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| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station |
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| Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 03, 2012 Russia may repeat the Mars-500 experiment simulating a crewed flight to the Red Planet on the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the Russian Space Federal Agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin sa... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight |
| Mojave CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 XCOR Aerospace and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announce the final week to register and become eligible to win a suborbital research flight on XCOR's Lynx I vehicle at the Next Generation Suborbital Research... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star |
| Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, the planet orbi... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Feb 13 set as new date for Europe's Vega rocket |
| Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday that the first launch of a long-awaited light rocket, Vega, which had been pencilled for February 9, would take place on February 13. Vega is being deployed at a new pad at E... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History |
| Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 New Horizons' flight to explore the Pluto system in July 2015 will be a historic accomplishment for the U.S. space program, for planetary science, and indeed for all humankind. Plans for the flyby are well under ... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Armadillo rocket flys high |
| Heath TX (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 Following detailed analysis of the downlinked telemetry and audio/video recordings from both ground based cameras and a camera that was recovered from the rocket, Armadillo Aerospace has determined that the maximum alti... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life |
| London (UPI) Feb 3, 2012 Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has been in a "super-drought" lasting 600 million years, British researchers say. Scientists at Imperial College London said they based that assertion on ana... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission |
| Moscow (UPI) Feb 3, 2012 NASA says crew replacement on the International Space Station will be delayed following the failure of a Russian Soyuz capsule in a ground test. Russian technicians overpressurized the Soyuz vehicle causing a split in we... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major |
| Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 Amateur astronomers who on occasion observe Mars through the eyepiece of their telescopes are quite familiar with the region of Syrtis Major; when observing conditions are good, it can be easily identified as a dar... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Planets Circling Around Twin Suns |
| Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 In the last two decades, the study of extrasolar planets - those that lie outside our own solar system - has become one of the most important fields of astrophysics. Now a National Aeronautics and Space Admi... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York |
| Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2012 Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for the winter, Opportun... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets |
| Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 03, 2012 Russian astronomers are planning to start their own search for planets outside the Solar System using ground-based telescopes, head of the Institute for Space Research Lev Zelyony said on Wednesday. "S... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Fourth potentially habitable planet is discovered |
| Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2012 International astronomers said on Thursday they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life about 22 light-years from Earth. The te... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | Scientists help define structure of exoplanets |
| Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 Using models similar to those used in weapons research, scientists may soon know more about exoplanets, those objects beyond the realm of our solar system. In a new study, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scie... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40pm | NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps |
| Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 NASA has received the National Research Council (NRC) report "NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities," which provides the agency with findings and recommendations on where best to invest in technologies need... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:20pm | How NASA Solved a 100 Million Dollar Problem for Five Bucks |
| Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 02, 2012 A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They panicked. They... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:20pm | SpaceX flight to ISS could be late March: NASA |
| Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2012 The first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station could happen in late March, NASA said on Thursday. The Dragon spacecraft, owned by US company SpaceX, could launch no earlier than M... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:20pm | Next manned ISS mission to launch May 15: Russia |
| Moscow (AFP) Feb 2, 2012 Russia said Thursday that its delayed next manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would blast off May 15, 45 days later than its scheduled date, after a problem was found in testing. "The launch is set f... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:34pm | SpaceX Test Fires Engine Prototype for Astronaut Escape System |
| Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 02, 2012 One of NASA's industry partners, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), completed a full-duration, full-thrust firing of its new SuperDraco engine prototype at the company's Rocket Development Facility ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:34pm | Northrop Grumman Develops Solar Electric Propulsion Flight Concepts for Future Space Missions |
| Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2012 Northrop Grumman was recently awarded a contract to study high-power solar electric propulsion flight system technology for NASA deep space and human exploration missions. "In collaboration with our partners... more |
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