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Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASALos Angeles (AFP) Aug 17, 2012 The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a "cool" geographical hot spot on Mars, scientists said Friday. The scientists also reported they found temperatures in the Red Planet's Gale Crater to be just above freezing, the first monitoring of Mars temperatures in three decades. Before driving to its destination at Mount Sharp, which may contain traces of water, Curiosity will head in the opposite direction, to a spot NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has du ... read more |
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  XCOR Becomes Corporate Sponsor of Uwingu, a Space Apps Company XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products. ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet hosting stars give further insights on planet formation An international team, led by EXOEarths researchers (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - CAUP), proposes that metals like Magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low ... more | .. |
  Space bugs for blood testing and more Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen y ... more | .. |
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  India's GSAT-10 satellite continues its checkout for the upcoming Arianespace Ariane 5 mission Test deployments of the antenna reflectors on India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite have been performed as part of pre-flight preparations for this payload, which is one of two spacecraft on ... more | .. |
 Flight Readiness Review Complete; No Constraints to Aug. 23 Launch At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is complete. There ... more | .. |
  Micro-thruster could move small satellites Micro-thrust engines no larger than a penny could move future small satellites in space, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Finds Humor on Mars Who knew that landing a rover on Mars could be so funny? But when NASA's Curiosity successfully touched down on Mars last week, the outpouring of jokes really took off. Ever since the Mars Sci ... more |
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Putin: Foreign troops in Ukraine would be seen as 'legitimate targets' as airstrikes hit Kyiv
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  LRO Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere su ... more | .. |
  ATV-3 Vehicle Fails to Adjust Space Station Orbit The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter failed on Wednesday to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a space industry source said. Another attempt could be mad ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic ... more | .. |
 How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric Solving the mystery of life on Mars requires robots to collect Martian samples for a return to Earth - a mission that may come with the astronomical price tag of $5 billion to $10 billion. That roun ... more |
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 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity is on the move again at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sols 3036 and 3037 (Aug. 8 and 9, 2012), the rover completed a set of Alpha Particle X-ray Spe ... more | .. |
 Russia: Wayward rocket no threat to ISS A Russian rocket that failed to put its payload into orbit is not a threat to the International Space Station, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos said. ... more | .. |
 Microsemi Space Solutions On Board Historic Mars Rover Mission Microsemi, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, has extended its congratulations to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for ... more | .. |
  NASA Historic Test Stands Make Way for New Reusable Robotic Lander Neig The landscape around two historic test stands at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has changed and now features a free-flying robotic lander that will demonstrate automated re ... more |
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Treat carbon storage like 'scarce resource': scientists
Ethiopia's multi-billion-dollar dam promises economic boost
AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE | .. |
 Ball Aerospace Incorporates Enhanced Data Communication for JPSS-1 Satellite Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. will incorporate essential data communication enhancements for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), currently under development for an early 2017 launch. ... more | .. |
 Soft robots, in color A team of researchers led by George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, has already broken new engineering ground with the development of soft, silicone-based robots ... 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 | .. |
 Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate. Operator ... more |
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 Hypersonic vehicle fails flight test: US Air Force A flight test of an experimental unmanned vehicle designed to fly at hypersonic speeds has ended in failure, the US Air Force said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 India to launch Mars mission: PM India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year. ... more | .. |
 Contact established with wayward Russian satellite Contact had been established with one of two off-course telecom satellites but it would not be possible to direct it to the designated orbit, its manufacturer said Monday. Telemetric data show ... more | .. |
 Pre launch verifications are underway for next Soyuz mission Europe's Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) satellite is undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in preparation for launch along with its "sister" FM4 co-passenger on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from F ... more |
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 ISS crew to embark on two spacewalks in August Four International Space Station crew members will embark on two spacewalks to install new equipment and replace defective installations, the US space agency NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more | .. |
  Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel - part of a system that helps the spacecraft point precisely - after onboard software powered it off on Aug. ... more | .. |
US military to test hypersonic vehicle over Pacific The US military plans to launch a hypersonic unmanned vehicle in a test flight Tuesday over the Pacific, with the X-51A due to reach mind-boggling speeds of Mach 6, a spokesman said. ... more |
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GSAT-10 "spreads its wings" in preparation for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite - which is one of two passengers for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission in September - has been put through its paces during pre-flight preparations ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Space Biology Research Proposals NASA selected 15 experiments to be funded through its most recent research announcement for opportunities in space biology research. Ten of these experiments will be conducted aboard the Internation ... more | .. |
 Florida Spaceport Stakes Claim to Commercial Missions The three American companies building next-generation spacecraft that NASA could call on to carry astronauts into orbit in the future will perform much of their work along Florida's Space Coast, hom ... more | .. |
 New Way of Turning Station Offers Fuel Savings on Orbit The launch of the 48th Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space Station marked two technical firsts for station operations: it was the first same-day rendezvous and docking of a spacecra ... more |
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