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Nasa Seeks Volunteers For Paid One-Year ‘Mission To Mars’.

Nasa is seeking volunteers to participate in a one-year Mars surface simulation mission to help develop the space agency’s plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The space agency is seeking applications from “healthy, motivated US citizens or permanent residents who are non-smokers, 30-55 years old, and proficient in English”. This would be the […]

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SpaceX launches Indonesian Satellite on 300th Successful Falcon 9 Mission.

SpaceX just notched another impressive milestone. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Merah Putih 2 communications satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:11 p.m. EST (2011 GMT), then deployed it into orbit 34.5 minutes later. It was the 300th successful mission for the workhorse rocket to date, SpaceX noted this afternoon

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Varda’s 1st In-Space Manufacturing Capsule To Land In Utah This Week.

A private company’s first in-space manufacturing project is about to come back to Earth. Last week, California-based Varda Space Industries got permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to land the capsule from its W-1 mission in northern Utah. If all goes according to plan, W-1’s 3-foot-wide (0.9 meters) conical capsule will re-enter Earth’s

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GGPEN Hosts Delegates from the Zambian Ministry of Technology and Science.

The Managing Director of the National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) hosted a team of delegates from the Zambian Ministry of Technology and Science, led by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Brilliant Habeenzu, the Zambian Ambassador in Angola, Laurence Chalungumuna, and  Dr Faustin Banda, to explore opportunities for enhancing space cooperation, explicitly focusing on the advantages

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Japan Successfully Launches H3 Rocket After Back-to-Back Failures.

Japan has successfully launched its next-generation rocket into orbit, the country’s space agency has announced, after two failed attempts cast a pall over Tokyo’s space ambitions. The H3 had a “successful liftoff” at 9:22am Tokyo time (12:22 GMT) on Saturday and entered its planned orbit carrying a dummy satellite and two functioning microsatellites, the Japan

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Our Universe Is Merging With ‘Baby Universes’, Causing It To Expand, New Theoretical Study Suggests.

Our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate — a phenomenon that all theories of cosmology agree upon but none can fully explain. Now, a new theoretical study offers an intriguing solution: Perhaps our universe is expanding because it keeps colliding with and absorbing “baby” parallel universes. Studies of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow

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ISRO launches INSAT-3DS, India’s weather eye, from Sriharikota.

India plans to launch a powerful weather satellite to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch the action live. The INSAT-3DS satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on Saturday at 7:05 a.m. EST (1205 GMT; 5:35 p.m. local India time) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre

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Saturn’s Ocean Moon Titan May Not Be Able To Support Life After All.

Titan’s underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy moons in the outer solar system, may lack the organic chemistry necessary for life, according to new astrobiological research. Titan is Saturn‘s largest moon, and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It’s famous for being shrouded in a smog of petrochemicals and for

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