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Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 14.02.19

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NASA to Share Results of Effort to Recover Mars Rover

NASA will discuss the status of its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in a media briefing at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) Wednesday, Feb. 13, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Mars-Rover Opportunity: Letzter Kontaktversuch der NASA

Nach mehr als sieben Monaten stellt die NASA ihre Versuche ein, mit Opportunity Kontakt aufzunehmen. Damit endet die überaus erfolgreiche Mission.

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Touchdown for InSight’s Heat Probe

InSight has gone two for two, placing the second of its instruments gently on the Martian ground.

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Russische Medaille für Alexander Gerst

Der deutsche ESA-Astronaut Alexander Gerst ist am Dienstag im Sternenstädtchen bei Moskau mit der russischen Medaille Kosmos ohne Grenzen ausgezeichnet worden. Er nahm sie im Kosmonauten-Ausbildungszentrum( ZPK) Juri Gagarin entgegen.

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NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Shrinking its Mars Orbit to Prepare for Mars 2020 Rover

The MAVEN spacecraft today is starting a campaign to tighten its orbit around Mars to prepare to serve as a data-relay satellite for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, which launches next year.

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MAVEN Spacecraft Shrinking its Orbit to Prepare for Mars 2020 Rover

NASA’s 4-year-old atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is embarking on a new campaign today to tighten its orbit around Mars. The operation will reduce the highest point of the MAVEN spacecraft’s elliptical orbit from 3,850 to 2,800 miles (6,200 to 4,500 kilometers) above the surface and prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, which launches next year.

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NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical testing milestones on its march to the launch pad.

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Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 31.01.2019

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Mars Rover Opportunity: 15 years anniversary and silence / 15 jähriges Jubiläum und derzeit ohne Kontakt

Opportunity: 15 Jahre auf dem Mars und noch etwas Hoffnung

Vor 15 Jahren landete der Marsrover Opportunity auf der Oberfläche des Roten Planeten. Doch richtige Freude kommt bei der NASA angesichts dieses seltenen Jubiläums nicht auf: Seit Juni hat das Team nämlich nichts mehr von Opportunity gehört. Trotzdem versucht man den Rover weiterhin regelmäßig zu kontaktieren und lauscht nach Signalen von ihm. (25. Januar 2019)

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January 25, 2019 at 02:19PM

NASA Has a New Plan to Revive the Mars Rover Opportunity, as Time Runs Short

NASA has developed a new, more powerful collection of commands to try to force the long-silent Opportunity rover on Mars to resume operations.

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via Space.com https://www.space.comJanuary 25, 2019 at 10:51PM

Rover Team Beaming New Commands to Opportunity on Mars

Engineers at JPL have begun transmitting a new set of commands to Opportunity in an attempt to compel the Mars rover to contact Earth.

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January 26, 2019 at 12:36AM

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Logs 15 Years on Mars

The rover landed in a region of the Red Planet called Meridiani Planum 16 years ago today, on Jan. 24, 2004.

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January 26, 2019 at 12:36AM

Silent Mars Rover Opportunity Marks 15 Years on Red Planet in Bittersweet Anniversary

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity is beginning its 16th year on the Red Planet the same way it ended its 15th — in silence.

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January 24, 2019 at 01:59PM

NASA Probe Snaps 1st Photos from Just a Mile Above Asteroid Bennu and the View’s AMAZING!

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is orbiting an asteroid closer than any spacecraft has ever orbited a body — and it shows in an incredible pair of photographs that the team released yesterday (Jan. 24). The spacecraft slipped into orbit around the asteroid, called Bennu, on Dec. 31, after the team carefully mapped the object to design a safe path for the probe. That was a challenge, since Bennu is the smallest space rock that’s ever been orbited.

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January 28, 2019 at 01:20PM

OSIRIS-REx stable in Bennu orbit, team refines sample collection plans

The team has yet to find a Bennu sample site that matches their pre-arrival expectations, meaning their plans will probably have to change.

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January 30, 2019 at 06:21PM

Why are there no stars in most space images?

There are a few questions that we get all the time at The Planetary Society. Look up at space at night from a dark location and you can see innumerable stars. Why, then, do photos of things in space not contain stars? How come the black skies of the Moon contain no stars in Chang’e photos? The answer: The stars are there, they’re just too faint to show up.

