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Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourismMoscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Apr 11, 2012 Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land a robot on its surface able to travel 500 meters and send back to Earth video, images and data. A rover has to reach the Moon before the end of 2015. Astrobotic Technology is one of a handful of teams competing for $20 million offered by Google to the first private company that would ma ... read more |
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  When Stellar Metallicity Sparks Planet Formation In new research, scientists have attempted to determine the precise conditions necessary for planets to form in a star system. Jarrett Johnson and Hui Li of Los Alamos National Laboratory assert tha ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Loral Platform to Help Enable Next Era of Space Communications Space Systems/Loral is teaming with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to host a laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) on a commercial satellite to be launched in 2016. NASA 's Space Techn ... more | .. |
  New 'rocket' can go to moon on 100 cc fuel A lightweight satellite thruster can go to the Moon on just 100 ml of fuel, slashing cost of space missions. The mini motor uses electricity to expel ions and generate thrust, built to manoeuvre spa ... more | .. |
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  NASA to Fly Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve Navigation Technology When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of spacef ... more | .. |
  Mars Express - Pit chains on the Tharsis volcanic bulge In the Tharsis volcanic region, almost the size of Europe, the Martian highlands have arched up into a shield several thousand metres in height as a consequence of volcanic processes. Quite a few un ... more | .. |
 Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding? Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser that will zap trash right out of space. ... more | .. |
  NASA Awards Launch Contract For Goes-R And Goes-S Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R and S, or GOES-R and GOES-S. The spacecraft will launch in Octob ... more |
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Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile'
China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
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 Open access to science research debated One of the world's largest research charities, Britain's Wellcome Trust, says it will support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. ... more | .. |
 Russia Plans First Tourist Spaceport The Uniparx Development company said on Thursday it was planning to build a spaceport in central Russia near the birthplace of Yury Gagarin, the first man to conquer space. The Russian spacepo ... more | .. |
  Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020 Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the country's Academy of Sciences said in its ... more | .. |
 Post Solstice Rover Takes The Opportunity For A Wiggle 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. The winter solstice (March ... more |
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 Russia and Europe give boost to Mars robotic mission Russia's participation in ExoMars program is approaching. A meeting of ESA and Roscosmos is scheduled for April, 6. The European landing mission to Mars may prove to be a salvation for the Russian ... more | .. |
  Easy Robotic Design and Production An ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced is being funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard U ... more | .. |
  Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, the country's Academy of Sciences said i ... more | .. |
 NASA Extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck Missions NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck mi ... 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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 Russia to explore moon Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022. ... more | .. |
 Russia wants to puts satellite on asteroid Russian scientists said Saturday they plan on binding a satellite with a radio beacon to an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. ... more | .. |
 Mars missions race, India takes lead India aims at sending an orbiter to Mars in 2013. The race for the Red planet unwinds with NASA planning a launch for the same 2013 fiscal year and China somewhat lagging behind. Earlier this month ... more | .. |
 12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution I ... more |
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  In the Beginning ... Was the Beaker? In the beginning ... but how do you begin? That question has long perplexed scientists in fields from cosmology to anthropology. Fortunately, researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven Nation ... more | .. |
 NASA's Kepler Mission Awarded Mission Extension NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agencys Senior Review of its operating missions. The extension provides four a ... more | .. |
  Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the firs ... more | .. |
 Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the o ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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  Europe's ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts ISS Orbit Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station's orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control said. Two main engines of ATV-3 we ... more | .. |
 Earth's Other Moons Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter M ... more | .. |
 Spy satellite-carrying rocket blasts off A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said. ... more | .. |
 US scientists launch personalized robot project Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. ... more |
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 Discovery of an 'alien earth' imminent? The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. ... more | .. |
 A planetary system from the early Universe A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of th ... more | .. |
 'Smart City' ambitions for quake-struck Italian town Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city - to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T ... more |
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