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Iowa State chemists help astronauts make sure their drinking water is cleanAmes IA (SPX) Sep 19, 2011 Bob Lipert held up a syringe, attached a plastic cartridge and demonstrated how chemistry developed at Iowa State University is helping astronauts and cosmonauts make sure they have safe drinking water at the International Space Station. Each cartridge contains a thin, one-centimeter disk that's loaded with chemistry, said Lipert, an associate scientist with Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Run a 10-mil ... read more |
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  Tiangong: Better Late Than Lost It seems that our long wait for the launch of China's space laboratory is almost over. Most discussions of the flight of Tiangong 1 suggest that it will certainly launch this month. We can now measu ... more | .. |
 Astronauts dive deep in practice for asteroid visit When human space explorers reach an asteroid for the first time, NASA figures the experience will be more like swimming in space than walking on the Moon. ... more | .. |
 China launches new communication satellite China successfully launched a new communication satellite, Zhongxing-1A, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province early Monday. The satellite, lifted by a Long ... more | .. |
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  Young Clays on Mars Could Have Been Habitable Regions Two small depressions on Mars found to be rich in minerals that formed by water could have been places for life relatively recently in the planet's history, according to a new paper in the journal G ... more | .. |
  Double prime for Astrium on next Ariane launch Scheduled for launch on 20 September, the Arabsat 5C satellite, for which Astrium is co-prime, has been fully fuelled and integrated with the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at the European spaceport in Kou ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development. The selections are part of the agency's efforts to pursue revolutionary technology required for future missions, while ... more | .. |
  Dawn Flies Around Vesta A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn's framing camera will help scientists determine the proce ... more |
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
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  How Common Are Earth-Moon Planetary Systems Earth's Moon might have played an important role in the development and evolution of life on Earth. The Moon was formed via a giant impact in which a Mars-size projectile collided with the young Ear ... more | .. |
 From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine. Like Tatooine, ... more | .. |
  Vesta an asteroid full of surprises Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deu ... more | .. |
 Latest Tumbling Satellite Fails to Warrant Space Intercept An out-of-control satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the next couple of weeks, but U.S. officials say they have determined that the risk to humans does not warrant a pre-emp ... more |
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  Monster Rocket Will Eat American Space Program The Space Frontier Foundation called Wednesday's announcement by NASA that it will attempt to build Congress's giant monster rocket a disaster that will devour our dreams for moving humanity into sp ... more | .. |
  Private US capsule not to dock with ISS The U.S. private space capsule Dragon will conduct a flight near the International Space Station (ISS), but docking between them is not planned, Vladimir Solovyov, head of the Russian segment of the ... more | .. |
 Opportunity on verge of new discovery Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock type. Much older than the sedimentary ... more | .. |
 Build-up is underway for the no. 1 Soyuz to be launched from French Guiana The first Soyuz to be operated from French Guiana has begun the integration process, marking a major step toward Arianespace's introduction of the workhorse medium-lift vehicle into its launcher fam ... 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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  Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the planet's rings. From left to right are Janus, Pandora, ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Chester Lake Rock Outcrop Opportunity is in position at a target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2710 (Sept. 8, 2011), the rover pumped forward just over a meter (3 feet) to pu ... more | .. |
 Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars A world with multiple suns is a common trope in science fiction, as in the iconic double sunset in Star Wars. Scientific reality has now caught up, with a report from NASA's Kepler mission of the fi ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch BepiColombo spacecraft The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace has announced the signature of a contract for the launch of the BepiColombo spacecraft, designed to explore the planet Mercury. The launch is schedule ... more |
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 Space Systems/Loral Delivers ViaSat-1 Broadband Satellite to Launch Base Space Systems/Loral has announced that the high throughput broadband satellite that it built for ViaSat arrived today at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched aboard an ... more | .. |
 Russia postpones next manned launch to ISS Russia on Friday said the next manned launch taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) would take place two days later than previously announced, on November 14. ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Design For New Deep Space Exploration System NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornersto ... more | .. |
 US satellite may crash back to Earth Sept 23: NASA A 20-year-old satellite that measured the ozone layer is expected to crash back to Earth late next week, but NASA said Friday it still does not know where it will fall. ... 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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 Crew safely returns to Earth after crash Three spacemen made a safe delayed return from the International Space Station on Friday as Russia again pushed back the launch of their replacement crew because of a recent rocket crash. ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch up to four satellites for DIRECTV Arianespace will launch two satellites for DIRECTV and has the option of launching another two satellites for one of the world's leading providers of television entertainment services. All fou ... more | .. |
 Statement on Importance of Supporting Planetary Exploration The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planeta ... more | .. |
 Virgin aims for first space launch within 12 months British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel. ... more |
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 Opportunity Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake." This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr ... more | .. |
NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System - an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyo ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Before OSIRIS-REx Launch Every six years, asteroid 1999 RQ36 nears the Earth - by cosmic standards - and researchers are launching a global observation campaign to learn as much as possible in preparation for the OSIRIS-REx ... more | .. |
  Ariane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace. ... more |
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