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ESA Abandons Efforts to Contact Phobos-Grunt

By Joel Spark on December 6, 2011

Following days without success in reestablishing contact with the ailing Phobos-Grunt, now in an uncontrolled decaying orbit, ESA announced on... Read more →

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The Continuing Uncertainty of Phobos-Grunt

By Michael J. Listner on December 6, 2011

U.S. and Canadian forces, during cleanup of the Cosmos 954 radioactive debris (Source: Royal Canadian Air Force). It has been a month since... Read more →

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ISS Experiment Finds Osteoporosis Drugs Counteract Bone Loss

By Stavros Georgakas on December 5, 2011

Experiments jointly conducted by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the International Space Station (ISS) have confirmed that... Read more →

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China Breaks Annual Launch Record

By Joel Spark on December 5, 2011

The launch of a BeiDou-2 Compass navigation satellite on December 1st atop a Long March 3A booster is the 16th successful launch by China in... Read more →

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Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13′s Plutonium From the Sea?

By Staff Writers on December 5, 2011

A pellet of PU-238. (Credits: US Department of Energy). The Query: Will NASA ever recover the 3.9 kg of plutonium from Apollo 13’s SNAP-27... Read more →

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Video Captures CST-100 Capsule Drop Test

By Staff Writers on December 4, 2011

 The video below shows the Boeing/Bigelow Aerospace Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Capsule mock-up being drop tested in the Nevada desert... Read more →