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Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on MarsHuntsville, AL (SPX) Jun 08, 2012 Traveling 300 million miles through deep space to reach the planet Mars is difficult; successfully landing there is even harder. The process of entering the Red Planet's atmosphere and slowing down to land has been described as "six minutes of terror." During the first four minutes of entry, friction with the atmosphere slows a spacecraft considerably. But at the end of this phase, the vehicle is still traveling at over 1,000 mph with only 100 seconds left before landing. Things need to happen in ... read more |
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  Strange Geometry - Yes, It's All About the Math Moving liquids without gravity aboard the International Space Station can be tricky - if there's no "down" then water won't flow downhill. Capillary Flow Experiments-2, or CFE-2, a physical science ... more | .. |
  Smooth moves: how space animates Hollywood If you've been to see Wrath of the Titans, then you've watched it in action. A computer programmer is using software he developed to control spacecraft to help animators make more realistic computer ... more | .. |
  XCOR Appoints Space Expedition Corp As General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights With the Tom Sachs space-themed art exhibit, "Space Program: Mars" as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace named Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as the new General Sales Agent (GSA) for the XCOR owned Lynx ... more | .. |
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 Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five universit ... more | .. |
  Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The animation drapes high-resolution false color images over a 3-D model of the Vesta terrai ... more | .. |
  Another Ariane 5 begins its initial build-up at the Spaceport The fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 is beginning to take shape with the assembly start-up of this heavy-lift vehicle at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit a dual-pass ... more |
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Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Pacific Island leaders back 'ocean of peace' at fraught summit
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 China calls for inclusive development of outer space China advocates peaceful use of outer space and will strive for inclusive development of outer space, a senior Chinese diplomat said here Wednesday. The notion of achieving the inclusive development ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Development of Space Launch System Flight Software NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from ... more | .. |
 European Union launches latest space regulation efforts Europe's rule-making bureaucracy is moving forward with plans to introduce some earthly order to the unruly heavens, unveiling its latest efforts Wednesday to regulate outer space. ... more | .. |
 Artemis keeps talking the talk Although ESA's Artemis telecommunications satellite has officially completed its mission, it still has plenty to offer. Reaching its working orbit almost 11 years ago after an arduous journey, Artem ... more |
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  Space shuttle 'grazes' wing in final river voyage The final frontier may be tough, but, as a damaged wingtip proves, the space shuttle Enterprise's final journey by barge through New York is no picnic. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Delivers First Space Launch System Hardware to NASA Boeing has delivered NASA three flight computer software test beds, the first critical element for flight software development in support of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Flight software control ... more | .. |
 Dream Chaser Flight Vehicle Scales Rocky Mountain Summits Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser design passed one of its most complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry test conducted near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Ai ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives DARPA Airborne Satellite Launch Study Contract Boeing has been awarded an 18-month study contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate technologies for on-demand small satellite launch systems. Under the A ... more |
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Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough study
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 Dawn deep in the asteroid belt orbiting Vesta Far from Earth, on the opposite side of the sun, deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn is gradually spiraling around the giant protoplanet Vesta. Under the gentle pressure of its uniquely efficient ion pr ... more | .. |
  Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ... more | .. |
  Why SETI Counts Are we alone in the universe? It's probably the greatest question posed by space exploration. It fascinates scientists and the general public. It's important and deeply compelling. We want to know, ... more | .. |
 Sea Launch Delivers the Intelsat 19 Spacecraft into Orbit Sea Launch AG launched Thursday the Intelsat 19 satellite from the Equator on the ocean-based Launch PlatformOdyssey, completing its eleventh mission for Intelsat S.A. and marking Sea Launch's first ... more |
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  It's a Sim: Out in Deep Space, New Horizons Practices the 2015 Pluto Encounter The science instruments aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were running at full tilt, with cameras snapping images, sensors scanning the space environment and the communications system trading ra ... more | .. |
  What will China's Taikonauts do aboard Tiangong 1? Launch date is looming for three Chinese taikonauts, including the country's first woman in space, who will attempt to manually dock their Shenzhou 9 spacecraft at the orbiting Tiangong 1 space modu ... more | .. |
 UT's Josh Emery Uncovers Clues About Asteroid That Will Pass Near Earth The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor ... more | .. |
 On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more |
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China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Boeing says will hire replacements for striking US defense workers
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 Why is China sending a woman into space? "China's first female astronauts have, trained hard and conscientiously, and are now ready to take part in the Shenzhou manned spaceflights. For all astronauts the implementation of a manned spacefl ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin's McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby ... more | .. |
  Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more | .. |
 Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more |
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 Sierra Nevada Announces the Completion of Four Dream Chaser Milestones FOR NASA Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that the Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed four additional NASA Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program Mile ... more | .. |
 US cargo ship on return voyage from space station The US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel was released by the robotic arm of the International Space Station early Thursday at the start of its return to Earth from an historic mission. ... more | .. |
  UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more | .. |
  New Findings on Astronaut Vision Loss Could vision changes experienced by astronauts be linked to a vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency? While investigating the vision changes recently identified in astronauts, nutritional assessment data ... more |
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