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Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on MarsHuntsville, AL (SPX) Jun 08, 2012 Traveling 300 million miles through deep space to reach the planet Mars is difficult; successfully landing there is even harder. The process of entering the Red Planet's atmosphere and slowing down to land has been described as "six minutes of terror." During the first four minutes of entry, friction with the atmosphere slows a spacecraft considerably. But at the end of this phase, the vehicle is still traveling at over 1,000 mph with only 100 seconds left before landing. Things need to happen in ... read more |
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  Rogozin Talks Up New Spaceport Plan State investment in the creation of a cosmodrome in the Amur Region is comparable in scale to the first Soviet long-term plan for the electrification of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin ... more | .. |
  Physicists close in on a rare particle-decay process In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactiv ... more | .. |
  Strange Geometry - Yes, It's All About the Math Moving liquids without gravity aboard the International Space Station can be tricky - if there's no "down" then water won't flow downhill. Capillary Flow Experiments-2, or CFE-2, a physical science ... more | .. |
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  Smooth moves: how space animates Hollywood If you've been to see Wrath of the Titans, then you've watched it in action. A computer programmer is using software he developed to control spacecraft to help animators make more realistic computer ... more | .. |
  Russia, EADS to Build Space Plant by 2015 Russia's Energia space rocket corporation and Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), will build a joint venture in Russia in about two years, E ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These faint objects might be wildl ... more | .. |
  First SBIRS Satellite Exceeding Performance Expectations After One Year on Orbit The first Lockheed Martin (LMT)-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite, launched on May 7, 2011, is exceeding performance expectations and is on schedule to achie ... more |
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  India Plans To Launch First Military Satellite Indian forces are ready to launch the nation's first military satellite, the Times of India reported on Monday. The satellite is designed for naval intelligence and communications, according t ... more | .. |
  Boeing Phantom Eye Completes First Autonomous Flight Boeing's Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system (UAS) completed its first autonomous flight June 1 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The 28-minute flight began ... more | .. |
  XCOR Appoints Space Expedition Corp As General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights With the Tom Sachs space-themed art exhibit, "Space Program: Mars" as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace named Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as the new General Sales Agent (GSA) for the XCOR owned Lynx ... more | .. |
 Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA's Non-manned Missions? Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA's space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million cut to planetary scien ... more |
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 Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation ... more | .. |
  UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite. In September of 2010, two previously unknown ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five universit ... more | .. |
  Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The animation drapes high-resolution false color images over a 3-D model of the Vesta terrai ... 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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  Origin of particle acceleration in cusps of Earth's magnetosphere uncovered While flying through one of the cusps in Earth's magnetic field, the four spacecraft of ESA's Cluster mission have sampled the population of highly energetic particles that often fill these 'cavitie ... more | .. |
  James Webb Space Telescope's Mirrors Get 'Shrouded' Earlier this year, NASA completed deep-freeze tests on the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors in a "shroud" at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more | .. |
  Hazardous Near Earth Objects - Communicating the Risk To deal with potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that could strike the Earth, there is need to establish an effective international communications strategy - but doing so is a daunting t ... more | .. |
  Another Ariane 5 begins its initial build-up at the Spaceport The fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 is beginning to take shape with the assembly start-up of this heavy-lift vehicle at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit a dual-pass ... more |
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 The delicate balance of star formation in the Carina Nebula A new image from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals the glowing clouds of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula complex, one of the most massive stellar nurseries in the Milky Way. The image provi ... more | .. |
 UI's Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights. That's because Jack Scudder, UI professor of physics and astronomy, and his colleag ... more | .. |
 Arizona State University astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy lef ... more | .. |
 Cosmic calculations help better understand stellar chemistry A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and dust where sta ... more |
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 UNH to Analyze "Bellwether" Solar Event Data from European Satellite When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet ... more | .. |
  Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract Boeing, Raytheon and Harris Corporation will work together to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract. The control segment is ... more | .. |
  Taking action for GMES Representatives from the areas of economy, health, energy, agriculture, climate change, disaster management and key decision makers gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to show their support f ... more | .. |
 China calls for inclusive development of outer space China advocates peaceful use of outer space and will strive for inclusive development of outer space, a senior Chinese diplomat said here Wednesday. The notion of achieving the inclusive development ... more |
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  NASA Begins Development of Space Launch System Flight Software NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from ... more | .. |
 Revamped Google maps goes offline for mobile Google unveiled a revamped maps program Wednesday that allows mobile users to use the service without an Internet connection as the Internet giant geared up for a possible competing service. ... more | .. |
  Rare transit of Venus draws sky-gazers worldwide Sky-gazers around the world held up their telescopes and viewing glasses Wednesday to watch Venus slide across the sun - a rare celestial phenomenon that will not happen again for more than 100 years. ... more | .. |
 European Union launches latest space regulation efforts Europe's rule-making bureaucracy is moving forward with plans to introduce some earthly order to the unruly heavens, unveiling its latest efforts Wednesday to regulate outer space. ... more |
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