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New Way of Probing Exoplanet AtmospheresLeiden, The Netherlands (SPX) Jun 28, 2012 For the first time a clever new technique has allowed astronomers to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail - even though it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to directly catch the faint glow from the planet Tau Bootis b. They have studied the planet's atmosphere and measured its orbit and mass precisely for the first time - in the process solving a 15-year old problem. Surprisingly, the team also finds that the planet's at ... read more |
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  China spacecraft set to return to Earth Friday A Chinese spacecraft with three astronauts aboard will return to Earth Friday after a nearly two-week mission that included the country's first manual docking in orbit, state media said. ... more | .. |
  A Fleeting Flyby Of A Battered World Called Asteroid 21 Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid Lutetia was revealed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it raced past this large, ancient asteroid. This spectacular movie shows a sequence of images snapped ... more | .. |
  Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. The car-size, one-ton ro ... more | .. |
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  Thruster Tests Completed for Boeing's CST-100 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a series of tests on a thruster destined for Boeing's Commercial Space Transportation spacecraft, designated CST-100. Boeing is one of s ... more | .. |
 Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more | .. |
 Rocketdyne Completes CCDev 2 Hot Fire Testing on Thruster for NASA Commercial Crew Program Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests on a service module thruster for Boeing's Commercial Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The CST-100 spacecraft, designed ... more | .. |
  Andre wraps up six months of work on ISS ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is scheduled to leave the International Space Station and land on 1 July. Andre is finishing experiments and packing his bags ready for departure. One of the last experim ... 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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 ISS Resupply Important to Kennedy's Past and Future Humans are by nature consumers, regardless of where they might live and work. Supply runs to the International Space Station began as soon as assembly got under way. The first supplies were delivere ... more | .. |
  Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wa ... more | .. |
  SpaceX's Merlin 1D Engine Achieves Full Mission Duration Firing Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that its Merlin 1D engine has achieved a full mission duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust and specific impulse (Isp). The e ... more | .. |
 Through the atmosphere with sharp edges After a 10-minute flight, the sharp-edged SHEFEX II spacecraft landed safely west of Spitsbergen. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center launched the seven-ton and roughly 13-metre-long rocket ... more |
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 Opportunity Drives a Little Opportunity has been exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. With Mars Odyssey still working to recover from their safe mode event, Ultra High Frequency (UHF) relay for ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full ME ... more | .. |
 Astrium awarded two ATV evolution studies from ESA Astrium has been awarded two studies by the European Space Agency (ESA) to define how to evolve technologies used on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and the Columbus space laboratory for future ... more | .. |
  SETI on the SKA It was a vision of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that was never meant to be. In 1971 NASA's Ames Research Center, under the direction of two of SETI's great heavyweights - Hewlett-Pac ... 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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 NASA tweaks flight path of Mars mission NASA says a maneuver Tuesday adjusted the flight path of its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target on Mars. ... more | .. |
  Google teaching computers to mimic human brain Google on Tuesday said it was dabbling with getting computers to simulate the learning process of the human brain as one of the unusual projects for researchers in its X Lab. ... more | .. |
China's Hu praises astronauts for space advance Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday told the three astronauts aboard a space capsule they had pushed forward China's space programme, after they carried out the country's first manual docking. ... more | .. |
 China to send foreign astronauts to space with its spacecraft someday It is believed that China will be able to train foreign astronauts with its own space technology and send them to space by Shenzhou spacecraft someday, the spokeswoman of China's manned space progra ... more |
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 Chinese astronauts set to return Chinese astronauts will return to Earth in several days after completing the major tasks, and measures have been taken to ensure a safe return, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said her ... more | .. |
 Packing Up Tiangong The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is drawing to a close. Soon, the astronauts will board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft that carried them to Tiangong 1 for the return to ... more | .. |
 Chinese astronauts complete major tasks in first six days in space Three Chinese astronauts have completed major tasks over the past six days inside the conjoint Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 space lab, before they succeeded in a manual docking on Sunday. Ch ... more | .. |
 China's first female astronaut excells in performance: spokeswoman Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman entering the space, had an excellent performance in past eight days, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. The 33-year-old veteran pilot adapte ... 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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 Arrangements for China's next space mission based on review of Shenzhou-9 The arrangements for the Shenzhou-10 mission will be decided after a full review of the Shenzhou-9 mission and status of orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, said a spokeswoman for China's manned space p ... more | .. |
 Experts respond to rumors about Shenzhou-9 The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has aroused many people's interests on the space flight. Of the various ideas on the Shenzhou-9, some are expectations and good wishes but some are rumors and misunderstand ... more | .. |
 Staying stimulated in space How are the astronauts' lives on their first day in the Tiangong-1? Will they feel bored? They have completed a lot of scheduled work and began to implement the same work and rest schedule as on the ... more | .. |
 The Origin of Life Challenge In 2011, retired chemist and entrepreneur Harry Lonsdale announced his plans to fund research on how life originally formed. Of the 76 proposals submitted to his Origin of Life Challenge, Lonsdale a ... more |
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 China invests some 19 billion yuan in space docking missions China has planned about 19 billion yuan (about 3 billion U.S. dollars) in budget for the country's space rendezvous and docking missions, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. ... 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 | .. |
  ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more | .. |
  USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Houston, TX, on their recently awarded resea ... more |
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