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Getting to the moon on drops of fuelLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of the micro motor: to drastically reduce the cost of space exploration. Imagine reaching the Moon using just a tenth of a liter of fuel. With their ionic motor, MicroThrust, EPFL scientists and their European partners are making this a reality and ushering in a new era of low-cost space exploration. The ... read more |
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  How Deep Must Life Hide to be Safe on Europa? Considered one of the best potential sources for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, Europa may hide life in the ocean deep beneath the moon's icy crust. Some organisms could even travel to t ... more | .. |
  Space Launch System Program Completes Step One of Combined Milestone Reviews America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle - the Space Launch System - is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of miles ... more | .. |
  How the Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Formed Saturn's moon Iapetus is one of the most unusual moons in our solar system. Perhaps the most bizarre feature of Iapetus is its equatorial ridge, a 20-km (12.4-mi) high, 200-km (124-mi) wide mountain ... more | .. |
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 Russian Proton-M Puts Military Satellite into Orbit Russia's Space Forces launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite on board on Friday, spokesman Lt. Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. "The rocket put the Cosmos-series ... more | .. |
 ORS SpaceLoft-6 launch to test reliability, durability of payloads in suborbital voyage The SpaceLoft-6 sounding rocket will launch April 5, 2012, at Spaceport America, in Upham, N.M., with seven payloads, crucial for future Operationally Responsive Space missions, demonstrating its de ... more | .. |
 China launches French-made communication satellite China successfully sent a French-made communication satellite, "APSTAR-7," into orbit Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch C ... more | .. |
 NASA Fires Up Rocket Sled Hardware at China Lake NASA recently performed a trial run on a rocket sled test fixture, powered by rockets, to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing. The sled tests will al ... more |
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 Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming ... more | .. |
 Russia to Build Nuclear Space Engine by 2017 A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday. "At pr ... more | .. |
  Russia offers space mission medical help Russia says it will offer its medical expertise to astronauts from partner countries on the International Space Station during post-mission rehabilitation. ... more | .. |
  Dusty, Acidic Glaciers Could Explain Layered Deposits on Mars Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have puzzled ... more |
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 Slight Drop Of Left-Front Wheel Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Radio Doppler trackin ... more | .. |
 Enceladus, Janus and Dione Rev 163 Raw Preview These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming ... more | .. |
  NASA Space Network to Begin New Design Phase For Ground Segment The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase B of its lifecycle, the Mission Defini ... more | .. |
  Robotic Refueling Mission: Fueling up in Space Satellites are designed to withstand a variety of challenges to ensure that the sensitive electronics on board can survive the effects of launch and perform for years in the harsh conditions of spac ... more |
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
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  Astrium completes in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system Astrium's teams have successfully completed the in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system, which launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana on 16 December 2011. In accepting de ... more | .. |
 Swiss pioneer motor aimed at slashing satellite launch costs Swiss researchers said Thursday they have built a mini-motor which they claim could slash the costs of satellite launches by 10 times, ushering in "a new era of low-cost space exploration." ... more | .. |
  Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27 Russia's space agency Roscosmos says the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station will return to Earth April 27. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX names safety panel Commercial space company SpaceX says an independent panel of former NASA astronauts and officials will oversee its efforts to develop safe human spaceflight. ... more |
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  Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more | .. |
 ATREX Mission Launched from Wallops NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking with the International Space Station (IS ... more | .. |
 'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
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 Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced by the space industry for the last 10 y ... more | .. |
 Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more | .. |
 Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservative ... more |
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 Oscillating Gel Acts Like Artificial Skin, Giving Robots Potential Ability to "Feel" Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to "feel." In a paper published online in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts ... more | .. |
 First the smart phone, now the smart home We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home. Writing in the latest issue of the journal Science, Washington State University's ... more | .. |
Russia plans to build nuclear space engine Russian space officials say the country is dedicated to the successful building of a nuclear engine for spacecraft by 2017. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea begins fuelling rocket: report North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch that the West considers a missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, citing a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. ... more |
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