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NASA Planning Group Takes Key Steps For Future Mars ExplorationPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2012 NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG), established to assist the agency in developing a new strategy for the exploration of the Red Planet, has begun analyzing options for future robotic missions and enlisting the assistance of scientists and engineers worldwide. NASA is reformulating the Mars Exploration Program to be responsive to high-priority science goals and the President's challenge of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. "We're moving quickly to develop options for future Mars ex ... read more |
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  Peaceful atom for distant space missions According to Russia's Nuclear Agency (Rosatom) the nuclear power and propulsion installation of the megawatt-class is to be built by 2017. The assembly will start already next year, first units of t ... more | .. |
  Cosmic Mirages Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. A quasar is typically located far away. Gravitational lensing is a phe ... more | .. |
 Time machine will study the early universe A new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied b ... more | .. |
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  Herschel images extrasolar analogue of the Kuiper Belt New images from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveal the glow from dust in the debris disc - a structure resembling the Kuiper Belt in the primordial Solar System - around the young star Fomalhau ... more | .. |
  Surrey Satellite Technology US solicits extra payloads for its 2015 OTB ride-share mission Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) is soliciting ancillary payloads for its upcoming OTB mission that will be launched in Q1 2015, offering both government and commercial organizations a lo ... more | .. |
  12-Billion-Year-Old White-Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light-Years Away A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known to man. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year- ... more | .. |
  New Technology Tracks Sparrow Migration for First Time from California to Alaska Using tiny tags to track a bird's location, biologists from PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) have unlocked the mystery of where Golden-crowned Sparrows, which overwinter in California, go to breed i ... more |
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 Russia to Go Back to the Moon Before Reaching for Mars Recent setbacks have not stopped the Russian space effort but have drastically modified its plans. "Less fuss and more business" is now the philosophy. While not dropping its ambitions for Mars rese ... more | .. |
  Gilat's network provided secure and reliable high speed connectivity to over 1,600 of the voting centers Gilat Satellite Networks has announced completion of a dedicated project for satellite-based web connectivity to support Russia's national presidential elections held March 4, 2012. Gilat was select ... more | .. |
  Shuttle contractor lays off workers United Space Alliance, the lead space shuttle contractor for NASA, says it has cut its workforce by 10 percent, including 181 employees at Kennedy Space Center. ... more | .. |
 'Time machine' instrument sees the past U.S. researchers say a new instrument will be a "time machine" to allow scientists to study the universe's earliest galaxies that could never be studied before. ... more |
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 NASA seeks new ideas for Mars missions The US space agency said Friday it is seeking fresh ideas for robotic missions to explore Mars, after budget cuts nixed a planned partnership with the European space agency. ... more | .. |
 Why do N. Korea's missile tests keep failing? North Korea's disastrous bid to launch a Taepodong-2 missile showed Pyongyang has a long way to go before mastering long-range ballistic technology and has failed to draw lessons from previous botched attempts, experts told AFP Friday. ... more | .. |
 North Korean rocket launch fails, draws condemnation North Korea's heralded long-range rocket test ended in failure Friday, disintegrating in mid-air soon after blastoff and plunging into the sea in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state. ... more | .. |
N. Korea admits failure as world raps rocket launch North Korea admitted Friday its long-range rocket launch had failed, disintegrating mid-air and plunging into the sea soon after liftoff in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state. ... more |
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 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission ... more | .. |
  NASA's Human Spaceflight Programs: From Space Shuttle To The Future The space shuttle helped the United States expand its leadership in space exploration during the program's 30 years of flight and laid the groundwork for the next 30 years of space exploration. The ... more | .. |
  Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at ISS Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of the International Space Station (ISS). NanoRacks will develop a ... more | .. |
 Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ... more |
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  Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS Observe a Solar Storm On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interact ... more | .. |
  Envisat services interrupted After 10 years of service, Envisat has stopped sending data to Earth. ESA's mission control is working to re-establish contact with the satellite. Although this landmark mission has been in orbit tw ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Two Commercial Communications Satellites For Upcoming Historic Launch Lockheed Martin has delivered its 100th and 101st commercial geostationary communications satellites in preparation for the first dual launch of satellites built by Lockheed Martin aboard an Ariane ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Engineers Testing Webb Telescope's OSIM and BIA Instruments Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. ... more |
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  ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System span class="NL"> a href="http://www.nrao.edu/" class="highlight">National Radio Astronomy Observatory /a> br> /span> by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2012 A new observatory still u ... more | .. |
  Putin Calls for Space Launch Development Strategy Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday a national strategy was needed for the development of the country's space launch centers. "I believe we need to develop a long-term national de ... more | .. |
 UF-led team uses new observatory to characterize low-mass planets orbiting nearby star Astronomers have found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from Earth. Twice as massive as the sun and 20 times brighter, Fomalhaut i ... more | .. |
  N. Korea blasts rocket, Japan says launch failed North Korea on Friday launched a long-range rocket which appeared to have failed and fallen into the ocean, South Korean and Japanese authorities said. ... more |
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 Commentary: Innovate or evaporate He was voted one of the "50 Great Americans," holds 28 honorary degrees, received, not once, but five times, the U.S. Defense Department's highest civilian decoration - the Distinguished Service Medal. ... more | .. |
  Dragon Expected to Set Historic Course The upcoming launch of a SpaceX spacecraft and rocket on a demonstration flight to the International Space Station is expected to cross a key milestone on the path to operational, commercial mission ... more | .. |
  Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day. Foma ... more | .. |
 Learn to dock ATV the astronaut way Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? ESA is making actual astronaut training available on your computer and tablet, so you can see for yourself. ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle ... more |
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