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Nasa is flying Kicksat for free as part of its Educational Launch of Nanosatellites programme. Once in orbit, the Falcon 9 will release the Dragon towards the ISS and,
Manchester confesses. learned the saying from Nasa that you have to have at least as much weight in paperwork as your satellite weighs,
#Not that China is the only nation working on space weaponry#America is too#though US law prohibits Nasa from collaborating
but is reluctant to increase Nasa's funds. Nasa's budget for 2014 is more than a billion less than 2012,
at its lowest levels since 2007.""When the Chinese are standing on the Moon, there will be many members of the US Congress that will proclaim their"shock#at that happening,
In the 1960s, Nasa built one of their Deep space Network stations in Hartebeesthoek, South africa, which supported several early robotic missions to the moon during the Apollo programme.
In 1970, on behalf of Nasa and with the help of Italian engineers, Kenya launched Uhuru#Swahili for"freedom##the world's first satellite dedicated to celestial X-ray astronomy, from a converted oil platform off its coast.
Behind them are huge posters of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory used a portfolio of design software made by Siemens to digitally design,
Led by Nasa, the European space agency and Canada, the project was started more than ten years ago. With the final price tag still to be determined,
only last year there was still talk in Congress of withdrawing Nasa's funding for the mission.
and integration process at Nasa centres in Washington and Houston.""We know we have only one chance to get it right,
when the final sections are shipped to Nasa at the end of this year.""We love building it, #she says."
Nasa's $600 million space observatory Kepler, launched in 2009, has also been crippled recently. Kepler has helped spot thousands of potential exoplanets#over 130
but this month Nasa conceded that Kepler will no longer be able to search for exoplanets.
says Matt Mountain, the director of the Space telescope Science Institute at Nasa. Hubble's planned successor, the James webb space telescope (JWST)# set to go into orbit around 2018#is expected to do much more.
In April this year, Nasa gave the go-ahead to another space-based mission that will work similar to Kepler,
#but Nasa is already thinking about a future JWST replacement, called the Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space telescope (ATLAST),
Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact#they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.
the team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
The National Science Foundations NASA and the Department of energy funded the work. Source: NYUYOU are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license
the team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
NASA ESA and G. Bacon (STSCL) via U. Chicago) The researchers describe their work as an important milestone on the road to identifying potentially habitable Earthlike planets beyond our Solar system.
The launch of NASA s next major space telescope the 6. 5m James webb space telescope (JWST) later this decade should reveal more about such worlds Kreidberg says. ooking forward JWST will be transformativeshe says. he new capabilities
But more than that it may open the door to studies of Earthlike planets around nearby stars. he NASA the National Science Foundation the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
NASA'#Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER) program and the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) supported the research.
of the Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast NASA and the Academy of Finland. Source: University of California Davisyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license i
MKIDS were developed first a decade ago by Mazin his Ph d. adviser Jonas Zmuidzinas professor of physics at the California Institute of technology and Henry Leduc at NASA s Jet propulsion laboratory.
The galaxy was discovered using NASA's Hubble space telescope. Follow-up observations were done with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
and ground-based optical telescopes including the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii. wenty years ago we couldn't have done thisstrader says. e didn't have Hubble or Chandra.
This is one of those projects where you bring together the full force of NASA's great observatories plus ground-based resources. ource:
Some of the work was carried out at the Jet propulsion laboratory under a contract with NASA and the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech provided support and infrastructure.
NASA supported the work. Source: Brown University you are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivs 3. 0 Unported license c
NASA, and Caltech
#Graphene#s jagged edge can easily slice cells Brown University right Original Study Posted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on July 10 2013brown (US) the jagged edges of tiny graphene sheets
and Exploration Science Directorate NASA/Johnson Space center notes that the spindles appear to be the same as those found in rocks from the Strelly Pool Formation in Western australia
The NASA Astrobiology Institute the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate Johnson Space center and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science supported this research.
#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.
#Nissan and NASA team up for autonomous drive vehicle development It may seem akin to an alliance between a railway and a submarine manufacturer,
but Japanese automaker Nissan has signed a pact with US space agency NASA to develop self-driving cars.
