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January 29, 2013
ROBO SPACE
Engineers Building Hard-working Mining Robot
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 29, 2013
After decades of designing and operating robots full of scientific gear to study other worlds, NASA is working on a prototype that leaves the delicate instruments at home in exchange for a sturdy pair of diggers and the reliability and strength to work all day, every day for years. Think of it as a blue collar robot. Dubbed RASSOR, for Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot and pronounced "razor," the autonomous machine is far from space-ready, but the earliest design has shown e ... read more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Dextre Refuels Mock Satellite and Aces a Major Test for Space Robotics
Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic "handyman" on board the International Space Station (ISS), made space history last night by successfully refueling a mock satellite on the exterior of the ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator
Imagine a young engineer examining an artifact from the Apollo era that helped send people on humankind's first venture to another world. The engineer has seen diagrams of the rocket engine. She has ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net
NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, also known as the Space Network, will get an upgrade this month when the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites t ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Flies to hitch ride into space for heart study
Peter H.U. Lee, MD, is reaching for the stars. The Stanford heart surgeon has combined his twin passions - medicine and outer space - in a joint proposal for an experiment on the effects of weightle ... more


STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Dung beetles follow the Milky Way
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground," but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows ... more
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EXO WORLDS

The Origin And Maintenance Of A Retrograde Exoplanet
Astronomers have used the Subaru Telescope to show that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, includes at least two giant planets and ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Space monkey 'big step' for Iran: defence minister
Iran on Monday took a "big step" towards sending astronauts into space by 2020, successfully launching a monkey above the Earth's atmosphere, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state television. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Supercomputer sets computing record
Engineers at California's Stanford University say they set a record in computer science by using a supercomputer with more than 1 million computing cores. ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE

Hi-C Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona
The optics engineering expertise at the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., made it possible for a group of solar scientist to see into the sun's corona in unprecedented detail. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The 3D fireworks of a star
In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the ... more
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NUKEWARS

N. Korea defiant over nuclear test
North Korea has vowed "high-profile measures" in the latest in a series of threats sparked by a tightening of UN sanctions, state media said Sunday, suggesting it was determined to press ahead with a third nuclear test. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Baffling pulsar leaves astronomers in the dark
New observations of a highly variable pulsar using ESA's XMM-Newton are perplexing astronomers. Monitoring this pulsar simultaneously in X-rays and radio waves, astronomers have revealed that this s ... more
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AEROSPACE

NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record
Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size. The record-breaking balloon, carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Eleme ... more
LAUNCH PAD

First Ariane 5 For 2013 Ready For Loading
Arianespace's first Ariane 5 for launch in 2013 is now ready to receive its two satellite passengers after this heavy-lift launcher was moved to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building in French Gui ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Euclid will launch in 2020 an ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake

Thawing Dry Ice Drives Groovy Action On Mars

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

Space monkey 'big step' for Iran: defence minister

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

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CONSTELLATIONS

Six Globalstar birds set to fly on Soyuz from from Baikonur
Globalstar's cluster of second-generation satellites to be orbited by Soyuz from Baikonur Cosmodrome has been installed atop the Fregat upper stage, marking another milestone in a wrap-up flight for ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Betelgeuse braces for a collision
Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide wit ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Red Explosions - Secret Life of Binary Stars Revealed
A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that results in an explosion so powerful it ranks close to supernovae in luminosity. Ast ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers
Pulsars - tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - have puzzled scientists since they were discovered in 1967. Now, new observations by an international team, includ ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomer Creates Computer Models That Help Explain How Galaxies Formed And Evolved

SOLAR SCIENCE

Sun-Gazing Sorce Satellite, Designed To Last 5 Years, Turns 10

EXO LIFE

Wood on the seafloor - an oasis for deep-sea life

IRON AND ICE

Commercial Asteroid Hunters Announce Plans For New Robotic Exploration Fleet

ROCKET SCIENCE

Scientists create tractor beam

NUKEWARS

South Korean rocket launch set for Jan 30

SPACEWAR

Japan launches new satellites to boost surveillance

LAUNCH PAD

Russia Set for Year's First Baikonur Space Launch Feb. 5

MARSDAILY

Is there life on Mars?

RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia warns Kazakhstan in Baikonur cosmodrome dispute

Thawing Dry Ice Drives Groovy Action On Mars

Shedding Light on the Power of M 82's Superwinds

Azerspace And Africasat-1a "fit" for Ariane 5 launch

Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night

Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake

A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Iran Manufacturing Hi-Tech Spacesuits

Phoenix Rising: New Video Shows Advances in Satellite Repurposing Program

Solar eruption heading toward Earth

2013 to be bumper year for space science: ESA

Japan launching spy satellite to monitor North Korea

North Korea says plans nuclear test aimed at US

UN to sanction N. Korea space agency: diplomat

Israel upgrades missile-killer Iron Dome

U.S. Complacency in Space?

NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height for Better Climate Science

Insights from the SIA DoD Commercial SATCOM Users' Workshop

Researchers analyse 'rock dissolving' method of geoengineering

Great Oxidation Event: More oxygen through multicellularity

Missile defense EEKV shows value

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