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  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2017 Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars are closer to reality than ever before. As both public and private enterprises gear up towards a return to the Moon and the first human footsteps on the Red Planet, there is a renewed focus on keeping people alive and productive in these extreme environments. Plants, and specifically crop plants, will be a major component of proposed regen ... read more |
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Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 First flight of the Russian next-generation Federation spacecraft will be unmanned, the space vehicle will be guided by a robot named Fedor, Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation said Friday. ... more  
How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true ageProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary s ... more 
Deep space gateway to open opportunities for distant destinationsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars. The ... more  
ExoTerra to become first privately owned space company to fly to an asteroidLittleton CO (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 NASA has awarded ExoTerra Corporation a $2.5M contract to demonstrate a novel solar electric propulsion system for CubeSats that will enable the shoebox-sized spacecraft to triple their available po ... more |
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Surviving the long dark night of the MoonParis (ESA) Mar 27, 2017 Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving ... more 
PSI toolbox for research and exploration project funded for $5.5 millionTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 The Planetary Science Institute has been awarded $5.5 million by NASA to be a research node of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) to advance basic and applied research ... more  
Unexpected, star-spangled find may lead to advanced electronicsDallas TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, en ... more
NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System ResearchMoffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 In an effort to advance basic and applied research for lunar and planetary science, and advance human exploration of the solar system though scientific discovery, NASA created the Solar System Explo ... more  
ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing boardParis (ESA) Mar 17, 2017 Demanding electric, magnetic and power requirements, harsh radiation, and strict planetary protection rules are some of the critical issues that had to be tackled in order to move ESA's Jupiter Icy ... more 
Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From IndiaBengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017 Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday. "Teams Callisto, Ears a ... more |
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 Fly me to the Moon: Russia seeks new cosmonauts 
The Second Moon RaceGerroa, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The US and China are in an undeclared race back to the Moon. At first glance it's easy to dismiss China's efforts as being little more than what the US and Russia achieved decades ago. And whi ... more 
Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighborTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 Unlocking humanity's future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat. But students at Arizona State University and the Central University of Tamil Nadu in India are up for the challenge. The i ... more 
Under Trump, the Moon regains interest as possible destinationWashington (AFP) March 12, 2017 Dismissed by former US president Barack Obama as a place explorers had already seen, the Moon has once again gained interest as a potential destination under Donald Trump's presidency. ... more 
NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbitersWashington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it has located its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft after disappearing for years. ... more |
  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 
Opportunity is heading south to "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover drove on Sols 4686, 4688 and 4691 (March 30, April 1 and April 4, 2017), covering 127 feet (38.79 meters), 44 feet (13.36 meters) and 91 feet (27.82 meters), respectively.
Both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas were collected after each drive.
There w ... more Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere  Estacion Yungay, Chile (AFP) April 6, 2017Chile desert combed for clues to life on Mars  Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017Russia critcal to ExoMars Project says Italian Space Agency Head |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings as part of the mission's grand finale.
"No spacecraft has ever gone through the unique region that we'll attem ... more Miami (AFP) April 5, 2017NASA's Cassini probe of Saturn prepares for last plunge  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2017Checking in on Bleriot  Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 29, 2017The electric sands of Titan |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 
This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights a feature on Jupiter where multiple atmospheric conditions appear to collide.
This publicly selected target is called "STB Spectre." The ghostly bluish streak across the right half of the image is a long-lived storm, one of the few structures perceptible in these whitened latitudes where the south temperate belt ... more Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Nap Time for New Horizons  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Hubble spots auroras on Uranus  Leicester, UK (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Cold' Great Spot discovered on Jupiter |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 
A mechanical rover inspired by a Dutch artist. A weather balloon that recharges its batteries in the clouds of Venus. These are just two of the five ideas that originated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and are advancing for a new round of research funded by the agency.
In total, the space agency is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the ... more Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2017Two Russians, one American land back on Earth from ISS  Rio De Janeiro (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 10, 2017You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatosphere: ISS Science to the Classroom |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 
Scientists have been researching luminous coloured quantum dots (QDs) since the 1980s. These nanocrystals are now part of our everyday lives: the electronics industry uses them in LCD televisions to enhance colour reproduction and image quality.
Quantum dots are spherical nanocrystals made of a semiconductor material. When these crystals are excited by light, they glow green or red - depen ... more Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2017How nanoparticles affect flow through porous stuff in surprising ways  Albuquerque NM (SPX) Apr 12, 2017UNM physicist discovers strange forces acting on nanoparticles  Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017Scientists identify unusual force acting on nanoparticles |
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ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane.
The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser is being developed as a reusable, lifting-body, multimission spacecraft capable of landing at commercial airports or space ... more Sweden, Kiruna (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange  Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm  Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017  The U.S. government has always had an interest in developing and maintaining a strategic understanding of events, situations, and trends around the world. In recent years, however, information complexity has exceeded the capacity of analysts to glean meaningful or actionable insights as data pours in from disparate sources, across a variety of genres, and a mixture of structured and unstructured ... more Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation  San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Seaweed: From superfood to superconductor  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017NASA Fellow studies new heatshield-making technique |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Apr 07, 2017 
As part of NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) recently worked with research groups from University of Florida, Carthage College and University of Maryland to validate technology designed to further humanity's reach into space.
A collection of flights on G-FORCE ONE, ZERO-G's specially modified Boeing 727, gave researchers the chance to run experiments an ... more Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017Cells adapt ultra-rapidly to zero gravity  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 
Like a lot of pioneering science, the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) got its start as the shoestring project of a curious young researcher. Sawing a hole in the ceiling of an office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Physical Sciences Laboratory in the late 1970s, astrophysicist Ron Reynolds pointed a specially built spectrometer skyward for the first time and discovered a previously unkn ... more Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Apr 12, 2017The making of a supernova  Davis CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Long ago and far away, an average galaxy  Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Device boosts interaction between light and motion |
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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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Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... moreBeijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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 Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 
Ice cores and ancient sediments can be gleaned for clues to weather and climate in the past. But astronomical phenomena - such as solar flares or auroras - at best leave only faint environmental traces lacking in specificity. So how can we accurately track ancient astronomical events?
Now in a collaborative effort between the arts and sciences, researchers at Kyoto University and Japan's N ... more Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnection  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting  Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 
Ukraine's State Space Agency is currently in accession discussions with the European Space Agency (ESA) to become its member, Chairman Yuriy Radchenko told Sputnik on the margins of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Last Tuesday, Radchenko said during the symposium that Ukraine was actively cooperating with the ESA with a goal to become a member of the agency.
When asked wheth ... more Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Horizon 2020 European funded DEMOCRITOS project concludes work with some key outcomes  Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017BRICS States Want to Expand Cooperation to Space Science  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Mitsubishi Electric to Build New Satellite Production Facility |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 
A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size.
The asteroid, ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 07, 2017Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about it  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2017Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2017Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 
NASA has awarded Dr. Siegfried Janson of The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) with the 2017 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II grant award, worth approximately $500,000, for further development of his Brane Craft flat spacecraft proposal.
This award is one of 22 early-stage technical proposals that will transform the future of human and robotic exploration missions, introdu ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2017Lockheed Martin gets license for military exoskeleton tech  Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017Facebook launches digital assistant 'M' in US  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools for Use on Ocean Worlds |
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