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![]() Jiuquan, China (XNA) Oct 27, 2011 China will launch the spacecraft Shenzhou-8 in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest deseart area. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to perform China's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center. The spacecraft and its carrier rocket, an upgraded Long March-2F, were transferred on Wednesday morning on a 20-meter-wide railway to the launch pad. The launch pad is 1 ... read more |
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![]() NASA's NEEMO Mission Ending Early Due To Hurricane Rina Due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina, the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, ended earlier than planned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) op ... more | .. |
![]() Explorer 1 The First US Explorer On September 29, 2011, NASA announced the short list for five potential new "Explorer class" spacecraft. These missions are by definition small and relatively inexpensive, designed to be led by a sm ... more | .. |
![]() Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This event was seen at the end of 2010 by ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Most vertebrates descended from ancestor with sixth sense People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this in ... more | .. |
![]() NASA in Final Preparations for Nov 8 Asteroid Flyby NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's o ... more | .. |
![]() China plans space lab docking China's unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft will be launched early next month for the first docking with the country's space lab module, scientists said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training NASA evacuated a crew of astronauts Wednesday from an underwater lab off the coast of Florida where they were training for a trip to an asteroid, due to the approach of Hurricane Rina. ... more |
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![]() Starlight study shows Pluto's chilly twin Sky-watchers reported on Wednesday that a small planet in deep space that triggered one of the fiercest controversies in modern astronomy appears to be a colder "twin" of Pluto. ... more | .. |
![]() Vega arrives at French Guiana in preparation for its January 26 inaugural launch The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport with this latest member of Arianespace's expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle - the ... more | .. |
![]() New Horizons App Now Available The team behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has launched a free app that takes iPhone and iPad users along on this historic voyage to the planetary frontier. Now a ... more | .. |
![]() Weather Favorable for NPP Launch At this time, there is a zero percent chance of not meeting the launch weather criteria for liftoff of the NPP mission. Skies will be mostly clear with good visibility, forecasters say. At NAS ... more |
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![]() Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. The findings suggest that this disk, ... more | .. |
![]() Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around the innermost planet from 11 hours 46 minutes to a precis ... more | .. |
![]() ROSAT re-entered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bri ... more |
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![]() Living on Tiangong With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that will follow. We're expecting China to perform two docking tests with the unmanned She ... more | .. |
![]() Strange Hollows Discovered on Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, rangi ... more | .. |
![]() Is Your Space Elevator Going Up Anyone who follows new space concepts has heard of the Space Elevator. This is conceived as a non-rocket space structure that is intended to transport material from the Earth's surface into space. ... more | .. |
![]() Thousands of dreams to fly on Shenzhou 8 The dreams of more than 40,000 people will be stored as text and video on a chip and sent into space along with Shenzhou VIII spacecraft next month. The Shenzhou VIII is slated to take off in ... more |
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![]() Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape York The project has made the decision that Opportunity will winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. On So ... more | .. |
![]() Space Waste Transporter: Going Where No Garbage Man has Gone Before With the growing number of incidents of falling space debris in the news, there is a pressing need to find an alternative solution. John D. Arwood, a Native American and owner of Arwood Waste, propo ... more | .. |
![]() Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of fl ... more | .. |
![]() Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star Using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to study one of the closest protoplanetary discs to Earth, astronomers have detected cold water vapour for the first time in such an environment. Located ... more |
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![]() UH Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus. What astronomers are calling LkCa 15 b, looks like ... more | .. |
![]() Diamonds, silver and the quest for single photons Building on earlier work showing how nanowires carved in impurity-laden diamond crystal can efficiently emit individual photons, researchers have developed a scalable manufacturing process to craft ... more | .. |
![]() Proposal would 'recycle' satellite parts The U.S. Department of Defense says it is looking for ways to recycle space junk thousands of miles above Earth into valuable new satellite parts. ... more | .. |
![]() German satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth. ... more |
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![]() Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planet ... more | .. |
![]() ISS orbit readjusted by 3 km The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by 3.1 km (1.9 miles), a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said. The maneuver was carried out late on Wednesday using th ... more | .. |
![]() 1 clock with 2 times The unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity is one of the most exciting and still open questions in modern physics. General relativity, the joint theory of gravity, space ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral ... more |
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