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![]() Huntsville, AL (SPX) Sep 14, 2012 NASA is powering ahead toward new destinations in the solar system. This week marks one year of progress since the formation of the Space Launch System (SLS), the nation's next step in human exploration efforts. On Sept. 14, 2011, NASA announced a new capability for America's space program: a heavy-lift rocket designed to carry the Orion spacecraft and send astronauts farther into space than ever before. And now, one year later, NASA has made swift progress improving on existing hardware, testing ... read more |
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![]() Gaia Service Module Thermal Balance Thermal Vacuum testing completed The Protoflight Model of the Gaia Service Module has successfully completed thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing in the SIMLES chamber at Intespace Toulouse. These tests verify the thermal per ... more | .. |
![]() Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock. Tests with the 7-foot (2.1-meter) arm have allowed th ... more | .. |
![]() Mars Rover Spectrometer Finishes Calibration-Target Reading On Sol 35 of its mission on Mars (Sept. 10, 2012) Curiosity continued activities for characterizing its arm and the tools on the arm. The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) completed a r ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Extreme Life Forms Might be Able to Survive on Eccentric Exoplanets Astronomers have discovered a veritable rogues' gallery of odd exoplanets- from scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls. And while the hunt continues for the elusive "blue dot" ... more | .. |
![]() ISRO's 100th space mission blasts off, PM witnesses historic event An Indian rocket carrying two satellites blasted off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in Andhra Pradesh Sunday, with the launch being witnessed by Prime Minister Manm ... more | .. |
![]() Planets not like Earth could harbor life Extreme forms of life could exist on eccentric planets outside the solar system with conditions unlike those on Earth, U.S. scientists say. ... more | .. |
![]() Memorial service honors 'man on the moon' Armstrong Top NASA officials, fellow astronauts, relatives and well-wishers paid a final tribute to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, in a somber memorial ceremony Thursday in the US capital. ... more |
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![]() Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Stars crowd each other as they whiz through space like cars on a rush-hour freeway. Superno ... more | .. |
![]() Next Mars Mission Enters Final Phase Before Launch NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D. The project is officially authorized to transition into the next phase o ... more | .. |
![]() A Canopy of Confidence: Orion's Parachutes They were perhaps some of the most visible images of the end of each Apollo mission: Giant orange and white parachutes unfurled high above the spacecraft, gently descending toward the ocean. As NASA ... more | .. |
![]() Curious about Life: Interview with Danny Glavin The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more |
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![]() NASA Mars Rover Curiosity's Arm Wields Camera Well NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stepped through activities on Sept. 7, 8 and 9 designed to check and characterize precision movements by the rover's robotic arm and use of tools on the arm. The activiti ... more | .. |
![]() India completes ton of space missions The Indian space odyssey crossed a milestone on Sunday, as the fully-indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) here, 100 km north of ... more | .. |
![]() HYLAS 2 Communications Satellite Completes In-Orbit Testing Orbital Sciences has announced that the HYLAS 2 high-throughput broadband satellite has completed its in-orbit testing and operational control has been turned over to the customer, Avanti Communicat ... more | .. |
![]() Mars rover Curiosity working 'flawlessly': NASA NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars more than a month ago, appears to be working "flawlessly" as it prepares to continue its two-year exploration of the Red Planet, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more |
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![]() System will seek orbiting space debris The European Space Agency says it will help develop a radar system to test space debris monitoring to help European satellite operators avoid orbiting hazards. ... more | .. |
![]() SES signs three satellite launches with SpaceX Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said on Wednesday it had signed up to launch three more satellites with the privately-owned SpaceX company. ... more | .. |
![]() Japanese robot to sit top-ranked university exam Japanese researchers are working on a robot they hope will be smart enough to ace entrance exams at the nation's top university, which test everything from maths to foreign languages. ... more | .. |
![]() Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta, using images that were among the last taken by the spacecraft as it departed its companion for the last year. Th ... more |
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![]() NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Aces Major Exam Completing this round of flight test objectives, the "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, flew to an altitude of 100 feet and descended gently to a controlled landing during a successful ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Lockheed Martin has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN is scheduled to launch in November 2013 an ... more | .. |
![]() Chandrayaan II may be delayed, says ISRO Chief India's quest for the moon, by the name of "Chandrayaan II," planned for 2013-14, may be delayed. Indicating this at a news conference organised after the successful launch of "PSLV-C21", the 100th ... more | .. |
![]() ATK and United Launch Alliance Test GEM-60 Motor ATK and United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted a successful cold-temperature ground test of a Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM-60) solid rocket motor used to boost ULA's Delta IV launch vehicles. The ... more |
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![]() A false case that delayed India's cryogenic project In the early 1990s, S. Nambi Narayanan was working to develop cryogenic technology when things went for a toss and he was arrested on false espionage charges, which according to him was an "internat ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of carbon-dioxide snow falling anywhe ... more | .. |
![]() Roscosmos Space Agency Recalls Briz-M Upper Stage Batch The Russian space agency Roscosmos will recall the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages, one of which caused the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket to fail in August, the agency's chief Vladimir Pop ... 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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![]() Luca Parmitano flying high ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to fly to the International Space Station in 2013, and his mission came a step a closer with the unveiling of his mission name and mission patch. Luca will spend ... more | .. |
![]() First man on moon to be buried at sea: Armstrong family The first man on the moon will be buried at sea, a spokesman for Neil Armstrong's family said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() S. Korea to make third rocket launch bid in October South Korea will make its third attempt next month to put a satellite in space, the science ministry said Tuesday, as it bids to join an exclusive club of Asian nations with space-launch capability. ... more | .. |
![]() Early Mars may not have been hospitable after all: study Instead of a warm, wet and possibly life-bearing planet as some scientists contend, early Mars may have been a hostile and volatile place with frequent volcanic outbursts, a study said Sunday. ... more |
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