The NASA Z-2 Spacesuit Design Vote
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
NASA's Z-2 Suit is the newest prototype in its next-generation spacesuit platform, the Z-series. As a follow-up to the previous Z-1 suit, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2012, the Z-2 takes the next step in fidelity approaching a final flight-capable design. Most exciting, the Z-2 marks several milestones for NASA:
+ First surface-specific planetary mobility suit ...
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NASA Seeks Collaborative Partnerships With Commercial Space
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
Building on the success of NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives, agency officials announced Monday plans to solicit proposals from U.S. private enterprises for unfunded partnerships to collaboratively develop new commercial space capabilities.
"The growing U.S. commercial spaceflight industry is opening low-Earth orbit in ways that will improve lives on Earth, drive economic growth an ...
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NASA Seeks Suborbital Flight Proposals
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicle providers to integrate and fly technology payloads for the space agency. NASA uses companies for suborbital flights to encourage and facilitate the growth of this important aerospace market while also providing a means to advance a wide range of new launch vehicle and space technologies.
NASA successfully sel ...
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Orbital-Built Amazonas 4A Commerical Communications Satellite Launched
Dulles VA (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
Orbital Sciences reports that the Amazonas 4A commercial communications satellite, built by the company for HISPASAT S.A. of Spain, was successfully launched into orbit aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Lift-off occurred at 6:04 p.m. EDT from the European spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana.
The satellite was successfully deployed approximately 35 minutes into the m ...
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Exploding stars prove Newton's gravity unchanged over cosmic time
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years.
Newton's gravitational constant, known as G, describes the attractive force between two objects, together with the separation between them and their masses. It has been previously suggested that G could have been sl ...
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Technical hitch delays US-Russia crew's ISS docking
Moscow (AFP) March 26, 2014 -
A US-Russian three man crew Wednesday faced an unprecedented two-day delay in their docking with the International Space Station (ISS) after their Russian Soyuz spacecraft suffered a technical glitch on its approach in orbit.
The two Russian cosmonauts and American astronaut were to have docked with the ISS early Wednesday just six hours after launch from Kazakhstan but the problem means tha ...
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First Ring System Around Asteroid
La Silla, Chile (ESO) Mar 27, 2014 -
Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO's La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings.
This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System - after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - to have this feature. The or ...
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