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Mission to far side of moon proposedDenver (UPI) Nov 23, 2010 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. While NASA has officially abandoned any manned moon missions anytime soon, Lockheed Martin has begun promoting a Farside Mission using the Orion spacecraft it is developing, SPACE.com reported. Such an endeavor could sharpen skills and technologies needed for proposed trips to an asteroid, the company says, as well as practice techniques for exploring Mars b ... read more |
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  Issue Brief Details Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program Sharing information on the location of space objects and debris is a prime example of addressing collective problems in space through cooperative solutions. As Earth orbit grows more congested ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Magnetic Trapping Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Anti-Matter A clearer understanding of the Universe, its origins and maybe even its destiny is a significant step closer, thanks to new research. As part of a major international experiment called ALPHA, based ... more | .. |
 Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more |
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  Cosmic Dust And Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and ... more | .. |
 Researchers Uncover Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena Researchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Stephanie Wehner of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of S ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 next Vale ... more | .. |
  500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered Astronomers have discovered the 500th exoplanet outside our solar system, a database maintained by a French astronomer says. ... more |
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  Spindly new species found in ocean's crushing depths Scientists unveiled on Wednesday a gossamer, ghostly creature discovered in the deepest reaches of the ocean between Indonesia and the Philippines. ... more | .. |
 Getting Bubbles Out Of Fuel Pumps For more than 250 years, researchers have known that under certain conditions vapor bubbles can form in fluids moving swiftly over a surface. These bubbles soon collapse with such great force that t ... more | .. |
 HP to focus more on software, new CEO says Hewlett-Packard plans to increase its focus on software, new chief executive Leo Apotheker said Monday, as the US computer giant posted fourth quarter results that topped Wall Street's expectations. ... more | .. |
  Profiling The Largest Solar Explosions Solar flares - they're big and they're fast. They can knock out a satellite or create a beautiful aurora. And the jury is still out on what causes these explosions. Flares, and the related cor ... more |
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 New Evidence For Supernova-Driven Galactic Fountains In Milky Way Observing the X-ray-bright gas in the halo of the Milky Way, ESA's XMM-Newton has gathered new data which favour a process involving fountains of hot gas in our Galaxy. Such a scenario, with t ... more | .. |
 Hayabusa's Harvest The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the tiny particles inside the Hayabusa spacecraft's sample return container are in fact from the asteroid Itokawa. Scientists e ... more | .. |
 Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2 NASA has just issued a travel advisory for spacecraft: Watch out for Comet Hartley 2, it is experiencing a significant winter snowstorm. Deep Impact photographed the unexpected tempest when it ... more | .. |
 The Enigma Of The Missing Stars In Space May Be Solved New stars are born in the Universe around the clock - on the Milky Way, currently about ten per year. From the birth rate in the past, we can generally calculate how populated space should actually ... more |
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  Hubble Captures New 'Life' In Ancient Galaxy Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are helping to show that ell ... more | .. |
 Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in ... more | .. |
 The International Space Weather Initiative Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more | .. |
 Pushing Black-Hole Mergers To The Extreme Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1 breaks a barri ... more |
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 Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Researchers Trap Antimatter Atoms In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never been ... more | .. |
  WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen In Starry Sea A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos - ... more | .. |
 Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block The animation below shows the motion of Comet Ikeya-Murakami on Nov. 13, 2010, captured with a New Mexico-based telescope operated remotely by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The images w ... more |
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