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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
06:04 GMT |
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Everyone knows that space is big. The thing about calling the Universe massive and what not is that no one can get a clear image of precisely what type of distances we're talking about. The closest star to our location would take the equivalent of 50 million Earth-Moon journeys to get too, or roughly 4.2 light-y... |
26 November 2009
09:43 GMT |
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NASA has always been, to some extent, one of the US agencies that has shared the fruits of its labor. The complex technologies its engineers have developed over the years, to tackle various aspects related to space exploration, have, in many cases, made their way into the general market. Taking into account the diffi... |
23 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are currently getting ready to perform a new series of radiation tests on a group of squirrel monkeys. The study will attempt to determine the possible effects that prolonged radiation exposure may have on astronauts during long-duration spaceflight to other planets, such as to... |
12 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The Pavilion Lake, in British Columbia, Canada, is arguably one of the most peculiar ones in the world. It features bacterium-built, coral-shape structures that are not similar to any others in the world, and that have not been subjected to attacks by snails, worms and other grazing animals. Because of these peculiar... |
12 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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A new “letter of intent” was recently signed in Washington DC, for the first time ever binding the Mars programs of the American space agency, NASA, and the European Space Agency (ESA) together. With this step completed, engineers can move to creating joint missions that could bring about a new understand... |
9 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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The American space agency has great plans for the future, including the prospect of colonizing the Moon and sending astronaut expeditions to the Red Planet. However, all of these ambitious plans are heavily reliant on one thing, and that is the ability to produce things off-world. For example, manufacturing space par... |
5 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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One of the things about space exploration, and exploring other planets directly is that everything needs to function as efficiently as possible. That is to say, since we don't have yet the technology to go to Mars on a daily basis, any trip we make would need to be self-sufficient, and also able to carry as many... |
3 November 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, believe that we are on the verge of a new paradigm shift in space exploration, one that could see the replacement of single robotic explorers on or around a planet or moon with a fleet of instruments, all of them in constant communication wi... |
28 October 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Astronomers studying pictures sent back by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), currently circling the Red Planet, say that an intriguing clump of depressions in the Martian soils could be the entries to an underground cave system. The underground refuges could be supporting microscopic life forms that were driven ... |
26 October 2009
11:55 GMT |
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Yesterday, the review panel that US President Barack Obama appointed earlier this year to analyze the activity at the American space agency NASA at last released the final version of its report, a 156-page document. The main conclusions of the analysis are that the space agency is severely underfunded for Project Con... |
23 October 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Between 1961 and 1985, the Soviet space agency funded and conducted a series of space-exploration missions to Venus, in order to collect as many scientific data about the “morning star” as possible. Ten of the probes in the Venera program successfully landed on the surface of the planet and relayed data b... |
9 October 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Soon, the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, informally known as the Augustine Commission, will present its conclusions about the future development avenues NASA could be set on to the Obama Administration. Despite the fact that the panel is charged with rethinking the agency's policies, it seems to be at an... |
9 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Even before three independent spacecraft confirmed the existence of water-ice on the Moon, the American space agency, NASA, had plans of someday going to the lunar surface and establishing a permanent research base there. In order to make this a reality, a sustainable, durable, compact and light-weight power source w... |
6 October 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Some science-fiction novels may have got it right. Space lanes, as envisioned in Edmond Hamilton's 1928 classic Crashing Suns, may indeed exist, and they may be connecting all the most important bodies in the solar system. These corridors are best described as low-speed, fuel-efficient pathways of traveling from... |
3 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The Kepler Space Telescope, launched earlier this year, is, arguably, one of the best telescopes in the world today, especially when it comes to detecting small exoplanets around other stars. Its mirrors are high-tech enough to observe periodical variations in a star's brightness, which may only be caused by a p... |
2 October 2009
02:56 GMT |
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This week saw one of the most important announcements made in the past decade. Scientists were finally able to conclude that water ice existed on the Moon, and their theory is supported by scientific measurements conducted by three separate instruments. Additionally, the find could be again proven next month, when th... |
25 September 2009
01:52 GMT |
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The Review of Human Space Flight Plans group, appointed by the Obama Administration to assess the American space agency's situation, ambitions, funding plans and future plans, is about to soon make its final recommendations to the President. In the meantime, its members have announced that no more public meeting... |
21 August 2009
02:47 GMT |
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The time may never be more appropriate for NASA to start collaborating with partners from the private sector in its endeavors, analysts say. With massive budget restraints planned for the next few years, and with the ongoing demands of Project Constellation, the agency should start thinking of new ways to achieve its... |
20 August 2009
09:52 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new find, experts at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, have announced having managed to find a way to convert Moon rocks directly into oxygen, a find that could have significant implications on future expeditions to the Earth's natural satellite. For would-be colonists, ever... |
12 August 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Former astronaut and retired United States Marine Corps Major General Charles Boden Jr. was confirmed by the Senate of the US as the new NASA Administrator in mid-July. The new leader was sworn into office on July 17th, and has recently made an hour-long statement from the agency's headquarters, in Washington DC... |
22 July 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) are currently working on implementing a new communication system on the International Space Station that would essentially represent a new technology, which would extend the limits of the Internet in... |
7 July 2009
20:31 GMT |
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The Japanese Kaguya spacecraft, launched in 2007, transmitted back readings that confirmed the presence of the rare chemical uranium on the surface of the Moon. For the first time, astronomers and astrophysicists have definitive proof that an energy source for a future lunar base is readily available on the Earth... |
30 June 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Lately, there has been much fuss about the possibility of building a base on the Moon within the next couple of decades. The idea is naturally not new, with plans for such a facility dating back at least 40 years. But, recently, NASA has engaged actively in devising plans and designs for a future base, as well as pos... |
1 June 2009
03:26 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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Located on an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, the Ceres dwarf planet is about 950 kilometers in diameter, and totals about 32 percent of the mass present in the inner asteroid belt. Astronomers believe that its surface is covered in water ice and various hydrated minerals, and this knowledge has recently sparked an i... |
17 April 2009
03:41 GMT |
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The American space agency's plans for future missions on the Red Planet seem to be in serious trouble, as NASA is currently dealing with an increased criticism from people saying that the costs associated with exploring Mars are simply too great, as related to the benefits. In addition, our neighboring planet is... |
24 March 2009
03:34 GMT |
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The two agencies have decided on Wednesday that the investigation of Jupiter's and Saturn's systems is worth the expense of sending numerous space probes in the area starting with 2020. Also, for their upcoming joint mission, the two most important space agencies in the world have selected Saturn's moo... |
19 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is currently under intense fire from critics, who say that the project has already exceeded more than 4 times the initial sum of money granted for the project, and that the new rover attempts to include way too many new technologies for the current stage of development. At th... |
11 February 2009
08:25 GMT |
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I don't know about you, but I've been a pretty big fan of SF movies back in my youth and thus quite familiar to the numerous types of currencies existing in various science-fiction shows, from Gold pressed Latinum from Star Trek's Deep Space 9 and Galactic Credits seen in Star Wars to the Cubits from B... |
9 October 2007
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