News

Meteorite Lands on House Following California Fireball

By Merryl Azriel on October 23, 2012

The Novato meteorite (Credits: P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute/NASA ARC). October 24 Update: It now appears that the rock found in Lisa Webber's... Read more →

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Blue Origin Completes Pusher Pad Escape Test

By Merryl Azriel on October 23, 2012

Blue Origin's pusher escape system launches away from the launch pad to protect crews on orbital and suborbital flights (Credits: Blue... Read more →

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ESA Denies Debris Culpability in Envisat Case

By Maria Fischer on October 23, 2012

Envisat operated for 10 years monitoring the Earth's environment (Credits: ESA). On October 11th ESA denied the accusation that the Agency had... Read more →

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Canadian Space Agency Unveils Rover Fleet

By Merryl Azriel on October 22, 2012

Artemis is light weight 230 kg prototype designed for lunar exploration that operate autonomously or telerobotically. Artemis' four wheel system can... Read more →

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Phobos-Grunt 2 Bound for Launch in 2020, Russians Confirmed While Celebrating Sputnik

By Tereza Pultarova on October 22, 2012

It seems Russian spirits weren’t broken by last year’s Phobos-Grunt launch fiasco and less then a year after the botch it was confirmed that a... Read more →

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Dragon Rocket Seen from the Ground

By Ralf Vandebergh on October 22, 2012

On May 22, 2012, the Dragon C2+ spacecraft (also known as COTS Demo Flight 2) was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch... Read more →