if they actually did NASA's Curiosity rover has found the first definitive evidence that the Red planet was suited once to life
I have an image now of possibly a freshwater lake on a Mars with a thicker atmosphere maybe a snowcapped Mount Sharp said NASA science administrator John Grunsfeld.
#Curiosity's first drilling hints at Martian mining NASA's Curiosity rover bored into a Martian rock on 9 february and pulled out its first sample of the planet's insides to ingest
This is the only time anybody's drilled into Mars says Louise Jandura of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena California chief engineer for Curiosity's sampling system.
This research was funded by NASA and the MIT Portugal Program m
#How to hide like an octopus Cephalopods, which include octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, are among nature most skillful camouflage artists,
and Buck, a biological engineering graduate student, won a grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts program to create a life-support system that could treat waste
In 2012, NASA began funding a Cambrian project, called Exogen, that uses electromethanogenesis to more efficiently extract oxygen or fuel from CO2 for long-duration space flights.
NASA currently carries out oxygen recovery from CO2 in a multistep chemical process; Exogen will make it a simplified, one-step process.
Don Boroson on NASA s record-breaking use of laser communications Last week NASA announced that the Lunar Laser communication Demonstration (LLCD) on its Lunar Atmosphere
He describes below the highly improved communications capabilities that will enable NASA to significantly change the scope and design of future scientific space missions.
It is NASA s first space-based laser communications system. And it is by far the longest two-way laser communications link ever accomplished.
Mars landers and orbiters gather much more information in the form of images for example than they can send back over the huge distance Mars is as much as 1000 times farther from Earth than the moon despite the incredible development of NASA s radio-based
and concepts that Lincoln Laboratory has been developing for NASA for the past 10 years and those grew out of our laser communications developments from the previous 20 years.
When Lincoln Lab pointed out to the NASA sponsors that the pieces could add up to this demonstration NASA made the mission happen.
The researchers fired pellets of randomly oriented multiwalled carbon nanotubes from a light gas gun built by the Rice lab of materials scientist Enrique Barrera with funding from NASA.
He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews
#Watch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza#This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding
#You can see why NASA would be interested in the idea: send up a printer instead of boxes of food
#Waggling Phallic Scanner 3-D-Maps The Tower Of Pisa In 20 Minutes The Zebedee created by Australia's national space agency is a 3-D scanner
or read more over at the Australian space agency's site. I am sure a great many Popsci readers are thinking this at the same time I'm typing it Attachã this to a drone for remote scouting in 3d!
The Skylon concept has impressed also the European space agency (ESA) which audited Reaction engines'designs last year and found no technical impediments to building the craft.
NASA and Lockheed martin meanwhile had their own plans for a fully reusable spacecraft the Venturestar intended as an affordable replacement for the partially reusable space shuttle.
because we felt it was better to focus our efforts on other less costly ways to get payloads to orbit says Dan Dumbacher NASA's deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development who spent two years working on the X-33.
or so of fuel to get it there says NASA's Dumbacher. The challenge with the SSTO has always been to get the craft as light as possible
@Oniraptor...NASA and Spacex are doing what you are requesting just a few years down the road.
It is time for NASA to quit the Senate Launch System and focusing on the future of space transportationâ#Replace those two flags in the picture with the NASA/ESA emblems representing a true international space endeavor.
I say the engine need to be able to work in both air and vacuumto save liquid oxygen weight.@
@lreyna...NASA involvement would probably be welcome however this craft and NASA's deep space capsule have two entirely different missions cheers.
There was NO discussion or mention on the limit and size of carry on bags...Another fake research program to cover for the real space program.
#In Japan, Eight People With Two Laptops Launch A Telescope Into Orbit A new low-cost highly automated rocket from Japan's space agency launched Saturday with just eight crew members and two laptops on-site.
The Japan aerospace exploration agency sent the first of its new generation of launch vehicles into orbit carrying a telescope that will observe the atmospheres of Venus Mars and Jupiter.
Japan's space program JAXA developed both its Epsilon Launch vehicle and the small satellite carrying the planet-viewing telescope
JAXA reported Saturday's launch went fine and that the satellite now in orbit is in good health.
Japan aerospace exploration agency BBC Why do photos of Japan always seem so clean and tidy? Eat you heart out N. Korea.
The data was collected over several decades by NASA and researchers from the UK and Germany.
