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New Missions To Investigate How Mars Turned HostileGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2011 Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The Martian surface is incredibly hostile for life. The Red Planet's thin atmosphere does little to shield the ground against radiation from the Sun and space. Harsh chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide, permeate the soil. Liquid water, a necessity for life, can't exist for very long here-any that does not quickly evaporate in ... read more |
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 MRO Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the pl ... more | .. |
 Launch Team Focuses on Unique Needs of Curiosity About the size of a small SUV and weighing as much as some cars, the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" is being asked to conduct the most intensive examination of the surface of the red planet eve ... more | .. |
 MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation Will Be A Data Rich Feed NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, which is set to launch Nov. 25, is expected to improve not only our knowledge of Mars, but also the science of hypersonic flight - more than five times the speed of s ... more | .. |
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 MSL launch delayed to Saturday Nov 26 The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed one day to allow time for the team to remove and replace a flight termination system bat ... more | .. |
  NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or human ... more | .. |
  China launches two satellites: state media China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported. ... more | .. |
  Exo planet count tops 700 Just two decades after the search for planets outside our solar system began, scientists have found more than 700, a French astronomer says. ... more |
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
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 Shenzhou for Dummies The safe return of Shenzhou 8 has ended a highly successful mission for China's human spaceflight program. Although there were no astronauts aboard, this flight has been as dramatic and important as ... more | .. |
  Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same results A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But co ... more | .. |
  Pluto's Hidden Ocean When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for l ... more | .. |
  LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more |
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  Delta Mariner offloads launch components at Vandenberg The United Launch Alliance Delta Mariner, which transported a Delta IV first stage, second stage and payload fairings for an anticipated 2012 launch, docked at the Vandenberg Boat Dock on South Base ... more | .. |
  NASA's New Upper Stage Engine Passes Major Test NASA conducted a successful 500-second test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on Wednesday, Nov. 9, marking another important step in development of an upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch Sys ... more | .. |
 Rocket engineer Wolfgang Jung a logistics expert for space science The Arctic, Antarctic, Australian outback or Brazil: Wolfgang Jung spends several months a year in the most remote places on Earth to prepare and launch sounding rockets - also known as rocket probe ... more | .. |
 China's spacecraft comes back to Earth China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII returned to Earth on Thursday, state media reported, after completing two space dockings that have pushed forward the nation's ambitious space programme. ... 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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 Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap "Excited," "nervous," "terrified" - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally. ... more | .. |
 Mobile Launcher Moves to Launch Pad The mobile launcher is making the longest trip of its young life to begin a two-week series of structural tests at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In anticipation of ... more | .. |
 Yinghuo Was Worth It The loss of Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission has shocked the spaceflight community. There's been plenty of attention placed on this high-profile mission, but relatively little coverage of its piggyback ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou-8 departs from in-orbit lab, ready for return China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 departed from the prototype space lab Tiangong-1 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, preparing for return to earth, a spokesperson for China's manned space program said. ... more |
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  Maintaining Crew Health One Step at a Time While many of us may not like to exercise, imagine having to do it two hours every day. Astronauts on the International Space Station must exercise at least that much to stay fit. A new space statio ... more | .. |
 New Trio Welcomed Aboard Station, Gets to Work Expedition 29 has expanded to six crew members. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin docked the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft to the Poisk mini-research ... more | .. |
  Orbital-Built Intelsat 18 Communications Satellite Completes In-Orbit Testing Orbital Sciences reports that the Intelsat 18 satellite has completed its in-orbit testing and has been handed over to the customer, Intelsat S.A. Intelsat 18 is to be operated at 180 degrees East l ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch satellite for DIRECTV Latin America Arianespace and DIRECTV have announced a new launch contract for a satellite providing services for DIRECTV Latin America. The launch will take place in 2014 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ... 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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  Space Florida and Lockheed Martin Collaborate for Underwater Vehicle Program Space Florida and Lockheed Martin have signed an agreement to advance the testing and production of a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as Marlin in support of aerospace economic develop ... more | .. |
 Russian spacecraft delivers new crew to ISS A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked Wednesday with the International Space Station in the first Russian manned mission for five months after a spate of technical failures. ... more | .. |
 Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. ... more | .. |
 New advance in space, new start for China The successful space docking mission, including the good launches, Shenzhou-8's precise docking with Tiangong-1 and the smooth retrieval of the re-entry capsule, marks a new start for China to acqui ... more |
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 Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
 Allianz and International Space Transport Association partner in space tourism industry Allianz Global Assistance and the International Space Transport Association (ISTA) have signed a unique partnership agreement in anticipation of the inevitable growth in space tourism and commercial ... more | .. |
Soyuz Docks At ISS, Hatch Opened A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked Wednesday at the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian space agency spokesman told AFP. ... more | .. |
  Spinning blood device set to safeguard astronaut health ESA has begun developing a new blood-testing device for astronauts on the International Space Station. A wide range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease should be diagnosable in moments from a ... more |
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