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A Strong State of NASA on This Week @NASA - February 16, 2018

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The Fiscal Year 2019 budget and the State of NASA, astronauts at work outside the International Space Station, and the arrival of our next planet-hunting satellite ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

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On Feb. 12, NASA centers across the country hosted "State of NASA" events, following President Trump's Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal delivery to the U.S. Congress. The events included an address, by acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, to the agency's workforce, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama.

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"State of NASA" Events Highlight Agency Goals for Space Exploration

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On Feb. 12, NASA centers across the country hosted "State of NASA" events, following President Trump's Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal delivery to the U.S. Congress. The events included an address, by acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, to the agency's workforce, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Exploration is a tradition at NASA. We reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind. On February, 12, 2018, Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot gave a State of NASA address to roll out the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget proposal. This video highlights the future-facing vision of those plans.

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Webb Telescope Moves Westward on This Week @NASA - February 9, 2018

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Our Webb Space Telescope - on the move, new details about the atmospheres of some Earth-sized exoplanets, and another milestone in the transformation of an historic launch pad ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

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Celestial Triple Treat on This Week @NASA - February 2, 2018

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Super Blue Blood Moon - a rare triple treat up in the sky, celebrating America's first explorer in space, and smoke and fire - another Space Launch System engine test ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

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Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted a spacewalk to move a Latching End Effector, or hand, for the Canadarm2 robotic arm into the Quest airlock that was removed during another excursion last October and to move a degraded end effector replaced during a Jan.

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The observations of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes and from a binary neutron star coalescence followed by a set of astronomical measurements is an example of investigating the universe by 'multi-messenger' astronomy.

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For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence.

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Two groups of scientists, using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, have found evidence that the growth of the biggest black holes in the Universe is outrunning the rate of formation of stars in the galaxies they inhabit. This would be quite a surprise.

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The ISS Progress 69 cargo ship lifted off on February 13, 2018, almost 48 hours after the original attempt was scrubbed moments before scheduled liftoff. Two days later, the re-supply mission, designated 69P, successfully delivered 1,390 kilograms of dry cargo, 890 kilograms of propellant, 430 kilograms of water and 46 kilograms of compressed air and oxygen to the International Space Station, ISS.

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La terrible historia que escondía el ASTEROIDE INTERESTELAR Oumuamua

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ExoPlanetas.com Noticia: Esta historia es la que han descubierto la investigación del del Dr. Fraser de la Universidad de Queen's en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte. Oumuamua no gira periódicamente como la mayoría de los asteroides y cuerpos que vemos en nuestro Sistema Solar.

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La New Horizons de la NASA marca récord y captura la imagen más lejana de la Tierra

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ExoPlanetas.com Noticia: Estas son las imágenes de la Tierra en falso color tomadas por la New Horizonts en diciembre de 2017 de KBOs 2012 HZ84 (izquierda) y 2012 HE85 son, por ahora, las más lejanas de la Tierra jamás capturadas por una nave espacial.

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AGUA! La NASA anuncia que exoplanetas de Trappist-1 pueden tener más agua que la Tierra

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ExoPlanetas.com Noticia: Hace ahora un año se anunciaba el descubrimiento de siete planetas de un tamaño similar al de la Tierra orbitando la estrella TRAPPIST-1; pero aquello sólo era el principio. Los científicos han estado trabajando arduamente para comprender mejor estos atractivos mundos.

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NASA descubre por sorpresa 2 asteroides 2018 CB pasará a sólo 64.000 km de la Tierra el 9F

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Descubren los primeros exoplanetas extragalácticos gracias a una predicción de Einstein

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ExoPlanetas.com Noticia: Un equipo de astrofísica de la Universidad de Oklahoma descubrió por primera vez una población de planetas más allá de la Vía Láctea. Usando microlentes -un fenómeno astronómico y el único método conocido capaz de descubrir planetas a distancias realmente grandes de la Tierra, entre otras técnicas de detección-, los investigadores de OU pudieron detectar objetos en galaxias extragalácticas que van desde la masa de la Luna a la masa de Júpiter.

