HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The annual NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge, now under way, promises to send aloft more rockets than ever before in its 11-year history. And some of […]
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Hayabusa: Mission Accomplished
The determination by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that dust particles recovered from the Hayabusa probe’s sample return capsule came from the asteroid Itokawa is icing on the cake for a mission that has been a resounding success on several different levels. Hayabusa was JAXA’s first mission to an asteroid and the first by any space agency to return samples from an asteroid’s surface. These achievements, noteworthy in their right, are downright remarkable considering what JAXA had to overcome to pull it all off.
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Europe Maintains Its Presence on the Final Frontier
ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions. This will enable ESA’s world-class science missions to continue returning pioneering results until at […]
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Marshall Ponders Debris Tracking Demo Satellite
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is gathering information for the possible development of a demonstration satellite to track pieces of orbital debris that are too small to be seen by current systems but still pose a threat to operating spacecraft.
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NASA Wants Student Innovators For 2011 Great Moonbuggy Race
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Four decades after the first NASA lunar rover rolled across the surface of the moon, innovative students are preparing to design and build a new generation of […]
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Science Payload Selected For NASA’s Solar Probe Plus
NASA has picked the five science investigations that will comprise the Solar Probe Plus mission the U.S. space agency plans to launch in Aug. 2018 to explore a region of the sun no other spacecraft has ever encountered.
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NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun
WASHINGTON — NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch […]
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Aerojet and NEC Collaborate to Explore Low Power Ion Propulsion Systems for Satellites
Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with NEC Corporation (TSE:6701.to) to jointly supply HAYABUSA-derived ion propulsion systems for the U.S. and Japanese aerospace […]
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PBS’ History Detectives Puts a Question to the Nation: Is Andy Warhol’s Art on the Moon?
Ex-Grumman Launch Pad Foreman Speaks Out for the First Time in 40 Years PBS invites fans to help solve the mystery, “Who is John F.?” with a pre-broadcast online story […]
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SpaceX Achieves Orbital Bullseye With Inaugural Flight of Falcon 9 Rocket
A major win for NASA’s plan to use commercial rockets for astronaut transport Cape Canaveral, Florida – June 7, 2010 – SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) announced that the inaugural […]
