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Failure to Launch: Mars Missions Sidelined in New NASA Budget Proposal
The not-so-bad news in the president's 2013 budget proposal for NASA is that his request for $17.71 billion is only marginally less than what the agency got in 2012,...
A Big Step for Europe's Small Space Launcher
Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in...
Ed Weiler Says He Quit NASA Over Cuts to Mars Program
Next week, President Barack Obama will propose a $300 million cut in NASA's planetary science programs as part of his 2013 request for the agency, ScienceInsider has learned. If...
February 7, 2012 4:40 PM
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Europe and Russia Plan Trips to Mars—But Maybe Without NASA
The European Space Agency (ESA) and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, are making plans to carry out the international ExoMars exploration program without help from one of the project's original...
September 14, 2011 2:23 PM
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Heavy Lifting at NASA Yields a Rocket Design, But No Price Tag
Eighteen months after President Barack Obama announced the Administration's new plan for space exploration, NASA has selected a design for an essential component—the new Space Launch System—a powerful, heavy...
Decades Late, Russian Space Telescope Finally Launched
Russian space science got a long overdue shot in the arm this week with the launch of Spektr-R, a radioastronomy satellite that was originally designed in 1982 but whose...
House Spending Panel Wants to Kill Webb Telescope
A draft bill before a spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives would eliminate funding for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a flagship instrument that NASA wants...
July 1, 2011 1:31 PM
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Scientists Reconnect With Cluster Mission
Europe's Cluster mission is back in the fold after controllers fixed a glitch that would have seriously curtailed its ability to do science. Cluster is comprised of four identical...
NASA Aims to Grab Asteroid Dirt in 2020
Today NASA announced the next medium-class science mission to explore the solar system. The winner of a three-way competition is a mouthful: Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith...
May 25, 2011 9:40 AM
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Mars Spirit Rover, 2004-2011
NASA has ended efforts to re-establish contact with its Spirit rover. Nothing had been heard from it since 22 March 2010, when the feisty rover beamed a last transmission...
Chinese Journalists Barred From Shuttle Launch
Chinese journalists were denied access to this week's space shuttle launch in what is believed to be the first application of a congressional ban on interactions between NASA and...
April 13, 2011 2:06 PM
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Tomorrow on ScienceLive: 50 Years in Space
Tune in tomorrow for the inaugural running of ScienceLive, our new weekly 1-hour live chat where the hottest topics in science get discussed by the top experts, with Science...
NASA Science Budget Holds Steady
In Congressional hearings over the past few weeks, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has warned lawmakers that the space agency would have to scale back its plans for exploration and...
International Mega-Telescope Project Gears Up at U.K. Observatory
The nine-nation, $1.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project to build the world's biggest and most sensitive radio telescope has established a governing board and will set up its...
China to Tune in to the Music of Dark Energy
BEIJING—China is about to join the hunt for dark energy. At a cosmology workshop held here on 20 March, scientists unveiled Tianlai, or "Sound of Heaven," a project to...
European Space Missions to Go It Alone After NASA Yanks Support
European space scientists are scrambling to rethink—and redesign—massive potential missions after it was confirmed that NASA, whose budget is in disarray, won't contribute significant funding to any of the...
NASA Satellite Crash Complicates Gloomy Climate Budget Picture
Last week's failed mission to place the $424 million Glory satellite into orbit doesn't just stymie scientists' efforts to maintain a 33-year record of the sun's brightness and discern...
Cost-Cutting Recommended for Planetary Science, With More Cutting to Come
HOUSTON, TEXAS--A committee of the National Research Council is insisting that the cost of two of the largest planetary missions it is recommending for NASA in the coming decade...
February 24, 2011 11:45 AM
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How to Grow Your Own Army of Citizen Scientists
In 2007, astronomer Chris Lintott and colleagues were drowning under a data deluge—1 million images of galaxies to characterize and only one graduate student to do it. His student...
February 16, 2011 12:44 PM
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India May Join U.S. MoonRise Mission
NEW DELHI—India hopes to join the United States on a sample return mission to the moon, according to K. Radhakrishnan, chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He...
