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Robotic Tunneler May Explore Icy Moons
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
A robotic "cryobot," designed to tunnel down through thick ice caps and penetrate subterranean seas, is undergoing tests on the Matanuska glacier in Alaska. It ...
How to sail through space on sunbeams - solar satellite leads the way
Jun 16, 2015 (TC)
A new kind of spacecraft that sails on sunlight has just been successfully deployed above Earth. The LightSail satellite yesterday overcame a series of glitches...
XCOR Selects Matrix Composites to Develop Lynx Chines
Jun 10, 2015 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced its selection of Matrix Composites, Inc. of Rockledge, Florida as the manufacturer and supplier of the XCOR Lynx Mark I spacecraft ...
NASA's LDSD Project Completes Second Experimental Test Flight
Jun 10, 2015 (JPL)
Engineers are poring over the data following the second experimental landing technology test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project. The sa...
Spacecraft glitch shifts orbiting ISS: Russia
Jun 10, 2015 (AFP)
The orbiting International Space Station has shifted in position after an engine glitch on a docked spacecraft which is due to bring astronauts back to Earth th...
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti returning home
Jun 09, 2015 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will return to Earth on 11 June, along with NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov, having spent 2...
LightSail spreads its sails
Jun 08, 2015 (UPI)
After a few setbacks and several anxious periods of radio silence, the Planetary Society's solar sailing space probe has deployed its giant, featherlight sails....
NASA 'flying saucer' deploys partially on test
Jun 08, 2015 (AFP)
NASA launched a giant balloon Monday carrying a kind of "flying saucer" that will test technologies for landing on Mars, but its outsized parachute only partly ...
Longest US space simulation study coming to an end
Jun 08, 2015 (SPX)
After eight months of isolation, the faux astronauts on the longest space analog study ever conducted on U.S. soil will wrap up their research mission on Saturd...
NASA tests 'flying saucer' device for future Mars landings
Jun 08, 2015 (AFP)
NASA launched a giant balloon Monday carrying a kind of "flying saucer" that will test technologies for landing on Mars. The aircraft is fitted with the largest...
Keeping astronauts in space longer with better air and water
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
As astronauts embark on increasingly ambitious space missions, scientists have to figure out how to keep them healthy for longer periods far from Earth. That en...
NASA 'flying saucer' launch set for Friday
Jun 04, 2015 (AFP)
Bad weather led the US space agency to postpone until Friday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, with the view of one day using it to land on...
New Heads for Indian Space Agency's Spaceport, Key Units
Jun 04, 2015 (IANS)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) got new directors for its spaceport at Sriharikota, and the rocket design and assembling and liquid propulsion sys...
Destination Mars? NASA's Flying Saucer May be the Ticket
Jun 04, 2015 (Sputnik)
NASA will conduct a test of its revolutionary "flying saucer" technology on Tuesday, with the agency's scientists expecting to make a breakthrough for future mi...
US Lawmakers Pass Bill for Space Mining in the Future
Jun 03, 2015 (Sputnik)
Under the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) Act, which the US House of Representatives passed Thursday, firms involved in ...
NASA pushes flying saucer parachute test to Thursday
Jun 03, 2015 (AFP)
High waves forced NASA to postpone until Thursday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, during a flying saucer launch that will try out new tec...
NASA's Exploration Plans Include Living Off the Land
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
When early explorers crossed vast oceans to reach new worlds, they traveled with only what they needed to get there. After arriving at their destination, the pi...
NASA to test supersonic parachute in flying saucer launch
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on ...
Canada to send two astronauts into space by 2024
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
Canada committed Tuesday to flying two astronauts to space within the next decade as part of its renewed participation with the International Space Station prog...
New urban landscape at Taiwan's Computex
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
An improved urban landscape with safer driving, quick payment systems and pollution alerts was laid out at Asia's biggest tech trade fair Tuesday. Computex, hel...
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