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Propellant System Tests Scheduled For DiscoveryCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2011 During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Steve Bowen replaced Tim Kopra as Mission Specialist 2 following a bicycle injury on Jan. 15 that prohibited Kopra from supporting the launch window. Bowen last flew on Atlantis in May 2010 as part of the STS-132 crew. Flying on the STS-133 mission will make Bowen the first astronaut ever to fly on consecutive mi ... read more |
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  Fleet Of INL-Designed Mars Hoppers Could Swiftly Explore Other Worlds Mars is our next frontier. We'd like to know whether the Red Planet ever hosted its own life forms - and where it might be able to host human explorers. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity h ... more | .. |
  UA Engineers Study Birds And Bees To Design Robust Unmanned Vehicles University of Arizona aerospace and mechanical engineers are studying bird and bee flight to develop unmanned vehicles that stay aloft longer and cope with sudden and severe changes in airflow. ... more | .. |
  Boeing And iRobot Team Delivers First SUGVs To USAF Boeing and partner iRobot has announced that they have delivered the first 30 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) under a contract with the U.S. Air Force for the service's Explosive Ordnance Disp ... more | .. |
  VIMS Team Glides Into Polar Research Researcher Walker Smith of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, has been conducting shipboard studies of biological productivity in Antarctica's Ross Sea for the la ... more |
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  Robonaut 2 Set To Launch In February NASA's Robonaut 2 is primed and ready for launch aboard space shuttle Discovery in February. R2 is so ready, in fact, that it's going up ahead of its legs, which will follow on a later launch. ... more | .. |
  DLR 2011 - Research Has High Priority In Germany The missions and projects planned by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in 2011 underline the importance of research in Germany, specifically in the fields ... more | .. |
  Crew Attaches Japanese Resupply Vehicle To ISS Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli used the station's robotic arm to attach the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) to the Earth-facing port of the ... more | .. |
 Japanese cargo craft reaches space station An unmanned Japanese cargo spaceship has safely arrived at the International Space Station, delivering tons of supplies for the station and its crew members. ... more |
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Keck backed team advances first graviton detector concept
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  NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more | .. |
  Nissan turning over a new Leaf with all-electric car At first glance Nissan's Oppama plant looks like any other. But a closer look reveals workers inserting lithium-ion batteries and electric motors in every sixth vehicle on the production line. ... more | .. |
 Intelligent Microscopy Uses Advanced AI Software The sight of a researcher sitting at a microscope for hours, painstakingly searching for the right cells, may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new software created by scientists at the Europea ... more | .. |
 BAE Systems-Northrop Grumman Team Submit Bid For Affordable, High-Performing Ground Combat Vehicle Solution The BAE Systems-Northrop Grumman team submitted a proposal for a U.S. Army Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) that emphasises affordability, performance and future scalability. "Our proposal delivers ... more |
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  DLR 2011 - Research Has High Priority In Germany The missions and projects planned by the German Aerospace Center in 2011 underline the importance of research in Germany, specifically in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport and secu ... more | .. |
 New US drone spy cameras fail Air Force test: study A much-touted new camera system for US unmanned aircraft that is supposed to bolster surveillance efforts in Afghanistan has proved ineffective in tests, a US Air Force report concluded. ... more | .. |
  Robotic Glider To Map Moreton Bay Impacts A $200,000 CSIRO coastal glider is bound for Queensland to be deployed in Moreton Bay to investigate the impact of the recent flooding on marine ecosystems. Dr Andy Steven from CSIRO's Wealth ... more | .. |
 The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more |
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Stratolaunch secures major funding to scale hypersonic flight services
Orion to advance IARPA system for tracking small space debris
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  Topping test tables no longer enough for China Shanghai students may have topped a recent global survey but educators in China are not rejoicing, saying the country has a long way to go before rote learning and test-taking turn into innovation. ... more | .. |
 ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Program Baselines STS-135 On Thursday, the Space Shuttle Program baselined the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. It is NASA's intent to fly the mission with orbiter Atlantis carrying the Raffaello multipur ... more | .. |
 Rover Is Spending Several Weeks At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Ma ... more |
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 Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. For the fourth t ... more | .. |
 Invisible tanks, liquid armor at BAE BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense company, is working on a camouflage system that could put an army of "invisible" tanks on the battlefield in the next five years. ... more | .. |
 Better Than The Human Eye Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a ... more | .. |
 Next Mars Rover Will Check For Ingredients Of Life Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover. The specific work planned fo ... more |
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Cleaner ship fuel is reducing lightning in key shipping lanes, research finds
Solar cycles seen in Antarctic fast ice history
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 Mars Desert Research Station 2011 Field Season Begins Mars Desert Research Station Crew 97 Summary Report - Crew 97 is a diverse team composed of various backgrounds and skill-sets which blend together to perform research at the Mars Desert Research St ... more | .. |
 Discovery Mission Specialist Injured But OK STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the Int ... more | .. |
  Robotic Surgery Of 'Tremendous Benefit' To Patients Robot-assisted surgery dramatically improves outcomes in patients with uterine, endometrial, and cervical cancer, said researchers at the Jewish General Hospital's Lady Davis Institute for Medical R ... more | .. |
 Fruit Fly Nervous System Provides New Solution To Fundamental Computer Network Problem The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon Universit ... more |
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 LCD Projector Used To Control Brain And Muscles Of Tiny Organisms Such As Worms Researchers are using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors to control the brain and muscles of tiny organisms, including freely moving worms. Red, green and b ... more | .. |
 Radius Block Installation To Begin On Discovery Tank Technicians will begin installing additional support structures, called radius blocks, to space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank's support beams known as "stringers" as the shuttle stands insi ... more | .. |
  Planck's New View Of The Cosmic Theatre The first scientific results from ESA's Planck mission were released at a press briefing in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy to the distant re ... more | .. |
 2011 to be 'revolution' for Europe in space - ESA Europe is set for a space "revolution" in 2011 when two new types of rocket join its launch pad in French Guiana, European Space Agency (ESA) boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Friday. ... more |
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