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Glory Team Overcomes Engineering ObstaclesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2010 Engineers have faced and overcome a number of unique challenges in recent years while preparing NASA's newest climate-monitoring mission for launch. Yet the engineering has begun to gel, and engineers are now reaching the final stretch of their effort to prepare the Glory spacecraft for launch. For a few dozen of the engineers who work on the mission, the task begins every morning with an email from NASA mechanical engineer Michael Bruckner. It almost always arrives between 9 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., ... read more |
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  Neptec Wins Canadian Space Agency Contract To Develop A New Generation Of Lunar Rovers Neptec Design Group has won a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the new Lunar Exploration Light Rover (LELR) - an exciting new generation of space exploration technology. ... more | .. |
 Mission to far side of moon proposed A U.S. aerospace company says it is proposing a mission to send a crew to a stationary spot in orbit over the far side of the moon. ... more | .. |
  Graduation Of Europe's New Astronauts ESA's six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially 'astronauts'. The new astronauts, s ... more | .. |
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  Development Of Humanoid Robot To Test Warfighter Protection Equipment Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). This JPEO-CBD, Joint Project Manager for Nucl ... more | .. |
  How Hummingbirds Fight The Wind Hummingbirds rank among the world's largest and most accomplished hovering animals, but how do they manage it in gusty winds? A team of researchers at New Mexico State University, Los Alamos N ... more | .. |
  Leicester Scientists Involved In Development Of New Breed Of Space Vehicle Scientists and engineers at the internationally acclaimed Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead ... more | .. |
  Discovery launch 'no earlier than' Dec 3 The final launch of the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed until at least December 3 so that repairs can be carried out on a hydrogen leak, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more |
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Inspectors find fourth crack in space shuttle Inspectors have found a fourth crack in support beams on the external fuel tanks of the space shuttle Discovery, whose final flight was delayed because of a hydrogen leak, NASA said late Monday. ... more | .. |
 Robo-Op Marks New World First For Heart Procedure The world's first remote heart procedure, using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping, is due to take place at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. It comes six months after Dr Andre Ng carried out the fi ... more | .. |
  Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster It is 11:15 a.m. on a Friday morning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and time for Yihua Zheng's daily check on the sun. She walks from her small office down the hall to the C ... more | .. |
  German Robotic Arm Completes Its Five-Year ISS Mission Germany's first experiment in space robotics has now come to an end. On the evening of 15 November 2010, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurichikhin and Oleg Skripochka performed a space walk during which ... more |
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 Camera On Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues In Rocks NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental hist ... more | .. |
  New Forms Of Highly Efficient, Flexible Nanogenerator Technology Can a heart implanted micro robot operate permanently? Can cell phones and tiny robots implanted in the heart operate permanently without having their batteries charged? It might sound like sc ... more | .. |
 ISS Crew Completes Spacewalk Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka ended Monday's spacewalk at 4:22 p.m. EST. The excursion lasted six hours and 27 minutes. The primary assembly and maintena ... more | .. |
 Breaking The Ice In Antarctica Over the course of the past decade, NASA spacecraft have identified several sites on Mars where conditions capable of supporting life existed in the past. One of the most promising of these si ... more |
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 Space Station Spacewalk Under Russian Program Planned For Today Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside one of the International Space Station's hatchways on Monday to perform a grab bag of spacewalking tasks that outfit the Russian segment for future assembly ... more | .. |
 A Strategy To Search For Life On Mars The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t ... more | .. |
Two cracks found on Discovery's fuel tank Engineers have found two cracks on the external tank of the space shuttle Discovery after delaying its launch until the end of this month following a hydrogen leak, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 NASA NIA To Sponsor Student Planetary Rover Challenge Few NASA projects in recent years have captured the public's attention like the Mars rovers. Now researchers are hoping the chance to design a future rover may capture university students' interest. ... more |
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  Smart grid improvements ahead Global moves toward saving on electricity consumption costs mean an increase in universal adoption of smart grid automation may lead to spending of more than $46 billion worldwide. ... more | .. |
 Sensor On Mars Rover To Measure Radiation Environment About eight months before the NASA rover Curiosity touches down on Mars in August 2012, the mission's science measurements will begin much closer to Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory mission' ... more | .. |
NASA begins examination of Discovery NASA says its engineers are investigating the fuel leak that delayed and then canceled last week's launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
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