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NASA awards ATLAS Space Operations space operations partnership
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
Both firms are Founders of the Empower Space Alliance. As part of the contract, ATLAS will explore ways to help NASA enable new and greater scientific discovery...
Power Glitch in US Segment of ISS Fixed, Station Back to Full Power - NASA
May 03, 2019 (Sputnik)
"This morning, Robotics Ground Controllers in Mission Control Houston successfully completed an operation to remove a failed Main Bus Switching Unit-3 and repla...
Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps
May 03, 2019 (ESA)
One year ago, the Gaia mission released its much-awaited second set of data, which included high-precision measurements - positions, distance indicators and pro...
Gateway to the Solar System
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
So, what is the easiest way to go anywhere in the Solar System? Well, most people don't know this, but the answer is to do it in stages. One approach that NASA ...
NASA and Blue Origin Help Classrooms and Researchers Reach Space
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
Elizabeth Kennick, president of Teachers in Space, does not take the opportunity to fly an experiment to space for granted. The nonprofit organization has worke...
NASA Aids Testing of Boeing Deep Space Habitat Ground Prototype in Alabama
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
As part of a two-phased approach to lunar exploration, NASA is leading development of a lunar outpost called the Gateway. In the initial Gateway phase, NASA wil...
RSC Energia developed a one-orbit rendezvous profile
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
The main advantage of such a profile is the reduction of the time spent by cosmonauts in a small volume of a spacecraft. One more advantage of this one-orbit re...
International Space Station suffers partial power loss, no danger to crew
Apr 30, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Monday morning, teams identified an issue with the International Space Station's electrical power system and are working to identify the root cause and restore...
Photobioreactor: oxygen and a source of nutrition for astronauts
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
Future human research missions are expected to take astronauts to the Moon and Mars. A deciding factor for the success of these missions will be keeping the res...
Multiple regenerative medicine payloads ready for ISS study
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
SpaceX's 17th commercial resupply services mission is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than 4:22 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 30. This will mark the 29th ...
New concept for novel fire extinguisher in space
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
VEM is based on the completely "reverse" operation of widely-used fire extinguisher, namely, spraying extinguisher agent(s) into the firing point. VEM is suckin...
Pushing Boundaries: An out-of-this-world art project
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
A team of CU Boulder students, faculty and staff from engineering, art and art history, environmental design and business are collaborating on the project, spea...
NASA astronaut to set record for longest spaceflight by a woman
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
Koch, 40, arrived on the ISS on March 14 with two other crew members -- an American and a Russian -- for what was initially planned to be a six-month mission. T...
Asteroids help scientists measure distant stars
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
There are more than 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, and, while we have learned much about them, there are relatively few whose size has been directly...
US Astronauts Have 15 Minutes to Evacuate to Russian Part of ISS If NH3 Leaks
Apr 16, 2019 (Sputnik)
"In the event of a depressurization of the heat exchanger between the external and internal circuits... the US crew can be saved with a fairly quick evacuation ...
Asteroids Help Scientists Measure Diameters of Faraway Stars
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The study establishes a new method for astronomers to determine the size of stars, as the international team led by Tarek Hassan from DESY and Michael Daniel fr...
International Space Station's US Segment Leaked Dozens of Kilograms of Methane
Apr 16, 2019 (Sputnik)
The RRM-3 module of the American section of the International Space Station (ISS) has leaked several dozens of kilograms of methane into space, a source in the ...
UAE Names First Astronaut to Fly to ISS on Board Russian Soyuz Vehicle
Apr 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
"@MBRSpaceCentre announces that it has selected Hazzaa AlMansoori as the prime astronaut and Sultan AlNeyadi as the backup astronaut for the International Space...
UAE mulls buying Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to ISS: Roscosmos
Apr 12, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Within the framework of the future flight program, the UAE plans a specialized manned mission for which a spacecraft is required. They consider buying a Soyuz ...
Northrop Grumman Carries Technology, Scientific Investigations on Mission to Space Station
Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)
The launch on the company's Antares rocket departs from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island...
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