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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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Officials at the Boeing Company announced that the first unmanned vehicle to be constructed and operated by the United States has returned home safely today, December 3. The Orbital Test Vehicle-1 (OTV-1) is a spacecraft developed on the X-37B platform developed by the corporation for NASA. The American space agency ... |
3 December 2010
09:08 GMT |
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A team of experts at NASA announce that the Deep Impact spacecraft has just sent back its first images of the object it's tracking through the depths of space.The main goal of this mission is to collect readings of the Comet Hartley 2, and the way Deep Impact plans to do that is by effectively chasing the space ... |
22 September 2010
02:33 GMT |
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A rocket that can carry a human into space has been built piece by piece by a team of Danish volunteers and it should be launched on August 31. Whoever said that putting a man in space requires huge government funding and it can only be done by a big space agency of a large resourceful country?A team of Danish volunt... |
24 August 2010
08:46 GMT |
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This month, SpaceX completed successfully its first Dragon high altitude drop test with the purpose of validating the parachute deployment system and recovery operations before the first flight of an operational Dragon, later this year.On the August 12, nine miles off the coast of Morro Bay, California, an Erickson S... |
23 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Twelve space vehicles carrying 200 giants nets each, could remove orbiting space junk and make way for a future space elevator, scientists from Star Inc., a company that is receiving funding for the project from DARPA, stated last Friday at the annual Space Elevator conference.DARPA is the research and development pr... |
17 August 2010
09:24 GMT |
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The ship did not try to reach space on this first flight, it remained at a suborbital level, over the California's Mojave Desert and under the protection of its WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve mother ship. The VSS Enterprise is a commercial spacecraft, part of the Virgin Galactic fleet of SpaceShipTwo. The spacecraft fle... |
17 July 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Scientists at the Italian Center for Aerospace Research (CIRA), in Capua, announce that they are planning to conduct a series of very dangerous maneuvers in the near future, using a new space plane that they designed. The spacecraft is unmanned, and experts at the Center say that they want to test and see if it can m... |
2 March 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Under the US budget proposal for 2011, the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has received a seven-year extension of its mission, running through 2017. The probe, which arrived in Saturn's orbit in 2004, was at first scheduled to be decommissioned in 2008, but its operations were extended until September 2010. Now, Pre... |
5 February 2010
04:09 GMT |
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As part of the New Frontiers Program 2009 Announcement of Opportunity, the NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, California, has submitted a number of scientific proposals to the space agency. Two of the projects have now qualified for the second stage of the competition, which means that the chances of them a... |
20 January 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Late last year, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announced its plans to begin work on the design and construction phases of a new, nuclear-powered spacecraft. This type of project is not new, but the Russian government apparently has taken things seriously. It has just alloted about 430 million rubles ($1... |
12 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are proud today to announce an impressive achievement of the New Horizons space probe, the fastest spacecraft every built. After years of traveling to the boundaries of the solar system, the instrument is finally closer to Pluto – its primary target – than it is to ... |
30 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Astronomers can now boast the creation of the first complete map of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun inside our solar system. A large collection of images, gathered by space probes, telescopes and other observatories, went into the creation of the new map, which is the first one to contain all notable features ... |
16 December 2009
07:04 GMT |
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SpaceX, one of the most important and renowned private spaceflight companies in the world today, has demonstrated over the years that its engineers have sufficient skill to construct a rocket able to deliver a payload to the low-Earth orbit. Now, following the successful test launches of its delivery systems, it plan... |
14 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Arguably the most dangerous stage of a space flight is the reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The process is so harsh that space agencies involved in the International Space Station (ISS) use it to destroy the resupply capsules completely. They are steered into the incorrect angle, and they burn up and disinte... |
26 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have observed elusive formations on the surface of the Sun, but have attributed them to being mere optical illusions, caused by the constant motion of the star's atmosphere. Just recently, the twin STEREO spacecraft managed to demonstrate that this was, in fact, not the case, and that ... |
26 November 2009
03:01 GMT |
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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
02:26 GMT |
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The vast distances in the Universe constitute the main obstacles in devising and sending out space missions to other stars or planetary systems. Until mankind would have a permanent base on the Moon, from where to send out space explorers, we are doomed to have to launch all probes on rockets that burn massive amount... |
12 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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The Planetary Society has again announced plans of testing a solar sail prototype, which it hopes to have built in a spacecraft, and then launched by the end of next year. The mission would essentially attempt to harness the power of solar winds for propulsion, a feat that has been advertised for a long time, but tha... |
11 November 2009
01:55 GMT |
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The Hayabusa space mission, which literally translates into peregrine falcon, is a flight of the Japanese space agency (JAXA), which aimed at landing and retrieving soil samples from the near-Earth asteroid (NEO) 25143 Itokawa. The goal of the mission was to study the potentially dangerous object thoroughly, and then... |
11 November 2009
01:43 GMT |
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Today, at 1422 GMT, a new International Space Station (ISS) module, named the Mini-Research Module 2, will take off from the RosCosmos-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. The MRM2 is also called Poisk, which is the Russian word for “explore.” The craft will take off from the Central Asian spacepo... |
10 November 2009
02:55 GMT |
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At this point, a number of scientific instruments orbits the planet, collecting data about its temperatures and their trends. Designed and built by an international team of experts, led by scientists at the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instruments are mana... |
22 October 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Recently, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft performed its third and final flyby of the innermost planet in our solar system. The flight was meant to cover the knowledge gaps left behind by the other two flybys, and to finish mapping the remainder of the pl... |
22 October 2009
04:32 GMT |
