronautics research and techn ... more |
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![]() Progress space freighter destroyed in atmosphere Large pieces of the Progress M-12M space freighter have not been discovered because the ship most likely burned up in the Earth's atmosphere or the third stage of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket exploded ... more | .. |
![]() Dolphins, Aliens, and the Search for Intelligent Life How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, su ... more | .. |
![]() Greenhouse Effect Could Extend Habitable Zone The distant region beyond Saturn is too cold for liquid water, a necessity for life as we know it. But new research indicates that rocky planets far from their parent star could generate enough heat ... more | .. |
![]() Out of Thin Martian Air A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go? Geological observations suggest rivers and seas dotted the martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. The amount of water has been equated to a p ... more |
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![]() The first nuclear power plants for settlements on the moon and Mars At the 242nd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) James E. Werner said that innovative fission technology for surface power applications is far different from the f ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with this cratered body on Thursday, Aug. 25. Raw images were acquired as the spacecraf ... more | .. |
![]() Russia to test launch Soyuz rockets before delivering ISS crews Russia will carry out two unmanned test launches of Soyuz carrier rockets in the coming fall before using them to deliver crews to the International Space Station, a source in the Russian space indu ... more | .. |
![]() Armstrong relives historic Moon landing It's more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space. ... more |
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