Nissan) View All the agreement involves scientists and engineers at Nissan's US Silicon valley Research center and NASA's Ames Research center,
NASA has, in fact, been in the car business for over forty years, ever since the first Lunar rover went for a spin during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
"The work of NASA and Nissan with one directed to space and the other directed to earth, is connected by similar challenges,
#ISAAC robot joins NASA to weave advanced composites The robot revolution continues at NASA this month as its Langley Research center in Hampton,
NASA/David C. Bo...The idea is that the ribbons are made up of partially cured resins mixed with carbon fibers.
According to NASA, more conventional composite manufacturing requires these ribbons to be laid down at one of three angles 0 degrees, 45, or 90.
NASA says that this versatility will not only help in creating better composites but it will also speed up the prototyping process As well as ISAAC begins work on the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Advanced Composites Project and the Space technology Mission Directoratecomposites for Exploration Upper Stage,
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
##explained NASA Apollo 11 lunar landing vehicle manager Hubert Davis, a member of#the Solar High Study Group#of nine former NASA and Apollo program scientists and retired
according to#August 2012 calculationsby NASA Apollo program engineer Philip Chapman, would be $0. 10 to $0. 11 per kilowatt-hour.
##But the maximum radio frequency intensity of the transmission##is only one-fourth that of sunlight,##according to former NASA wireless power transmission engineer Richard Dickinson.
##Given the way#NASA#is funded, Spiderfab is three years to five years out, ##Hoyt said.##
##But##on-orbit fabrication with Spiderfab,##a TUI presentation#promises,##will enable NASA to accomplish ten times more science per dollar.##
and with its NASA campus headquarters and#Space Act Agreement#funding, it could actually go places.
a space-based power station has the potential to reinvigorate NASA and give a needed dose of excitement to the thousands of space companies that support it.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
"NASA is researching different ways to produce oxygen for long-distance space journeys to let us live in space.
researchers analysed air samples from a six-week hurricane-research mission by NASA in 2010.
Samples collected by the NASA mission before, during, and after two hurricanes also allowed researchers to study the effects of extreme weather on the atmospheric microbiome.
Laboratory analysis has revealed that a specimen bought from a Moroccan meteorite dealer in 2011 is the first sample of Martian origin that is similar to the water-rich rocks examined by NASA s rovers.
The elemental composition of the meteorite strongly resembles that of rocks examined in 2005 by NASA s Spirit rover at Gusev Crater2.
The composition of NWA 7034 also matches that of rocks studied by Curiosity, NASA s newest rover,
and that s also the structure that NASA s twin Van allen Probes recorded when they began operation on 1 september 2012.
The researchers used NASA s Kepler space telescope to identify the three planets orbiting Kepler 37, a star some 200 light-years away that is somewhat smaller than the sun. The spacecraft monitors more than 150,000 stars in the Milky way
NASA/WMAP SCIENCE TEAMIT was not until the launch of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft that astronomers could begin to see variations in the background, at levels of 1 part in 100,000.
NASA/WMAP SCIENCE TEAMPLANCK launched in 2009, provides a capstone to the study of the cosmic microwave background.
The hypersensitive methane detector on NASA's Mars rover curiosity is being repurposed to ferret out gas leaks On earth.
Kepler-10c was discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The planet orbits a star that is about 560 light years away from us.
NASA is already using an unpiloted version of Dragon to send cargo to the International space station and return valuable gear and scientific experiments.
Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
Earlier this month NASA announced it was suspending cooperation with Russia although the International space station was excluded from the ban.
NASA only has a few smaller-scale joint activities with Russia such as an instrument aboard its Curiosity Mars rover
#NASA'flying saucer'for Mars to land in Hawaii In June while beachgoers in Hawaii sit blissfully unaware a flying saucer will descend over the island of Kauai.
This is not a trailer for an alien invasion movie NASA is gearing up to conduct the first test flight of a disc-shaped spacecraft designed to safely land heavy loads
and crashing is stopping says Allen Chen at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California who oversaw the successful landing of the one-tonne Curiosity rover in 2012.
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
NASA has three more test flights in Hawaii planned for the LDSD and mission managers will review the results before deciding on next steps.
Saturn's moon Enceladus stole back the limelight last week when NASA reported firm evidence of an ocean linked to geysers at its south pole (see diagram below.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew through the geysers and detected water salts and carbon-based molecules.
Data from NASA's Galileo probe which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 show clay-like minerals on Europa's surface probably debris from meteor impacts
NASA's budget for next year includes $15 million to design possible missions there and the agency is inviting proposals for instruments a probe could carry.
