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Russia launches three astronauts to ISSBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 23, 2012 A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station. Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA's Kevin Ford blasted off in a Soyuz TMA-06M space craft on schedule at 1051 GMT from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an AFP correspondent said. Russian state television showed live footage of the astronauts strapped into the cramped craft and reading instructions, with their mascot, a t ... read more |
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  European mission to search for moon water A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Space daredevil Baumgartner is 'officially retired' Felix Baumgartner, the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, says he is giving up being a daredevil but now aims to help others in trouble. ... more | .. |
  Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian count ... more | .. |
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 New ISS Crew Confirmed The crew for the next mission to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday has been confirmed. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, as well as NASA astronaut Kevi ... more | .. |
  Valles Marineris - the largest canyon in the Solar System Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions - at over 21 kilometres in height, ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. The rove ... more | .. |
  Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and launch ... 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
Israel vows to inflict biblical plagues on Yemen's Huthis | .. |
  Patience for Tiangong We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably several months away from the next exped ... more | .. |
 S. Korea plans third rocket launch bid Friday South Korea plans to make its third attempt to join the exclusive club of countries capable of placing a satellite in space on Friday with a rocket launch from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. ... more | .. |
  New small satellite will study super-Earths for ESA Studying planets around other stars will be the focus of the new small Science Programme mission, Cheops, ESA announced Friday. Its launch is expected in 2017. Cheops - for CHaracterising ExOP ... more | .. |
 Rover eyes 'man-made' objects in Martian dirt NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more |
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  Kennedy Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities With satellites playing increasingly important roles in everyday life, NASA is developing the technology to build Earth-orbiting, roving "service stations" capable of extending the life of these spa ... more | .. |
  Preventing infection on long flights The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that micr ... 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 | .. |
 How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind the Seven Minutes of Terror, just imagi ... 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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 Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mine ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Remotec to Begin Delivering Titus Robot in December Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) subsidiary Remotec Inc. will begin deliveries in December of Titus TM, the newest and smallest member of its Andros TM line of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV ... more | .. |
  Curious About Life: Interview with Jen Eigenbrode 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 | .. |
 J-2X Engine Offers A Powerful Line Up Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as work continues on the Space Launch System. ... more |
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  At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, Ne ... more | .. |
 ISS Orbit to be Adjusted for Next Spacecraft Specialists of the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center will on Wednesday carry out a maneuver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station, a spokesman for the center said. ... more | .. |
 Most Planetary Systems are 'Flatter than Pancakes' Our solar system looks like many others, "flatter than pancakes," report UCLA astronomers who were able to statistically determine the properties of planetary systems using the latest data from NASA ... more | .. |
 Proof at last: Moon was created in giant smashup It's a big claim, but Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientist Frederic Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the Moon was born in a flaming blaze of glory when a body th ... more |
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New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
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 Space Launch System Providing Engine 'Brains' With an Upgrade America's next heavy-lift rocket needs a strong and reliable engine to launch humans beyond low Earth orbit. That's why engineers with NASA's Space Launch System program, managed at the Marshall Spa ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Is On The Move Around 'Matijevic Hill' Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. ... more | .. |
 Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe's portraits of the planet were "notoriously bland," disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving ... more | .. |
  Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the Satu ... more |
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 Model reconciles Lunar Earth composition with giant impact theory The giant impact believed to have formed the Earth-Moon system has long been accepted as canon. However, a major challenge to the theory has been that the Earth and Moon have identical oxygen isotop ... more | .. |
 Massive planetary collision may have zapped key elements from moon Fresh examinations of lunar rocks gathered by Apollo mission astronauts have yielded new insights about the moon's chemical makeup as well as clues about the giant impacts that may have shaped the e ... more | .. |
 Japan robot suit offers hope for nuclear work Brain wave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight were unveiled in Japan on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 The sound in Saturn's rings: RUB-Physicists explain nonlinear dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas Dusty plasmas can be found in many places both in space and in the laboratory. Due to their special properties, dust acoustic waves can propagate inside these plasmas like sound waves in air, and ca ... more |
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