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Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian DirtMoffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2011 Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But any bacteria that successfully hitchhike aboard the wheels of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission in 2012 might manage to scratch out a brief existence on the martian surface. The finding comes from a study that examined how the new high-tech landing technique of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) may ... read more |
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  NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool. The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data that was flown on NASA's STS-134 space shuttle End ... more | .. |
  Gilat Selected to Provide Satellite Broadband Network for Security Communications Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected to provide a multi-million dollar SkyEdge II broadband network and services for security communications in Latin America. The network will be used to ... more | .. |
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  Andre makes a PromISSe All the pieces are coming together for the next long mission by a European astronaut. Now it has a name and logo. ESA has revealed the name of Andre Kuipers' mission: PromISSe. ESA called on c ... more | .. |
 SES Reach Agreement For Distribution Of Satellite Broadband Across Central And West Africa SES S.A. has reached an agreement with Sea and Space Exploration for the distribution of SES' proven satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect in 20 countries in Central and West Africa. ASTRA ... more | .. |
  Mercury Planetary Orbiter wraps up for hot work The installation of high-temperature thermal blankets on the Structural and Thermal Model of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter has been completed. The spacecraft has been mounted on its Ther ... more | .. |
 New generation taking up leadership roles in ISRO A quiet transformation is underway at the Indian Space Research Organisation, where the "new generation" is taking up leadership roles with the old guards leaving the scene. "Group that was wi ... more |
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  Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars New movies created from years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provide new details about the stellar birthing process, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from yo ... more | .. |
  Louisiana Tech and NASA partner to conduct zero-gravity experiments Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that ... more | .. |
 Inmarsat GX Selects Rockwell Collins as Aeronautical Technology Partner Inmarsat has reached agreement in principle with Rockwell Collins whereby which Rockwell Collins will take the leading role in development, production and distribution of User Terminals (UTs) for fu ... more | .. |
 KVH Rolls Out Global Upgrade to mini-VSAT Broadband; Boosts Uplink Speed to 1 Mbps Already the world's fastest growing maritime VSAT network, mini-VSAT Broadband sm from KVH Industries, Inc., took another major step ahead of the competition with the announcement that KVH and partn ... more |
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  Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New Horizons At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight long ... more | .. |
 Finishing Work at Tinsdale 2 Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi ... more | .. |
 Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express ESA's Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. I ... more | .. |
  Bad weather hampers search for debris of Russian space freighter Poor weather conditions in South Siberia's Altai Republic may prevent the search for the crash site of a Progress-M spacecraft for the second consecutive day, a Russian space official said on Friday ... more |
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 Space Agencies Meet To Discuss A Global Exploration Roadmap Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the ... more | .. |
 Discovery Sheds Light on Ecosystem of Young Galaxies A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies take i ... more | .. |
 50 percent more satellites to be launched in the decade ahead Euroconsult has forecasted that an estimated 1,145 satellites will be built for launch during the next ten years (2011-2020), 51% more satellites than the previous decade. These projections come fro ... more | .. |
Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars like ... more |
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  Cryogenic Catering Truck Comes to the ALMA Observatory The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the telescopes at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/ ... more | .. |
  Venus scientists see research 'bias' Scientists studying Venus say NASA has a bias against the planet when it come to scientific missions and infrequent visits are hindering their research. ... more | .. |
  Higgs boson may be found by end of year The hunt for the elusive Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva say, and could be over this year. ... more | .. |
 Space chief warns Israel losing its edge The outgoing chief of Israel's military space program has warned the country is in danger of losing its superiority in space over its Middle Eastern adversaries because the government won't free promised funds for the high-tech industry. ... more |
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 Space junk at dangerous 'tipping point': study Clouds of space junk orbiting the Earth have reached a dangerous "tipping point", threatening to smash satellites and endanger astronauts, US scientists warned in a study this week. ... more | .. |
  Alien Life More Likely on Dune Planets Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, res ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. ... more | .. |
 NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more |
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  Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta with tremendous success, and the peripatetic adventurer is now in powered flight again, on its way to a new location from which to scru ... more | .. |
 Chandra Finds Nearest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth ... more | .. |
 Time To End Pork Barrel Monster Rocket And Expensive Russian Space Ferry The Texas Space Alliance (TXA) urged Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the rest of the Texas Congressional delegation to give their full support to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's call for transferring funding ... more | .. |
 Russian Firm Unveils Plan for Space Tourism A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for ... more |
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