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A planet-searching satellite planned by scientists from MIT, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA-Ames is one of six proposed spacecraft concepts that NASA has picked for further study as part of its Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite program. The planet-searching satellit...
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Blue Origin, the secretive commercial spaceflight startup funded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos, has released new details about their plans to offer suborbital passenger spaceflights.
A brief summary posted on the company's web site several days ago described the company's p...
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Iranian Space Agency
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Iran's space agency 'interested' in cooperating with NASA The head of Iran's space agency says his country is interested in cooperating with NASA. Mohsen Bahrami said Tuesday that "many in the world look at NASA's programs. We are interested in having cooperation, naturally. When you are in orbit...
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Light Sail
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Title: Stability of a Light Sail Riding on a Laser Beam Author: Zachary Manchester, Abraham Loeb (Harvard) The stability of a light sail riding on a laser beam is analyzed both analytically and numerically. Conical sails on Gaussian beams, which have been studied in the past, are shown to be unstabl...
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Raptor rocket engine
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SpaceX 'Mars' rocket engine tested Private firm SpaceX has carried out its first test of the Raptor rocket engine, designed to send humans to Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced that the engine had been fired at the company's facility in McGregor, Texas. If his vision is realised, it could powe...
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A Japanese M-5 rocket is scheduled to launch the Solar-B space observatory on September 22nd, from the Uchinoura Space Centre, Japan.
The one hour Launch window starts at 21:00 GMT
The satellite will study the interaction of the Sun's magnetic field and its corona.
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NASA Asteroid Mission
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NASA Releases New Imagery of Asteroid Mission NASA released Thursday new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including the Orion spacecraft's trip to and rendezvous w...
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Proba-3 mission
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Proba-3 is the third in ESA’s series of missions for validating developments in space systems while carrying an ‘added value’ user payload which can directly benefit from the innovations under test.
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The British company, Virgin Galactic, created by entrepreneur Richard Branson to send tourists into space announced an agreement on Tuesday for the New Mexico state to build a $200 million spaceport.
Virgin Galactic also revealed that up to 38,000 people from 126 countries have paid...
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Space Launch System
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NASA Announces Design For New Deep Space Exploration System NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human space ex...
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SPIDER
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Title: SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter Authors: B. P. Crill, P.A.R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli, S. Benton, R. Bihary, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Brevik, S. Bryan, C. R. Contaldi, O. Dore, M. Farhang, L. Fissel, S. R. Golwala, M. Halpern, G. Hilton, W. Holmes, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, W....
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EDRS system
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ESA relay satellite system to spark European and Canadian leadership More than a hundred senior managers and experts from European space industry, national agencies and ESA packed a Geneva conference room earlier this week to learn about the commercial opportunities offered by ESA's planned da...
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Jason-3 oceanography satellite
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Jason-3 sea-surface height mission secures funds Europe has committed to build the next Jason altimeter spacecraft to monitor the behaviour of the world's oceans. The decision should guarantee the continuation of a remarkable 18-year record of sea-surface shape until late in the decade. [url=...
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Dream Chaser
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In 1982, an Australian spy plane snapped photographs of a miniature space shuttle being fished out of the Indian Ocean by a Soviet ship. The craft turned out to be a BOR-4, which the Russians were testing as part of their short-lived space shuttle programme. So intrigued was NASA by the photographs th...
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The largest optical mirror ever built for a mission beyond Earth’s orbit has arrived at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for environmental testing and spacecraft integration.
NASA’s Kepler mission, with a field of view 70,000 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope, will attempt t...
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