That thing should be frozen solid and dead as a doorbell says NASA program scientist Curt Niebur who heads the committee that will evaluate science instruments for a Europa mission.
#NASA's Russia boycott may revitalise US space leadership So NASA has been dragged into the fallout over Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
An internal memo made public this week revealed the space agency has suspended contact with Russia except for that concerning International space station (ISS) operations.
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
This was confirmed in an official statement from NASA yesterday. Will this action influence Vladimir Putin
In addition NASA has been banned legislatively from having bilateral relations with China since 2011. While ostensibly that ban relates to concerns about technology transfer the underlying reason has as much or more to do with Chinese restrictions on religious freedom.
or its relative isolation from meeting with NASA officials nor is it likely to. In fact China has pushed ahead with its own robotic lunar programme
NASA's suspension of working with the Russians will likely be received in Russia much the same way other sanctions over its actions in Ukraine have been:
if only a suitable mission could be arranged NASA's Cassini orbiter first spotted spectacular plumes at Enceladus's south pole in 2005 shortly after arriving at Saturn.
But NASA has plans for human missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars and getting home quickly won't be an option.
and saw a tendril of increased electron density curling away from the north pole indicating that a plume of plasma was veering off towards the sun. At the same time three of NASA's THEMIS spacecraft
and Technology (NIST) in Boulder Colorado who developed the detector with NASA. Data must be encoded before it can be sent.
For the next few decades the moon's only visitors were a dozen or so orbiters and deliberate crashes such as NASA's LCROSS mission in 2009
and beyond we don't want to have to bring fuel with us says Anthony Colaprete of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field California.
and a slot to launch their Cubesat on a NASA rocket next year. The race is on.
000 target, the appeal prompted a private donor to offer to pay for the technology and a launch next year aboard a NASA rocket.
or perhaps water in Mars's and recently NASA's Curiosity rover added to the scepticism by finding no methane when it breathed in the Martian air.
NASA's MAVEN mission also due to launch next month will tackle that same puzzle but with a larger suite of instruments.
#NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon The man in the moon is about to get his own version of a broadband connection as well as a visit from China.
NASA's LADEE moon orbiter due to launch on 7 september will use laser pulses to exchange high-capacity signals with Earth.
Both NASA and commercial entities are considering sending robots to nearby asteroids. In some cases robot geologists could take HD video that would allow their human puppeteers to best plan their next moves suggests Cornwell.
A NASA probe called Maven due to launch in November will orbit Mars to study its atmosphere up close to try to solve the puzzle.
Still the flicker method could be put to use on NASA's next planet hunter the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) due to launch in 2017.
Now NASA has proved that even rocket motors can be made this way. Engineers led by Tyler Hickman in the Game Changing Technology Program at NASA's Glenn Research center in Cleveland Ohio worked together with rocket motor maker Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento California.
They wondered if additive layer manufacturing the engineer's name for 3d printing could make a precision part called a rocket injector in less time than the year it takes using conventional methods.
NASA is not the only organisation trying to take 3d printing into space however: a public competition is under way to create a crowdsourced design for an open-source 3d-printable rocket engine that commercial spaceflight operators will be able to use
Using the first three years of observations from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft astronomers were able to map this heliotail for the first time.
while the two lobes on the horizontal plane consist of slower-moving particles (watch a NASA video of the tail in action).
By contrast NASA's human spaceflight programme has struggled under changing budgets and political whims. Plans to return to the moon under George w bush's administration for instance morphed into crewed missions to an asteroid under Barack Obama's presidency.
Since the space shuttles retired in 2011 NASA has been contracting with private firms to deliver cargo and soon hopefully astronauts to the space station.
Orbital's agreement with NASA includes this trial launch and a full demonstration mission in
#Curiosity's discoveries hint at life's cradle on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock much to everyone's surprise.
And even if no hints of microbes can be found Mars's habitable regions could still serve as snapshots of a prebiotic world frozen in time says Michael Meyer lead scientist for NASA's Mars exploration programme.
NASA is now considering how best to equip the next rover a Curiosity clone that will launch in 2020 says Meyer.
and what NASA ultimately selects says Meyer. This article appeared in print under the headline Rover finds hint of life's cradle on Mar l
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
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.
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
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#How Technology Will Make Everyone A Great Photographer At the end of May the Chicago Sun-Times laid off all its staff photographers.
and NASA s Jason-1 the scientists have created stunning maps of Earth s entire seafloor bringing to light mountains
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.
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
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