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Voyager 1 is the man-made object farthest away from home, some 18 billion kilometers or 11 billion miles away from the Sun. It's been flying for 35 years to get there, so it's going to remain the farthest object for decades to come.
It takes 17 hours for signals from the spacecraft to reach Earth, even th... |
14 December 2012
17:11 GMT |
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A private company is preparing manned moon journeys meant to be sold for a price of about $1.5 billion each, the company's owners declared at the National Press Club meeting in Washington on Thursday, December 6. The missions are planned to start by 2020, offering a two-person-trip for the same price unmanned f... |
7 December 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Voyager 1 has recently unveiled a region of our solar system previously unknown to scientists, NASA representatives informed in a statement. The event makes Voyager 1, along with its sibling, Voyager 2, the first human-launched spacecraft to exceed the limits of our solar system passing through a border region, defi... |
4 December 2012
07:48 GMT |
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NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos selected two veterans – Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko – for a one-year mission on the International Space Station.
The mission will be launched in spring 2015 with the astronauts' return to Earth planned for spring 2016, Space reports.
The expedition is ... |
27 November 2012
04:18 GMT |
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SpaceX private spacecraft's founder Elon Musk, started a huge project intended to finalize with a giant Mars colony of up to 80,000 people. People who want to get on Mars would have to pay $500,000 (390,472 Euro) a trip, according to Space. Small groups of about 10 pioneers would be shipped at the beginning of... |
24 November 2012
03:49 GMT |
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An orbiting NASA spacecraft has captured a giant sun eruption which occurred on November 16 in two rounds. The first event took place at 1 a.m. EST (06: 00 GMT), followed by another one four hours later.
“The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium,&rdq... |
19 November 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Us humans have built some pretty fast stuff in our times. By our own standards anyway, by more "universal" standards, even the fastest thing we ever built is a slouch. But we're working on it.
Researchers at the University of Huntsville in Alabama are using "dilithium crystals" to build a fusion impulse rocket ... |
8 October 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that four of the instruments aboard their newly-launched MetOp-B satellite have been turned on this week, and that the first science data are already pouring in.
The spacecraft was launched aboard a Russian-built Soyuz ST Fregat medium rocket from the Baikonur... |
28 September 2012
11:37 GMT |
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Engineers at the NASA Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia, announce that a test article simulating the size and weight of the agency's new spacecraft, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, was recently able to complete a final round of water impact assessments.
The tests took place as the 8.1-ton (18... |
28 September 2012
04:23 GMT |
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The American space agency has a well-thought-out strategy for the unmanned exploration of Mars, which apparently culminates in sending a sample-return mission to the surface of the Red Planet.
Such a spacecraft would be capable of landing at a designated location, scoop up a significant amount of dust, rock fragmen... |
26 September 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Officials with the United States Air Force announce that the third flight of the X-37 robotic space plane is about to begin. While they did not go into any details about the purpose of the mission, the representatives did say that the launch would take place in October.
They have also added that the vehicle may lan... |
25 September 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Yesterday, July 27, a group of space enthusiasts from Denmark launched a two-stage, homemade rocket into the upper atmosphere, at an altitude of 20 kilometers (12 miles). The team behind the rocket is called Copenhagen Suborbitals.
The new test is meant to support the development and testing of advanced technologie... |
28 July 2012
07:24 GMT |
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Officials from US aerospace and defense contractor Alliant Techsystems (ATK) announce that the rocket and manned spacecraft the company is building have just passed a critical NASA review. This is an important step towards ensuring the two entities continue their collaboration.
ATK is developing the Liberty rocket a... |
18 July 2012
08:07 GMT |
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Some time ago, mission controllers at NASA detected a minuscule tendency of the two Pioneer spacecraft to slow down, as they were traveling towards the edge of the solar system. Finally, after laborious investigations, experts figured out what was causing the so-called Pioneer Anomaly.
Investigators at the NASA Jet... |
18 July 2012
03:56 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) are pleased to announce that their next-generation design for the Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) has just been approved, based on the conclusions of a two-day Spacecraft Baseline Interim Design Review. The assessment completed the Spacecraft Bus Critical Design Review... |
28 June 2012
11:49 GMT |
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Virgin Galactic, the company that is already developing the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo combination for $200,000 suborbital joyrides, could soon announce a new spacecraft, analysts believe. The vehicle could be used to deliver small satellites and other payloads to low-Earth orbit.
