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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.
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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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A special branch of the United States military and the American space agency are working together on making interstellar space travel possible within the next century or so. As part of this initiative, they collaboration is now calling for proposals on the technologies that should be pursued to this end.
There ar... |
12 May 2011
02:42 GMT |
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A spacecraft design created by engineers at the NASA Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas, has now been deemed ready to carry out its first untethered test flight. Experts want to use this machine to put about 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) of cargo on the Moon.The design, called Morpheus, is touted as a potential d... |
11 May 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Come July, the stage will be set for the largest space competition ever to begin in the United States. With the space shuttles retired, companies offering private spaceflight will take center stage, and with them so will the scientific community.Researchers around the world are itching to get the chance to conduct sc... |
28 April 2011
10:07 GMT |
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With the retirement of the space shuttles looming ahead, the American space agency is desperately trying to shorten the massive gap in orbital capabilities it will experience over the next few years. In a bid to do so, it announced the four companies whose projects will receive NASA funding this year.
There are fo... |
19 April 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Following a successful “burn to depletion” maneuver, one of the most enduring missions NASA sent to space finally came to an end yesterday, March 25. The Stardust spacecraft sent its last transmission to Mission Control at 4:33 pm PDT (2333 GMT).The comet-hunting probe had a very rich career, which spanne... |
25 March 2011
11:44 GMT |
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An analysis of the most feasible, possible ways of traveling through space has revealed that using spacecraft powered primarily by water to explore Mars and other locations in the solar system might open up new possibilities in space exploration.Flights to the Red Planet, Venus, the Saturnine moons Enceladus and Tita... |
25 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Officials with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) say that work is progressing smoothly in analyzing the ultra-small particles that the Hayabusa sample-return mission brought back to Earth.The mission investigated asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which was discovered back in 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid ... |
18 March 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Officials with the United States Air Force (USAF) say that there is currently no fixed timetable for the launch of additional X-37B space planes, but add that the possibility is not off the table altogether.
The robotic spacecraft, pegged as mini-space shuttles, are unmanned vehicles capable of reaching low-Earth... |
12 March 2011
04:29 GMT |
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Officials with Virgin Galactic announced recently that the company has just signed an agreement with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of Colorado, for several seats on the upcoming suborbital flights that the corporation is scheduled to being flying. At this point, Virgin is constructing and testing its own fl... |
28 February 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Officials with the Vienna, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) announced that the space plane they are developing to taxi astronauts to low-Earth orbit will be called Prometheus.The move shows consistency with the line the company took some time ago, when officials there decided to go with Greek mytholo... |
9 February 2011
02:37 GMT |
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According to an official announcement, the resupply cargo spacecraft that Japan sent to the International Space Station last week managed to finally reach its destination yesterday, January 27, after five days of chasing the space lab in orbit.
The vehicle was captured at 6:41 am EST (1141 GMT), as confirmed by tw... |
28 January 2011
02:27 GMT |
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On Thursday, January 20, the United States launched a new classified satellite from California, aboard the biggest available delivery system the country operates. Now, amateur astronomers believe they have discovered the newly-launched spacecraft in Earth's orbit. When the US Air Force (USAF) launched the satell... |
26 January 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce the successful launch of the Kounotori-2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) unmanned cargo spacecraft. The resupply capsule is currently heading towards the International Space Station (ISS).According to the official flight manifest, HTV2 is due to reac... |
22 January 2011
07:57 GMT |
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For years, aeronautics experts have been trying to find alternatives to the standard space launch – a rocket that is powered by burning chemical fuel. An alternative proposition that scientists are seriously considering now calls for the use of lasers or microwaves beam to launch spacecraft.Under the new approa... |
22 January 2011
04:54 GMT |
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A group of Russian physicists announces the creation of a new communications method that ensures mission control can remain in constant contact with spacecraft reentering Earth's atmosphere. The way this is done is by making a giant radio receiver out of a plasma sheath.The communications blackout problem affect... |
7 January 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Ever since the American space agency introduced the Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev 2), numerous companies, either established or now-forming, have begun production, or at least developed plans to do so, of spacecraft capable of reaching our planet's orbit.Just a few years ago, something like this wou... |
20 December 2010
09:52 GMT |
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In a recent issue of the scientific journal Acta Astronautica, experts proposed we use our Sun as a communications device. Harnessing its gravitational power could enable us to contact and establish a dialog with extraterrestrial civilizations, they added. Granted, the only issue with this plan is that no one yet kno... |
17 December 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Officials at the Loudoun County, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) and New Mexico-based Virgin Galactic announced recently that they signed a cooperation agreement for constructing a new spacecraft, to be proposed for NASA funding. The two companies plan to build a lifting-body spacecraft capable of s... |
16 December 2010
03:24 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division recently tested a new railgun, whose energy managed to smash the previous world record, which was established back on January 31, 2008. The achievement belongs to the Office of Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun, a large gun that is capable ... |
13 December 2010
10:47 GMT |
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The American space agency announces the development of one of the most complex predictive models ever developed in the world, aimed at simulating the potential interactions between spacecraft and space junk for the next few centuries. The model has been dubbed “low-Earth to geosynchronous environment debris&rdq... |
10 December 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Officials at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has turned 15 in Earth's orbit. The spacecraft has been conducting non-stop observations of the Sun for just as many years.
The probe launched on December 2, 1995, aboard the medium-... |
7 December 2010
16:01 GMT |
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