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El Curiosity manda un selfie desde Marte y una espectacular panorámica del camino recorrido

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ExoPlanetas.com Poco antes de morir Carl Sagan grabó un mensaje a los futuros exploradores del planeta rojo: "Sea cual fuere la razón que os ha llevado hasta Marte, me alegro de que estéis ahí. Ojalá pudiese acompañaros". El rover Curiosity Mars de la NASA nos manda algo más que una imagen, es una invitación para que algún día podamos acompañarlo.

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Mi ENFADO! por las MENTIRAS sobre el asteroide AJ129 2002 "potencialmente peligroso"

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ExoPlanetas.com Cada vez son más, y creciendo en un número preocupante, los vídeos que utilizan el recurso de meter miedo y mentir sobre los asteroides que se acercan a la órbita terrestre. Vídeos, algunos de los cuales superan las 100.000 visualizaciones que suponen una plaga que termina tapando los pocos vídeos que intentan dar una información veraz.

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Space Station Crew Member Discusses Life in Space with Texas Students

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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 54 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA discussed his mission and research on the complex during an in-flight educational event Feb. 14 with students at the Briarhill Middle School in Highland Village, Texas.

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 3344 - Hubble Delivers Amazing Views

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Habitable Zones Around Stars Can Be Weird - Animation Tool Shows How

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Physicist Tobias Müller and astrophysicist Nader Haghighipour wrote a computer program that demonstrates how the position and shape of habitable zones can change rapidly in double- and triple-star systems. --- Full Story: https://www.space.com/39676-alien-planets-habitable-zone-animation-tool.html Credit: Space.com Produced and Edited by @SteveSpaleta and @CallaCofield

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OTD in Space - February 14: Voyager 1 Takes Solar System 'Family Portrait'

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On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out.

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ESO's VLT Units 'Combined' to Form Amazing 16-Meter Telescope

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The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope truly went large as its ESPRESSO instrument combined the light of all four of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes. It makes the VLT the "largest optical telescope in existence in terms of collecting area," according to ESO. Credit: ESO

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OTD in Space - February 13: 1st Vega Rocket Launch

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On February 13, 2012, the European Space Agency launched its brand-new Vega rocket on its maiden voyage. For its debut, the Vega rocket launched nine small satellites into Earth's orbit. It lifted off early in the morning from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

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TRAPPIST-1 Planets - What We Learned from Hubble Observations

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Several of the planets of the Trappist-1 system have been observed using the Hubble Space Telescope, including the ones in the system's habitable zone. The findings are intriguing. - Learn more about the Trappist-1 system: -- Learn more about it: https://www.space.com/39621-trappist-worlds-tug-at-each-other.html Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson

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WFIRST Could 'Hold Equivalent Detail' of 100 Hubble Pics, If Mission Not Cancelled

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NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will be able to "image a sky area 100 times larger," than the Hubble Space Telescope. --- The 2019 NASA Budget proposal calls for cancellation of this mission. -- Read more: https://www.space.com/39670-trump-nasa-2019-budget-cancels-wfirst-earth-science.html Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

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NASA 2019 Budget Proposal About Exploration, Cuts to Earth Science, WFIRST and More

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The budget proposal for NASA in 2019 calls for elimination to several Earth Science programs: Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI); Plankton; Aerosol; Cloud; ocean Ecosystem (PACE); Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3); Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth-viewing instruments; Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder.

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Trappist-1 Planets May Harbor "Lots and Lots" of Water

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Some the the planets in the Trappist-1 system may have "250 times more water than all of Earth's oceans. The star system in only 40 light-years from Earth. -- Learn more about it: https://www.space.com/39621-trappist-worlds-tug-at-each-other.html Credit: ESO

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OTD in Space - February 12: NEAR-Shoemaker Lands on Asteroid Eros

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On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. This was the first soft landing on an asteroid, and it was supposed to be the last thing NEAR-Shoemaker ever did.

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OTD in Space - February 11: NASA Launches Solar Dynamics Observatory

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On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. The new Solar Dynamics Observatory was made to take the most detailed and comprehensive measurements of the sun ever. The satellite orbits Earth, but its orbit allows it to look at the sun continuously.