The announcement is expected to co... |
26 June 2012
11:40 GMT |
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A design that proposes an aircraft which can reach suborbital altitudes after taking off form a standard airport runway is currently being considered by experts at the European Space Agency (ESA). The organization is very interested in affordable access to these intermediary altitudes.
Conducting microgravity resea... |
2 May 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency announced yesterday, April 16, that the planned launch of the private Dragon spacecraft is likely to proceed according to the current schedule. The success of this flight will mark the first time a space vehicle built by a private entity achieves orbital docking.
The Dragon c... |
17 April 2012
09:37 GMT |
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During the development of the now-scrapped Hermes spaceplane project, engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) developed a special foil pressure sensors, to be used on the vehicle's wings. Now, the same tool is used in car crash tests, to make automobiles safer for drivers and passengers.
German automaker ... |
17 March 2012
07:01 GMT |
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An unmanned spacecraft developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the US Air Force (USAF) just celebrated its first anniversary in space. The Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (X-37B OTV-2) has been in space for over 12 months.
Dubbed USA-226, this is only the second flight ever conducted with t... |
7 March 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) are currently working on developing a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors for deep space exploration. This device could come in handy for long duration missions, but it could also make it easier to conduct complex scientific experiments.
Basically, a LIDAR is the... |
23 February 2012
04:22 GMT |
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In a new report, entitled “Energy Horizons: United State Air Force Energy S&T Vision 2011-2026,” the USAF lists all of its technological needs for the next 15 years. Also included in the document is the organization's vision for the future of energy sciences, both for terrestrial and deep space appli... |
22 February 2012
10:57 GMT |
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A computer glitch was responsible for the failure of the Phobos-Grunt sample-return mission to the Martian moon Phobos, a report by Russian investigators explains. The document finally settles the debate as to what actually happened to the Russian Federal Space Agency's (RosCosmos) probe.
Other reasons that we... |
13 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Experts managing the Ebb lunar orbiter have just released the first video the spacecraft made of regions on the far side of the Moon. The probe arrived in orbit around Earth's natural satellite on December 31, 2011, and is scheduled to begin its full science mission next month.
Ebb is one of the twin NASA Grav... |
2 February 2012
03:16 GMT |
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The commercial crew program being fostered by the American space agency is bound to get an extension on February 7. NASA has just announced plans to solicit new proposals for the development of spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts to low-Earth orbit.
This call for proposals is meant to attract more private... |
31 January 2012
05:33 GMT |
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A failure in the radio system aboard the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has its mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, on the edge. The probe is fairly old, and is now communicating with Earth by using a backup system.
The orbiter has been studying Saturn, its m... |
13 January 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Scientists say that one way of ensuring our species will survive whatever the Universe may throw against it is to spread amongst the stars. This may be achievable through suspended animation, or perhaps by sending spacecraft carrying our DNA to other planets.
This is a very interesting perspective on space explorat... |
5 January 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency are hard at work towards developing a type of harpoon that would enable future robotic spacecraft to rapidly and precisely collect samples from the surface of comets, without having to land on their surface.
This would be an important step forward, since comets are not the easie... |
14 December 2011
04:38 GMT |
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On Thursday, November 24, mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, sent a series of commands to the Deep Impact spacecraft. The orders were to fire up its onboard rocket motors for 140 seconds, altering its paths so that its options remain opened. The probe successfu... |
2 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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The US Air Force (USAF) Rapid Capabilities Office is operating the X-37B unmanned spacecraft, which were developed by Boeing Phantom Works. The second such vehicle to fly to space has reached 270 days of continuous operations in low-Earth orbit today.
This is an impressive milestone because this is precisely how lo... |
30 November 2011
05:59 GMT |
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At this point, spacecraft exploring other worlds, or moving outside the solar system, figure out where they are in space by using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. But a team of experts proposes replacing this method with a pulsar-based reference system.
Such an approach would entail the same level of prec... |
28 November 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Officials at the West Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corporation, announce that their Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) project managed to pass its preliminary design review (PDR) test with flying colors. This allows the company to start focusing on further developing the spacecraft.
At this point, the Nor... |
14 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Officials with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, say that they have recently sent a new set of commands to the Voyager 2 space probe, which is currently located on the outskirts of the solar system. The command called on the spacecraft to switch to a backup set of thrusters.
