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According to a paper published in a recent issue of the scientific journal Solar System Research, a Russian expert was recently able to discover what appears to be Venusian lifeforms, in old pictures.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union dispatched a series of space probes to our neighboring planet, includi... |
24 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Officials from the American space agency announce that engineers are working on refining new technologies that could be used for space exploration. Particularly, their goal is to enable the creation of a new generation of robotic landers that could be sent to numerous locations in the solar system.One of the long-ter... |
16 August 2011
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A group of experts is proposing the creation of a new spacecraft that would fly to Mars, which would use technologies cannibalized from a number of other missions that already visited the Red Planet. Originally, the new project was called the Geophysical Monitoring Station (GMS), but now there's no name attached... |
24 June 2011
02:43 GMT |
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The American space agency has been developing a new lunar lander concept for quite some time now, and some of the systems that will go on the new spacecraft have been successfully tested at a private company's simulating facility, in Alabama.NASA conducts the Lunar Lander Project out of its Marshall Space Flight... |
28 January 2011
10:54 GMT |
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In an interesting new development, one of the leading contestants to win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, Next Giant Leap LLC (NGL), announces that it has just received a $1 million funding boost from Draper Laboratory for the development of some critical systems that will go on its rovers.
NGL is one of the ... |
24 January 2011
02:44 GMT |
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In a study that is bound to reignite the decades-old debate about whether life existed on the Red Planet in the distant past, a team of experts proposes that samples collected by the NASA Viking Mars Lander indeed contained organic molecules. Over the years, a number of investigations were conducted on these sample. ... |
7 January 2011
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The proposed lander that ESA wants to send to the Moon has recently made an important step forward, when representatives from the organization signed a critical contract with EADS-Astrium.The Berlin, Germany-based company will assist the European Space Agency in developing a mission that will act as a precursor for p... |
11 October 2010
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Late yesterday night, the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) launched their second robotic probe headed for the Moon. The mission is part of the country's ambitious efforts to become a power in space as well. The spacecraft took off on October 1, at 1059 GMT (6:59 EDT), from the Xichang Space Center, i... |
2 October 2010
05:13 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently refined a series of astronomical calculations, and determined that the best solution to approach a comet before landing on it is from the south, and with caution.The research is published four years ahead of a planned rendezvous between the Rosetta probe, built by the European Space Age... |
25 September 2010
03:50 GMT |
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One of the most interesting things about Saturn's largest moon Titan is the array of dunes that adorns its surface. Given that there's sand and dunes, it stands to reason that the structures were produced by winds blowing in a certain direction. When the first atmospheric models of the celestial body were c... |
30 July 2010
06:12 GMT |
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For years, the American space agency has been operating the Mars Scout program, which is an array of missions destined to reach the Red Planet, and study it, at low costs. Each Scout project was to cost less than $485 million, which is a very low price tag for a spacecraft destined to reach another planet. But expert... |
30 July 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Over the past five months, researchers using the Mars Odyssey orbiter have been performing a series of listening campaigns near the Martian north pole. The goal was to detect signals that may have been produced by the Phoenix Mars Lander, a spacecraft that arrived at the Red Planet in 2008, but which froze over five ... |
25 May 2010
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Scientists at NASA announce that they will be conducting a final attempt to pick up potential radio signals emitted by the presumably-defunct Phoenix Mars Lander. The spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet in 2008, and mission managers lost contact with it two months after it exceeded its initially-planned mission time... |
14 May 2010
06:44 GMT |
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Recent investigations by NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) satellite have revealed in late 2009 that massive amounts of water-ice can be found at the lunar south pole. Though the area experiences extremely cold temperatures, and the craters there are among the coolest places in the s... |
31 March 2010
06:48 GMT |
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After announcing recently that it will soon begin working on its own space station, the Chinese space agency is now accelerating its plans to go to the Moon. Plans call for this to be achieved by using orbiters at first, then with automated landers, and later with spacecrafts capable of sample-return missions. The co... |
17 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Experts operating the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter say that the first days of the new listening campaign for radio signals sent by the Phoenix lander have yielded no results. The space agency is hopeful that the spacecraft which landed on the Red Planet in 2008 will be able to use its built-in Lazarus mode to reactivate... |
24 February 2010
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The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has started listening for weak radio signals that could be emanating from the frozen Phoenix lander, near the planet's North Pole. Thus far, experts say that there has been no sign that the robot has awaken from its slumber over the Martian winter. In fact, scientists say, it's... |
21 January 2010
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Starting today, January 18, the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter around the Red Planet will start listening to possible signals coming in from the Phoenix Mars Lander. Some experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believe that the station may become active this Martian spring, seeing how most of the winter is behind i... |
18 January 2010
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Officials at NASA are hopeful that they will be able to restore some kind of communications with the Phoenix Mars Lander. The robot was deployed on the surface of the Red Planet in 2008, and managed to exceed its alloted life time. However, unlike the MER components Spirit and Opportunity, it eventually succumbed to ... |
12 January 2010
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China, somewhat of a new player on the international space scene, apparently wants to make up for the time it lost in front of the United States, Europe, and Russia. Having successfully launched its first unmanned lunar probe in 2007, the country is currently aiming at a 2010 deadline for the launch of its second sci... |
27 November 2009
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The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta is currently en route to meet up with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the fringes of the solar system. The two are scheduled to first see each other in 2014. The probe was launched back in 2004, and it has completed about 4,500 million kilometers of its 7,... |
14 November 2009
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The 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X Prize Challenge (LLC) has finally come to an end last week, as the final two teams tried their best to complete the first and second stages of the match-up. Already in the cards was Rockwall, Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace, a company that managed to complete both stages of th... |
3 November 2009
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Having recently maneuvered into its 50-kilometer mapping orbit around the Moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is now able to snap amazing, high-detail photos of features that have only been hinted at by other orbiters around the satellites until now. The switch from one orbit to the other took place ... |
29 October 2009
11:10 GMT |
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Last Thursday, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta space probe managed to perform one of the most successful trajectory correction maneuvers (TCM), according to officials at the agency. The spacecraft's gravity-assist maneuver was very close to projections, and it is now well on its way to meeting up ... |
28 October 2009
15:51 GMT |
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The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is currently taking on a new and difficult task, namely that of producing a lunar lander that is able to, well, land in a place where there is no air. Wings don't do too much good, and propellers are also useless. The only things that could help such a craft safely touch dow... |
16 October 2009
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Experts who spent the last few years analyzing all the data that the Cassini orbiter sent back about Saturn's moon Titan dream of setting up a mission to the surface of the natural site. But, seeing how most of it is covered in an ocean of liquid hydrocarbons, landing a rover could prove difficult. Therefore, it... |
14 October 2009
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) flagship mission to the Red Planet, the ExoMars rover, has been delayed to 2018, after delegates from EU members states agreed to the proposition the space agency made. The 2016 launch window, for which ExoMars was originally planned, would be taken up by an orbiter and a small,... |
12 October 2009
09:38 GMT |
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While the Red Planet has gotten a lot of attention from both space agencies and the general public over the past few decades, Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, have experienced a lot less of it. A few fly-by flights and some telescope observations make up all the science associated with them. But now, an internati... |
5 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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