Climate Science, Asteroid Detection Big Winners in NASA Budget
NASA will have to live with a stagnant budget—again. The $18.7 billion proposed by the Administration is the same amount as 2010 and 2011, and science funding would continue...
Space Age Fish Tale Gets Lost in Translation
TOKYO—"'Fishing net' to collect space debris," blared a headline in Wednesday's edition of London's The Telegraph newspaper. The article described how the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and a...
Chinese Astronomers Set Sights on Overseas Scopes
BEIJING—Chinese astronomers are about to gain a superior view of the heavens--at premier perches far from their homeland. The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)...
Japan's IKAROS Solar Sail Mission Extended for a Year
TOKYO—Success is paying off for Japan's IKAROS solar sail mission: The team behind the spacecraft confirmed today that it flawlessly completed all the performance tests set for it during...
Budget Chaos at NASA After Mixed Signals From Congress
Conflicting guidance from Congress could result in NASA's spending $500 million on a rocket program that is due to be canceled. Last week, the NASA inspector general reported that...
December 30, 2010 4:07 PM
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Brazil Cuts a Deal to Join European Astronomers
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Hoping to secure time on some of the world's most powerful telescopes, Brazil will pay more than €250 million over a decade to become a member of...
December 13, 2010 6:01 PM
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NASA Solar Sail Vanishes in Space
NASA's solar-powered sail craft NanoSail-D is missing, and scientists don't know whether it's adrift in space or was never ejected in the first place. The nanosatellite, roughly the size...
December 13, 2010 3:45 PM
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NASA Picks New Chief Scientist
Glaciologist Waleed Abdalati was named today as NASA's chief scientist, a position that has been vacant since 2005. Abdalati will advise NASA director Charles Bolden and advocate for NASA...
November 12, 2010 3:09 PM
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Scientist: Spirit Mars Rover May Have Died
Mired in dry quicksand, chilled to the bone by the martian winter, and silenced by its feeble wintertime supply of solar power, the Spirit rover should have, with luck,...
NASA Space Telescope Center of $1.5 Billion Fiasco
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project seems to be in even more financial trouble than we reported yesterday on ScienceInsider. An independent review of the project, led by...
Exclusive: Report Finds NASA Telescope $1 Billion Over Budget
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may cost $800 million to $1 billion more than anticipated, ScienceInsider can reveal. The cost overrun could delay the planned 2014 launch of...
October 4, 2010 11:23 AM
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China's Second Lunar Probe on Its Way
BEIJING—China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, successfully deployed into an Earth-moon transfer orbit Friday after blasting into space aboard a Long March 3C rocket. The orbiter is expected to take...
Weather Satellite System Criticized in Review
Backup plans are inadequate for a key satellite system run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which issued a critical report today....
Lawmakers at Odds Over Polar Satellite System Overhaul
A section of a bill passed last night by the House of Representatives expresses support for President Barack Obama's plan to restructure the bloated environmental satellite system known as...
September 30, 2010 1:19 PM
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Congress Mostly Approves New Direction for NASA
After months of political fighting, the cloud of uncertainty over NASA's future has lifted. Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 304-118 to approve the Senate version of...
September 7, 2010 4:28 PM
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How NASA Lost Control of the Organics-On-Mars Story
NASA last week promoted, as quietly as it could, laboratory work that suggests that organic matter may be able to survive for eons on the surface of Mars. “Missing...
Sea Murkiness Affects Hurricanes? When 'Basic Research' Pays Unexpected Dividends
Ocean color affects the formation of hurricanes--who knew?
August 13, 2010 3:59 PM
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'Colorblind' NASA Satellite May Yet See Green Seas
There's rare good news for the beleaguered U.S. environmental satellite fleet. Two years ago, officials with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a key weather...
Astronomers' Wish List: Giant Scopes, Satellites, and Lots of Moola
Every 10 years, the U.S. astronomy community goes through the collective exercise of ranking its dream projects, hoping that a few of them will see the light of day...
Europe Makes Plans for Physics Experiments in Orbit
With the increasing convergence of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, the European Space Agency (ESA) this week published a road map of space missions and technology development that it...
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