The commands ... |
7 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Representatives from the NASA Commercial Crew Program announce that the American space agency has entered into an unfunded agreement with Excalibur Almaz. The contract was signed as part of the NASA Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) program.
The CCDev2 is focused on supporting private companies that demon... |
2 November 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that a new test flight of the newest generation of robotic landers it is currently developing has been scheduled for November 4. The Robotic Lander Project seeks to develop spacecraft that could land autonomously on the Moon and Mars. The reason why the November 4 test ... |
29 October 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Officials from the American space agency say that all four companies involved in the Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev2) are currently on track with their respective project, largely continuing to achieve their set milestones with precision.
The sole purpose of the program is for NASA to help private compan... |
26 October 2011
02:28 GMT |
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Officials at Lockheed Martin announced yesterday, October 25, that they will begin integrating the GeoEye-2 satellite later this month, at its Sunnyvale, California-based facility. This spacecraft is one of the first next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
GeoEye-2 will be mated with its integrat... |
26 October 2011
02:10 GMT |
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Following 77 days of non-stop flight, the China National Space Administration's (CNSA) Chang'e 2 spacecraft is now parked in the L2 Lagrangian point. This spot is located about 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) away from Earth.
Lagrangian points are locations around the Moon and Earth where an object... |
25 October 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that their Proba-1 microsatellite has just turned 10 in Earth's orbit. Its anniversary is celebrated throughout this week.
Though very small, the spacecraft has produced such exquisite images that now hundreds of scientific teams worldwide are... |
25 October 2011
04:31 GMT |
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The Boeing Company, one of the handful of corporation working with NASA under the provision of the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program, announces the achievement of an impressive milestone in the development of its CST-100 unmanned space capsule. The spacecraft has recently completed its primary wind tunnel t... |
19 October 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Since July 16, when it entered orbit around the solar system's largest asteroid, the NASA Dawn space probe has been collecting a wealth of data on the space rock. Now, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are sharing the findings with their colleagues.The early sci... |
18 October 2011
05:46 GMT |
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During the latest test flights of the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft the Virgin Galactic company is developing for suborbital joyrides, the vehicle entered a period of uncontrolled descent, during which time it was literally falling out of the sky. Eventually, the crew regained control of the situation.The spacecraft's... |
18 October 2011
02:46 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announced recently that the agency is working on a new generation of atomic clock, devices used for keeping exquisitely-precise track of time. At this point, spacecraft for instance rely on GPS satellites, which do have some degree of error. The goal of the American space agency is to develop a tech... |
17 October 2011
09:26 GMT |
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As the Sun is nearing its solar maximum for this cycle – Solar Cycle 24 – it will begin to produce increasingly large amounts of radiation. These particles will bathe commercial and military aircraft, as well as spacecraft in Earth's orbit, with more radiations than normal.
What this implies is an... |
28 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that five important companies have just been selected for a new round of NASA grants. This time, the money is being awarded for studies that would lead to plans and proposals concerning the creation of a spacecraft powered by solar electric propulsion.
The most impo... |
14 September 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Late on Wednesday, June 29, the United States Air Force (USAF) successfully launched a new and advanced reconnaissance satellite, which will be used to augment to capabilities of the military. The spacecraft will contribute to producing accurate images at very high speeds, and also to transferring these datasets to s... |
30 June 2011
03:48 GMT |
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When humans finally make their way to Mars, they will not only have to make sure that they don't get contaminated with anything Martian, but also that they do not contaminate the planet with their spacesuits. Ensuring this will not happen is however a very difficult task. Earth's microorganisms are known to... |
21 June 2011
10:06 GMT |
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About four years ago, a scientific experiment meant to assess how different liquids mix with each other flew around the planet on an unmanned spacecraft. Now the results are finally in, and European researchers are able to improve their knowledge on this delicate subject.Much of the data on how fluids mix – tha... |
16 June 2011
10:25 GMT |
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While in space, astronauts and cargo are at some risk of being struck by various impactors, including space junk or micrometerorites. Now, experts propose the development of a new type of sensors, that would literally listen for the sounds such impacts would make.This would help astronauts on the International Space ... |
3 June 2011
02:13 GMT |
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Gaining access to water and other volatile resources would be one of the most important first steps that future lunar colonists would need to deal with upon arriving at the Moon. The European Space Agency is planning a new mission to the lunar surface, whose goal would be to pave the way for explorers.The Lunar Lande... |
1 June 2011
08:45 GMT |
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