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Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper BeltBoulder CO (SPX) May 10, 2012 New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. We will be 32.9 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is when we reach Pluto in three years, in the summer of 2015, so we're now about 70 percent of the way there. On April 30, New Horizons exited its most recent hibernation period, which lasted from late January through all of February, March and April. The spacecraft and our mission operations team are now beginning an intensive, two-month lo ... read more |
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  Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more | .. |
  A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launch The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecr ... more | .. |
  NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions. To date, Marshall ha ... more | .. |
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 Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more | .. |
  Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) ... more | .. |
 Russia could join U.S. in Mars mission Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations. ... more | .. |
 TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and decommissioning activities. TDRS-4's ... more |
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Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile'
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 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites for the U.S. military once again ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the detection is a historic ste ... more | .. |
  Is a new form of life really so alien? The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life f ... more | .. |
  Throwing pebbles to divert asteroid? A swarm of pebble-sized spacecraft could deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, if launched early enough, British researchers say. ... more |
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 Antarctic stay to mimic Mars mission European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters In the search for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to look for clues and patterns that can help scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be disco ... more | .. |
 Some giant planets in other systems most likely to be alone Hot Jupiter-type planets are most likely to be alone in their systems, according to research by a University of Florida astronomer and others. "Hot Jupiters" are giant planets beyond our solar ... more | .. |
  Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the ans ... 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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  First light: NIST researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"-in some sense they travel faster than the speed ... more | .. |
 Four white dwarf stars caught in the act of consuming 'earth-like' exoplanets University of Warwick astrophysicists have pinpointed four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once bore striking similarities to the composition of the Earth. ... more | .. |
  Dancing Droplets Rock Out On Space Station Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles by using everyday objects on the International Sp ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER's Cameras Capture 100,000th Image from Mercury Orbit This week, MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System delivered the 100,000th image of Mercury since the spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet on March 18, 2011. The instrument - one of ... more |
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 SpaceX boss admits sleep elusive before ISS launch Elon Musk, the Internet entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, which aims to be the first private firm to send a cargo craft to the International Space Station, admits he has a case of pre-launch jitters. ... more | .. |
 Japan's Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Tuesday it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several languages. ... more | .. |
 Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned o ... more | .. |
 Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the r ... 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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 SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19 Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. This follows ... more | .. |
 Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in Acidalia Planitia The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), ... more | .. |
 Dawn Completes 800 Orbits Of Vesta Dawn is wrapping up a spectacularly rewarding phase of its mission of exploration. Since descending to its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) in December, the stalwart probe has circled Vesta about 8 ... more | .. |
 ULA Launches Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 Satellite to Orbit for the U.S. Air Force A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 2:42 ... more |
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 Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of Water on Early Mars The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Hits Paydirt At Endeavour A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics con ... more | .. |
 A trio of Ariane 5 launchers are now at the Spaceport Arianespace's ability to support the sustained launch pace for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 is being demonstrated once again as vehicles for the next three missions are now together in French Guiana. ... more | .. |
Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. A ... more |
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