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NASA | CATS in Space Keep Eyes on Atmosphere
NASA Goddard is preparing to demonstrate for the fist time in space, a 3-wavelength, laser remote sensing instrument. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System or CATS will measure clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere. This...
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Beijing developing 'China Space Station'
China Is working on a newly planned station dated for a 2019 launch. Beijing expects the "China Space Station" to be operational by 2022. The space station will be able to host up to three astronauts over 180-day periods.This is around...
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Expedition 66 Soyuz MS-19 Undocking from International Space Station - March 30, 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov departed the International Space Station March 30 and returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing near the town...
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OSIRIS-REx Observes a Black Hole
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30,000 light-years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
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Expedition 66 Soyuz MS-19 Hatch Closure on International Space Station - March 29, 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov departed the International Space Station March 30 and returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing near the town...
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SpaceX set to launch astronauts to the International Space Station on May 27: NASA
The U.S. will send two astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil for the first time in 11 years in May.
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Super-fast space junk punches hole through space station
A piece of space debris has smashed a gaping hole through an important part of the International Space Station.
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NASA | TDRS: Continuing The Fleet
NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that...
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Boeing ready to try its Starliner space capsule again
Boeing is ready to test its Starliner space capsule again on March 25, after a previous test ended badly 13 months ago.
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Expedition 67 -Axiom Mission 1 Docks to the Space Station - April 9, 2022
Axiom Mission 1 astronauts Michael Lopez Algeria, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe docked to the zenith port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station April 9 following a launch April 8 on the SpaceX Crew Dragon...
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Expedition 67 - Axiom Mission 1 Space Station Arrival, Welcome Ceremony - April 9, 2022
Axiom Mission 1 astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe opened the hatch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and floated aboard the International Space Station April 9 after docking to the complex...
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NASA | We Did All That in 50 Years!
Humans have always looked up at the sky. They used astronomy to track time, orient their cities, decide when to plant their crops, and even based their religious practices on their celestial world. But there was much more to learn.
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Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet's Atmosphere
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD...
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NASA Uses CATS to Study Air Pollution
NASA is measuring air pollution with a laser called CATS, the Cloud Aerosol Transport System. Mounted on the International Space Station about 249 miles above Earth, CATS makes observations about the transport of aerosols by looking...
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NASA’s NICER Reveals 1st-ever Pulsar Surface Map
Scientists have reached a new frontier in our understanding of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to observations from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Data from this X-ray telescope...
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SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down in Pacific
The first commercial space mission has made a successful return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific off the coast of California. SpaceX's dragon capsule lifted off from Earth on May 22 before docking with the International Space...
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Space station did 1.5 backflips when thruster malfunctioned
It turns out the ISS did a lot more rotating than NASA claimed it did during a dramatic 47-minute tug of war.
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Welcome to the Ionosphere
Learn about the features of the ionosphere! This little-explored region exists between space and Earth. It is home to the aurora, the international space station, a variety of satellites, and radio communication waves. We know it is...
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Snacktime with NASA: Space Salad
Snacktime with NASA digs into the science behind what’s on your plate from a tasty cheese board, to seafood, to fresh produce, to chips and dip. Food can bring us a sense of home, and it connects people all around the world. With...
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NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the Satellite Servicing Center and Robotic Lab
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important milestones in satellite-servicing technology...
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NICER in Space
Several cameras on the International Space Station (ISS) have eyes on NICER. Since arriving to the space station on June 5 – aboard SpaceX’s eleventh cargo resupply mission – NICER underwent robotic installation on ExPRESS Logistics...
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NASA | Space Station Robots Test Techniques of the Future
In an important demonstration of new technical methodologies, from January 14-24, 2013, NASA engineers will try to simulate the transfer of fuel from one vehicle to another, in space, with nothing but robots doing the physical work....
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NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist
This time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space...