After 12,000 Days in Space, Voyager 1 Heads for the Solar System Boundary
Next time you're marveling at the fact that Spirit and Opportunity have been roving Mars for over six years now, ponder this: the two Voyager spacecraft
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After 12,000 Days in Space, Voyager 1 Heads for the Solar System Boundary
Tethys Voyager 1 photographed Saturn & 2 of its moons, Tethys & Dione in Nov 1980. Image: NASA/JPLmore>>
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Aerodynamic rocket nozzle tech could be repurposed to efficiently capture CO2
It's not exactly rocket science, but the same company that builds the rocket boosters that launch the Space Shuttles into orbit has a novel idea for bringing down the cost of carbon capture. Aerospace and defense company ATK wants to pressurize the exhaust emissions
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New generation of supersonic jets aims to get rid of the boom
True to its aeronautic roots, NASA is evaluating a new generation of supersonic airplane designs to see whether they can reduce sonic-boom levels.
Boeing
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NASA announces dates for last two shuttle missions
Choking back a tear, NASA has announced the dates of the final missions to be made by the Space Shuttle. Discovery will lift off on November 1, for a 10-day mission carrying parts to the International Space Station. After that, February 26, 2020, will mark
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NASA introducing "Moonbase Alpha", a 3D game set on the moon
A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in
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NASA's orbiting carbon observatory replacement mission to launch in 2013
In February 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a research spacecraft that crashed into the ocean shortly after launch. The project, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was designed to map the distribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere.
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After cosmic collision, a jellyfish galaxy with tentacles of stars
A 3.2-million-kilometre-per-hour collision in a galaxy cluster 54 million light years away has left us with this amazing image captured by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer
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A DIY synthetic aperture radar system for $250
For about $280, you can make your very own space-age spy tech, following an MIT professor's instructions.
It can
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Test uses handedness of molecules to search for life on other worlds
Many of life's building blocks, such as amino acids, sugars and other molecules, are chiral -- meaning they come in two identical forms, mirror images of each other. Most life on Earth tends to prefer one side over the other, such as right-handed glucose molecules.
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Kepler data suggests hundreds of exoplanets, but NASA holds back details
Researchers have confirmed six new planets beyond our solar system, the prelude to an avalanche of exoplanet discoveries soon to cascade from NASA's
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Deep Impact Probe Snaps Close-Up Images of Comet Hartley 2
The Deep Impact probe, part of NASA's EPOXI mission, has successfully returned never-before-seen images of the comet Hartley 2 as it flew near Earth this morning,
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James Webb Telescope Project Project Reviewed and Reorganized In Wake of Massive Cost Overruns
The James Webb Space Telescope threatens to eat the budgets of other missions
Huge cost overruns caused by mismanagement of the James Webb Space Telescope are delaying NASA's keystone science
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Lockheed Martin Proposes Manned Mission to the Dark Side of the Moon
The Obama administration may have axed NASA's ambitious manned moon exploration plans for even an even more ambitious deep space exploration agenda, but for those developing the technologies that will one day take us to deep space the moon is just too ripe a testing ground
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Proposed Hopping Mars Rover Will Harvest Its Own Fuel
The next generation of Mars rovers may not rove at all, instead bouncing around the planet while harvesting carbon dioxide for fuel.
A new Mars hopper concept involves a carbon
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New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X
This tubular spacecraft could serve as a reusable vehicle for lunar and deep-space missions, holding a crew of six and enough supplies for a two-year expedition.
Dubbed Nautilus-X, for "Non-Atmospheric Universal Transport Intended for Lengthy United States eXploration,"
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NASA Identifies Source of Shuttle Discovery's Crack Problem
The space shuttle could fly its final mission as early as February 24.
After more than two months of delays, NASA said yesterday that space shuttle engineers have diagnosed
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In Flyby of Saturn's Moon Rhea, Cassini Probe Gets First Whiff of Non-Earthly Oxygen
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken a breath of oxygen while passing over the icy surface of Saturn's second-largest moon, marking the first time a spacecraft has directly sampled oxygen
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New Climate Models Predict Hurricane Seasons Years in Advance
It's still hard to know just how big an Atlantic hurricane is going to get or where it might make landfall until just days before it strikes, but meteorologists have long been able to predict with fair certainty how many hurricanes will be spawned in the next hurricane
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Spirit Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
The brave little rover has been stuck in the sand for a year and a half, spinning her wheels and wiggling her robot arm futilely. As she's kicked up sand, though, she has uncovered deeper layers of Martian soil, and analysis of the difference between the surface and
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NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship' To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever
If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like
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In Flyby of Saturn's Moon Rhea, Cassini Probe Gets First Whiff of Non-Earthly Oxygen
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken a breath of oxygen while passing over the icy surface of Saturn's second-largest moon, marking the first time a spacecraft has directly sampled oxygen
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Lockheed Martin Proposes Manned Mission to the Dark Side of the Moon
The Obama administration may have axed NASA's ambitious manned moon exploration plans for even an even more ambitious deep space exploration agenda, but for those developing the technologies that will one day take us to deep space the moon is just too ripe a testing ground
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With No Reply From NanoSail-D Satellite, NASA Wonders If It Actually Launched at All
Last week's launch of NanoSail-D - NASA's solar sailing nanosatellite that was reportedly launched from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite
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FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station?
It's never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don't float free. Outside the ISS, they're always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it's a two-person
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New NASA Game: Extreme Planet Makeover, Gliese 581d Edition
Scientists are on the hunt for exo-Earths, distant cousins of our planet that are just the right distance from their
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NASA Identifies Source of Shuttle Discovery's Crack Problem
The space shuttle could fly its final mission as early as February 24.
After more than two months of delays, NASA said yesterday that space shuttle engineers have diagnosed
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Who Owns the Moon's Water? Future Moon Mining Missions May Face Legal Disputes
Would-be moon miners will need good lawyers if they want to keep the lunar resources they're harvesting, according to space policy experts. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 appears to permit extraction of lunar water and other resources, but it's not clear
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Hubble Peers 13.2 Billion Years Back in Time to Capture the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen
While the astronomical community anxiously awaits the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope keeps reminding us just how remarkable of an instrument it really is. Astronomers studying ultra-deep imagery from Hubble have located what could
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Google Plans to Launch Disruption-Tolerant Internet Into Space This Year
Talk about cloud computing. Google wants to install "InterPlanetary internet protocols" (IP IP?) on spacecraft, using them as an interwoven network of new space-based communication nodes.
That's according Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf, in an interview
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Japan Plans to Send its Own Tweeting Humanoid Robot to the ISS in 2013
When the humanoid Robonaut takes off for the ISS next week aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, his days as the sole humanoid in orbit may already be numbered. JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has announced that it plans to send its own humanoid
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