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Mankind's messenger at the final frontierParis (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 It looks like a dustbin lid strapped to a cluster of fishing rods. Its computer is so puny it could not even start up your iPhone. And if E.T. wants to listen to the message it brings, he'll need a gramophone to play it on. But in the history of space exploration, there is not a probe that can touch the glittering career of Voyager 1, mankind's first messenger to the cosmos. Thirty-five years after it was launched, the doughty explorer is on the brink of leaving the Solar System and heading into ... read more |
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  Birth of a planet The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary research ... more | .. |
  Dawn Of A New Mission To Proto Planet Ceres An interplanetary spaceship left Earth in 2007. Propelling itself gently and patiently through the solar system with a blue-green beam of xenon ions, it gradually spiraled away from the sun. It sail ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams ... more | .. |
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  Boeing 702MP Selected for first Intelsat EpicNG Satellite The Boeing 702MP satellite bus has been selected by Intelsat S.A. for the Intelsat 29e satellite, the first of the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG next-generation high-performance system. " ... more | .. |
  Astronauts Take Second Spacewalk Astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide began a spacewalk on Wednesday in another attempt to install a power unit on the International Space Station. The operation was broadcast live on ... more | .. |
 Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta Mission controllers received confirmation that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second dest ... more | .. |
 35 years on, Voyager 'dancing on edge' of outer space NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be "dancing on the edge" of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said. ... more |
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Chinese launch campaign places multiple satellites in orbit
Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awareness | .. |
 Africa needs own space agency: Sudan's Bashir Africa needs its own space research agency, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a regional conference of communications ministers who met on Wednesday as the continent's IT sector grows. ... more | .. |
  Curiosity Has a Photo Day Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Nav ... more | .. |
 A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 A new superterran exoplanet (aka Super-Earth) was found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163 by the European HARPS team. The planet, Gliese 163c, has a minimum mass of 6.9 ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins- ... more |
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  NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye ... more | .. |
 Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA After a careful four-day road trek from Switzerland, the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has arrived at ESA for testing. During its time at ESA's ESTEC facility in the ... more | .. |
 Crew Wraps Up Preparations for Wednesday's Spacewalk The Expedition 32 crew finalized preparations Tuesday for a second spacewalk in less than a week in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a replacement power-switching unit on the Internati ... more | .. |
 Africa eyes joint space agency African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers. ... more |
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USGS introduces first fully integrated national geologic map
Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
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  China Focus: Timeline for China's space research revealed A senior Chinese astronomer on Friday revealed a timeline for China's planned program of space research. In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Shuangnan, an astrophysicist at the Institute of High Ener ... more | .. |
 Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test ... more | .. |
 Tiangong Orbit Change Signals Likely Date for Shenzhou 10 August 30, Tiangong 1's controllers raised its orbit by 11 kilometres, indicating that a target date for the Shenzhou 10 mission has probably been set. As August 30 dawned, Tiangong 1 was following ... 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 |
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 Building MLM Under Way at Khrunichev The Khrunichev Space Center continue to build the flight version of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) for the International Space Station. As of today, Khrunichev have mounted the ESA R ... more | .. |
 Space-age food served up with seeds of success An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally. Chinese scientists have created more than 120 varieties of plant ... more | .. |
  The shock of separation The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at ESA's test facilities to replicate conditions it will experience during its intense ride into space. This video shows test ... more | .. |
 Flags at half mast across US for Armstrong funeral Flags flew at half staff across the United States on Friday as family, friends and fellow astronauts gathered in Ohio to remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. ... more |
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Pretreatment methods bring second-gen biofuels from oilcane closer to commercialization
Graphene reveals light tuned quantum states pointing to new electronics
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 NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. Th ... more | .. |
 Top electronics fair embraces 'grey' gizmos High-tech gadgets to make the lives of senior citizens simpler, safer and more fun are in the spotlight at the world's top showcase for consumer electronics and home appliances. ... more | .. |
  First-Stage Fuel Loaded; Launch Weather Forecast Improves At Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41, loading of the RP-1 fuel aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage was finished last night. Though it was completed late at 9:30 p.m. E ... more | .. |
Crew Makes Final Preps for Thursday's Spacewalk Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide worked inside the Quest Joint Airlock configuring their spacesuits and tools for a spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EDT Thursday. Flight Engin ... more |
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 Marks of Laser Exam on Martian Soil The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-af ... more | .. |
 Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater. Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimat ... more | .. |
 Uwingu To Begin Funding Research Ahead of Schedule Uwingu is a space-themed, for profit start up seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. In specific, Uwingu will employ novel software applications to ... more | .. |
 Kepler discovers planetary system orbiting 2 suns Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union meeting announced the discovery of the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. The discove ... more |
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