Plan for modified European rocket gets backing
Two major figures in the European space industry on Monday backed plans to modify the Ariane 5 rocket to help it shoot larger satellites into orbit.
Jun 17, 2013
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China astronauts enter space module (Update)
Three Chinese astronauts Thursday entered a space module after carrying out a successful docking manoeuvre, state media said, two days after the launch of the country's longest manned space mission.
Jun 13, 2013
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Apple leader admits e-book prices rose with iPad launch
Apple's chief dealmaker acknowledged that prices of best-selling e-books rose after the tech giant launched iPad book sales in 2010, but denied any role in a plot to fix prices.
Jun 14, 2013
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Chinese craft blasts into space on docking mission (Update)
A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from where they will give science lessons to youngsters.
Jun 11, 2013
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Weather balloon takes solar cell experiment toward sun
(Phys.org) —How do solar cells behave at high altitudes? Do they perform better the closer they get to the sun? Those simple questions propelled four undergraduate students from Northwestern University's McCormick School ...
Jun 11, 2013
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NASA's Orion spacecraft proves sound under pressure
(Phys.org) —After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on Wednesday.
Jun 07, 2013
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Going up? Kickstarter hopefuls raise space elevator cash
(Phys.org)—A Space Elevator Project has gone past its $8,000 goal on Kickstarter, although the group's ultimate goal is to raise a cooler $100,000 up to $3 million as the project achieves phase to phase ...
Aug 27, 2012
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NASA selects new suborbital payloads, total tops 100 experiments
NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.
Jun 10, 2013
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Rocket launch from Va. spaceport rescheduled
ASA has rescheduled the Virginia launch of a rocket carrying instruments that will study how the first galaxy was formed.
Jun 05, 2013
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Rocket to launch from US to study galaxy creation
A rocket set to launch from Virginia's Wallops Island Flight Facility will study how the first galaxy was formed.
Jun 04, 2013
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Tobii's eye tracker REX will showcase at CES (w/ video)
(Phys.org)—Tobii Technology is introducing the REX, a USB-connected peripheral that works with Tobii's software Gaze. The Stockholm-based company will show its REX device for Windows 8 at the CES show in ...
Jan 03, 2013
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China to launch manned space mission in June
China will launch three astronauts into space this month to dock with an experimental space-module, state-media said Monday, marking the latest step towards the country's aim of building a space station.
Jun 03, 2013
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Drill bits on rover could contaminate Mars
For all the hopes NASA has pinned on the rover it deposited on Mars last month, one wish has gone unspoken: Please don't find water.
Sep 16, 2012
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New 'retention model' explains enigmatic ribbon at edge of solar system
(Phys.org)—The vast edges of our solar system—the boundary at the edge of our heliosphere where material streaming out from the sun interacts with the galactic material—is essentially invisible. It emits ...
Feb 05, 2013
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Dream of Mars exploration achievable, experts say
NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges.
May 05, 2013
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