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The fly-by technique is a very common one for spacecraft, as they depart from the Earth to other destinations inside the solar system, or beyond. In order to limit the amount of fuel these probes carry, they are set on trajectories that bring them very close to a planet or other celestial body, but without being capt... |
13 October 2009
05:42 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built in order to further our understanding of particle physics, and also to discover the elusive Higgs boson, engineers and physicists are also planning other uses for it. In the near future, one such purpose may be to test the validity ... |
8 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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With the advent of the Space Age, numerous spacecraft have been sent up to orbit over the years. Some of them are still functioning to this day, relaying back useful information to their control stations on Earth. But many of them are slowly decaying, out of commission, and are littering precious orbital paths, which... |
7 October 2009
09:47 GMT |
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The probes, orbiters and rovers that currently explore the recesses of the solar system and beyond are only crude efforts in mankind's quest to explore the Universe. These robots currently come at very high costs, are relatively fragile, and only carry limited amounts of scientific equipment. But, in the future,... |
2 October 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft (MESSENGER) did its third and final flyby of Mercury, before its 2011 orbital insertion date. During the approach, areas of the planet that had never before been imaged were analyzed, but the success of the mission was dimi... |
1 October 2009
03:23 GMT |
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An asteroid impact would be so devastating to our planet, that the survival of life itself on it would be jeopardized. Although, as far as we know now, the threat of that happening in the short term is fairly small, British experts from the Stevenage space company EADS Atrium are currently working on a new spacecraft... |
31 August 2009
10:05 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA announced a few days ago that a new flight test would be taking place today, featuring the first inflatable reentry spacecraft. Its mission will be to deploy when a carrier enters the Earth or the Martian atmosphere, and to act as a heat shield and aerodynamic brake. The inflatable conc... |
17 August 2009
05:56 GMT |
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At the Henry T. Nagamatsu Laboratory of Hypersonics and Aerothermodynamics at the IEAv-CTA, in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, new types of rocket-propulsion systems are currently underway. The most advanced do not rely on chemical reactions, such as burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen, but on harnessing the power of las... |
31 July 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Experts at the Houston-based University of Texas Health Science Center (HSC) will have the honor of having their nano-fluidics experiments being ferried to orbit aboard NASA's delivery systems. The deal states that SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft, blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center, a part ... |
12 May 2009
10:15 GMT |
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Early on Monday, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suffered an unexpected glitch and was forced to reboot its primary computer system and enter safe mode, mission scientists announced late on Wednesday. The malfunction means that further scientific observations are impossible until the problem is found and fixe... |
27 February 2009
02:12 GMT |
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As part of its ambitious project, China announced a couple of years ago that it planned to send a lunar exploration vehicle on Earth's natural satellite by 2012, a deadline that draws nearer and nearer with each passing day. A failure to respect it would mean disgrace, so Beijing authorities are currently organi... |
25 February 2009
06:28 GMT |
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ESA is planning big for the next decade, its recent actions show. It envisions and supports the construction of a groundbreaking project meant to yield a spacecraft capable of behaving both as a jet airplane and as a rocket. Basically, the new system will be capable of lift-of from an airfield, deliver up to 12 tonne... |
20 February 2009
05:22 GMT |
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was rolled out on Wednesday from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on a trip scheduled to last two days. After it was completed, the spacecraft was tested for more than two months in a thermal va... |
12 February 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Who would have thought just a few decades ago that space flight would be ramping up so abruptly? We're talking about sending probes and landers anywhere in the solar system and far beyond, or even going to the Moon or Mars. And with things evolving at such a fast pace, who can tell what we'll be able to do ... |
18 December 2008
03:28 GMT |
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All flying vehicles share a common problem – fuel. Their flight duration ability is severely limited by the amount of fuel they can carry, which forces designers to resort to annoying compromises in order to develop craft models with reduced consumption that have enough room for giant fuel reservoirs. But this ... |
10 December 2008
04:39 GMT |
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The veil that has been covering the activities performed by Blue Origin, the company created by Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, has been lifted. Underneath, it seems there was assiduous work for the development of the spacecraft called Ne... |
9 December 2008
10:20 GMT |
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A California-based company called XCOR Aerospace is set to take people for a flight into space for as low as $95,000, less than half the price demanded by their competitors from Virgin Galactic. Although the conditions are not as good, the price and the view are definitely worth it. The tests will begin in 2010 and t... |
3 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Finally, after several delays, the spaceship Endeavour and its crew touched down safely on a temporary runway in California, instead of the original designated place, which was regularly used – the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The detour was resorted to due to the poor weather conditions in Florida, where s... |
1 December 2008
14:01 GMT |
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An updated version of a Russian cargo spacecraft from the Progress series is making its way towards the International Space Station, where it will provide the astronauts with fresh supplies. The Progress 31 unmanned space freighter was reported by NASA officials to have had some troubles with one of the few antennas ... |
27 November 2008
10:36 GMT |
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At long last, the biggest planet in our solar system is given the proper attention again, after about 13 years. Following a long series of delays and cancellations (both in this case and for previous suggested missions), NASA has finally decided to send an orbiter to Jupiter. The probe which has made it is called Jun... |
25 November 2008
11:11 GMT |
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This is the third article related to the priority of the Moon over Mars and vice versa, as the next target of the space program. First, it was clear that the Moon would provide a good place to start, since it's the closest and more accessible cosmic body that we can get to, and could also give astronauts a ... |
19 November 2008
09:32 GMT |
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At last, weather conditions seem to have provided a clear launch for the Endeavour spacecraft, which carries a crew of 7 to the International Space Station. As a result, the 2 million-kilogram heavy shuttle blasted off into the sky at 1955 EST (0055 GMT), providing a special show for the watchers who were presen... |
15 November 2008
04:09 GMT |
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