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The ARES delivery systems I, IV and V are all part of NASA's Project Constellation, which was designed as a replacement for the Shuttle Program. With the current fleet scheduled to be withdrawn from active duty by the end of 2010, the pressure is high on the space agency to come up with the new spacecraft as soo... |
23 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Following Sunday's move, when the space shuttle Endeavor was moved from Launch Pad 39B to Launch Pad 39A, at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the former launch facility officially passed from the Shuttle Program to Project Constellation. Over the next months, the pad will be heavily modified... |
2 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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NASA's ARES I rocket will be a two-stage launch vehicle, designed to carry the future Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth's orbit. But its engineers envisioned the spacecraft as having a reusable first-stage motor, which means that it would have to somehow be recovered after each launch. Experts agree t... |
21 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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In an unexpected turn of events, the Obama administration seems intent to launch a full review of NASA plans for the future, this week. The report will assess whether the Constellation Project, which involves the ARES array of delivery systems, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, and the Altair Lunar Lander, is the b... |
7 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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The American space agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday that NASA would most likely not engage in efforts of constructing a permanent scientific base on the Moon. The official's statements left to be understood that the agency would rather orient its efforts towards miss... |
1 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Policymakers in the United States are currently struggling to pass legislation that would ensure the operation of the nation's shuttle fleet even beyond 2010. More specifically, US House and Senate representatives are struggling to eliminate the deadline for the retirement of the shuttles, currently scheduled fo... |
30 April 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Binary star systems are regular solar systems in all respects but one – they have two stars at their core, and not just one. The bodies revolve around each other, or around a common center of mass, depending on their configuration. One such system can be found in the Ophiuchus Constellation, where the pair is m... |
22 April 2009
06:08 GMT |
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The American space agency may not be able to bring the new ARES rockets and the Orion Crew Exploration vehicle online by 2015, as original plans predicted, a new report by the Congressional Budget Office watchdog states. According to the paper, the date could be pushed back to late 2016, under the current funding sch... |
21 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The successful completion of the Orion spacecraft is paramount for NASA, on account of the fact that, as soon as it has a working prototype, the shorter the time span it will have to wait until it can resume spaceflights. With the three-shuttle fleet due to be retired at the end of 2010, the Americans find themselves... |
10 April 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The National Mall in Washington is currently the host of a more unusual exhibition. NASA has placed on display a mock-up of the future Orion capsule, the craft that is supposed to be the American space agency's main vehicle after 2015. Following the withdrawal of the shuttle fleet next year, the agency will be l... |
1 April 2009
02:49 GMT |
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The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is one of the largest and brightest such formations in the sky, and also one of the most complex and intricate, as far as internal structures go. The 100 light-years-long formation is approximately 4 times larger than the Orion nebula, and is located in the Constellation bearing the same ... |
13 February 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Seagate has just announced its latest-generation Constellation family of hard disk drives, including a 2.5-inch lineup, offering the lowest enterprise power consumption and the company's first 2TB hard drive, part of the 3.5-inch lineup. The two solutions have been designed to provide users with high capacity, i... |
2 February 2009
09:41 GMT |
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On July 11th, NASA is scheduled to conduct a test flight of the ARES I-X prototype, designed to ensure that the construction is feasible, and that the delivery system can indeed carry people and hardware safely to orbit, and then to the Moon or Mars. For this very purpose, a mock-up of the future Orion Crew Transport... |
30 January 2009
04:53 GMT |
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NASA recently announced that it finished renovating an old, Apollo-era building it had at its Florida Spaceport, following a $55 million investment in the new infrastructure. The new Operations and Checkout Building stands as a symbol that, even if the American space agency will renounce its fleet of shuttles in 2010... |
29 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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NASA representatives have announced that the American space agency has postponed a decision on whether a mission to repair the Hubble space telescope in May will be authorized or not, after learning that the schedule of the launching conflicts with that of the ARES I-X Crew Launch Vehicle test flight, planned for Jul... |
27 January 2009
03:57 GMT |
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NASA's ambitious Ares V program – a project that envisions the construction of a massive orbital two-stage delivery system capable of carrying approximately 396,000 pounds (180,000 kg) into orbit – is now scheduled to be used for far more than simply delivering Altair lunar landers above the Earth, a... |
22 January 2009
02:01 GMT |
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There have been a lot of discussions concerning the path NASA should follow related to its current and future space missions, but no solid conclusion has been drawn yet. The collaboration between Barack Obama's new NASA transition team and Michael Griffin, NASA's current administrator, has not bee... |
16 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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A mixed team of NASA experts and technicians from their contractors has recently performed a full-scale test of the launch abort system for the future Constellation program set to replace the current space shuttles by 2015. The abort operation is aimed to save the lives of the crew of Constellation's Orion capsu... |
24 November 2008
03:29 GMT |
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The newly-elected president of the United States will have to come up with a thorough but quick decision related to the fate of the space shuttle retirement program, which, in turn, will also affect the remaining missions, as well as a part of NASA's “Constellation” program referring to the replaceme... |
7 November 2008
08:18 GMT |
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Many of the constellations on the night sky have names associated to animals. Corvus, the Crow, is just one of them. It becomes visible in spring in the southern areas of the sky for people living in the mid-northern latitudes in the vicinity of the Leo constellation. It has a relatively small quadrilateral-like patt... |
23 May 2008
08:56 GMT |
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They say you can't build anything without it, and it is probably the best invention ever. I don't know about that, however duct tape saved the day during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. On 11 December 1972, the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon the lunar module Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan ... |
22 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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NASA's new lunar rover prototype is somehow different from the Martian rovers we are familiar with today. Unlike Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's Chariot will not conduct scientific missions. On the contrary, it will be used as a 'workhorse' on the lunar surface, building roads, trenches or as a dri... |
26 March 2008
04:48 GMT |
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How would we know when the winter comes, if it weren't for the seasons on Earth? One might say, well if there aren't any seasons, why would we even want to know such information? Let's say its kind of a mental exercise. The best way of finding out what season the Earth is in is by tracking the motion o... |
1 March 2008
06:40 GMT |
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This is probably the third news related to the supercomputer design I've come across in the latest 24 hours. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for really big systems but this is too much. Because only a day after IBM announced its Blue Gene/P design capable to scale up to 3 petaflops, Sun also issue... |
29 June 2007
02:18 GMT |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has delivered a spectacular image revealing the birth of new stars in the Orion galaxy, a famous constellation visible in winter from the northern hemisphere. They are the result of shockwaves that occurred 3 million years ago when a massive star exploded.The Orion constellation, a... |
19 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Ophiucus is a large constellation 5,000 light years from Earth, located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way, between Scorpio to the west and Sagittarius to the east. Of the 13 zodiacal constellations (which contain the Sun during the course of the year), Ophiuchus is the only one not counted ... |
20 April 2007
06:00 GMT |
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The earliest recorded supernova, SN 185, was viewed by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD. Modern day scientists think they have pretty much figured its formation mechanisms.But recently-observed supernova is making some astrophysicists doubt prevailing theories for how stars die. The massive star, located in galaxy UGC ... |
6 April 2007
05:43 GMT |
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