Hundreds of millions of dollars can go into the school bus-sized satellites that blast into orbit above Earth and provide services including broadband internet, broadcasting and military surveillance.
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Nov 29, 2017
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There's something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. But what?
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2016
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An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53, will safely pass more than 26 times the distance of Earth to the moon on May 14. To put it another way, at its closest point, the asteroid will get no closer than 6.3 million miles away ...
Space Exploration
May 14, 2015
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NASA's newest delivery service made its first-ever shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, another triumph for the booming commercial space arena that has its sights set on launching astronauts.
Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2013
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The US space agency has narrowed its hunt for an asteroid to capture to three, NASA said Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Sep 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, has successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed ...
Space Exploration
May 18, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights.
Space Exploration
Jan 2, 2013
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NASA's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space.
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Autonomous, self-replicating robots -- exobots -- are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2012
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The first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station could happen in late March, NASA said on Thursday.
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2012
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