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US cargo ship on return voyage from space stationWashington (AFP) May 31, 2012 The US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel was released by the robotic arm of the International Space Station early Thursday at the start of its return to Earth from an historic mission. "Dragon is free from the International Space Station," a NASA TV spokesman announced at 0949 GMT, as a live video feed showed the white capsule floating against the backdrop of the blue planet. The unmanned cargo vessel then fired up its engines in three departure "burns" to power it towards the Earth's atmosph ... read more |
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  Mars missions may learn from meteor Down Under A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there. Scientists have tried to find out how the planet's environment came to contain met ... more | .. |
  Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteri ... more | .. |
  NASA Preparing to Launch its Newest X-Ray Eyes NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything ... more | .. |
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  McGill researcher helps NASA open a new window on the universe NASA is making final preparations to launch its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for buried black holes, ultra-dense neutron stars, and ... more | .. |
  Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around t ... more | .. |
  Hosted Payloads Report Sheds Light on Government and Industry Requirements Euroconsult has released its latest research report, "Hosted Payloads: The View From Within." Following discussions with the Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA), Euroconsult decided to pursue development ... more | .. |
  Cambridge Consultants completes new trials on Iridium-based global push-to-talk radio system Cambridge Consultants has completed initial trials with Iridium Communications Inc of new key components of the world's largest push-to-talk (PTT) radio system - the US Department of Defense (DoD) D ... more |
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  CryoSat goes to sea CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topogr ... more | .. |
  Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions ... more | .. |
  Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid (21) Lutetia is revealed by a comprehensive analysis of the data gathered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft when it flew past this large main-belt asteroid on 1 ... more | .. |
  Venus transit may boost hunt for other worlds Astronomers around the world will be using advanced telescopes to watch Venus cross in front of the Sun on June 5 and 6 in the hopes of finding clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist. ... more |
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 NSO To Use Venus Transit To Fine-Tune Search For Other Worlds A century ago, scientists chased transits of Mercury and Venus in an effort to size up our solar system. Next week, they will use the last Venus transit for a century to learn how to size up other s ... more | .. |
  New Findings on Astronaut Vision Loss Could vision changes experienced by astronauts be linked to a vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency? While investigating the vision changes recently identified in astronauts, nutritional assessment data ... more | .. |
  UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more | .. |
NASA readies 'black hole hunter' mission The US space agency said Wednesday it is preparing to launch next month a sophisticated orbiting telescope that will use high energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe. ... more |
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Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
Helium Found in Earth's Core Suggests New Insights into Planetary Formation
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 Intelsat Signs First Commercial Falcon Heavy Launch Agreement with SpaceX Today, Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, announced the first commercial con ... more | .. |
 Once Upon a Time Once upon a time there where two big bad wolves, each ripping off the taxpayers by charging exorbitant prices for putting satellites into orbit. For years and years these wolves were getting away wi ... more | .. |
  Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon On June 4th, 2012, there's going to be a full Moon. According to Native American folklore it's the Strawberry Moon, so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the mo ... more | .. |
  Building 45 Payloads for Balloon Mission Robyn Millan's lab is a little crowded at the moment. It overflows with electronics. And foam. And parachutes and aluminum frames and drills. Based at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, Millan and he ... more |
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 NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes Navigation Payload Milestone For GPS III Prototype Lockheed Martin is helping develop the next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has completed a major integration and test event on the program's satellite pathfinder, known as the G ... more | .. |
  Russia, Kazakhstan in Deadlock Over Rocket Launches Russia and Kazakhstan have failed so far to reach an agreement on a new drop zone for the debris of Russian carrier rockets being launched from the Baikonur space center, Kazakh space agency Kazcosm ... more | .. |
 BC Company Becomes First Official Producer and Distributor of Replica SpaceX Spacecraft Less than an hour after Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made spaceflight history by becoming the first commercial company ever to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station, an ind ... more |
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  China launches telecommunication satellite China successfully sent a telecommunication satellite, "ChinaSat 2A," into orbit on Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Cen ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees A Spiral Within a Spiral NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so that E ... more | .. |
 TomTom eyes expanding S. American market In-vehicle location and navigation expert TomTom has spotted a major business opportunity in Latin America where it is teaming with Digibase to expand operations from consumer, corporate sector to government and security services. ... more | .. |
 Astronaut-inspired bone test could speed diagnoses A simple urine test could soon reveal more about a person's bones than X-rays, US researchers said Tuesday after publishing results of an early phase study funded by NASA. ... more |
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 Embraer to team up with Brazil telecoms in space plan Brazil's leading planemaker Embraer signed a shareholding agreement Tuesday with Telebras, the country's state-owned telecom provider, to set up a joint venture to launch a communications satellite. ... more | .. |
  J-2X Engine Continues to Set Standards Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards. Last fall, the engine attained 100 percent power in just its fourth test and became the fastest U.S. rocket engine to ac ... more | .. |
 Liquid Oxygen Piston Pump Ready for Reusable Space Flight XCOR has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware. XCOR engineers have successfully and repeatedly pumped liquid oxygen (LOX) at flow rates required to s ... more | .. |
  Capillarity in Space - Then and Now, 1962-2012 The International Space Station's current studies on fluid physics in microgravity are leading to rapid advances in the field, and on May 24, these investigations are part of a noteworthy milestone. ... more |
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