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![]() Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 15th Annual Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington. General William Shelton addressed an audience of fellow space-focused members of the Department of Defense, FAA, and NASA, along with industry partners and foreign nationals, on the future of space trans ... read more |
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![]() Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t ... more | .. |
![]() Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more | .. |
![]() UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more | .. |
![]() 2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more | .. |
![]() NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now ... more | .. |
![]() 50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. ... more |
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![]() Space station panel installation delayed Two Russian cosmonauts will have to install International Space Station debris panels another day after their spacewalk took longer than expected, NASA said. ... more | .. |
![]() The quest for sugars involved in origin of life Sugars give rise to enormous biochemical interest given the importance and diversity of the functions they carry out: they act as an energy storage system and serve as fuel for a number of biologica ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Booster Risk Reduction Solutions NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort. NASA is looking for a ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Performs First J-2X Powerpack Test of the Year Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center conducted an initial test of the J-2X engine powerpack Feb. 15, kicking off a series of key tests in development of the rocket engine that will carry humans ... more |
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![]() ISS may become Martian flight simulator Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the n ... more | .. |
![]() China to launch spacecraft in June: report China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China A ... more | .. |
![]() Microbial oasis discovered beneath the Atacama Desert Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have f ... more | .. |
![]() Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Completes J-2X Powerpack Test Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the first in a series of powerpack hot-fire tests on the J-2X engine, which is being developed for NASA to power humans further into space than ev ... more |
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![]() Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ... more | .. |
![]() Is Shenzhou Unsafe? The recent announcement that China will fly its next Shenzhou spacecraft without a crew aboard is a shock. It completely goes against a tide of recent official statements and general feelings within ... more | .. |
![]() Landsat's Thermal Infrared Sensor Arrives at Orbital A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz. There it will be integrated into the next Landsat sat ... more | .. |
![]() Russian cosmonauts begin ISS spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday in a spacewalk due to last six hours, Russia's mission control centre said. ... more |
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![]() Cleaning up Earth's orbit A Swiss satellite tackles space debris The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth - primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components - is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat ... more | .. |
![]() Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's surface to wat ... more | .. |
![]() New system allows robots to continuously map their environment Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more | .. |
![]() Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... more |
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![]() 'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more | .. |
![]() New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles "Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more | .. |
![]() In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering ... more | .. |
![]() Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers hav ... more |
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![]() Robot seals heal hearts of Japan tsunami survivors High-tech fluffy seals that respond to human touch are the latest weapon in the battle against depression for survivors of Japan's tsunami disaster. ... more | .. |
![]() Iran mulls base to launch bigger satellites Iran is planning to construct a facility to send bigger satellites into orbit, the official media reported Friday. Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the base will be used to launch one-tonne ... more | .. |
![]() Sailing on an Extraterrestrial Sea Many of us have sailed the Earth's lakes, bays and rivers. But, imagine sailing on an extraterrestrial sea of liquid methane-ethane a billion miles from Earth. This is the kind of idea that makes sc ... more | .. |
![]() MASER 12 launched The microgravity rocket MASER 12 has been successfully launched from SSC's launching facility Esrange Space Center. MASER 12 reached an apogee of 260 km and the experiments on board spent 6 minutes ... more |
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