Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Tom Marshburn, a space station astronaut and flight ...
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After a successful liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon on Friday, the company's engineers were working on a glitch in the spacecraft's thruster system, delaying a Saturday rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA reported earlier ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, says that its solar panels are powering the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite that ...
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Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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Netzsch Instruments North America, LLC (Netzsch) is proud to announce that it is currently the sole supplier to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of high temperature thermal analysis instruments used to characterize material ...
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The Aerospace Research Institute (ARI) of Iran has taken some big bold steps towards the accomplishment of its future mission to outer space with the launch of a hi-tech spacesuit production design. According to a statement given by the ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, recently delivered its 1 millionth high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cell to Space Systems/Loral ...
A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
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A NASA spacecraft is sending back evidence that a deep crater on Mars once held a groundwater-fed lake. The information is further evidence that the Red Planet has a history of water. Last fall, NASA scientists discovered evidence ...
Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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NASA's space hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, has wrapped up its prime mission and is moving into an extended four-year plan to continue searching for other worlds. The space agency announced Wednesday that the Kepler has completed its ...
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IDG News Service - We're barrelling down the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at about 300 kilometers per hour, and the Space Shuttle is well to the left of the center line. Astronaut Karol "Bo" Bobko, sitting next to me in the ...
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NASA engineers rarely clap and cheer when their spacecraft crash. That wasn't the case today. Nearly one year after beginning to orbit the moon and helping scientists learn more about the internal structure andcomposition of the moon, ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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SES has announced that its 51st SES spacecraft is in orbit after successful ILS Proton launch, providing fresh satellite capacity in multiple frequency bands to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. BETZDORF, LUXEMBOURG, July 13, 2012 ...
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