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March 02, 2013

SpaceX Optimistic Despite Dragon Capsule Mishap
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2013
SpaceX said it was "optimistic" Friday after a thruster outage delayed the latest resupply mission of its unmanned Dragon capsule en route to the International Space Station. SpaceX and NASA officials said the cargo resupply mission was still on track, but the technical mishap could fuel concerns about the US agency's ambitious plans to cut costs by privatizing elements of the space program. SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk said the failure of three out of four thruster pods to fire up was ... read more

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SpaceX Capsule Encounters Problems In Orbit The unmanned Dragon capsule launched by US private firm SpaceX encountered problems en route to the International Space Station on Friday when three of its four thrusters malfunctioned, the company said. ... more		Dragon Transporting Two ISS Experiments For AMES Two bioscience payloads are scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station Friday, March 1, on the second Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) cargo resupply mission contracted ... more		Scientists spot birth of giant planet Astronomers using a powerful telescope in southern Chile said Thursday they have captured the first direct image of a protoplanet forming around another star, still embedded in thick gas and dust. ... more
				China plans manned space mission China has announced a tentative time period for its next manned space craft launch that will dock with the country's orbiting space laboratory. ... more		Stott Space Aims to Mine Asteroids this Decade Space may be the final frontier, but that isn't stopping Stott Space Inc. from making it a frontier accessible to the masses. With the launch of their Indiegogo campaign, Stott Space hopes to find t ... more

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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. The intentional swap ... more		The Space Robotics on the MMMMove In late January, Dextre, the Canada's robotic "handyman" on the International Space Station (ISS), made space history by successfully refueling a mock satellite attached to the exterior of the stati ... more		India signs $7 bn deal for 97 domestically made fighter jets France doubles down on threat to build future fighter jet alone US approves $1.2 bn missile sale to Germany		ESA's Columbus Biolab Facility Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. Biolab is an experiment workstation ... more
				Light particles illuminate the vacuum In an article published in the PNAS scientific journal, researchers from Aalto University and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland showed experimentally that vacuum has properties not previo ... more		Building blocks of life may be in space The discovery of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space suggests some basic chemicals key to life may have formed between the stars, U.S. astronomers say. ... more

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First-ever space tourist plans mission to Mars The world's first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans Wednesday to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away. ... more		Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration New research by Stanford aeronautics and astronautics Assistant Professor Sigrid Close suggests she's on track to solve a mystery that has long bedeviled space exploration: Why do satellites fail? ... more		Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygen Framework proposed to study planetary scale impact of life		'Faulty Ukrainian Parts' Blamed for Zenit Launch Failure The crash of a Russian Zenit-3SL rocket earlier this month was caused by defective components manufactured in Ukraine, Ivan Kharchenko, first deputy head of the Russian government's military-industr ... more
				Meteorite's Powerful Blast Due to Space Collisions The powerful blast of a meteorite above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk was probably caused by its previous "space collisions" with other celestial bodies, said Professor Erik Galimov of the Vernadsky ... more		Black hole found spinning near the relativistic limit The best evidence yet that some supermassive black holes (SMBH) rotate at extremely high rates has been found by an international team of astronomers. Made using the recently launched NuStar space t ... more

SpaceX Capsule Encounters Problems In Orbit

'Faulty Ukrainian Parts' Blamed for Zenit Launch Failure

Dragon Transporting Two ISS Experiments For AMES

Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder

First-ever space tourist plans mission to Mars

Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover

Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along

Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch

	Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet's close encounter with an even larger ... more		Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team memb ... more		U.S. research to be free online The White House says major government agencies must make taxpayer-funded research freely available to the public within 12 months after publication. ... more		SpaceX set for third mission to space station As US firm SpaceX prepares for its third launch to the space station Friday, NASA said there was nothing "particularly challenging" about a mission that a few months ago was unprecedented. Lif ... more

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Japan robot suit gets global safety certificate		Brown researchers build robotic bat wing		ATK Launch Abort Motor For First Orion Test Vehicle		Record Number of Students Control ISS Camera		Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests

India rocket launches asteroid-spotting satellite

India's 102nd space mission lifts off successfully

NASA Partner Orbital Tests Rocket, Newest US Launch Pad

Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos

Apophis Risk Assessment Updated

Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars

Discovering the birth of an asteroid trail

SpaceX 2 Launch Set for March 1

NASA Releases Glory Taurus XL Launch Failure Report Summary

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Potential benefits of inertial fusion energy justify continued R and D

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Opportunity Is On A Rock Hunt

Journey to the Limits of Spacetime

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