ISRO to Launch India's Third Navigation Satellite on October 16
Bangalore, India (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 -
India's third navigation satellite will be launched October 16 from Sriharikota spaceport in coastal Andhra Pradesh, space agency ISRO announced Thursday.
"The 1,425kg navigation satellite (IRNSS-1C) will be launched October 16 at 1.32am IST onboard a polar rocket (PSLV-C26) from Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota," said an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) statement. Srihar ...
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Alternative Earths Team To Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 -
If we're looking at Mars, or planets in solar systems far, far away, how can we tell whether they support life? Researchers at the University of California, Riverside will share a $50 million grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) to help answer that question by studying ancient rocks on Earth to determine how oxygen developed in our atmosphere billions of years ago.
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NASA Exercises Authority to Proceed with Commercial Crew Contracts
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 -
On Sept. 16, NASA announced U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station (ISS) from the United States on American spacecraft under groundbreaking contracts. The agency unveiled its selection of Boeing and SpaceX to transport U.S. crews to and from the space station using their CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively, with a goal of ending the nation ...
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The heat is on
Paris (ESA) Oct 14, 2014 -
Thanks to ESA and a high-tech fabric used in spacesuits, Swedish steelworkers will soon be wearing safer and cooler underwear to work. Cathrin Persson has worked in Sweden's steel industry since 1998. Every morning as she dresses for work, the welder faces the same problem: there are few heat- and fire-resistant underwear options on the market, and none are designed for women.
So, like mos ...
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First Light for MAVEN
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 -
After 10-month voyage across more than 400 million miles of empty space, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft reached Mars on Sept. 21st 2014. Less than 8 hours later, the data started to flow.
"Our Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) obtained these false-color images of Mars on Sept. 22nd," says Nick Schneider who leads the instrument team at the University of Colorado. "They trace the distributio ...
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New ASU, Nature journal to highlight spaceflight research
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 -
It's a field of scientific discovery with practical applications that could be astounding: new drugs and vaccines to halt the spread of disease and infection, improved telecommunications linking people around the world, enhanced manufacturing capabilities and the very future of interplanetary exploration.
That interdisciplinary compendium of scientific research and innovation now has a new ...
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Moons Can Help Planets Remain Stable Long Enough for Life to Form
Moffet Field CA (NASA) Oct 14, 2014 -
The Moon is more than just Earth's partner in space - it may have helped stabilize Earth's orbit enough for it to become hospitable for the evolution of complex forms of life. A new study suggests that large moons can form and remain stable for long times around distant planets as well, potentially helping alien life evolve.
Researchers also suggest that if the recently discovered rocky al ...
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