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Heat is Source of 'Pioneer Anomaly'Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2012 The unexpected slowing of NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft - the so-called "Pioneer Anomaly" - turns out to be due to the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft, according to a recent paper. The heat emanates from electrical current flowing through instruments and the thermoelectric power supply. The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters. "The effect is something like when you're driving a car and the photons from your headlights are pushing ... read more |
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  Inflatable Spacecraft Heat Shield Set to Launch NASA technicians and engineers are putting the finishing touches on a unique experiment designed to demonstrate that an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield could be used to protect spacecraft when ente ... more | .. |
  NRL Leads NASA Team Workshop on "Coronal Mass Ejection Initiation" Dr. Mark Linton, a researcher in the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division, recently convened a workshop exploring coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Dr. Linton is currently leading a NASA ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for Jason-3 Mission NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft in December 2014 aboard a Fa ... more | .. |
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 NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for Three Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) ... more | .. |
  Russian Space Lab Launch Delayed Again The launch of Russia's "Nauka" (Science) multirole laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been set back from the end of this year to the end of next year due to technologica ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects ULA's Workhorse Delta II Rocket for Three Future Missions NASA's Launch Services Program has announced that it selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA) proven Delta II launch vehicle for three future missions. The newly contracted missions include Orbiting ... more | .. |
 Ambitious ISRO enhancing India's space capabilities India is boot-strapping its space-based assets to meet the growing demand for enhanced services in communications, broadcasting remote-sensing and navigation, a top space agency official said Monday ... more |
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  Opportunity Continues to Explore Rocks on the Rim of Endeavour Crater Opportunity is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Most of this period focused on analyzing the rock target "Grasberg" with the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) ... more | .. |
 The electric atmosphere: Plasma is next NASA science target Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But l ... more | .. |
 Joyful crews unite aboard space station A grinning multinational crew of three floated through the open hatches of the International Space station on Tuesday to join the trio already on board the experimental science lab spinning around Earth. ... more | .. |
 India likely to approve Mars mission India's government is expected to give its approval for the country to embark on an unmanned mission to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organization said. ... more |
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 New crew docks with space station: Russia A new multinational crew on Tuesday successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after a two day voyage from Earth, Russian mission control said. ... more | .. |
 Titanic II to have 'safety deck': Australian tycoon Australian billionaire Clive Palmer Tuesday said his modern-day version of the Titanic will retain the first, second and third-class divisions of the original and include a new "safety" deck. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover two weeks from landing NASA's Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the ... more |
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  Hubble Sees the Needle Galaxy, Edge-on and Up Close This image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an exquisitely detailed view of part of the disc of the spiral galaxy NGC 4565. This bright galaxy is one of the most famous example ... more | .. |
  NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both ... more | .. |
  J-2X Engine With Nozzle Extension Goes the Distance NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on July 13. The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space La ... more | .. |
 Orbiter Enters, Then Exits, Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter experienced about 21 hours in a reduced-activity precautionary status ending at about 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, July 12. The orbiter put itself in the precaut ... more |
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  UK space sector trajectory rises through the economic storm The UK Space Agency have released data from its latest report on the 'Size and Health of the UK Space Sector'. The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, announced last week at the F ... more | .. |
  Astronauts in good shape after return The three astronauts who went on the country's first manned space-docking mission last month said on Friday that they are in good health as they recuperate from their 13-day stay in space. The trio ... more | .. |
 More smart Indians opting to be space scientists More and more smart graduates and research scholars across India are opting for an exciting career in space science, as evident from thousands of applications the space agency gets every year, of la ... more | .. |
 Developing Technologies For Living Off the Land...In Space Each spacecraft, crewed or robotic, encounters an extraordinary spectrum of vast resources throughout its journey. From the first space missions onward, space architects and scientists have consider ... more |
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 Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. The car-size, one- ... more | .. |
 Follow Your Curiosity: Some New Ways to Explore Mars As NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity prepares to land on Mars, public audiences worldwide can take their own readiness steps to share in the adventure. Landing is scheduled for about 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug ... more | .. |
 Me and My Spacesuit Our Soyuz spacesuit is named after the Russian word for falcon: (sokol). It serves only one purpose, to keep us alive in the event of a cockpit depressurization. We venture into a place that is devo ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: When the sun brought darkness When a huge solar flare Thursday sent a magnetic storm heading toward earth, Americans heard the usual warnings of possible power outages, disruption of satellite communications and other effects - and for the most part ignored them. ... more |
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 Russian rocket launches new crew to space A Soyuz rocket blasted off with an international crew of three toward the International Space Station on Sunday in a mission testing the reliability of Russia's crisis-prone space programme. ... more | .. |
 SES Announces First SAT-IP Converter Certification SES has announced the certification of the industry's first SAT-IP converter by Inverto Digital Labs, a Luxembourg-based developer and marketer of consumer and professional broadcast reception produ ... more | .. |
  Peering into the heart of a supernova Each century, about two massive stars in our own galaxy explode, producing magnificent supernovae. These stellar explosions send fundamental, uncharged particles called neutrinos streaming our way a ... more | .. |
 EDRS makes room for Hylas-3 When the European Data Relay System launches its second satellite in 2015, it will be taking the Hylas-3 communications package along for the ride thanks to ESA's 'hosted payload' approach. ED ... more |
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