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OTD in Space - February 10: Radar Bounced Off Venus by MIT

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On February 10, 1958, scientists at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory bounced radar waves off of Venus. At the time, Venus was at a point in its orbit called inferior conjunction, where it is directly in between the Earth and the sun. Scientists beamed a radar signal toward Venus, which was about 28 million miles away at the time.

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Observatory Sees Tesla Roadster in Space (feat. Coheed and Cambria Music)

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Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project) and Michael Schwartz (Tenagra Observatory) joined forces to capture imagery of the Tesla Roadster that was launched into space by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

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OTD in Space - February 9: Great Meteor Procession of 1913

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On February 9, 1913, hundreds of fireball meteors rained down on North America for no apparent reason. This strange event is known as the Great Meteor Procession of 1913. With typical meteor showers, meteors appear to originate from the same point in the sky called the radiant.

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James Webb Space Telescope Transferred to Northrop Grumman

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The NASA telescope has arrived at the Northrop Grumman facility in California to be mated to its sunshield and spacecraft bus. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/39631-james-webb-telescope-construction-california-photos.html Credit: NASA/GSFC

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OTD in Space - February 8: NASA Astronauts Say Final Goodbye to Skylab

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On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station, and it supported three crewed missions. The third and final mission lasted 84 days. During their time inside the orbiting workshop, the three-person crew observed the sun, watched a comet fly by, and participated in several medical studies.

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Asteroid Belt-Bound 'Starman'?: Falcon Heavy Highlights (Feat. Joe Satriani Music)

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The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and a spacesuit-wearing mannequin named "Starman" to the Asteroid Belt. Relive the excitement in this highlight reel featuring the song "Thunder High On The Mountain" by guitar god Joe Satriani.

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OTD in Space - February 7: 1st Untethered Spacewalk

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On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a regular EMU spacesuit and included gas thrusters that allowed astronauts to venture much farther away from the space shuttle.

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Tesla Roadster and 'Starman' On a SpaceX Adventure - Feat. Joe Satriani Music

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Shortly after Falcon Heavy liftoff, a live feed of its payload, a Tesla Roadster and a spacesuit wearing mannequin named "Starman" came to be. Guitar god Joe Satriani has provided his new song "Cherry Blossoms" to sweeten the view delivered by SpaceX.

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Touchdown! Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Land, Status on 3rd Pending

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After successfully launching a Tesla Roadster and a mannequin wearing a spacesuit (called Starman) on Falcon Heavy's maiden voyage, the three first stage boosters flew back to Earth. Two of the boosters landed at SpaceX landing zones in Florida, while the status of the third was still pending at sea.

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OTD in Space - February 6: Astronauts Play Golf on the Moon

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On February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Al Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon. Though he was there doing scientific research, the impromptu one-man game of golf was really just for fun -- and it was on live television.

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Blastoff! Falcon Heavy Launches Tesla Roadster and "Starman" Into Space

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Relive the inaugural flight of the the SpaceX megarocket. It launched SpaceX CEO's Tesla Roadster and a mannequin (wearing a spacesuit) and they are currently en route to a Earth-Mars elliptical-orbit. -- Full story on Space.com: http://www.space.com/39607-spacex-falcon-heavy-first-test-flight-launch.html Credit: SpaceX

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Asteroid 2018 CC - Orbit Animation Shows Close Earth Fly-By

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2018 CC will fly by Earth on Feb. 6, 2018, at 12:58 p.m. EST (1958 GMT), with a closest approach of about half the distance between Earth and the moon. It is estimated to be 9 to 28 meters (30 to 91 feet), according to the Minor Planet Center.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Megarocket - 5 Awesome Facts

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Facts about the SpaceX rocket that could one day send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. A demonstration flight is scheduled for Feb. 6, 2018 and will attempt to launch Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and a SpaceX spacesuit-wearing mannequin into Mars orbit.

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OTD in Space - February 5: Apollo 14 Lands on the Moon

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On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and descended down to the moon in the lunar module Antares. Their descent was a little chaotic.

