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Finding ET may require giant robotic leapUniversity Park PA (SPX) Apr 20, 2012 Autonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, who notes that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI - is in its 50th year. "The basic premise is that human space exploration must be highly efficient, cost effective, and autonomous as placing humans beyond low Earth orbit is fraught with political economic, and technical di ... read more |
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  Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt. ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Craters On Earth Give Clues In Search For Life On Mars Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests. Tiny organisms have been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the U.S. w ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Left-Front Wheel Stabilized 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 solar insolation ... more | .. |
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  Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space. The nomad worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew An international team of aquanauts will travel again to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEE ... more | .. |
Tim gets his feet wet ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will soon dive to the bottom of the sea to learn more about exploring space. A permanent underwater base almost 20 m below the waves off the coast of Florida will be Tim' ... more | .. |
  US museum to welcome space shuttle Discovery Discovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year US space flight program. ... 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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 NASA TV Reaches Bigger Audience With Encompass And SES SES has announced that Encompass Digital Media, a leading digital media service provider, has signed a capacity deal making NASA TV channels available to satellite TV providers and cable outlets thr ... more | .. |
  Robots guard S. Korea prison inmates South Korea has begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards by deploying them in an actual prison in Pohang, officials said. ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury The MESSENGER mission successfully completed the first of two maneuvers designed to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury. This new trajectory will pave the way for more detailed meas ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Names New Leader for Commercial Launch Services Business Lockheed Martin has announced that Robert Cleave has been named president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) effective May 1, 2012. Cleave succeeds Jack Zivic who is retiring at t ... more |
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 SpaceX said eyeing Texas launch site Private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. may add a small Texas town on the Gulf of Mexico to its list of rocket launch sites, documents show. ... more | .. |
 Designing the interplanetary web Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering t ... more | .. |
  Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of c ... more | .. |
 A double arrival for Arianespace's next dual-payload Ariane 5 mission The two Lockheed Martin-built satellites for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 dual-payload mission are now at the Spaceport for a fast-paced launch campaign that will lead to the orbiting of JCSAT-13 ... 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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  Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of ... more | .. |
 Dramatic last flight for Discovery space shuttle Piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday before touching down near its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital. ... more | .. |
 Manned space missions: from the ISS to outer space 21st century runs into its second decade, but man's space endeavours are still largely limited to the near-Earth orbit. Space agencies in USA, Russia, Europe and China debate the future of manned sp ... more | .. |
 Water, water everywhere - but is it essential to life? New research by scientists at the University of Bristol has challenged one of the key beliefs in chemistry: that proteins are dependent on water to survive and function. The team's findings, publish ... more |
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 Martian impact craters may be hiding life If there is life on Mars it may be lurking in craters formed by asteroid impacts on the planet's surface, as has happened on Earth, Scottish scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Dark regions on Mars may be volcanic glass Mysterious dark regions on the planet Mars are made of glass, likely formed in ancient volcanic eruptions, U.S. researchers said. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 ... more | .. |
 H3+: The Molecule that Made the Universe In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - or at least the hot and f ... 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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 Canadarm2 to Catch SpaceX's Dragon on Its Maiden Voyage to the ISS "Here, there be dragons" ... the phrase used to designate the boundaries of the known world on historical maps seems fitting as the U.S. space program embarks upon a new frontier in space exploratio ... more | .. |
 Photo Of NASA's Maven Spacecraft and Propellant Tank at Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has installed the propellant tank on NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which it is building at its Space Systems Company facilities near Denver. In addition to the large tank, many of the pri ... more | .. |
 How to Buy a Launch Vehicle Everyone in the space community knows that the single biggest hurdle to space commerce is the cost of launching satellites into orbit. This has been true from the dawn of the space age, and continue ... more | .. |
 Impacts Could be Boon for Subterranean Life An incoming asteroid is trouble whether you're a dinosaur or a Bruce Willis fan. But microbes living deep underground may actually welcome the news, according to a recent study of an ancient impact ... more |
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 Another weather satellite payload is readied for launch by Arianespace Europe's latest second-generation meteorological spacecraft has arrived at the Spaceport, where it is being readied for Arianespace's June 19 dual-payload Ariane 5 mission from French Guiana. ... more | .. |
 Voyager One Might Have Farther to Go to Exit the Heliosheath The Voyager 1 spacecraft is exploring the outer heliosheath past about 111 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. he heliosheath is the region where the outgoing solar wind is slowed by the int ... more | .. |
'Good chance' for SpaceX April 30 launch to ISS: NASA NASA said Monday said there is a good chance SpaceX will soon become the first private company to attempt to launch its spacecraft to the International Space Station on an unmanned cargo mission. ... more | .. |
  Peaceful atom for distant space missions According to Russia's Nuclear Agency (Rosatom) the nuclear power and propulsion installation of the megawatt-class is to be built by 2017. The assembly will start already next year, first units of t ... more |
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