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NASA to send critical science, instruments to Space Station
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
This science-heavy flight will deliver investigations and facilities that study and/or measure solar irradiance, materials, orbital debris and more. Here are so...
Can a superconducting magnetic sail slow down an interstellar probe
Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)
However, without a mechanism to slow it down, the space probe could only collect data from the star and its planets as it zoomed past. A theoretical physicist a...
SSL Selected to Conduct Power and Propulsion Study for NASA's Deep Space Gateway Concept
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
The gateway will be a human crew-tended spaceport in lunar orbit that functions as an access point to the Moon and deep space. The power propulsion element (PPE...
MDA Selects AdaCore's GNAT Pro Assurance Development Platform for ISS Software
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
This critical International Space Station (ISS) subsystem has to work reliably over the long term, a requirement that led MDA to maintain Ada as the implementat...
Robotic arm reaches out and grapples Cygnus
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship was then position and bolted into place on the International Space Station's Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 7:15 a.m...
NanoRacks launches Full External Cygnus Deployer on OA-8 to ISS
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
This mission is enabling a unique virtual reality opportunity with National Geographic's VUZE camera. Integrated and launched via NanoRacks, VUZE will allow for...
NASA Moves Up Critical Crew Safety Launch Abort Test
Nov 13, 2017 (SPX)
This full-stress test of the LAS, called Ascent Abort Test 2 (AA-2), will see a booster, provided by Orbital ATK, launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station i...
Colossal SoftBank fund could shake up tech world
Nov 12, 2017 (AFP)
The Vision Fund's $100 billion coffers nearly equals the total amount pumped into venture capital-backed companies last year, according to market intelligence f...
Orbital ATK launches eighth cargo mission to space
Nov 12, 2017 (AFP)
Orbital ATK's barrel-shaped Cygnus cargo ship launched atop an Antares rocket at 7:19 am (1219 GMT), a day after a last-second delay due to an unexpected aircra...
The road to Orion's launch
Nov 10, 2017 (ESA)
A review of the programme by NASA to assess progress is now showing a launch date from December 2019 to June 2020. The first Exploration Mission-1 will circle t...
Science has more impact when researchers travel, collaborate
Nov 09, 2017 (UPI)
Concerned and curious about how new policies like Brexit and U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban might impact science, researchers have been taking a close...
NASA Completes Review of First SLS, Orion Deep Space Exploration Mission
Nov 09, 2017 (SPX)
This uncrewed mission, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is a critical flight test for the agency's human deep space exploration goals. EM-1 lays the founda...
Brazil's tech junkies seek healing at digital detox clinic
Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)
That was when he realized he needed help. L.L., who like other patients interviewed by AFP asked that their full names not be used, suffers from a form of digit...
Stressed seedlings in space
Nov 08, 2017 (ESA)
It's no wonder that the free-floating environment of space stresses organisms, which survive only if they can adapt. Like humans, plants have proven their robus...
Orbital ATK's to deliver supplies to International Space Station
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
The spacecraft, named the S.S. Gene Cernan after former NASA astronaut Eugene "Gene" Cernan, who is the last person to have walked on the moon, will deliver sci...
The Noah's Ark of animals sent in to space
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
The stray from Moscow is one of many animals who preceded humans in the conquest of space; like most of the others, she did not survive. "These animals performe...
Mice, fish and flies: the animals still being sent into space
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the International Space Station programme, explains what we are still learning from animals in orbit. - Why no more dogs, ca...
Dog star: Scientist recalls training Laika for space
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
The former street dog was about to make history as the first living creature to orbit the earth, blasting off on a one-way journey. The Soviet Union sent Laika ...
NanoRacks Deploys Second Kaber-Class Microsatellite This Week, First On-Orbit Assembly
Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)
SIMPL went beyond standard satellite deployment from the Space Station. For this program, NovaWurks Inc. pioneered the Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) technolog...
How Does Your Space Garden Grow
Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)
Simultaneously Growing Three Plant Varieties a First for Veggie The Veggie plant growth team kicked it up a notch with their sixth round of crops grown aboard t...
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