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Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To RestPasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2011 NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempts. Extensive communications activities during the past 10 months also have explored the possibility that Spirit might reawaken as the solar energy available to it increased after a stressful Martian winter without much sunlight. With inadequate ene ... read more |
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  NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation System NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that the system will be based on d ... more | .. |
 Welcome home, Paolo! ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Thermal Vac Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with th ... more | .. |
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  Spacewalkers Prepare for Third Excursion STS-134 Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will conduct the third spacewalk of the mission Wednesday. They will be trying a new pre-breathe protocol designed to replace the overnight c ... more | .. |
 Orbit of GSAT-8 Satellite Raised Further In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 12:22 hrs IST (May 23, 2011), the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GSAT-8 was fired for 35.8 minutes by commanding the satellite from ISRO's Mast ... more | .. |
  GOES-13 Satellite Video Close-Up of Deadly Joplin, Missouri Tornado The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 provides forecasters with continuous visible and infrared imagery of weather systems across the U.S. and a new movie from the NAS ... more | .. |
 GMES Masters seeks innovative uses for Earth observation data Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Zeil joined with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain in launching the GMES Masters competition, seeking out innovative commercial uses of Earth obs ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  Expanded VLA flexing new scientific muscle A new and uniquely powerful tool for cutting-edge science is emerging on the crisp, high desert of western New Mexico. Outwardly, it looks much the same as the famed Very Large Array (VLA), a radio ... more | .. |
  Nearby Supernova Factory Ramps Up A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better un ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. A crane lift of the har ... more | .. |
 New deep space vehicle to be based on Orion: NASA NASA said Tuesday that a new spacecraft to ferry humans into deep space will be based on designs for the Orion crew exploration vehicle and built by Lockheed Martin. ... more |
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 No shale gas threat to S.African mega-telescope: minister South Africa will not allow shale gas drilling in the vast central Karoo to threaten its bid to host the world's largest radio telescope, the science ministry said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Astronauts to try spacewalk 'hokey pokey': NASA US astronauts on Tuesday will try out a new set of exercises to prepare them for the change in pressure they encounter on their spacewalk outside the International Space Station, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Long-delayed Duke Nukem videogame hits in June The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Core of the Earth melts and freezes The inner core of the Earth is simultaneously melting and freezing due to circulation of heat in the overlying rocky mantle, according to new research from the University of Leeds, UC San Diego and ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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  Errors in protein structure sparked evolution of biological complexity Over four billion years of evolution, plants and animals grew far more complex than their single-celled ancestors. But a new comparison of proteins shared across species finds that complex organisms ... more | .. |
 Imaging technology reveals intricate details of 49 million-year-old spider Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49 million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized amber resin. ... more | .. |
 A New View Of An Ancient Habitable Planet The Visible Paleo-Earth (VPE), the first collection of photorealistic visualizations of our planet from space in the last 750 million years, has been released by The Planetary Habitability Laborator ... more | .. |
 ISS astronauts land safely in Kazakhstan: mission control A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - Part 1 Once you've been to Antarctica, you just really want to go back. There is a sign in the lunch room here at Marambio base, that says (with poetic license thanks to Pablo): "When you arrived you barel ... more | .. |
  Galileo: Europe prepares for October launch The European Space Agency, Arianespace and the European Commission has announced that the launch of the first two satellites of Europe's global navigation satellite system is planned to take place o ... more | .. |
 Expedition 27 Crew Undocks from Station After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli undocked from the station ... more | .. |
Orbit Raising Operation of GSAT-8 Satellite Conducted Successfully The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-8 was successfully conducted at 03:58 hrs (IST) this morning (May 22, 2011) with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GS ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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  Russia opens negligence case over loss of Glonass satellites Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case on charges of negligence that led to the loss of three Glonass satellites last year, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday. The satelli ... more | .. |
  NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga. Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor seen by their network in almost three years of operation. On May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter ... more | .. |
 Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the ... more | .. |
 Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent a ... more |
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  Black Holes Spin Faster And Faster Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the ... more | .. |
  Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in prepa ... more | .. |
  NASA Hopes It's Time To Explore Titan The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence that implies the possible existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. In fact, Titan has been characterized as ... more | .. |
  Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems Just Keeps Growing NASA's Kepler spacecraft is proving itself to be a prolific planet hunter. Within just the first four months of data, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of tho ... more |
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