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January 28, 2019 at 05:14PM

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Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 20.09.18

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No Signal from Mars Rover Opportunity

NASA Starts 45-Day Clock to Contact Mars Rover Opportunity as Dust Storm Wanes

The planet-enveloping dust storm on Mars has settled enough for NASA to start a 45-day active-listening period in which the agency hopes to make contact with the rover Opportunity after three months of silence, NASA announced yesterday (Sept. 11).

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via Space.com https://www.space.com- September 12, 2018 at 06:48PM

The clock is now officially ticking on NASA’s sleeping Opportunity rover

Even if you aren’t particularly interested in space or science news you’ve probably heard about the plight of NASA’s Opportunity rover. The plucky robot, which has far outlived its initial mission and has been conducting “bonus” science work for over a decade since, was swallowed up by a massive dust storm on Mars, cutting off sunlight and causing it to lose power due to lack of solar energy for its batteries.

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via BGR https://bgr.com- September 15, 2018 at 08:51PM

A new listening plan for Mars Opportunity rover

No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), though NASA has approved a strategy for listening for the rover through January of 2019.

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via Mars Daily – September 19, 2018 at 05:10AM

ISS hole follow-up / ISS Leck, wie geht es weiter

Russian Conspiracy Mongering In Space

A growing number of Russian publications have been putting forth an absurd new theory–that a NASA astronaut deliberately caused the leak on board the station in order to force the evacuation of a sick crew member

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via NASA Watch http://nasawatch.com/- September 12, 2018 at 06:09PM

Russian Space Agency to NASA: Investigation Into Space Station Leak Is Under Way

Two weeks after astronauts and cosmonauts repaired an air leak at the International Space Station, investigators are still trying to figure out how the tiny hole got there.

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via Space.com https://www.space.com- September 13, 2018 at 08:12PM

Space Station Commander: It’s ‚Absolutely a Shame‘ to Suggest Astronauts Caused Air Leak

The leader of the current mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is hitting back against the suggestion that he or one of his crewmates might have caused the orbiting lab’s recent air leak.

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via Space.com https://www.space.com- September 12, 2018 at 11:18PM

Loch in der ISS: Die Raumstation, das Leck und ein böser Verdacht

Das Loch in der internationalen Raumstation war schnell abgedichtet – aber wie es entstand, bleibt ungeklärt. Bohrte es ein gestresster Astronaut? Den ungeheuerlichen Verdacht hat eine russische Zeitung in Umlauf gebracht.

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via SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten http://www.spiegel.de- September 13, 2018 at 04:50PM

Raumfahrt: Zoff im All um zwei Millimeter

Ende August haben die Astronauten der Internationalen Raumstation ISS ein winziges Loch in einem Modul entdeckt. Eine Untersuchungskommission der russischen Weltraumbehörde verdächtigt die US-Astronauten, das Loch absichtlich gebohrt zu haben, um eine vorzeitige Rückkehr eines erkrankten Kollegen zu erzwingen. Der ISS-Kommandant Feustel schließt eine Verwicklung von Besatzungsmitgliedern aus. Derlei Mutmaßungen seien „beschämend“

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via sueddeutsche.de https://ift.tt/2MuYv9v September 13, 2018 at 05:10PM

40 Jahre Deutsche Im Weltraum –   Sonderausstellung im Deutschen Technikmuseum in Berlin

Es ist jetzt 40 Jahre her, dass am sowjetischen Weltraumbahnhof Baikonur eine Rakete abhob und den ersten Deutschen ins All brachte: den DDR-Kosmonauten Sigmund Jähn. seit Juni ist mit Alexander Gerst der nunmehr elfte Deutsche im All unterwegs. Grund genug für das Deutsche Technikmuseum, der hiesigen Raumfahrt eine Sonderausstellung zu widmen.

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Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 05.07.18

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Europe’s satellite navigation system Galileo is already in use worldwide, usable by itself or in combination with the US Global Positioning System (GPS). Now a combined Galileo–GPS positioning fix has been achieved in space – aboard the International Space Station – through an ESA–NASA…
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NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover remains silent as a giant dust storm continues to swirl on the Red Planet.
Die ESA-Mars-Sonde Mars Express macht mit ihrer VMC-Kamera globale Aufnahmen der Mars-Oberfläche. Aktuell dokumentiert sie einen gewaltigen Staubsturm.
When you get caught in a storm here on Earth, you just find shelter for a little while and let it pass, but things are a whole lot different on Mars. It’s now been three weeks since the massive dus…
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