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  Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 Space Center Houston is the first of four stops of a new exhibit featuring the Apollo 11 command module, which will leave the Smithsonian on a national tour for the first time since 1971. It will be the only location where guests can see the space capsules for both the first and last lunar landings. The awe-inspiring "Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission" exhibit, on display Oct. 14-March 18, 2018 at Space Center Houston, is part of the nonprofit's 25th anniversary jubilee. The center is the fi ... read more |
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India Takes Russian Help to Analyze Chemical Composition of Lunar SurfaceNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface. India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has ... more 
Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for BillenniaMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017 The Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved o ... more 
Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017 Moon Express, the first private company to receive government approval for a space mission, has announced an additional $20 million raised for a lunar voyage in late 2017. A front-runner to wi ... more 
LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water depositsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2017 Arizona State University (ASU) is developing a small satellite that will search hydrogen in lunar craters with the ultimate goal of creating the most detailed map of the moon's water deposits. The s ... more |
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India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landingMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 27, 2017 Google and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams must launch their spacecraft no later ... more 
China schedules Chang'e-5 lunar probe launchBeijing (XNA) Jan 24, 2017 China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, aboard the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long ... more 
The science behind the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper missionTempe AZ (SPX) Jan 19, 2017 Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more t ... more 
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2017 US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. ... more 
The moon is older than scientists thoughtLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2017 A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of ... more 
New map of the Moon under creation in ChinaChangchun (XNA) Jan 10, 2017 Chinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale geological map of the Moon. Ouyang Ziyuan, first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said five universities and research ... more |
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 How the Moons That Came Before Collided to Form the Moon 
Solar storms could spark soils at moon's polesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2017 Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce "sparks" that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as ... more 
China plans probes to far side, poles of MoonBeijing (XNA) Dec 28, 2016 China is planning missions to explore the far side of the Moon and to send robots to explore both lunar poles. Plans to send astronauts to the Moon are also being discussed, according to Wu Ya ... more 
Lunar sonic boomsAmes IA (SPX) Dec 14, 2016 The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of a molecule, would it still generate a ... more 
India Inc joins hands to bid for moon missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 06, 2016 An Indian aerospace start-ups's plans to send a mission to moon as part of the Google's Lunar XPRIZE challenge has received a major boost in funding from local corporate houses and entrepreneurs. A ... more |
  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 28, 2017 
On Mars, wind rules. Wind has been shaping the Red Planet's landscapes for billions of years and continues to do so today. Studies using both a NASA orbiter and a rover reveal its effects on scales grand to tiny on the strangely structured landscapes within Gale Crater.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, on the lower slope of Mount Sharp - a layered mountain inside the crater - has begun a secon ... more Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2017Science checkout continues for ExoMars orbiter  Miami (AFP) Feb 25, 2017NASA mulls putting astronauts on deep space test flight  Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017More Earth-like than moon-like |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 
On Feb. 17, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was making the first-ever close pass over Saturn's moon Enceladus as it worked through its detailed survey of the planet's icy satellites. Exciting, to be sure, just for the thrill of exploration. But then Cassini's magnetometer instrument noticed something odd. Since NASA's two Voyager spacecraft made their distant flybys of Enceladus about 20 years p ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2017Close views show Saturn's Rings in unprecedented detail  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2017Cassini captures stunning view of Saturn moon Daphnis  Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2017Catching Cassini's call |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, while avoiding the risk of a previously-planned engine firing that would have reduced the spacecraft's orbital period to 14 days.
"Juno is healthy, its science instrum ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2017NASA receives science report on Europa lander concept  Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2017New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 
Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission.
A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and energy. UH Manoa mechanical engineering student Aleca Bor ... more Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Marshall shakes, packs, ships and tracks NASA payloads  Gabreski ANGB NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems  Moscow (AFP) Feb 24, 2017Russian cargo ship docks with space station |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Rice University researchers have modeled a nanoscale sandwich, the first in what they hope will become a molecular deli for materials scientists. Their recipe puts two slices of atom-thick graphene around nanoclusters of magnesium oxide that give the super-strong, conductive material expanded optoelectronic properties.
Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his colleagues built co ... more Ramat Gan, Israel (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Scientists create a nano-trampoline to probe quantum behavior  Lincoln NB (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Scientists decipher the nanoscale architecture of a beetle's shell  Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Switched-on DNA spark nano-electronic applications |
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 Poker Flat Research Range AK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
The first of four sounding rockets scheduled for launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska to examine the structure of auroras was launched at 5:14 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017. The Black Brant IX sounding rocket carried instruments to an altitude of 225 miles as part of the Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS or ISINGLASS mission.
