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NASA Technology Spinoff Offers Breath of Fresh Air to Miners

By Phillip Keane on January 25, 2013

Rescue workers prepare to pull up Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days using a capsule that incorporated suggestions from NASA (Credits:... Read more →

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Galileo Search and Rescue Payload Tested in Space

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 25, 2013

The Galileo SAR signal measured by ESA Redu Centre  (Credits: ESA). The Galileo search and rescue (SAR) package has been successfully tested for... Read more →

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Kazakhstan Reduces Proton Launches From Baikonour

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 24, 2013

Proton-M launch from Baikonour. Kazakhstan has cut down the number of the launches for 2013 (Credits: Roscosmos). Kazakhstan has approved only 12... Read more →

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Will Overview Effect Make Everyone a Better Person?

By Staff Writers on January 24, 2013

Overview Effect, the feeling frequently described as "awe" experienced by astronauts upon seeing their home planet from space, is getting a lot of... Read more →

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ESA’s FlySafe to Make Flying Safer

By Siddharth Raval on January 24, 2013

Bird tracking from ground and space helps planes avoid bird strike (Credits: ESA). Bird strike, when an airplane flies into one or more birds... Read more →

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DARPA Shows Progress on Phoenix Satellite Scavenger

By Staff Writers on January 23, 2013

Phoenix scavenger spacecraft gets to work deconstructing a satellite (Credits: DARPA). On January 22, DARPA released a video showing the progress... Read more →