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  Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 Russia is a fundamental partner in the joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation ExoMars, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Roberto Battiston told Sputnik. ExoMars is the first project in the history of collaboration between the European Union and Russia that aims to search for life on Mars. The project started with the launch of a Russian four-stage Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle on March 14, 2016 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. "ExoMa ... read more |
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The long legacy of space-farming leading us to MarsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2017 Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars are closer to reality than ever befor ... more 
Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 OrbitsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017 The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet. ... more 
Potential Mars Airplane Resumes FlightEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Flight tests have resumed on subscale aircraft that could one day observe the Martian atmosphere and a variant that will improve collection of Earth's weather data. Work on the shape of the ai ... more 
New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars' atmosphere was lost to spaceBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, accord ... more |
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Final two ExoMars landing sites chosenParis (ESA) Mar 29, 2017 Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet's early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface sci ... more  
Musk diving into minds while reaching for MarsSan Francisco (AFP) March 28, 2017 Not content to reach for Mars and dethrone fossil fuels, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday is turning his focus to delving into people's minds. ... more  
Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and BeyondGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 Weaving processes created millennia ago are part of the most cutting-edge technology on NASA's Orion spaceship that may one day shield humans from heat as they ride all the way to Mars and back. Tha ... more 
Mars dust storm west of Opportunity starting to abatePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 Opportunity is just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, heading to the gully, named 'Perseverance Valley.' The large regional dust storm to the west of the rover's site has started to abate, althou ... more 
Breaks observed in Curiosity rover wheel treadsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 A routine check of the aluminum wheels on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found two small breaks on the rover's left middle wheel-the latest sign of wear and tear as the rover continues its journey, ... more  
NASA selects CubeSat, SmallSat mission concept studiesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 NASA has selected ten studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program, to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth's moon, asteroid ... more |
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 Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time 
Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to MarsWashington (AFP) March 21, 2017 President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law that said manned missions to deep space, including to Mars, would be the US space agency's main goal in the decades to come. ... more 
Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One DayPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one ... more 
ExoMars: science checkout completed and aerobraking beginsParis (ESA) Mar 17, 2017 The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway. The mission was launched a year ago this week, and has been ... more 
Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling and Detecting Life in Chile's High DesertMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Due to its extreme dryness, the Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the most important environments on Earth for researchers who need to approximate the conditions of Mars. Working in 90-plus-de ... more |
  Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years - a billion years or so after most volcanic activity ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2017Surviving the long dark night of the Moon  Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India  Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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 Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016 
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket launches to the International Space ... moreMiami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 
New research suggests Neptune's transition from the inner to the outer solar system was relatively slow and steady. The clues to the nature of Neptune's ancient move were discovered in the Kuiper belt, a massive ring of space debris - mostly icy fragments - lying beyond Neptune's orbit.
Most of the millions of objects in the Kuiper belt are red in color, but a minority of objects are ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Four unknown objects being investigated in Planet X  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target |
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 Miami (AFP) April 5, 2017 
NASA's unmanned Cassini spacecraft is preparing for its final plunge into Saturn later this year, after two decades of helping Earth-bound scientists make new discoveries about the sixth planet from the Sun and its mysterious rings.
For what NASA has described as Cassini's "grand finale" as it runs short on fuel, the spacecraft will soar through a 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap betwee ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2017Checking in on Bleriot  Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 29, 2017The electric sands of Titan  Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2017Titan is covered by electrically charged sand grains, experiments suggest |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Aerosols are collections of fine particles, either biological or of other types, in suspension in a gaseous medium. They play a major role in cloud formation and therefore have a strong impact on climate models. They are however extremely hard to study due to the small size and immense variety of their constituent particles.
But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerlan ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft  Paris (AFP) April 4, 2017How Britain became an island  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 30, 2017NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts |
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 Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017 
US flags worldwide were ordered flown at half-staff on Thursday as astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was laid to rest with military honors.
Glenn died in December 2016 at the age of 95, after a long career that included serving as a Marine fighter pilot, a NASA astronaut and a US senator.
His five-hour solo orbit around Earth in 1962 established Glenn as an America ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017Russia, Europe, US Should Work Together on Space Exploration - German Agency  Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2017United Launch Alliance Completes Crew Emergency Egress System  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 
Vast Arctic landscapes may appear to be desolate, barren places, but take a look through a microscope and you'll see thriving ecosystems. The top few meters of ice are home to an estimated hundred million billion trillion (or 10 to the power of 29) microorganisms.
That's why Joseph Cook, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., describes it as a frozen rainforest. "I thi ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 07, 2017Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride  Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017TRAPPIST-1 flares threaten possibility of habitability on surrounding exoplanets  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Atmosphere around super-earth detected |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2017 
The U.S. Navy recently completed a round of tests with an updated variant of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle.
According to the manufacturer, enhancements included software designed to improve the aircraft's autonomous operational capabilities. Testers say the trials enable the platform to enter Early Operational Capability for the U.S. armed forces in ear ... more Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Whiteflies provide insight into stabilizing manmade drones during takeoff  Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 29, 2017A novel hybrid UAV that may change the way people operate drones  Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017General Atomics building ground control station for drones |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2017Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) will receive 11 RD-180 rocket engines in 2017 through US-Russian venture RD Amross, with the latter hoping to sell more in the future, RD Amross CEO Michael Baker told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Space Symposium in Colorado.
The ULA acquires the engines through RD Amross, which is a joint venture, involving RD-180 manufacturer, Russian company Energomash. ... more Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Kremlin Believes Russia Can Compete With Private Firms Like SpaceX in Space  Washington (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2017US Hardware Production Begins for Money-Saving Next-Generation Rockets |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
"The Chandra telescope," notes Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator Ken'ichi Nomoto, "is designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regi ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space  Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky' |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many experiments exhibited cell changes - after hours or even days in zero gravity. Astronauts, however, returned to Earth without any severe health problems after long missions in space, which begs the question as to how capable cells are of ada ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
When NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale - or MMS - mission was launched, the scientists knew it would answer questions fundamental to the nature of our universe - and MMS hasn't disappointed.
A new finding, presented in a paper in Nature Communications, provides observational proof of a 50-year-old theory and reshapes the basic understanding of a type of wave in space known as a kinetic Alfv ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017Scientists recreate space particle collisions inside Large Hadron Collider  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Lego figures don't stand a chance against time reversal  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Ready for the new kelvin |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots. In a new research article published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers add more complexity to the field by demonstrating for the first time that just like in biological evolution, embodied robot evolution is impacted by epigenetic factors ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017NASA Robotic Refueling Mission Departs Station  Paris (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools for Use on Ocean Worlds |
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Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... moreBeijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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