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OTD in Space - February 4: STS-63 Launches 'Orbital Debris Calibration Sphere'

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On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris Calibration Sphere into orbit around the Earth. The satellite measured just 6 inches across, and it was one of six spheres that the astronauts deployed on mission STS-63.

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'World's Smallest Satellite Launcher' Puts Cubesat Into Orbit

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A 10 pounds (3 kilograms) cubesat called TRICOM 1R was launched by a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) SS-520-5 rocket on Feb. 2, 2018. The rocket is "just 31 feet (9.5 meters) tall and spanning around 20 inches (52 centimeters) in diameter," according to JAXA.

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OTD in Space - February 3: ISS Astronauts Launch SuitSat

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On February 3, 2006, astronauts at the International Space Station sent an empty spacesuit tumbling through space all by itself ... for science. Known as SuitSat, this empty spacesuit was equipped with a radio transmitter that would constantly broadcast pre-recorded messages from scientists and students from around the world.

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Feb. 2018 Skywatching - 'Star Pairs and Constellation Couples' and More

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 'What's Up' series highlights skywatching targets with Valentine's Day in mind. -- Best Telescopes for the Money: https://www.space.com/15693-telescopes-beginners-telescope-reviews-buying-guide.html Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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OTD in Space - February 2: U.S. Air Force Launches Key Hole-7 Surveillance Satellite

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On February 2, 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret surveillance satellite called Key Hole 7-36. This was the 36th of 38 satellites that the Air Force launched under a project codenamed Gambit. These satellites acquired some of the first high-resolution spy satellite images of places including China, the former Soviet Union, Israel and more.

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Trace Curiosity's Incredible Mars Journey So Far in New Panoramic View

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Several areas that the NASA rover has traversed since 2012 can be seen in this new panoramic image. Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada explains. -- Read more and see photos: https://www.space.com/39558-mars-rover-curiosity-gale-crater-photos.html Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Super Blue Blood Moon - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Time-Lapse View

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California captured imagery of the the Super Blue Blood Moon of January 31, 2018. -- Missed the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse? Here's When the Next One Is Happening: https://www.space.com/39557-next-blood-moon-eclipses-2018-2019.html Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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OTD in Space - February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

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On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in space. The accident instantly killed all seven astronauts on board. This was the second fatal accident of the space shuttle program following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the disaster.

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Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week. The first of this week's close-approaching asteroids -- discovered by CSS on Feb. 4 -- is designated asteroid 2018 CC.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spying out the Floor

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The Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) project is a set of five independent studies of gaseous flames to be conducted in the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR). ACME's primary and secondary goals are (1) improved fuel efficiency and reduced pollutant production in practical combustion on Earth, and (2) spacecraft fire prevention through innovative research focused on materials flammability.

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Our Webb Space Telescope - on the move, new details about the atmospheres of some Earth-sized exoplanets, and another milestone in the transformation of an historic launch pad ... a few of the stories to tell you about.

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In space news this week, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket thundered away from Launch Complex 39A on a flight that demonstrated the new vehicle's capabilities and a United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster went vertical in preparation for the upcoming launch of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S.

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Today, February 9, a launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1a integrated with a cargo transportation spacecraft ISS Progress 69 has been rolled out from the processing facility and erected on the launch pad of Area 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. Launch crews of specialists from RSC Energia and other organizations involved in the preparations for launch are performing the final processing operations on the launch pad.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a state-of-the-art telescope to study light from some of the coldest objects in the Universe.

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Our current view of the interstellar medium (ISM) is as a multiphase environment where astronomy (MHD) turbulence affects many key processes. These include star formation, cosmic ray acceleration, and the evolution of structure in the diffuse ISM.

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This video outlines how the team conceived the design, why they're building it the way they are, and how they are testing it to make sure it will work. The video will also speculate on what JWST might reveal.

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At 6:06:11 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) January 18, 2017, JAXA launched Epsilon-3, the third Epsilon launch vehicle which encapsulates NEC Small radar satellite 'ASNARO-2', from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center. The launch occurred on time. The launch and flight of Epsilon-3 took place normally.

