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• Astronomy from the Edge of Space

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 455
  A team of rocket scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Astronomy Laboratory talk about innovative developments such as the Star Tracker 5000, which offers important applications for the national space program. The device accurately orients spacecraft by tracking star fields with a high level of ...
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• Setting Sail Into Space, Propelled by Sunshine

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia Peter Pan would be so happy. About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth . There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as moonlight and only barely more substantial. Then it ...
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• Saturn Probe Samples Moons Ice Plumes

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  Enceladus, Saturns moon, may harbor liquid water, a prerequisite for life.
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• LaserMotive of Seattle Wins $900,00 in the NASA Power Beaming Challenge Competition

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.” LaserMotive of Seattle was awarded the money after its performance in the Power Beaming Challenge competition, which ...
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• Where the F*** is My Jetpack?

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  In 2000, IBM ran a commercial with Avery Brooks asking “Where are the flying cars?” That became a minor meme. Here’s another one that probably should… the song “Jetpack” by Tim Wilson. I’ve not heard it anywhere but on the Bob & Tom show some weeks back… and after spending $0.99 to download it ...
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• Moons Friends Say No to Future Lunar Crashes

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material. But the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about "bombing" the moon, a backlash that may hint at a rising "Friends of the Moon" movement. On Oct. 9, the Lunar ...
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• Comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby right on schedule

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Paris, November 7 (ANI): Estimates have shown that European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby is right on schedule, and it would pass within a few kilometers of the planned point of closest approach during the swingby. After the trajectory correction maneuver on October 22, Rosetta has ...
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• LEAP KKV

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  On display in the dimly-lit National Air and Space Museum - Udvar-Havy facility is an example of the Light Exo-Atmospheric Projectile Kinetic Kill Vehicle (LEAP KKV). The LEAP is, in essence, a telescope hooked up to a computer and a solid rocket motor. The rocket did not exhaust out through a single nozzle in the ...
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• Femtoseconds Lasers Will Help Formation Flying In Space

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 132
  Theoretical work commissioned to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) by the European Space Agency has recently concluded that lasers capable of generating extremely short pulses — known as “femtosecond comb lasers” — could be of great help in measuring the distance between two or more spacecraft to an ...
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• Air Launch Sortie Vehicle artwork: 1

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  This bit of artwork illustrates the 1983 design by Rockwell International for the Air launch Sortie Vehicle program. This was meant to develop a small reusable spaceplane that could be launched on a moments notice, to service or place small satellites (communications, recon, etc.) or even weapons systems. Several ...
  6 days ago

• NASA spacecraft detects iron, titanium on Mercury

  
  celestialrocKs.com — Authority: 138
  NASA’s spacecraft Messenger has detected rich concentrations of iron and titanium on the surface of the planet Mercury.Previous Earth and spacecraft-based observations had detected only very low amounts of iron in the silicate minerals covering the innermost world. Because of its immense density, scientists have ...
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• Jeff Greason

  
  Gravity Loss — Authority: 114
  The Man. On Space Review . [EDIT: About a month ago, but I only just read it.] This is just excellent. So many things I agree with, that go against the stupid myths of spaceflight and space policy. If you read one space policy interview this year, this should be it! “NASA is an organization that is dominated by ...
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• PICTURES: Tiangong model, cargo spacecraft, station in-orbit assembly

  
  Hyperbola — Authority: 525
  credit Flight / caption: Are we looking at the future shape of Chinas unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft? This 1:10 scale model of Chinas manned space engineering programmes Tiangong spacelab docked to a Shenzhou spacecraft was exhibited at the  60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Daejeon, Korea in ...
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• NASA’s Messenger sees iron and titanium on Mercury

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, November 5 (ANI): NASA’s spacecraft Messenger has detected rich concentrations of iron and titanium on the surface of the planet Mercury.Previous Earth and spacecraft-based observations had detected only very low amounts of iron in the silicate minerals covering the innermost world. Because of its immense ...
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• Rosetta to Make Final Earth Flyby Nov. 13th

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  The comet chasing spacecraft Rosetta will make its third and final swing by the Earth on November 13th to pick up more speed for the last part of a 10-year journey that lies ahead. Its mission is to place a lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and chase the comet for an entire year on its orbit around the ...
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• Some European scientists have Launched a Satellite that Predicts Floods in advance

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Science and Technology is ever advancing. Today some European scientists launched a satellite called “Smos Spacecraft”, which will make flood prediction easier by tracking water flows around the Earth. The satellite will also provide better weather forecasts and estimate the impact of climate change including ...
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• NASA spacecraft makes deepest dive yet into Saturn moon’s jets to find life

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, November 3 (ANI): NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made its deepest plunge yet into the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which might reveal complex organic molecules that could hint at life.Researchers have been fascinated with Enceladus since July 2005, when Cassini revealed plumes of ice particles and ...
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• Rocket Launch Key to Next Generation GPS

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 141
  Ares 1-X, NASAs first rocket in its "new frontier" Constellation space exploration program, rose from its launch pad and pierced the sky Oct. 28 at Kennedy Space Center, FL - buoying hopes that the door had been flung open to a great future in deep space exploration. The United States had a tall order for the 1.8 ...
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• European satellite to provide new insights into how water is cycled around Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, November 2 (ANI): An European satellite that will provide major new insights into how water is cycled around the Earth, has been launched into space.According to a report by BBC News, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) spacecraft will make the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils ...
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• NASA’s Aries rocket launch from Wednesday.

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 130
  NASA’s Aries rocket launch from Wednesday.
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