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![]() Sydney (AFP) Dec 12, 2011 Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain life. Charley Lineweaver's team, from the Australian National University, compared models of temperature and pressure conditions on Earth with those on Mars to estimate how much of the distant planet was liveable for Earth-like organisms. While just one percent of Earth's volume - from core to upper atmosphere - was occupied by life, Lineweave ... read more |
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![]() Second Arianespace Soyuz rolled out for launch at Spaceport Kourou In what is becoming an increasingly familiar sight at the Spaceport, another Soyuz is now erected on the launch pad and ready to receive its multi-passenger payload for Arianespace's Friday night mi ... more | .. |
![]() US mulls tax break for space 'burials' Americans who want to save money on taxes may want to consider rocketing their ashes into space, according to legislation being proposed in Virginia. ... more | .. |
![]() System could be 'brain' for Mars rovers British scientists have announced a project they say could allow Mars rovers to roam autonomously around the planet. ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit Above Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an a ... more | .. |
![]() Two and a Half Men for Shenzhou As the launch of China's next astronaut mission approaches, a major question remains unanswered. Will the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft carry two or three astronauts? Chinese officials have not answered thi ... more | .. |
![]() AMOS-5 Communications Satellite Successfully Launched Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, announced that its AMOS-5 satellite has been launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. AMOS-5 soared upward aboard a Proton Breeze-M launcher December 11, 2 ... more | .. |
![]() ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers Ready For Launch To ISS ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is now officially ready for liftoff on 21 December: he and his crewmates have passed their final exams and left for the launch site yesterday. Along with Andre's plane, h ... more |
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![]() Peres promotes Israeli moon probe Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more | .. |
![]() Scientist Travel to Laguna Negra for Titan analog mission A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
![]() TASC Wins $133.9 Million NASA Contract NASA has awarded TASC a five-year contract to provide highly specialized system software services. The cost-plus-award-fee contract has a potential value of $133.9 million. Under the contract, TASC ... more | .. |
![]() O3b signs agreement with Arianespace for third Soyuz launch O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, satellite-based Internet network for telecommunications operators and ISPs, has exercised the first of the two options in its contrac ... more |
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![]() Is Vesta the Smallest Terrestrial Planet NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta - and may have found a planet. Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only a ... more | .. |
![]() DLR tests Australian spacecraft Can new types of engine make spaceflight easier and more economical? This question is being investigated by researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR ... more | .. |
![]() Structural model of the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Structural Model arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands on 7 November 2011, having been flown from Japan. ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... more |
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![]() Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2792 (Dec. 1, 2011), the rover bumped backwards ... more | .. |
![]() Russia could join ExoMars as full partner Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said. The Space News International website quoted Franco Bon ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Announces Launch Date and Milestones for Spacex Flight NASA has announced the launch target for Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012, pending completi ... more | .. |
![]() e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars The Mars Science Laboratory is a long-term robotic exploration to assess if Mars is, or ever has been, an environment that can support life. It will be the biggest, most capable robot to ever land o ... more |
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![]() SpaceX mission to space station set for February SpaceX will fly its Dragon capsule on an unmanned mission to the International Space Station in February, marking the first-ever bid by a private company to dock at the orbiting lab, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() Russia may join European Mars mission Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration mission, a European Space Agency spokesman said. ... more | .. |
![]() Hundreds of NASA's moon rocks missing: audit Researchers have sticky fingers when it comes to NASA's moon rocks and meteorites, and hundreds of samples have gone missing after being loaned out by the US space agency, an audit said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Failed Mars probe to fall to Earth A Russian spacecraft that failed to head for Mars after its November launch will fall back to Earth Jan. 9, experts said. ... more |
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![]() China honors its 'father' of space efforts China says it is commemorating the centennial birth anniversary of Qian Xuesen, considered the country's father of space technology. ... more | .. |
![]() SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candi ... more | .. |
![]() Tidal Locking Could Render Habitable Planets Inhospitable Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atm ... more | .. |
![]() Asteroid Vesta in a Rainbow-Colored Palette This image using color data obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Vesta's southern hemisphere in color, centered on the Rheasilvia formation. Rheasilvia is an impa ... more |
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![]() Astronaut TJ Creamer Learns Space Station Science From the Ground Up He traveled 65,200,000 miles around the planet while living aboard the International Space Station for 161 days, but a new journey has led astronaut TJ Creamer to the Marshall Space Flight Center in ... more | .. |
![]() Europe's Vega rocket launch set for early 2012 Europe's new Vega rocket, which can place a 1.5-ton satellite into low-Earth orbit, is expected to see its first launch early next year, Arianespace chief Jean-Yves Le Gall said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Philatelic Cover Reveals the secret names of second Taikonaut team "The names of the seven military pilots selected in 2010 to form China's second group of taikonauts, which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months, appear to have been released to ... more | .. |
![]() United Launch Alliance Marks Five Years of Mission Success With 56 Launches in 60 Months United Launch Alliance was formed just five years ago, bringing together the world's two most experienced launch teams and two highly reliable launch systems, Atlas and Delta. ULA's unparalleled rec ... more |
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