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  NASA Signs Agreement for a European-Provided Orion Service Module

  January 22, 2013 — NASA signed an agreement in mid-December for the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft's Exploration Mission-1 in ... > full story
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  NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

  January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story
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  Savanna Study Highlights African Fuelwood Crisis

  January 18, 2013 — The dwindling reserves of fuelwood in Africa have been illuminated in a new study, which shows a bleak outlook for supplies across savannas in South ... > full story
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  Small UAV Supports Development of Lightweight Sensors

  January 15, 2013 — Engineers are developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other payloads. Their aerial test bed is known as the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System ... > full story
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  Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Optimizing Processes in the Aeronautics Industry

  January 11, 2013 — A computer engineer has been working to apply artificial intelligence techniques, data mining and machine learning to problems linked to the aeronautics ... > full story
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  NASA's Robotic Refueling Demo Set to Jumpstart Expanded Capabilities in Space

  January 10, 2013 — In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. The ... > full story
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  NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies

  January 10, 2013 — Advanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations. By using an innovative test facility ... > full story
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  NASA Chases Climate Change Clues Into the Stratosphere

  January 9, 2013 — Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how ... > full story
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  SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story
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  3-D Color X-Ray Imaging Radically Improved for Identifying Contraband, Corrosion or Cancer

  January 7, 2013 — Scientists have developed a camera that can be used to take powerful three dimensional color X-ray images, in near real-time, without the need for a synchrotron X-ray ... > full story

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