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SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions to Private Space StationsHawthorne, CA (SPX) May 14, 2012 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Bigelow Aerospace (BA) have agreed to conduct a joint marketing effort focused on international customers. The two companies will offer rides on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, using the Falcon launch vehicle to carry passengers to Bigelow habitats orbiting the Earth. According to Bigelow Aerospace's President and Founder, Robert T. Bigelow, "We're very excited to be working with our colleagues at SpaceX to present the unique services that our two companie ... read more |
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  India conducting new round of cryogenic engine testing The Indian space agency will Saturday conduct a crucial test on an indigenously built cryogenic engine for launching its heavier rockets from its spaceport, a top official said Friday. "The cryogen ... more | .. |
  A Solution for Medical Needs and Cramped Quarters in Space Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With ... more | .. |
 NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10, marking another step in development of the next-generatio ... more | .. |
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  Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi ... more | .. |
 WSU air-quality researcher to lead field studies in support of NASA Mars mission Rural Eastern Washington will become a testing ground in support of a mission to explore the Martian atmosphere for potential evidence of life under a recently funded NASA project developed by scien ... more | .. |
 EchoStar XVII comes to French Guiana for a dual-payload Arianespace flight in June with Ariane The initial passenger for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2012 is now in French Guiana for a heavy-lift launch scheduled for June 19 from the Spaceport. A chartered An-124 cargo jetlin ... more | .. |
  ATK Announces Complete Liberty System to Provide Commercial Crew Access ATK reports that it has developed Liberty into a complete commercial crew transportation system, including the spacecraft, abort system, launch vehicle, and ground and mission operations, designed f ... 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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 Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth ... more | .. |
  You're beautiful, Vesta When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science. "Vesta looks like a li ... more | .. |
  Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Ch ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte ... more |
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  Messenger Gains Deputy Principal Investigator Larry Nittler, a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has been named deputy principal investigator of the Messenger mission. Messenge ... more | .. |
 NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's ... more | .. |
 Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta ... more | .. |
 Unseen planet revealed by its gravity More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus ... 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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 Vesta - a planet-like asteroid Even though it doesn't quite qualify as a 'proper' planet, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, Vesta - which has a diameter of approximately 530 kilometres - exhibits numerous plan ... more | .. |
 Ultra-cool companion helps reveal giant planets An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has ... more | .. |
  Middle School Students Send Commands to the International Space Station While only about 200 astronauts have had the thrill of looking down at Earth and commanding systems on the International Space Station, literally thousands of everyday middle-school students have ex ... more | .. |
 Dawn reveals complexities of ancient asteroidal world New findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft lay the groundwork for the first geological overview of asteroid (4)Vesta and confirm the existence of not one but two giant impact basins in its southern he ... more |
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  Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper Belt 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, ... more | .. |
 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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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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