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NASA: Earth Now Shares Solar System With 27 Dwarf Planets Including Pluto

Edit Inquisitr 17 Jul 2016
The OSSOS is tasked with mapping the massive number of objects made of ice and rock that comprise the enormous Kuiper Belt outside Neptune’s orbit, Dr ... A dwarf planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough for gravity to have made it round while a full size planet has cleared away the other objects in its orbit ... orbit”....

Elon Musk's SpaceX has chosen a rocket for its first true reusability test

Edit Mashable 17 Jul 2016
SpaceX has long had the goal of creating a fleet of reusable rockets that can fly multiple payloads to orbit and then land back on Earth, greatly reducing the cost of launching to space ... In December 2015, the company landed a Falcon 9 booster back on land in Florida after successfully launching a clutch of satellites to orbit....

SpaceX Midnight Launch Carrying Crucial Docking Port and Science to ISS Set for July 18, ...

Edit Universe Today 17 Jul 2016
Dragon is carrying a crucial crew docking port absolutely essential for conducting future human space missions to the orbiting outpost as well as a host of wide ranging science experiments essential for NASA exploiting the space environment for research in low earth orbit and deep space exploration....

SpaceX to launch key 'parking spot' to space station

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jul 2016
Miami ... The international docking adapter will function as a parking spot for space taxis, enabling commercial spaceships carrying astronauts to latch on securely to the orbiting outpost ... Costly accident ... The total loss amounted to $118 million, according to NASA ... The Dragon will stay at the orbiting outpost for about a month before returning to Earth for a splash down in Pacific Ocean, carrying back 1,300 pounds of science experiments. ....

Science in 140 characters: What scientists are tweeting about

Edit Indian Express 17 Jul 2016
Snaring space debris ... ACCORDING TO astronomer Phil Plait, European Space Agency has been looking into proposals to try and clear the Earth’s orbit of pieces of debris ... The satellite would spot space debris, move in and deploy a chute or a net or a harpoon to gather all the floating debris, and then perform a de-orbit burn to drop these back into Earth’s atmosphere where both, the debris and the satellite, would burn on re-entry ... ....

Alien Life Could Still Exist On Mars: NASA Scientist Suggests Where To Look

Edit Inquisitr 17 Jul 2016
CNN reported July 15 that Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator for NASA’s HiRISE high-resolution camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, finds that life on Mars just might be discovered in the near future ... Back in March, as reported by Inquisitr, the European Space Agency launched the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter from Kazakhstan ... [Image via Shutterstock]....

SpaceX launching space station docking port for NASA

Edit Stars and Stripes 17 Jul 2016
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX aims to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA, including a critical docking port needed by new U.S. crew capsules set to debut next year. The unmanned Falcon rocket is scheduled to lift off early Monday. Excellent weather is forecast for the 12.45 a.m. launch ... This is port No. 2 ... Three other boosters touched down vertically on an ocean platform, after delivering spacecraft to orbit ...  . ....

NASA Admits Mars Rover Will Hunt For Aliens On Mars: Will NASA Find Extra Terrestrials ...

Edit Inquisitr 17 Jul 2016
NASA finally admits they will be hunting for aliens on Mars in 2021 using the Mars Rover 2020. Will NASA find extra terrestrials on Mars, and more importantly, will they finally admit that aliens really do exist? ... The instruments will analyze mineral, chemical, and characteristics of the rocks on Mars ... By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on Mars will follow.”....

The Wild Life of Princess Margaret, The Original Royal Rockstar

Edit The Daily Beast 17 Jul 2016
Today they have other fish to fry.''. With her drinking, partying, and alleged affairs with the likes of Mick Jagger and Peter Sellers, Margaret’s public image—which orbited from tragic to passionate to louche and unpredictable—made her, pre-Princess Diana, the most dramatic and scandal-generating Royal ... Keystone Pictures USA/Alamy ... “She was Diana before Diana, and it must have been difficult,” Beacham told the Daily Mail ... ....

Astronomers spy giant planet, three stars in odd celestial ballet

Edit Deccan Chronicle 16 Jul 2016
Since the planet's orbit is very long, each season lasts for hundreds of years ... The planet, called HD 131399Ab, is about four times bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and is orbiting in a three-star system located about 340 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus ... It orbits its parent star about twice as far as Pluto circles the sun, needing 550 years to complete a single orbit....

After probing Jupiter with Juno, what next for Nasa?

Edit The National 16 Jul 2016
Nasa's triumph in putting a lorry-sized probe in orbit around Jupiter this month masks an inconvenient truth for the space agency ... Known as Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBOs, more than 1,000 have been identified, their vast orbits round the sun strongly influenced by the huge gravitational pull of Neptune ... Studies of its orbit suggested it was under the gravitational influence of something other than Neptune....

Getting food to Mars is way cheaper than you might think

Edit Business Insider 16 Jul 2016
Last time we checked, just developing a Space Launch System (SLS) to get all the parts assembled in orbit to build a Mars-going spacecraft was likely to cost about $7 billion. America's best and brightest space companies -- led by Boeing, but with a lot of help from Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, and Aerojet Rocketdyne -- are hard at work getting SLS operational already....

Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber

Edit Slashdot 16 Jul 2016
With nukes. Lt. Col ... Petersburg who is overseeing the space plane's development, said the orbital bomber would be flight-ready by 2020 ... Thanks to its orbital capability, the bomber would be able to nuke any target on Earth no longer than two hours after taking off, Solodovnikov claimed ... ....
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