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Exploration

Update: Opportunity Ready to Rove Again

Posted  May 1, 2013  by  Justin Cowart

UPDATE (May 2): NASA has regained full control over the Opportunity rover after uploading a new set of commands on May 1.

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Exoplanets

Now Announcing TESS, NASA’s Next Planet-Hunter

Posted  April 7, 2013  by  Justin Cowart

NASA announced on April 6 that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been selected for development in its latest round of Explorer-class mission proposals. The satellite is scheduled to launch in 2017.

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Spaceflight

Masten Space Systems Xombie rocket makes 1600 foot leap

Posted  April 6, 2013  by  Chris Trudgen

Xombie is a Masten Space Systems technology demonstrator for building a rocket that can land propulsively with pinpoint accuracy while simulating a planetary approach.

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Spaceflight

XCOR Aerospace successfully tests piston pump powered rocket

Posted  April 6, 2013  by  AstroAggregator

Last week saw the successful test by XCOR Aerospace of their LYNX rocket engine with both propellant and oxidiser being supplied by positive displacement pumps – a claimed first in the industry.

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Curiosity

Perchlorates Common on Mars

Posted  April 5, 2013  by  Justin Cowart

Curiosity’s work at target named Rocknest last October helps advance the idea that a class of salts called perchlorates are common on Mars.

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Exploration

Update: Opportunity Ready to Rove Again

Posted  May 1, 2013  by  Justin Cowart

UPDATE (May 2): NASA has regained full control over the Opportunity rover after uploading a new set of commands on May 1.

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Chandra

Chandra unravels the origin of Kepler’s Supernova

Posted  April 24, 2013  by  AstroAggregator

X-ray data from the Chandra observatory has shed new light on the origin of “Kepler’s Supernova”, first seen in 1604 by Johannes Kepler himself.

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Exoplanets

Now Announcing TESS, NASA’s Next Planet-Hunter

Posted  April 7, 2013  by  Justin Cowart

NASA announced on April 6 that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been selected for development in its latest round of Explorer-class mission proposals. The satellite is scheduled to launch in 2017.

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Spaceflight

Jeff Bezos recovers Apollo-era rocket engines from the ocean floor

Posted  April 6, 2013  by  AstroAggregator

Multiple millionaire  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin aerospace company, has successfully recovered some of the massive F-1 engines from Apollo era Saturn V rocket debris on the ocean floor.

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Deep Sky

Planck reveals new detail in cosmic background radiation

Posted  April 6, 2013  by  AstroAggregator

The Planck mission has released a new sky map of the cosmic microwave background radiation – the after-echo of the Big Bang, revealing unprecedented detail.

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Masten Space Systems Xombie rocket makes 1600 foot leap

Posted  April 6, 2013  by  Chris Trudgen

Xombie is a Masten Space Systems technology demonstrator for building a rocket that can land propulsively with pinpoint accuracy while simulating a planetary approach.

Full Story »