ISINGLASS, includes ... more Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2017SpaceX says it will fly civilians to the moon next year Hawthorne CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Spacex To Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond The Moon Next Year  Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017SpaceX cargo ship arrives at space station |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2017 
China is planning to develop the next-generation CZ-8 (Long March 8) medium-lift carrier rocket and will conduct the first test flight by the end of 2018, Li Tongyu, the head of carrier rocket development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology said Monday.
The core-stage of CZ-8 will be based on CZ-7 and CZ-3A (Long March 3A) carrier rockets, the CZ-8 is expected to have two sol ... more Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April  Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
It takes rocket science to launch and fly spacecraft to faraway planets and moons, but a deep understanding of how materials perform under extreme conditions is also needed to enter and land on planets with atmospheres. X-ray science is playing a key role, too, in ensuring future spacecraft survive in extreme environments as they descend through otherworldly atmospheres and touch down safely on ... more Denver CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2017York Space partners with Metropolitan State for Denver satellite facility  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2017NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions  Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2017Raytheon gets contract for Silent Knight radar systems |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Our Galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most clearly appeared for objects that are visually located behind the central regions of the Galaxy and the Galactic plane, where the deviation can be up to several dozen microarcseconds.
And, more importantly, the effect of this gravitational "noise" cannot be removed. This means ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2017New laser technology from Hannover enables more sensitive gravitational-wave detectors |
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 Clemson SC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
When the universe was young, a supermassive black hole - bloated to the bursting point with stupendous power - heaved out a jet of particle-infused energy that raced through the vastness of space at nearly the speed of light.
Billions of years later, a trio of Clemson University scientists, led by College of Science astrophysicist Marco Ajello, has identified this black hole and four other ... more Amherst MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Investigating Star Formation Is UMass Amherst Researcher's Mission  Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2017From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a 'chaotic solar system'  Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Feb 24, 2017NASA to blast James Webb Space Telescope with 'earsplitting' noise |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 26, 2016 
In the decade to come Russia will face strong competition from China for the commercial launch of satellites for developing countries, according to Ivan Moiseev, director of the Institute of Space Policy."China is trying to expand its space launching services, developing new boosters for different segments of the market," Moiseev told RIA Novosti.
"It has constructed a new spacecraft launc ... more Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 27, 2016Vega And Gokturk-1A are present for next Arianespace lightweight mission  Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2016Antares Rides Again  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 21, 2016Four Galileo satellites are "topped off" for Arianespace's milestone Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport |
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Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2017
China is planning to develop the next-generation CZ-8 (Long March 8) medium-lift carrier rocket and will conduct the first test flight by the end of 2018, Li Tongyu, the head of carrier rocket development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology said Monday.
The core-stage of CZ-8 will be based on CZ-7 and CZ-3A (Long March 3A) carrier rockets, the CZ-8 is expected to have two sol ... moreBeijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2017 
The sky above parts of Earth's Southern Hemisphere will be illuminated Sunday in a "ring of fire" during the first solar eclipse of 2017, NASA said.
The annular eclipse will be mainly visible near parts of the Southern Hemisphere, including Chile, Argentina and Angola. Unlike a total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse happens when the moon is too far from the Earth to obscure the sun com ... more Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2017NSF to Fund a Nationwide Effort to Capture the Eclipse  Paris (ESA) Feb 17, 2017Setting Sun on Space Station Solar research  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2017What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? |
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 Singapore (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Kacific Broadband Satellites Pte Ltd (Kacific) has ordered its Kacific-1 satellite from The Boeing Company (Boeing) based on the 702 satellite platform. This condominium satellite will be shared with JCSAT-18, ordered by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
Kacific closed a US$147 million financing round in late 2016 with a mix of equity, debt and customer prepayments which covers the purchase of ... more Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2017OneWeb, Intelsat merge to advance satellite internet  Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2017ESA affirms Open Access policy for images, videos and data  McLean, VA (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Iridium Announces Target Date for Second Launch of Iridium NEXT |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Heterogenes (CNRS/ESPCI Paris/UPMC/Universite Paris Diderot) studied the available images and modeled the outgassing of vapor to try to explain the phenomenon.
They show that the strong pressure difference b ... more Berkeley, Calif. (UPI) Feb 27, 2017Researchers aim to measure risk of exploding asteroids  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017Dawn discovers evidence for organic material on Ceres  Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by researchers |
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 Raleigh, NC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
New research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches - or biobots - move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to their goal of using biobots to explore collapsed buildings and other spaces in order to identify survivors.
NC State researchers have developed cockroach biobots that can be remotely controlled and ... more Oxford, England (UPI) Feb 23, 2017Study: Even 'benevolent bots' fight, sometimes for years  Lausanne, Switzerland (UPI) Feb 17, 2017Scientists invent new, faster gait for six-legged robots  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot |
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