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LightSail reestablishes communication with mission control
Jun 01, 2015 (UPI)
More than a week after it went silent, its software having crashed, the LightSail is communicating once again with mission controllers. "Our LightSail called ho...
New wave of smart tech on show at Taiwan's Computex
May 31, 2015 (AFP)
Smart living and wearable technology will take centre stage at Asia's largest tech trade show from Tuesday with gadgets promising to do everything from analysin...
Orion Heat Shield Analysis Work Nears Conclusion
May 31, 2015 (SPX)
The harsh buzz of powered cutting tools reverberates in the close air of Building 4705 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as a dozen...
Commercial Crew Milestones Met; Partners on Track for Missions in 2017
May 31, 2015 (SPX)
NASA has taken another step toward returning America's ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017. The Co...
Boeing Awarded First Commercial Human Spaceflight Mission
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
NASA issued a task order as part of Boeing's $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract recently to include the company's first-ev...
Planetary Society's LightSail has gone silent
May 28, 2015 (UPI)
The scientists managing the Planetary Society's LightSail are holding their breath as they wait for their experimental Cubesat to come back to life. A software ...
McCarthy-Smith SPACE Act passes with broad bipartisan support
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has joined House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in praising passage of ...
Mission: Space for all
May 27, 2015 (SPX)
On a recent early spring evening, an unusual scene unfolded on the riverside steps of Walker Memorial: Members of MIT's Black Women's Alliance (BWA) and girls f...
Like Sleeping Beauty, some research lies dormant for decades
May 27, 2015 (SPX)
Why do some discoveries fade into obscurity while others blaze a new trail the moment they are published? More mysteriously, why do some research papers remain ...
Japan to redesign cargo spacecraft for cost-saving, multifunction
May 25, 2015 (XNA)
Japan's unmanned cargo spacecraft Kounotori, which delivers supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), may be redesigned to save cost and for multipurpo...
Canadian inventor's hoverboard flight sets record
May 25, 2015 (UPI)
A Canadian inventor has set the record for farthest journey by hoverboard, Guinness World Records has announced. Catalin Alexandru Duru, a 30-year-old software ...
NASA's CubeSat Initiative aids solar sail tests in space
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cap...
The Moon or Mars: Flawed Debate, False Choice - Part Two
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
New technologies allow us to go back to the Moon at a fraction the cost of Apollo, and now, even private efforts like the Google X Prize contestants are underwa...
NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D...
Young Innovators Bring Creations to Life in NASA Goddard Spinoff Challenge
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Which of NASA's space-venturing creations would you like to see used on Earth? Are there ways to reinvent spacecraft technologies that could improve the lives o...
Photonic Laser Thruster Propels Simulated Spacecraft
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
Y.K. Bae Corporation announces their proprietary Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) has successfully accelerated a 450 gram (~1 lb.) spacecraft simulator with pure l...
Potentially Revolutionary Mission Heading for 2016 Launch
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
A NASA mission that embodies the virtues of faster, less expensive access to space has sailed past all major development milestones and is scheduled to be deliv...
Getting the LDSD Vehicle to Test Altitude
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
In June NASA will conduct the second flight of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle from the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMR...
Russia races to replace Sarah Brightman as space tourist
May 14, 2015 (AFP)
Russia's space officials on Thursday rushed to find a replacement for British singer Sarah Brightman after she pulled out as the next space tourist four months ...
High-tech Analysis of Orion Heat Shield Underway
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers from three NASA field centers are partnering this month at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to remove and analyze some 180 ...
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