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LRO Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's AtmosphereBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 17, 2012 Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere surrounding the Moon. These remote-sensing observations complement in-situ measurements taken in 1972 by the Lunar Atmosphere Composition Experiment (LACE) deployed by Apollo 17. Although LAMP was designed to map the lunar surface, the team expanded its science investigation to examine the far ultraviolet ... read more |
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 NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Team to Demonstrate Miniaturized Spectrometer-on-a-Chip The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is big. It's powerful and it discovered, among other things, that Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus was one of the very few worlds in the solar system tha ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos Announces Tender for Moon Rocket Design The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender on Thursday to develop a blueprint of a heavy rocket-carrier that would be capable of carrying manned spacecraft ... more | .. |
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 US flags still on the moon, except one: NASA A series of American flags that were planted on the moon during visits by Apollo astronauts some four decades ago are still standing, except for one, a NASA scientist has said. ... more | .. |
  Giant Ice Avalanches On Iapetus Provide Clue To Extreme Slippage Elsewhere In The Solar System "We see landslides everywhere in the solar system," says Kelsi Singer, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, "but Saturn's icy ... more | .. |
 Russia starts building Moon spaceship, eyes Lunar base Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday. "The work has already started. The unmanned tests are s ... more | .. |
 Another Small Step for Mankind Last Friday, July 20th, was the 43rd anniversary of mankind's first extraterrestrial visit to another heavenly body. The moon. Apollo 11 was the result of decades of work by tens of thousands of res ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customer
Raytheon advances next generation short range interceptor with ballistic test
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Plans to revisit Moon impeded by financial difficulties Along with pure science, these plans include significant engineering advances in order to send rovers to the Moon, and return samples from its surface. Yet despite high ambitions, researchers are co ... more | .. |
 Russia says no manned moon shots till 2018 Russia's timetable for manned flights to the moon has been pushed back two more years with no launches until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency said. ... more | .. |
 River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contra ... more | .. |
  J-2X Engine With Nozzle Extension Goes the Distance NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on July 13. The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space La ... more |
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  Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 m ... more | .. |
 The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's l ... more | .. |
  Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like "Men in Black 3" or ... more | .. |
 Titan's tides point to hidden ocean Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more |
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Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
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 Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more | .. |
  NASA chooses University professors for $151.7 million mission In 1971, NASA sent three astronauts who were University alumni to the moon as part of the Apollo 15 lunar mission. Now, three University professors have been chosen for a new NASA project, one that ... more | .. |
 ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more | .. |
  Hubba-Hubble NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more |
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  Arecibo Observatory Finds Asteroid 2012 LZ1 To Be Twice As Big As First Believed Using the planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory, astronomers have determined that asteroid 2012 LZ1 is twice as large as originally estimated based on its brightness, and large enough to hav ... more | .. |
 Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more | .. |
 Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t ... more | .. |
 Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne ... more |
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  New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more | .. |
 China develops new rocket engine China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu ... more | .. |
 Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... more |
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