Follow-up observations were performed with several other Hawaii-based telescopes including the NASA Infrared telescope Facility the Gemini North Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the M9. 4-class event at a wavelength of 131 Angstroms
#NASA A
#How Technology Will Make Everyone A Great Photographer At the end of May the Chicago Sun-Times laid off all its staff photographers.
Since The 1970s Roscosmos the Russian federal space agency will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015 according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin.
Roscosmos'latest moon exploration project has been postponed several times since 2010 and will be its first mission after 2011's Phobos-Grunt failure.
Harnessing never-before-used satellite altimeter data from the European space agency s (ESA) Cryosat-2 and NASA s Jason-1 the scientists have created stunning maps of Earth s entire seafloor bringing to light mountains
and ridges that have never before been charted. The maps give the researchers a new understanding of deep ocean plate tectonics and little-studied ocean basins.
According to the European space agency scientists discovered the gravity change by combining readings from the ESA's GOCE satellite
Today NASA announced that two private companies will be tasked with taxiing NASA ASTRONAUTS to and from the International space station beginning in 2017.
The companies will sign contracts with NASA to further develop their spacecraft to deliver astronauts to and from the ISS.
The CST-100 and Dragon V2 outwardly look similar to NASA s Orion capsule but they can both hold up to seven crewmembers each.
This was not an easy choice NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said at the Sept. 16 announcement
but this is the best choice for NASA and the nation. The partnership is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program
which was established in 2010 to foster the development of a U s. commercial crew space transportation capability.
Most importantly though is that the program will end bring an end to NASA's reliance on Russian spacecraft to ferry astronauts from Earth to the ISS.
Spacex and Boeing beat out a number of other private companies for the NASA gig including another big contender the Sierra nevada Corp. All three companies had been involved in an earlier phase of the program in
which NASA awarded them a total of $1. 4 billion in Space Act Agreements and contracts to get their ideas up and running.
but others are large entities like the Australian government Google and NASA. These days Petrone says NASA s purchasing department just calls my cell phone.#
#The site has gained also a strong following from hard-core DIY types. Just as Etsy became the go-to marketplace for craft creators Tindie has become the primary hub for hardware aficionados.
#This Weird Tumbleweed Robot Might Change Planetary Exploration This Super Ball Bot is the vision of NASA roboticist Vytas Sunspiral#yes that's his real name
But a great deal more work is needed before this ever becomes a NASA mission Sunspiral says. To help make tensegrity robots a reality Sunspiral
and his colleagues have released the open-source NASA tensegrity robotics toolkit which is online for free and built on the Bullet Physics engine a game physics simulator.
to be jointly run by the Japan aerospace exploration agency and Air Self-defence Force. The"fourth battlefield"paceontains a lot of stuff that's worth protecting,
NASA, together with the Department of defense, already have progams in place monitoring space debris. The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning.
#Google commits $1. 36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1. 16 billion lease of the 1000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air station.
and testing in the areas of robotics space exploration aviation and other technologies NASA said in a press release.
NASA also said: Once renovations are complete Hangar One will again be home to high-tech innovation as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research development assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration aviation rover
#Antares orb-3 accident A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday.
The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.
(along with Spacex) under contract from NASA for supplying the International Space station with cargo supplies and secondary experimental and commercial ISS payload.
As stated by NASA's press conference the flight termination system was activated. This is a remote manual intervention that initiates a self-destruction mechanism
During the press conference that took place shortly after the accident NASA official stated their satisfaction from the way Orbital operates
and as stated on the press conference NASA and Orbital will find a way to deal with the cost of any replacements.
NASA came up with the answer recently when their teams began putting one of its humanoid robots through medical school.
As researchers at the European space agency Advanced Concepts Team, we wanted to study how visual cues could be used by robotic spacecraft to help them navigate unknown, extraterrestrial environments.
accompanied by a press release about Astrodrone from the European space agency and the video shown below. Parrot also promoted our app on their site.
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.
The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,
one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release.""We were ecstatic. Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."
as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e
The galaxy, with the very clunky name of SAGE0536AGN, was discovered with NASA's Spitzer space telescope. Scientists think it's about 9 billion years old.
NASA scientists said Monday in revealing a potential breakthrough in both the search for life beyond Earth
"said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA. NASA researchers using an imager aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed the watery flows by looking at light waves returned from seasonal dark streaks on the surface,
long suspected to be associated with liquid water. The investigation showed the streaks absorb light at specific wavelengths associated with chemicals known to pull water from the Martian atmosphere in a process known as deliquescence
lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The researchers'findings are in a new paper being presented this week at the European Planetary science Congress in France.
