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Resume Working with First Scooped SamplePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 11, 2012 The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material. Plans for Sol 64 (Oct. 10) call for shifting the scoopful of sand and dust into the mechanism for sieving and portioning samples, and vibrating it vigorously to clean internal surfaces of the mechanism. This first scooped sample, and the second one, will be discarded after use, since they are only being used for the cleaning process. Subsequent samples scooped from t ... read more |
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  Station Crew Opens Dragon Hatch Running well ahead of schedule, Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide opened the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship at 1:40 p.m. EDT Wednesday, marking a milestone ... more | .. |
  Singer Sarah Brightman to become space tourist British singer Sarah Brightman revealed on Wednesday that Russia will launch her as a space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) in a multi-million dollar voyage aimed at "realising dreams". ... more | .. |
  Boeing to Build 702HP Communications Satellite for SES Boeing has been selected by SES S.A. to provide a new satellite that will expand direct-to-home broadcasting and other communications services to the fast-growing markets of Northeast Asia, South As ... more | .. |
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 Grants help scientists explore boundary between science and science fiction Two University of California, Berkeley, scientists have received research grants to explore areas of science that bleed into science fiction. Astronomer Geoff Marcy, who kicked off the search ... more | .. |
  India testfires Mars mission engine India has testfired its Mars mission engine for the first time, local media reported Tuesday. The Mars mission engine, known as the liquid apogee motor (LAM), was fired for about 670 seconds a ... more | .. |
 Rovsing And SSBV Merge Satellite Simulation And Test Services In response to a formal announcement made by Rovsing A/S of Denmark on the 20th of September 2012, the SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group (SSBV) is pleased to acknowledge the merger of satellite si ... more | .. |
  Rover designed to drill for moon ice U.S. scientists say they've built a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon. ... more |
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Sharp rise in GPS jamming in aviation over Baltic Sea: Sweden
Putin vows to carry on fighting in Ukraine, if peace deal not reached
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 Austrian daredevil eyes new space jump at weekend An Austrian daredevil hopes to make a new record-breaking attempt to jump from the edge of space Sunday, after his initial launch bid was aborted due to gusting winds, organizers said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  India to launch 58 space missions in next 5 years India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponder ... more | .. |
 SpaceX Dragon Successfully Attaches To Space Station For the second time this year, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is at the International Space Station. Expedition 33 crew members Akihiko Hoshide and Sunita Williams today grappled Dragon and attached it ... more | .. |
 Another Ariane 5 Enters Launch Campaign Queue Preparations are now fully underway for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission scheduled in early November at the Spaceport - underscoring the company's launcher family operational flexi ... more |
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  Einstein's theory pushed past light speed Australian researchers say they've extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light, but caution it only works in the math. ... more | .. |
SpaceX capsule links up with space station: NASA A capsule on a first privately-run resupply mission successfully linked up Wednesday with the International Space Station, the US space agency NASA said. ... more | .. |
 China to collect samples from Mars by 2030: Xinhua China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Candels Team Discovers Dusty Galaxies At Ancient Epoch With Hubble Space Telescope Dust is an annoyance in everyday life, but an important building block of stars and planets. As such, astronomers need to understand how cosmic dust forms over time - it's an integral step in figuri ... more |
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Pixxel expands Firefly fleet advancing global hyperspectral satellite imaging
Metop SGA1 begins delivering atmospheric data weeks after launch
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 Curiosity Update: Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrume ... more | .. |
Assembled and poised for launch: Soyuz is ready with its two Galileo navigation satellites Arianespace's next medium-lift Soyuz is now fully assembled in the launch zone for its upcoming Spaceport mission, ready for the final steps leading to a Friday afternoon liftoff from French Guiana ... more | .. |
 Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like s ... more | .. |
 ATK Awarded $50 Million Contract for NASA's Advanced Concept Booster Development for SLS ATK (ATK) has announced that NASA has awarded the company a $50 million contract to complete engineering development and risk reduction tests as part of the Advanced Concept Booster Development for ... more |
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 Interstellar Travelers of the Future May be Helped by MU Physicist's Calculations Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star system ... more | .. |
Checking a Bright Object on the Ground Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester have been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the feasibility of using dead stars to n ... more | .. |
  Worldwide patent for a Spanish stroke rehabilitation robot Robotherapist 3D, a robot which aids stroke patients' recovery, is to be brought to market by its worldwide patent holder, a spin-off company from the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (Alicante, ... more |
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Beijing shows off drones, missiles and lasers in military parade
New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
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  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 | .. |
Weather scrubs new US space jump before weekend An Austrian daredevil could make a new record-breaking attempt to jump from the edge of space at the weekend, after his initial launch bid was aborted due to gusting winds, a spokeswoman said. ... more | .. |
 Sea and space meet for business in Ireland A new ESA project led by Irish industry is putting satellite data to use for monitoring the quality of coastal water. The Irish minister for Research and Innovation is supporting this initiative, in ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be cosmic 'GPS' Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation, replacing earth-based systems with a cosmic "global positioning system," British researchers say. ... more |
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HorizonSat Taps ASC Signal for Antennas to Support New Teleports ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a contract by HorizonSat Teleports GmbH, a subsidiary of HorizonSat. HorizonSat is a major provider of satellite services located in the United Arab Emirates, ... more | .. |
First Scoopful A Success On the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012),NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its soil scoop for the first time, collecting a scoopful of sand and powdery material at the "Rocknest" site ... more | .. |
 Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration An elevator to transport people to the moon, an inflatable habitat for living in space, a sleek new spacesuit for a stroll on Mars: These are some of the fascinating exhibits in Beyond Planet Earth: ... more | .. |
 ChangE-2 Mission To Lagrange L2 Point Last week, the 63rd International Astronautical Congress was held in Naples, Italy. One of the more interesting papers addresses the recent Chinese Chang'e-2 mission to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange poi ... more |
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