
NASA-funded scientific balloon program wraps up fourth campaign
The scientists of the BARREL team sent their last balloon soaring toward the stratosphere over Sweden on Aug. 30, 2016, capping off four years of launches to study how electrons precipitate into Ear ... more
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Goddard space center mission-critical for ISS astronauts
The International Space Station may bring to mind launch pads in Florida or control rooms in Houston, but humanity's longest continuously inhabited outpost in space also requires near-constant suppo ... more
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Artificial photosynthesis breakthrough replicates early plant processes
EZIE satellites begin mission to map Earth's auroral electrojets
FireSat Prototype Launch Advances Global Wildfire Surveillance
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United Launch Alliance announces CubeSat STEM winners
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has selected four proposals from university students to receive free CubeSat launch slots on future Atlas V missions through the company's new innovative rideshare progr ... more
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Lockheed to receive $147 million for Tactical Boost Glide prototype
Lockheed Martin has been awarded $147 million for a research project under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Tactical Boost Glide program. ... more
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NASA's black female mathematicians hit the big screen
During the era of US racial segregation, a handful of black female mathematicians managed to break social barriers and propel the US space agency to new heights - and soon their story will be a major motion picture. ... more
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China's space lab Tiangong-2 enters in-orbit test track
China's space lab Tiangong-2 has entered an in-orbit test track, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center said Friday.
"Tiangong-2 is in good condition currently, and its sub-systems are operating ... more
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TsENKI, Roscosmos seal contracts to modernize Baikonur
Russia's Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure (TsENKI) and Roscosmos state corporation have concluded three contracts worth some 1.8 billion rubles ($28 million at the current e ... more
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