NASA has selected the Norwegian Space Centre of Oslo, Norway, for combined data support services for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System Program.
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Astronauts and cosmonauts will perform two spacewalks outside the International Space Station this month.
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WASHINGTON — NASA has announced the selection of 10 research efforts from the agency’s inaugural Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty solicitation. NASA will provide grants of as much as $200,000 per year for as long as three years in support of these faculty and their research in specific, high-priority technology areas.
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NASA’s RBSP mission is set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 4:08am EDT on August 23, 2012.
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT), Aug. 14, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
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President Barack Obama this morning told the flight control team for NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, “You made us all proud.”
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NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2013 and 2016. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payloads on previously planned missions.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will congratulate members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT) this morning.
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WASHINGTON — NASA’s Space Technology Program has selected Deployable Space Systems (DSS) of Goleta, Calif. and ATK Space Systems Inc., of Commerce, Calif., for contract negotiation to develop advanced solar array systems. High-power solar electric propulsion, where the power is generated with advanced solar array systems, is a key capability required for extending human presence throughout the solar system.
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WASHINGTON — NASA selected 15 experiments to be funded through its most recent research announcement for opportunities in space biology research. Ten of these experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station in the near future. Five others will be ground-based studies.
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