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NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science SitePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 12, 2012 NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science operations, but also closer to the foot of a mountain slope that poses a landing hazard. "We're trimming the distance we'll have to drive after landing by almost half," said Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "That could get u ... read more |
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 Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of ... more | .. |
  Shenzhou 9 crews named in Chinese media Chinese authorities have now confirmed that the country's first manned space docking mission will be launched on the evening of 16th June, and that it will carry two men and China's first female spa ... more | .. |
 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars On Saturday 26th November, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space onboard an Atlas V rocket as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which plans to land a rover name ... more | .. |
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  The Government and Commercial Space Just last week Democrats accused Republicans of not having a clear vision for NASA. The week before that Republicans accused Democrats of not having a clear vision for NASA. Floridians are concerned ... more | .. |
  Unique microbes found in extreme environment Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landsca ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more | .. |
  Study finds new evidence supporting theory of extraterrestrial impact 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pen ... more |
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 Life Supplies and Manned Docking Tested in Shenzhou-9 Mission NASA space scientist Mark Lee says the manned docking process contains sophisticated technologies and techniques. "The Shenzhou 8 was such a great success that further facilitates the manned mission ... more | .. |
  Virgin Galactic Opens New Office Virgin Galactic opened a new office in Las Cruces, N.M., that will complement the commercial spaceline's growing operations team at Spaceport America and enhance the local economy through jobs, loca ... more | .. |
 The pressure is on for aquanauts A splashdown in the ocean used to mark the end of an astronaut's mission. For ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and his crewmates, their mission will have just started. Today, some time during 11:00-13:00 ... more | .. |
  Mapping Volcanic Heat on Io A new study finds that the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on Io's surface disposes of the generally-accepted model of internal heating. The heat pouring out of Io's hundreds of erupting volca ... more |
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 NASA's Mars rover zeroes in on August landing NASA's Mars rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is zeroing in on its August landing on the Red Planet and aims to touch down closer than expected to its mountain target, the US space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Hologram developers raise real cash for virtual stars Digital Domain Media Group, creators of a Tupac Shakur hologram that rocked this year's Coachella festival, said Monday it has raised $10.5 million to help build a roster of virtual stars. ... more | .. |
  Breaking the limits of classical physics With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense - the ... more | .. |
 Sea Launch Releases Preliminary Payload Telemetry Data on Intelsat 19 Sea Launch has released preliminary "Quick Look" payload unit (PLU) telemetry information to Intelsat S.A. and Space Systems Loral on June 8, 2012. The data covered the full mission profile from lif ... more |
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Japan deploys troops after wave of deadly bear attacks
New Copernicus Satellite Strengthens Earth Observation Programme
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 EpicNG Satellite Platform bring high performance enhancement to Intelsat birds Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, has introduced the Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, a new series of satellites based upon a high performance, open architecture ... more | .. |
  Tennessee takes big step towards nuclear fusion power Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineers have made a giant step ... more | .. |
 Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more | .. |
 Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum Opportunity is investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2969 (May 31, 2012), the rover drove 36 feet (11 meters) to the northeas ... more |
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  NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll. Kwa ... more | .. |
  NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1,150 seconds, breaking the previous re ... more | .. |
 Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the spacecraft detected unexpected characterist ... more | .. |
 Two Women For Tiangong After a long and convoluted saga, we are finally approaching the launch of China's next human spaceflight mission. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft is expected to lift off in mid-June, carrying three astro ... more |
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 How black holes change gear Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat. When black holes attract ... more | .. |
 Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Dr. Kazuaki Ota (Kyoto Univ ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou 9 Ready For Manned Mission To Tiangong-1 With the June 9 rollout of the Long March launch vehicle from its assembly building, Shenzhou 9 has taken a major step towards orbit. The Shenzhou launch campaign has settled into a routine where th ... more | .. |
Study: Vacations are going digital Packing smartphones, tablets and laptops is as much a part of vacations these days as remembering the sunscreen, a Michigan State University study found. ... more |
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 China to launch manned spacecraft this month China will launch a spacecraft this month to conduct its first manned space docking, state media said Saturday, the latest step in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 US scientists host 'bake sale for NASA' Could some really great cupcakes be enough to send Americans back to the Moon? ... more |
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