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Today, February 8, the overall assembly of space transportation system consisting of the new-series cargo transportation spacecraft ISS Progress 69 and launch vehicle (LV) Soyuz-2.1a has been successfully completed today. During the day, the orbital module with the spacecraft was mated to the third stage of the rocket at the launch vehicle processing facility.

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits.

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From building to liftoff and installation, these images show the making of European space lab Columbus and its daily use for out-of-this-world research. Like the transatlantic voyages that Christopher Columbus made half a millennium ago, the Columbus module was meticulously planned, budgeted, scrapped and redesigned before getting the official blessing to build, ship and launch.

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Though we may complain about it, Earth has nothing on the universe when it comes to wild weather. Within our own solar system, there are storms so large that our entire planet would be engulfed three times over.

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ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV) served the International Space Station with five launches over six years following its 2008 debut. ATVs delivered more than 31 500 kg of supplies over the course of their five missions. They boosted the Station to raise its orbit numerous times and similarly moved it out of the way of space debris.

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After the completion of fueling operations, ISS Progress 69 was returned to the spacecraft processing building at Site 254 on February 2. On February 5, the cargo ship was integrated with its launch vehicle adapter and the next day, specialists from RKK Energia conducted a traditional final inspection of the spacecraft, after which it was lowered in horizontal position and rolled inside its protective payload fairing.

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system's habitable zone. Hubble reveals that at least the inner five planets do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres similar to gaseous planets such as Neptune.

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The Human Robotic Systems (HRS) Asteroid Capture element is currently focused on developing robotic solutions for capturing asteroids, and on unfolding new and innovative robotic architectures for long-reach manipulation that incorporate a combination of lightweight truss links, a novel hinge joint, tendon-articulation and passive tension stiffening to achieve revolutionary performance.

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SpaceX has had a very good first test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in active operation. The massive, three-booster rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as planned on Tuesday at 12:45 PM PST, lifting off from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A.

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This visualization journeys into the famous star-forming region of the Orion Nebula based on an image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This exhilarating trip begins by flying through a layer of gas above the nebula, called the 'veil'.

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Since 2017, we knew the TRAPPIST-1 system had seven earth-sized planets. Now in 2018, a study using new data--including extensive observations by NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes--has provided more information about this amazing system. We now know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any planetary system apart from our own.

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After completing its cryogenic testing in NASA Johnson Space Center's Chamber A, the optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope is packed and transported to the Northrop Grumman facility in Los Angeles. There, it will be combined with its sunshield and spacecraft bus, tested and then packed for the journey to the European Space Agency's launch facility in French Guiana.

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When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons --- a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel--Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost.

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RSC Energia specialists successfully performed filling of cargo transport vehicle ISS Progress 69 with propellant components and compressed gases at the fuel filling station in Baikonur cosmodrome. After filling the vehicle was delivered to the spacecraft integration and test facility (SC ITF) and installed in the jig for performing final processing operations.

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A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could potentially hold more water than Earth. The planets' densities, now known much more precisely than before, suggest that some of them could have up to 5 percent of their mass in the form of water - about 250 times more than Earth's oceans.

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On the 7th of February 2008 Space shuttle Atlantis launched to the International Space Station ISS. In its cargo bay, ESA's laboratory module Columbus. Now for a decade Columbus has been part of the ISS. It is the place where ESA astronauts have done countless experiments in microgravity and it scientific importance of the module can hardly be overstated.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Into the Region of Hellas

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The Lupus 3 star forming region lies within the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), only 600 light-years away from Earth. It is part of a larger complex called the Lupus Clouds, which takes its name from the adjacent constellation of Lupus (The Wolf).

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Ross Ice Shelf and Europa Underwater Probe

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A Georgia Tech researcher has tested the limits of underwater robots swimming beneath Antarctic ice shelves, a dry run for looking for life in outer space, and it hasn't gotten any easier. This week, a team of researchers are leaving the Antarctic after a busy three months at the far end of the Earth.

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Ross Ice Shelf and Europa Underwater Probe

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A Georgia Tech researcher has tested the limits of underwater robots swimming beneath Antarctic ice shelves, a dry run for looking for life in outer space, and it hasn't gotten any easier. This week, a team of researchers are leaving the Antarctic after a busy three months at the far end of the Earth.

