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![]() Washington (AFP) Nov 23, 2011 The biggest, most advanced robotic machine ever built to explore Mars is poised to launch Saturday on a mission to find places where life may have existed, or may live on today, NASA said this week. The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory has been described as a "dream machine" by US space agency scientists because of its state-of-the-art cameras, robotic arm, mobile chemistry lab and rock-zapping laser beam. The launch of the 1,982-pound (899-kilogram) vehicle is set for November 26 at 10:02 a ... read more |
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![]() Assembly milestone reached with Ariane 5 to launch next ATV Basic build-up of the Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming mission with the no. 3 Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has been completed, as preparations continue for an early 2012 launch from the Space ... more | .. |
![]() neuroArm: Robotic Arms Lend a Healing Touch The delicate touch that successfully removed an egg-shaped tumor from Paige Nickason's brain got a helping hand from a world-renowned arm - a robotic arm, that is. The technology that went int ... more | .. |
![]() ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Data beamed from Russia Mars probe deciphered Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday. "So ... more | .. |
![]() More U.S. science degrees by foreign-born Native-born and foreign-born people in the United States are just as likely to have a college degree, but more foreign-born are engineers, officials say. ... more | .. |
![]() Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Preparing for future human exploration: measuring the radiation environment on Mars NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more |
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![]() Pleiades 1 is readied for launch The Pleiades 1 Earth observation satellite payload for Arianespace's second Soyuz mission from French Guiana is undergoing pre-launch checkout at the Spaceport as this platform is readied for flight ... more | .. |
![]() Thanksgiving in space may one day come with all the trimmings Future astronauts spending Thanksgiving in space may not have to forgo one of the most traditional parts of the day's feast: fresh sweet potatoes. Cary Mitchell, a Purdue University professor ... more | .. |
![]() Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne to Power 'Curiosity' Rover on Mars When the Mars Science Laboratory embarks on its voyage to Mars on Nov. 25, Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne products will be onboard to make the mission possible. Curiosity, about the size of a Mini C ... more | .. |
![]() Satellite junk no threat to space station crew Russian Mission Control has dismissed NASA's prediction that the three astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) may need to take shelter inside Russian space capsules on Wednesday mo ... more |
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![]() Habitable Does not Mean 'Earth-Like' Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" gro ... more | .. |
![]() MSL and Curiosity 'Locked and Loaded' for Launch Following Wednesday morning's Launch Readiness Review, NASA and contractor managers gave the launch team the go-ahead to continue working towards liftoff of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) on Satu ... more | .. |
![]() ESA tracking station establishes contact with Russia's Mars mission On Tuesday, 22 November at 20:25 GMT, ESA's tracking station at Perth, Australia, established contact with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Contact with the Mars mission was lost shortly after sepa ... more | .. |
![]() Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners celebrated the 11th anniver ... more |
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![]() Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more | .. |
![]() Space Law Symposium to Examine National Space Laws The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law and the Journal of Space Law with the International Institute of Space Law will host the sixth Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issu ... more | .. |
![]() 15 patents granted for Chinese space docking technology China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) on Tuesday conferred 15 patent certificates to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), developer of the docking mechanism for China's ... more | .. |
![]() ULA Completes Milestone Toward Certifying Atlas V For Human Spaceflight United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the completion of a key milestone that could lead toward the certification of the Atlas V launch vehicle for human spaceflight. ULA has successfully comple ... more |
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![]() CHAPS Pressure Suits Evaluated During Simulated Missions In Centrifuge Two researchers set to fly aboard suborbital spacecraft as a part of Southwest Research Institute's next-generation suborbital research program completed another milestone on November 2nd when they ... more | .. |
![]() IT Geeks Would Rather Take The Money Than Blast Off Into Space Given the choice between a ticket into space and $102,000 (approx 65,000 pounds), 60 percent of IT staff would take the cash. That's the finding of a survey of 4,000 global Twitter followers by UK-b ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Updates Prelaunch Events for Mars Science Lab NASA has updated information about the news conferences and other events for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover launch. Liftoff is scheduled at 7:02 a.m. PST (10:02 a.m. EST) on Sa ... more | .. |
![]() Shenzhou-8 brings German SIMBOX experiments safely back to Earth On 17 November at 19:38 local time (12:38 CET), the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8, carrying the German SIMBOX experiment, landed on schedule in the Gobi desert in Inner Mongolia, completing a succes ... more |
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![]() Russian Soyuz brings astronauts safely back to Earth Three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Tuesday after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission control said. ... more | .. |
![]() SpaceX Searches For New Commercial Launch Site Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is seeking a new launch site to meet increasing demand from commercial customers. SpaceX already has an active launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ... more | .. |
![]() Russia, France to team up on new launchers Russia and France will pool their efforts to build cutting-edge reusable space rockets, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "Russian and French engineers are already working in this ... more | .. |
![]() Insect cyborgs may become first responders, search and monitor hazardous environs Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans. Professor Khalil Najafi, the ch ... more |
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![]() Robojelly Gets an Upgrade: Underwater robot learns to swim more like the real thing Engineers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VirginiaTech) have developed a robot that mimics the graceful motions of jellyfish so precisely that it has been named Robojelly. De ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Chronicles The Life And Times Of Giant Storm On Saturn New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year. These new full ... more | .. |
![]() Schafer Corp Signs Licensing Agreement with MoonDust Technologies The Schafer Corporation has signed a Licensing and Development Agreement with MoonDust Technologies, LLC (MDT) of Tucson, AZ to give them exclusive, worldwide production and marketing rights for a u ... more | .. |
![]() Station makes contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe: ESA A European tracking station in western Australia has "established contact" with Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe, which has been stranded in orbit since its launch on November 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. ... more |
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