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First Space-Bound Orion Comes Alive With First WeldMichoud LA (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans started welding together the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. "This marks the beginning of NASA's next step to send humans far beyond Earth orbit," said Orion program manager Mark Geyer. "The Orion team has maintained a steady focus on progress, and we now are beginni ... read more |
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 ATK Conducts Third Test of Next-Gen Solid Rocket Motor ATK has conducted a third successful ground test of the next-generation solid rocket motor. The successful test, known as Development Motor (DM-3), is an important milestone in further validating th ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT ... more | .. |
  NASA Sits Tight as Unmanned Space Station Considered The failure of a Russian Soyuz cargo rocket several minutes after launch last month, and Russia's decision to suspend all Soyuz launches while it investigates the cause, has created some problems fo ... more | .. |
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 Production on major part of China jumbo rocket completed, maiden voyage by 2015 Production on a major part of China's Long March-5 large-thrust carrier rocket has been completed and its maiden voyage is expected to take place during the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (201 ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all of N ... more | .. |
 Soyuz-U carrier rocket crash - causes announced, questions remain On August 24, the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, which was to bring Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft to the ISS, failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch. The intergovernme ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace To Develop Cryogenic Storage and Transfer Concepts for NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to ... more |
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AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE
Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom | .. |
  Falling satellite could scatter debris A decommissioned NASA satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere within the next few weeks and may scatter debris across a 500-mile stretch of land. ... more | .. |
 NASA launches twin spacecraft to study Moon's core NASA on Saturday launched a pair of unmanned spacecraft on a journey to study the core of the Moon and hopefully reveal how it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The twin GRAIL satellites, sho ... more | .. |
  European satellite in French Guiana launch A European satellite has arrived in French Guiana for a launch on a Soyuz rocket, the first Soyuz launch to be held in South America, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors. ... more |
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 Arianespace to launch Amazonas-3 for Hispasat Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite. Petra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairwoman of Hispasat, Carlos Espinos, CEO of Hispasat, and Jean-Y ... more | .. |
 Aitech Appoints Vice President for Growing Space Business Sector Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military embedded and mission critical computing technologies and an independent manufacturer of open architecture boards and subsystem products for en ... more | .. |
  Planetary Congress meeting in Moscow The Association of Space Explores (ASE) Planetary Congress has started in Moscow and will run from the 5th to the 9th of September. The ASE and its participants are cosmonauts and astronauts and the ... more | .. |
  Orbiter Resumes Use of Camera Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. The High Resolution Imaging ... more |
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
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 Roscosmos to enhance control of Soyuz rocket engines' production A special commission investigating the causes of the August 24 failed launch of Russia's Soyuz carrier rocket has recommended enhancing the control of the production of engines for Soyuz rockets, Ru ... more | .. |
  Invisible World Discovered Usually, running five minutes late is a bad thing since you might lose your dinner reservation or miss out on tickets to the latest show. But when a planet runs five minutes late, astronomers get ex ... more | .. |
 US Congress sends Obama major patent overhaul The US Senate Thursday passed legislation to drag the web of US patent laws into the Internet age and spur high-tech innovation, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law. ... more | .. |
 Sealed-in British scientist relies on plants to breathe A British geologist has volunteered to spend 48 hours in an airtight chamber relying on the oxygen produced by plants to survive. ... more |
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 NASA Needs to Preserve Skilled Astronaut Corps In Post-Shuttle Era NASA should take steps to ensure that it maintains a highly trained astronaut corps to meet International Space Station (ISS) crew requirements while accounting for unexpected attrition or demands o ... more | .. |
MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more | .. |
 US astronaut shortage poses risks: study The United States does not have enough astronauts to meet the changing needs of human spaceflight in the coming years, warned a report Wednesday by a non-profit group that advises on science policy. ... more | .. |
 Honeywell Wins Ground Systems and Mission Operations At Goddard Honeywell has won a five-year, $450 million contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO) services for the agency's fleet of scienti ... more |
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New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations
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GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon As early as Sept. 8th, NASA's GRAIL mission will blast off to uncover some of the mysteries beneath the surface of the Moon. That cratered gray exterior hides some ... more | .. |
 Russia beefs up Plesetsk space center funding Russia will spend over 5 billion rubles ($170 mln) on the development and expansion of the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia this year, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on W ... more | .. |
 Attempt to revive silent satellite planned British scientists say they will try to revive a satellite launched almost 40 years ago that has been silent since 1996. ... more | .. |
 Second bid to launch NASA's Moon-bound spacecraft NASA will try again Saturday to launch a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will use gravity tools to map the Moon's inner core for the first time, after high winds delayed a first attempt. ... more |
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 NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity tools to map its inner core for the first time. Scientists ... more | .. |
  Robotic Loader System Achieves Composite Material Testing Milestone The Naval Research Laboratory robotic materials testing system, NRL66.3, has achieved, to date, the highest industrial rates of fully-automated production mode functionality known to NRL researchers ... more | .. |
Moon Mission Ready to Fly At the prelaunch news conference Tuesday, the twin moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will send them on their mission were reported ready to fly, with th ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the as ... more |
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