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That's No Lab, It's a Space StationSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 22, 2012 Tiangong 1 is described by its Chinese builders as a "space laboratory". This term is has been widely adopted by journalists and space analysts. It's probably not inaccurate to call the Tiangong 1 spacecraft, which has received its first crew of astronauts, a laboratory, for scientific experiments are certainly being conducted there. But does this term fully describe Tiangong 1? Prior to the arrival of three astronauts on board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, it was difficult to say a lot about what wa ... read more |
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  Where Are The Metal Worlds And Is The Answer Blowing In The Wind The torrent of discoveries that has come out of the exo-planet research community lately has brought up more new questions than it has answered. Some of the more interesting ones have to deal with s ... more | .. |
 Designer elaborates on challenges facing Shenzhou-9 mission In an interview, the general designer of the Tracking, Telemetry, Command and Communication System of the China Manned Space Engineering Qian Weiping said that, if we say the core mission of the She ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Key Reviews of Space Launch System Boeing has completed its first major technical reviews for the cryogenic stages of the Space Launch System (SLS), bringing the team into the design phase for the nation's next heavy-lift, human-rate ... more | .. |
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 Complex Challenges Solved In Tech Meetings For Commercial Crew Program NASA's Commercial Crew Program is turning to a number of strategies to work through the complex challenges of engineering a new generation of rockets and spacecraft. Technical Interchange Meetings, ... more | .. |
  Extensive water in Mars' interior Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. Scientists analyzed the water content of two Martian meteorites originating from inside the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
 Metal-poor stars are rich with small planets Planets as big as Earth but smaller than Neptune are likely even more common in our galaxy than previously believed, according to a statistical analysis of recent results from NASA's Kepler mission. ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions' The UN has developed detailed instructions in case of a first contact with aliens, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka said answering a question on Chinese TV. "The UN and representatives of Chi ... 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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 Astronomers with NASA's Kepler Mission find 'puzzling pair of planets' Two planets with very different densities and compositions are locked in surprisingly close orbits around their host star, according to astronomers working with NASA's Kepler Mission. One planet is ... more | .. |
  Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t ... more | .. |
  BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mass Properties Measurements The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter have been measured using specialist equipment in ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). The mass properties of ... more | .. |
 Astronomers spy 2 planets in tight quarters as they orbit a distant star A research team led by astronomers at the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized p ... more |
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 Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more | .. |
  Space is Big, But Getting Smaller Last week there was an event that tells us the "end" is nearing; the end of BIG SPACE. Ever since the first satellite was launched some 55 years ago, the space community has thought of space as bein ... more | .. |
  Seven scientists named as research team leaders for NSBRI The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has enlisted seven of the nation's top scientists to serve as team leaders in its efforts to protect astronaut health during long-duration sp ... more | .. |
 Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne ... 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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 Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode' NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode. Remaining steps toward resuming all normal spacecraft activities will probably be completed by next week. ... more | .. |
  Robotics 101 - With NASA's Chris McQuin + Jaret Matthews When you hear the word "robot," you might think of Hollywood creations such as the Terminator, C-3PO or Megatron. Thankfully, the reality of current robotics isn't quite that sinister, emotional or ... more | .. |
 Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet's poles - but unlike our water-based snow, the particles on Mars are frozen crystals of carbon dioxide. Most of the Martian atm ... more | .. |
 Backup Plans for Tiangong So far, so good. The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has been highly successful, with three astronauts travelling to the module and beginning work. In just a few days, ... more |
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  US military launches new satellite into space The US military launched an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday carrying a top secret satellite into space, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more | .. |
 NASA technology-sharing portal announced NASA says it has launched an Internet portal to accelerate technology transfer from the space agency to U.S. businesses, industry and the public. ... more | .. |
  2nd Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5 ... 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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 Grand Finish For X-37B After a marathon 15-month mission in orbit, the second X-37B spaceplane has finally landed. Launched by the US Air Force on a semi-secret mission, the mission has apparently flown a successful missi ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lands at Vandenberg The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral ... more | .. |
China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more | .. |
 A milestone in launcher preparations for Arianespace's fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 Initial assembly of the fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in preparations for a mission to loft a dual-p ... more |
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 ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more | .. |
  Did You Say 1.2 Billion Particles Per Month? If you want to understand the origin of the universe, you need a lot of power. That's exactly why the International Space Station is the perfect research platform for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ... more | .. |
 Robots get a feel for the world at USC Viterbi What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. But with the right sensors, actuators and software, robots can be given the sense of feel - or at least the ability to ... more | .. |
 Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom ... more |
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