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Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion studyHuntington Beach CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2012 Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will evaluate concepts that combine high-power solar arrays with advanced electric thrusters to power spacecraft and payloads to high Earth orbit and deep space destinations. "Boeing pioneered the use of electric propulsion, and has developed an approach to integrate compact, lightweight, and highly efficient ... read more |
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  Star Destroyed in Supernova Was White Dwarf Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades - captured only 11 hours after it exploded - allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, ... more | .. |
  The Challenges of Building A House on Mars Going to Mars? Expect to stay a while. Because of the relative motions of Earth and Mars, the pioneering astronauts who touch down on the Martian surface will have to remain there for a year and a h ... more | .. |
 'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who ... more | .. |
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  ISS Team Undertakes 'EPIC' Event Anyone who has ever been involved in a computer upgrade knows that they can be complicated, and that you have to take your time, be careful, and go step-by-step if you want to be successful. T ... more | .. |
  World's most extreme deep-sea vents revealed Scientists have revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor. The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper ... more | .. |
  World's deepest sea vents reveal unknown creatures The ocean's deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study. ... more | .. |
  Toymakers aim to buck economic gloom at Asia fair A smartphone-controlled robot that fires foam bullets and a model of a tyrannosaurus with real bones are among the attractions drawing the crowds at Asia's largest toy show this week. ... more |
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  Spying on Tiangong In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal "Spaceflight", published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, "Spaceflight" claimed ... more | .. |
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year of Achievement and Success The James Webb Space Telescope marked a year of significant progress in 2011 as it continues to come together as NASA's next generation space telescope. The year brought forth a pathfinder backplane ... more | .. |
 China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Well Positioned For Another Winter On Mars Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op ... more |
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 Mars rover to spend winter at 'Greeley Haven,' named for late ASU geologist Ronald Greeley NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ASU ... more | .. |
  Dawn Wraps Up A Stunning Year Of Asteroid Exploration Dawn concludes 2011 more than 40 thousand times nearer to Vesta than it began the year. Now at its lowest altitude of the mission, the bold adventurer is conducting its most detailed exploration of ... more | .. |
  To Speed People Up, Human Leg Muscle Slows Down Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around 2 meters per second - about 4.5 miles per hour. North Carolina Stat ... more | .. |
  Ultra-thin laptops set to dazzle CES gadget fair Ultra-thin laptops will take center-stage alongside new software and smartphones at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a gadget extravaganza that officially opens on Tuesday in Las Vegas. ... more |
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Muon Space joins SHIELD missile defense effort with next generation space systems role
BlackSky expands Gen-3 satellite intelligence contracts worldwide
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  Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found ... more | .. |
 Why The X-37B Is Not Spying On Tiangong In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal "Spaceflight", published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, "Spaceflight" claimed ... more | .. |
  Japan plans futuristic farm in disaster zone Japan is planning a futuristic farm where robots do the lifting in an experimental project on land swamped by the March tsunami, the government said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Helps Nasa Place Two Spacecraft Into Lunar Orbit Both of NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft were successfully inserted into orbit around the Earth's moon. The mission will analyze the internal structure and gr ... more |
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 Leaping lizards tip tails for soft landing Jumping lizards adjust the position of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dinosaurs probably did likewise. ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Positioned at Candidate Site for Winter Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north ... more | .. |
 Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body. ... more | .. |
 Navy Researchers Investigate Small-Scale Autonomous Planetary Explorers Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers ... more |
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It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today's tech
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  Launching the Lake Lander at Laguna Negra A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
 Powerful Pixels Help Map The Apollo Zone Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon: For NASA ... more | .. |
  India gets indigenous bomb disposal unit The Indian army's corps of engineers has taken delivery of the first six indigenously made, remotely operated vehicles designed for bomb disposal. ... more | .. |
 Wheel Passes Checkup After Stalled Drive This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called "Komati" on the "Saddleback" outcrop. After two d ... more |
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 Sensing the deep ocean Futuristic robots may be coming soon to an ocean near you. Sensorbots are spherical devices equipped with biogeochemical sensors, that promise to open a new chapter in the notoriously challenging ex ... more | .. |
 Arvidson To Be Participating Scientist on New Mars Rover NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, h ... more | .. |
 New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August - dubbed the supernova of a generation - was a "white dw ... more | .. |
 NASA 'Smart SPHERES' Tested on ISS In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller. ... more |
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