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![]() Moscow (AFP) Nov 10, 2011 Russia made desperate efforts on Thursday to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that now hangs in a low Earth orbit and could potentially crash back down in a matter of days. The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft failed to find the right course to the Red Planet and its moon Phobos after taking off from a space centre Russia leases in Kazakhstan early Wednesday. The setback extended Russia's year-long streak of space mishaps and dimmed the once-vaunted programme's hopes of sending a ma ... read more |
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![]() Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Proposes Orion Spacecraft Test Flight In 2014 NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Whitehouse Says No Contact With ET The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no cred ... more | .. |
![]() High-Volume Production of QUANTUM Chip Scale Atomic Clock Begins Symmetricom, Inc. has selected Kyocera America, Inc. to help produce its QUANTUM SA.45s Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC). Since its market introduction in January 2011, the CSAC has built strong momen ... more | .. |
![]() Stellar Extremophiles Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected. Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Instead of ... more | .. |
![]() Studying Biology's Dark Matter Astrobiologists have long been interested in microorganisms that can survive in the harshest environments that Earth has to offer, from deep sea vents to geothermal hot springs. Unfortunately, these ... more |
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![]() Curiosity Drives Canada Back To Mars In less than a month, NASA will take a bold new step in the exploration of Planet Mars with the launch of a new rover, Curiosity. Curiosity is the centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mi ... more | .. |
![]() Russian probe fails to set course to Mars A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said. ... more | .. |
![]() The second Soyuz launcher's Fregat upper stage is readied for flight A focus of activity for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now on the Spaceport's S3B clean room facility, where the medium-lift launcher's Fregat upper stage is being readied f ... more | .. |
![]() Large asteroid makes rare fly-by of Earth A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said. ... more |
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![]() Arianespace Ends 2011 With Three Launcher Campaigns On November 7, for the first time in the history of Arianespace, the company's operating teams were all deployed concurrently on the Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center in ... more | .. |
![]() Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km a ... more | .. |
![]() Preparing to Stock the Medicine Cabinet for Long-Duration Missions When aerospace engineers design the new vehicle intended for long-duration space travel, they will need to include a good-sized medicine cabinet. Stocking it, however, is more of a challenge than a ... more | .. |
![]() U.S. institute wraps up data collection in Russian Mars 520-day mission simulation For the past 17 months, researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) collected data to evaluate the impact of prolonged operational confinement on the sleep, performance ... more |
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![]() NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars. ... more | .. |
![]() Moscow's Mars pioneers hail success, gripe at space rations Six men who spent 520 days in isolation in Moscow to simulate a flight to Mars on Tuesday spoke of their pride at becoming "spacemen" but complained of the monotony and cravings for crusty baguettes. ... more | .. |
![]() White House: No contact yet from E.T. In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more |
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![]() Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send m ... more | .. |
![]() Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Future Up In Space In a recent interview at the White House, President Obama addressed NASA's future. He said, "I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that w ... more | .. |
![]() What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov. 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nat ... more |
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![]() EPOXI Mission Report For November 2011 As we approach the anniversary of the EPOXI flyby of Hartley 2, it is time to look at what we have learned about comets from this mission. In the first week of October, a special session of the annu ... more | .. |
![]() China masters space command, control China's space control network has realized integrated command and control, which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according ... more | .. |
![]() China's great big leap skyward A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago. Two days later, the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module, accomplishing China's first space dockin ... more | .. |
![]() Six Astrium satellites on the same flight Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Pleiades 1 Very High ... more |
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![]() Is the Pluto System Dangerous? New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. We've taken the s ... more | .. |
![]() Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third flight to service the International Space Station has begun its build-up at the Spaceport, preparing this heavy-lift launcher for an early 2012 mission from Fren ... more | .. |
![]() Russian probe fails to take route for Mars Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe has failed to take its planned trajectory towards Mars and is stuck in an Earth orbit, the space agency said, adding it now had three days to try to fix the problem. ... more | .. |
![]() Russian probe fails to take route for Mars An unmanned Russian spacecraft on a mission to a Mars moon failed Wednesday to find the right course to the red planet, a potentially devastating blow to Moscow's hopes of resuming planetary exploration. ... more |
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