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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace are in the initial planning phases for a moon base. ”As part of our broader commercial space strategy, NASA signed a Space Act Agreement with Bigelow Aerospace to...
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Since the mid-2000s, the space industry has changed its focus from moving large payloads into space to what appears to be an interest in space tourism. This will necessitate changes in safety regulations...
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Eclipse Travel joined charter agency Air Partner and airline Air Berlin to organize a flight on March 16th as comet Pan-STARRS flies through the solar system. The Boeing 737-700 flight will fly 36,089...
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UPDATE: NEW EVIDENCE FOUND THAT SPACEX WILL SUPPLY CAPSULE AND LAUNCH VEHICLE Millionaire Dennis Tito became the first paying customer to make a trip to the International Space Station and now he...
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Cape Canaveral, FL — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official cargo resupply mission to the International...
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Russia’s first satellite manufactured and operated by a private company will be launched in 2013, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK daily. The DX1-class 50-kg satellite will be designed...
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“Venus is known to be a very warm planet with a dense atmosphere. Its mesosphere extending from the cloud deck up to ∼100 km is composed mainly of carbon dioxide (CO2, 96.5%) and Nitrogen (N2, 3.5%). This region is dynamically and photochemically very active, but has been up to now poorly observed. “-Source Venus Express has found a cold region in the planet’s atmosphere...
Credits: ESA/EADS Astrium – Raoul Kieffer The fourth Galileo satellite arrived at Cayenne Airport in French Guiana, flown from the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The satellite was protected during the flight by an air-conditioned container. It was then transported to the preparation...
13 July 2012 Poland and ESA. Credit: ESA On 13 July, ESA Member States unanimously approved the accession of Poland to the ESA Convention. ESA’s Director General is now mandated to sign the Accession Agreement together with the Minister of Economy of Poland, Mr Waldemar...
The latest weather satellite in Europe’s highly successful Meteosat second-generation series is on its way after lifting off on an Ariane 5 at 21:36 GMT (23:36 CEST) on Thursday, 5 July from Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he will be the first human sent into space by Iran’s space program. Iran successfully launched a monkey into space and retrieved it alive last week, their next goal is to send humans into space. The West is concerned about Iran’s space program because their rocket technology could be used to deliver...
One of two official packages of photos of Iran’s famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday. The two...
South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday. It was South Korea’s third attempt to launch a civilian rocket to send a satellite in orbit in the past four years. The launch came after two...
A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first clear evidence of energy transfer from the sun’s magnetic field to the solar atmosphere or corona. This process, known as solar braiding, has been theorized by researchers,...
Quick Facts LAMP was deployed in 2009 on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) The Campaign took 50 orbits to complete LAMP made spectroscopic observations of Helium in the atmosphere of the Moon. Though...
Recap Video WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will congratulate members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., at...
For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement...
05/06/13 – Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has hired Aston Martin’s Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering, Chris Porritt, to be its Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. Chris is a world-class leader...
Today DIYROCKETS and Sunglass are announcing a partnership to launch the world’s first open source competition to create 3D printed rocket engines through collaborative design. The competition opens...
Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA The Sun unleashed a solar storm directed at Mars on Wednesday. While the Mini Cooper sized rover is designed to handle harsh conditions in space it’s handlers at NASA’s...
The Large Hadron Collider has given physicists a large quantity of data since the first run in 2009. The LHC is in need of a little vacation. “Long Shutdown 1″ (LS1) will start on February...
