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SSTL To Develop Low Cost Lunar Orbiter For NASA
London UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a contract for the study phase of a potential joint US-UK lunar orbiter mission to be called Magnolia. This first phase of the contract will run for 9-months, culminating in a preliminary mission design. The contract includes a package of training by SSTL and the University of Surrey that will allow Mississippi State University and NASA ... more NASA Design Challenge Registration Opens 
Washington (UPI) Aug 09, 2007The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has opened registration for its Lunar Plant Growth Chamber engineering challenge. Participating students will design and build greenhouse chambers to analyze and study plant growth from some of the 10 million cinnamon basil seeds that are to be flown into space aboard space shuttle Endeavour this week and then returned to Earth. The student ... more The Fall Of A Russian Space Chief 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Nikolai Sevastyanov, now a former president of the Energiya Space Rocket Corporation -- the flagship company of Russia's space industry -- was forced to step down on July 31 despite the support of his top management. Officially, the Russian Space Agency, or Roskosmos, has repeatedly said Sevastyanov's plans, especially those concerned with manned flights, did not fit into the 2006-2015 Federal S ... more A Dreamy Lunar Eclipse For August Skies 
Huntsville AL (MSFC) Aug 05, 2007Close your eyes, breathe deeply, let your mind wander to a distant seashore: It's late in the day, and the western sun is sinking into the glittering waves. At your feet, damp sand reflects the twilight, while overhead, the deep blue sky fades into a cloudy melange of sunset copper and gold, so vivid it almost takes your breath away. A breeze touches the back of your neck, and you turn to see a ... more NASA Spacecraft Heads For Polar Region Of Mars 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 04, 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region. Perched atop a Delta II rocket, the spacecraft left Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at 5:26 a.m. Eastern Time into the predawn sky above Florida's Atlantic coast. "Today's launch is the first step in the long journey to ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Jul 29, 2007Boston University (BU) researchers published today the first clear evidence of how gases from Jupiter's tiny moon's volcanoes can lead to the largest visible gas cloud in the solar system. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a moon named Io that is just 100 km larger in radius than Earth's Moon. According to lead researcher Michael Mendillo, professor of electrical and computer ... more NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates And Crew 
Silver Spring MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2007NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15. They will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of medical objectives for long-duration spaceflight. NASA veteran space flyer and aquanaut Nicholas Patrick will lead the 10-day undersea mission aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ... more Digging Deep For Martian Life 
Moffett Field CA (ARC) Jul 24, 2007The European Space Agency (ESA), like NASA, has a plan to explore the solar system. ESA's Aurora Programme includes orbiters, landers, rovers, and ultimately, human exploration of the moon and Mars. ExoMars, a rover scheduled to launch in 2011 and to land on Mars in 2013, is one of Aurora's flagship missions. The ExoMars rover will be capable, for the first time since NASA's Viking missions in ... more Throttling Back To The Moon 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2007Accelerating from 0 to 60 then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn full-on (liftoff!) or full-off (coasting through space) with no in-between. And that can be a problem--namely, how do you land this thing? Throttling is crucial for a planetary lander. ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars. The robots, K10 Black and K10 Red, carry 3-D laser scanners and ground-penetrating radar. The team arrived at Haughton Crater at Devon Island, Canada, on July 12 and will operate the machines un ... more Pratt And Whitney Rocketdyne Awarded NASA Contract For J-2X Ares Rocket Engine 
Canoga Park CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) was awarded a NASA contract valued at $1.2 billion to design, development and test a J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles. "We are very proud to have been selected by NASA to power the return of U.S. astronauts to the moon and beyond," said Stephen Finger, president, Pratt and Whitney. "This contract award is ano ... more Saturn Turns 60 
London UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2007"We detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft's powerful wide-angle camera," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London. "I was looking at images of the region near the Saturnian moons Methone and Pallene and something caught my eye." The newly discovered moon first appeared as a very faint dot in a series of images Cassini ... more Hidden Lake Could Be Key To Helping Darfur 
London (UPI) Jul 20, 2007A huge lake hidden beneath Darfur and detected by radar from space could be the key to saving lives in the arid, war-torn region. Plans are under way to dig 1,000 wells that could provide water and help stop the region's war, The Telegraph reported Thursday. A team led by a veteran of NASA's Apollo lunar exploration program used satellite equipment to compose a picture of the 12,000-square-mile ... more
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