NASA has announced that is investigating the possibility of placing a deep-space outpost near the far side of the moon. This location is being looked at because it is a location of the liberation point, which is a point in space at which the gravitational pull between the moon and the earth is roughly equal. The tip came from a memo issued on February 3 by William Gerstenmaier, the associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA.
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NASA assessing viability of deep space outpost near the moon
Tesla Model X maker set for space-bound IPO next year
Relatively hot on the heels of the IPO of electric car making company Tesla and the reveal of their newest Model X, the head of the group Elon Musk is speaking of an IPO for SpaceX, also known as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. Musk is a man who is set to be one of the few in the history of the world to head three separate companies opening three separate IPOs in the span of three years, and riding high on the wave of press he and Tesla are receiving today amid the reveal of the Model X, he's been vocal about his next big adventure. This man is so well known for his ability to conceive of and execute giant-style plans like this that he was given a cameo in the film Iron Man 2 pitching an electric jet to Tony Stark - how's that strike you?
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Earth twin discovered 22 light-years away
The Kepler mission initiated to find habitable Earth-like planets near our own has turned up another candidate for places we might visit in the future: GJ 667Cc. This planet has an orbital period of about 28 days regularly and has a mass that's at least 4.5 larger than Earth. This planet is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface, and it sits aside two or three additional planets that may well be similar enough to also be Earth candidates. This newest discovery was made by astronomers from UC Santa Cruz Steven Vogt and Eugenio Rivera, lead by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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NASA beams back video from the Dark Side of the Moon
NASA has released footage of the far side of the moon, beamed back by one of the agency's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft as they test their MoonKAM hardware. In the clip - which you can see after the cut - the moon's north pole is visible at the top of the screen, before the craft passes by the Mare Orientale, a 560m wide impact basin.
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NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania
Police in Romania have arrested hacker TinKode, who is notorious for hacking into US military and government websites. The 20-year-old IT student, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, was accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon servers, stealing confidential information, and then posting it on his personal blog.
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Russian blames space radiation for Phobos-grunt failure
Russia has been strongly hinting for a while now that the US might have had something to do with failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. The probe failed to fire its engines and move out of Earth orbit to head towards Mars, and eventually fell back into the atmosphere where most of it burned up. Many of Russia's own scientists said that the thought the US had something to do with the failure of the probe was incorrect and that Russia should look at failures within the probe itself.
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NASA IBEX reveals composition of space matter from outside our solar system
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has been studying what lies outside our solar system and today researchers revealed that this space matter is quite different from what lies within. This interstellar material is considered to be what stars, planets, and people are made from and hence the importance to understand its composition.
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ISS orbit raised to avoid Chinese satellite fragment
The ISS and its international crew have been silently orbiting the Earth for many years now. Typically, the ISS maintains a consistent orbit, but at times, that orbit has to be tweaked to avoid any debris that might be in the path of the space station. The smallest chunk of space trash traveling at the very high velocities that are achieved in orbit can destroy the space station and risks the astronauts' lives.
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NASA aims for early 2014 test of Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft
Lockheed Martin has been hard at work on the Orion spacecraft for a long while. The Orion spacecraft is more like the capsules used in the Apollo era than the space shuttle that has been retired from service. The first big milestone for the Orion project is coming in 2014 when NASA hopes to be able test spacecraft during orbits of the earth.
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Increased solar activity means more aurora borealis over next year
Many people around the world are getting quite a light show at night thanks to the massive solar flares that have been occurring on the sun and shooting radiation towards the Earth's atmosphere. That radiation bouncing off the atmosphere means that we get an impressive display of northern lights, otherwise known as aurora borealis, in the sky over parts of the world that traditionally don't have such a light show. Last week a strong solar storm that pounded the Earth's magnetic field and made for a beautiful night sky in many locations.
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NEOShield international asteroid threat-reduction group forming now
A group created by scientists and research institutes, universities and industrial partners in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, and the USA has been formed and called NEOShield, created for the express purpose of investigating and executing asteroid threat-reduction techniques to avoid the apocalypse. Not necessarily the end of the world, mind you, but the prevention of massively negative events in the face of humankind upon impact of asteroids from space. This commission hasn't issued any threats thus far, and they've not formed because there's an inordinate amount of asteroids headed for Earth right this second, but they are formed, and they are preparing.
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Kepler telescope finds 11 new planetary systems, one has five planets
The NASA team that operates the Kepler space telescope has used their all-seeing eye to find 11 new planetary systems. The new discovery brings the total number of planets that have been discovered by the Kepler team to 60. In all, there are 729 confirmed extra-solar planets. As always, the team uses regular changes in the light of the star to tell if planets are orbiting.
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