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ESA's XMM-Newton has spotted surprising changes in the powerful streams of gas from two massive stars in the binary star system HD 5980. One of the two stars had a major outburst reminiscent of the 19th-century eruption of Eta Carinae, and astronomers expected that its X-ray emission would fade gently over the years.

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Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting 8 hours and 13 minutes. It is the longest Russian spacewalk, breaking the previous record of 8 hours and 7 minutes that Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy set Dec.

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NASA's heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, moved a step closer to the launch pad by acing a test of its engine section, the part of the rocket that houses SLS's four RS-25 engines. The structural qualification test simulated the millions of pounds of force that the engine section will experience during lift-off and flight.

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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) conducted a spacewalk outside the Pirs docking compartment Feb. 2 to install a new high-gain communications antenna on the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module and retrieve science experiment packages from the hull of the module.

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NASA's Recovery Team, based at Kennedy Space Center, just wrapped up a week at sea completing Underway Recovery Test 6 in the Pacific Ocean to test and refine the procedures and equipment crews will need to recover the Orion spacecraft and astronauts onboard when they splash down at the end of future missions.

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Super Blue Blood Moon - a rare triple treat up in the sky, celebrating America's first explorer in space, and smoke and fire - another Space Launch System engine test ... a few of the stories to tell you about.

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A Long March 2D launch vehicle (Chang Zheng-2D) launched China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China, on 2 February 2018.

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Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk

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This is a visualization of the Equatorial Fountain process in the ionosphere, whereby ions are driven away from the equator forming ion density enhancements above and below the equator. This visualization is depicted near 50 degrees west longitude, where the magnetic equator crosses the geographic equator.

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The constellations Perseus and Andromeda are easy to see high overhead this month. According to lore, the warrior Perseus spotted a beautiful woman--Andromeda--chained to a seaside rock. After battling a sea serpent, he rescued her. As a reward, her parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia allowed Perseus to marry Andromeda.

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Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer

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SPHEREx, a mission in NASA's Medium Explorer (MIDEX) program that was selected for a competitive Phase A in August 2017, is an all-sky survey satellite designed to address all three science goals in NASA's astrophysics division, with a single instrument, a wide-field spectral imager.

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Did you miss the lunar eclipse? Here's how it looked at the AuroraMAX observatory in Yellowknife, NWT, along with a sky-full of auroras!

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NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has a big year ahead, with six primary NASA missions scheduled to launch from two different coasts, within six months, atop six different rocket configurations (five different rockets).

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Earlier this month, a Chinese enterprise launched its first vertical landing rocket, paving a new way for reusable rockets. For a long time in China, 'rocket science' was seen by many as a mysterious, high-tech industry financed by the military. But the private sector is gradually catching up and looking for its own slice of the industry.

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In the first Russian orbital launch attempt of 2018, a Soyuz-2-1a rocket returned to flight on February 1 from the Vostochny spaceport, after a similar mission failed on November 28, 2017. The vehicle successfully delivered the third and fourth Earth-watching satellites in the Kanopus-V series along with nine small commercial payloads.

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Its task is to invent the space systems of the future, bring space technologies to maturity and guarantee France's independent access to space. CNES is a pivotal player in Europe's space programme, and a major source of initiatives and proposals that aim to maintain France and Europe's competitive edge.

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Saturn's moon Titan is in many ways the most Earth-like body in the solar system. This strange world is larger than the planet Mercury and has a thick nitrogen atmosphere laden with organic smog, which partly hides its surface from view.

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Our eyes detect only visible light, but on board Hubble are a variety of instruments that together detect many different wavelengths of light. This means that Hubble is able to observe galaxies over a wide range of wavelengths to reveal features that would otherwise remain invisible to our eyes.

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Find out why NASA's new deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) is more than just big and beautiful. For the world's most powerful rocket, it takes a lot of 'guts'. Engineers have built all the giant structures that will be assembled to form the first SLS rocket, and now they are busy installing and outfitting the rocket's insides with sensors, cables and other equipment.