But Alfred Mcewen, who heads up NASA's Hirise high-resolution camera aboard the Mars orbiter,
Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, said the discovery announced Monday puts NASA in a perfect position to look for that life."
Ian Walker, a bioroboticist at Clemson University, has been working with NASA to develop a flexible snake
The company founded in 2002 is making rockets for NASA's space program and to resupply the International space station.*
It is staffed currently by two astronauts from NASA, three cosmonauts from Russia and an astronaut from the European space agency.
She plans to attend the payload launch at the Cape canaveral Air force station Kennedy space center with her 12-year-old son Carl,
#Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf Will Disintegrate Before the End of the Decade A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf is weakening
A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, found the remnant of the Larsen B Ice shelf is flowing faster,
Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future.
NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth interconnected natural systems with long-term data records.
#Hubble Reveals That Markarian 231 Is powered by a Double Black hole Using NASA Hubble space telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Markarian 231 is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about each other.
#Engineers Develop Optical devices That Shape Light in Exotic Ways Engineers from the Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology have developed innovative flat,
#NASA Created A Material That Can Heal Itself In Less than A Second From Hurtling Space debris Scientists at NASA Langley Research center are studying new materials that can self-heal in seconds under extreme temperatures and from flying space junk.
The research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
NASA scientists said it works much like a puncture healing in the body, but faster.
NASA scientists Mia Siochi explained in a video about the project. t was gratifying to see as we actually test this material on the field it actually works. his substance not only has lifesaving applications for astronauts,
NASA told Techcrunch this is still early days and it is working to improve on the tensile strength of these polymers,
#Nasa Finds Liquid Water On Mars In a Mars-related press conference this morning NASA has announced that nder certain circumstancesliquid water has been found on Mars. ars is not the dry arid planet that we thought of in the past,
The scientists used a spectroscopy technique to analyze the chemical composition of dark streaks (which NASA refers to as Recurring Slope Lineae
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
NASA landed its Curiosity rover on Mars back in August 2012 and the bot has been exploring the surface
ever since with NASA extending what was slated originally as a two-year mission back at the end of 2012. Its Opportunity rover,
NASA scientists said today enabling the liquid water to exist for longer before either freezing as the temperature on the planet drops,
NASA added although the presence of liquid water itself gives a huge boost to that search. y feeling
said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA. Investigating the RSL sites themselves to probe for life is challenging, according to NASA,
because the streaks have so far only been observed on steep slopes. So it said directly probing
NASA added. t took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet,
added Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa. The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro."
Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa. The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro."
a close collaboration between NASA and DARPA. A unit was delivered to the ISS in February 2011 to control the robot's operation in weightlessness.
"said Alfred S Mcewen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Christopher P Mckay, an astrobiologist at Nasa's Ames Research center in Mountain view, California, does not think the RSLS are a very promising place to Look for the water to be liquid
RSLS are treated as special regions that Nasa's current robotic explorers are barred from because the rovers were sterilized not thoroughly,
and Nasa worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. Of the spacecraft Nasa has sent to Mars,
Nasa's next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020 will be no cleaner. Sterilizing spacecraft, which requires electronics
the space agency is ruling out places that might be habitable, including those with RSLS. That prohibition may continue
even though two candidate RSLS have been identified on the mountain in Gale crater that Nasa's Curiosity rover is now exploring, not very far from its current planned path.
Nasa and the Curiosity team could decide to approach the streaks without driving onto them
Catharine A Conley, Nasa's planetary protection officer, who coordinates the efforts to minimize the chances of life inadvertently crossing the solar system a
Nasa Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3. 8 to 3. 3 billion years ago,
Nasa's Mars science laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago.
Mars science laboratory project scientist at Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. The findings build upon previous work that suggested there were ancient lakes on Mars,
Last month, Nasa scientists confirmed current water flows on Mars."It's clear that the Mars of billions of years ago more closely resembled Earth than it does today.
lead scientist for Nasa's Mars Exploration Program at Nasa Headquarters in Washington. Before Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012,
Nasa WASHINGTON: A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas v rocket from the Vandenberg Air force base in California on October 8 is working fine,
Nasa has announced. The Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) Cubesat spacecraft is in orbit and operational, said Nasa and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California on Monday.
Cubesats are going to play a key role in exploration, technology demonstration, scientific research and educational investigations.
They provide a low-cost platform for Nasa missions, including planetary space exploration, Earth observations, fundamental Earth and space science."
Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for the Space technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at NASA headquarters in WASHINGTON DC."
OCSD is the first in a new series of six Nasa-managed technology demonstration missions set to be launched during the coming months using Cubesats.
#Space suit that'mimics'gravity tested An innovative'Skinsuit'designed to reduce the debili ating physical effects of space light has been trialled for the first time on the International space station by a European space agency (ESA) astronaut.
#Open Space agency gears up to launch open source 3d printed telescope For those of us who love space
Parr, who is the founder of the Open Space agency (OSA), has been actively developing a downloadable,
when the Ultrascope files become available can sign up over at the Open Space agency o
#Made In Space successfully completes 3d printing in vacuum of space, outside the ISS 3d printers have slowly
where giants like NASA are even embracing the technology as a way of manufacturing spacecraft parts on long-term missions in the future.
last year, they were contracted by NASA for the design, building and operation of the first 3d printer in space, called the 3d printing In Zero-Ge Experiment.
and was controlled from a mission operations center at the Made In Space HQ, located in the NASA Ames Research Park in San jose, California.
this AMF 3d printer could be launched by the end of this year to provide manufacturing services to NASA and the US National Laboratory on the ISS. 3d printing,
and one used by NASA for various experiments. This is good news for the aging Chinese society
The company is a worldwide leader in the manufacurting and retailing of graphene and other advanced materials, with clients such as NASA, Ford motor, Apple, Samsung, Harvard and Stanford.
Their work is being sponsored by NASA Langley Research center In virginia, which has interests in the developing technology.
but the true goal of NASA and Made In Space has been to 3d print in vacuum of space itself.
NASA Spiderfab project intends to 3d print the underlying structures for such objects as antennas and solar panels.
and participated in the Made in Space-NASA program for solar-powered 3d printing in space,
forcing the Russian space agency to postpone the return of three cosmonauts onboard the station. Russia initially planned to bring back the crew home on 14 may;
Launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 28 april, the Progress was intended to supply 3t of food,
Reuters quoted Roscosmos head Igor Komarov as saying that the Soyuz rocket's third stage separated from the cargo ship early,
but the true goal of NASA and Made In Space has been to 3d print in vacuum of space itself.
NASA Spiderfab project intends to 3d print the underlying structures for such objects as antennas and solar panels.
A variant of the Tupolev was used in experiments by Nasa, and American and Russian aerospace industries, in a joint research program after the end of the Cold war.
Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
In Asia, Japan aerospace exploration agency (Jaxa) is also working on a hypersonic airliner called Hytex intended to cross the Pacific ocean in two hours at speeds of Mach 5. Both Lapcat-II
and Jaxa are part of a hypersonic knowledge-transfer project between Europe and Japan called Hikari.
says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research. Hunger for hydrogen But, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs.
Nasa is working with Lockheed martin and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietly.
The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
roared off on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, beginning a two-day journey to the International space station (ISS).
joined by rookie Andreas Mogensen from the European space agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov, another first time space flyer from Kazakhstan's space agency Kazcosmos.
ESA dubbed Mogensen"Denmark's Gagarin,"a reference to the Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
Russia's Roscosmos space agency said the altitude of the station, boosted in July to avoid space debris,
U s. space agency Nasa is thought to have tested successfully a revolutionary new power source that could enable spacecraft to travel to the Moon in just four hours instead of more than three days and to Mars in two or three weeks instead of seven months.
when the news comes from Nasa an organisation that put men on the Moon and sent rockets to Mars. According to Nasa engineer Paul March,
he said he was pleased Nasa was aving funwith his creation and felt some vindication after years of scepticism.
Nasa researchers claimed when lasers were fired into their Emdrive chamber, some of them travelled aster than the speed of light suggesting it could power a craft at the same velocity.
including the VIST and the VST at Chile Paranal Observatory, Nasa GALEX, WISE and a European space agency Herschel telescope.
While Nasa is busy testing its biggest ever rocket in the hope it will propel mankind to Mars,
The discovery was made by analysing data sent back from Nasa Lunar Atmosphere and Dust environment Explorer,
said Mehdi Benna of Nasa's Goddard Space flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. e were pleased very to
and with engineers at Nasa to improve techniques for collecting a person's vital signs,
Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
Nasa explains. It's predicted scramjets could reach 15 times the speed of sound. Bombardier Skreemr's sleek design, with four wings and two large rockets on the rear, is intended to be used as a commercial aircraft to carry 75 passengers in luxury.
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