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<heading><![CDATA[Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Futurist and inventor Elon Musk has unveiled ambitious plans to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[Futurist and inventor Elon Musk has unveiled ambitious plans to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour.
The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big F*cking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.
&quot;The most important thing... is that I think we have figured out how to pay for (BFR),&quot; Musk told a packed auditorium at a global gathering of space experts in Adelaide.
&quot;Which is to have a smaller vehicle, it's still pretty big, but one that can... do everything that's needed in the greater Earth orbit activity.&quot;
Musk said his firm had starting building the system, with the construction of the first ship to start in six to nine months.
&quot;I feel fairly confident that we can complete the ship and launch in about five years,&quot; he added.
At least two cargo ships would land on the Red Planet in 2022, with the key mission of finding the best source of water - currently mooted as a way to power rockets, he said.
The rockets would place power, mining and life-support infrastructure on Mars to support future missions, with four ships set to take people, equipment and supplies to the planet in 2024.
The trips would be funded by a range of activities, including launching satellites, servicing the space station and lunar missions, he said.
Musk added that the rockets should also cater to Earth inhabitants by reducing the travel between major cities to less than half-an-hour.
A trip from Bangkok to Dubai would take 27 minutes, and from Tokyo to Delhi in 30 minutes, according to his calculations.
&quot;Once you are out of the atmosphere, it would be as smooth as silk, no turbulence, nothing,&quot; he said.
&quot;There's no weather... and you can get to most long-distance places in less than half-an-hour. If we are building this thing to go to the Moon and Mars, then why not go to other places on Earth as well.&quot;
The week-long annual International Astronautical Congress, which concluded Friday, has seen government space agencies and private firms outline their plans to send humans to the Moon and Mars in the next few decades.
This included an agreement between Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA to work on the first lunar space station as part of a programme called the Deep Space Gateway.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-09-26 09:44:07</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[NASA craft performs gravity boost using Earth]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[NASA craft performs gravity boost using Earth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An unmanned NASA spacecraft traveling to a distant asteroid veered toward Earth on Friday for a gravitational slingshot maneuver that will better aim it toward the space-rock.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[An unmanned NASA spacecraft traveling to a distant asteroid veered toward Earth on Friday for a gravitational slingshot maneuver that will better aim it toward the Sun-orbiting space rock, Bennu, the US space agency said.
The gravity-boost took place about halfway through the two-year journey of the spacecraft, known as OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer).
&quot;The preliminary results are in, and my #EarthGravityAssist was succesful!&quot; said the NASA Twitter account for OSIRIS-REx, about an hour after it made its closest approach to Earth at 12:52 pm (1652 GMT).
The mission launched last year from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its goal is to collect a sample from Bennu in 2018, and return it to Earth for further study in 2023.
Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson, described the gravity-assist as &quot;a clever way to move the spacecraft onto Bennu's orbital plane using Earth's own gravity instead of expending fuel.&quot;
The spacecraft zipped over Antarctica at a distance of 11,000 miles (17,000 kilometers), using Earth's gravity to shift its trajectory so it can eventually meet up with Bennu.
Bennu is a primitive, carbon-rich asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago.
The asteroid's orbit around the Sun is tilted six degrees in comparison to Earth's.
During the gravity assist, OSIRIS-REx swung through a region of space that contains Earth-orbiting satellites, but emerged intact.
OSIRIS-REx lost communications with Earth for about an hour during the flyby, as expected, because the spacecraft was too low relative to the southern horizon to be in view with either the Deep Space tracking station at Canberra, Australia, or Goldstone, California.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-09-22 13:03:04</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[China's mission to Mars 'well underway']]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[China's mission to Mars 'well underway']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China's programme to launch a mission to Mars in 2020 is &quot;well underway&quot;, its top planner says, as the country moves forward with its ambitious space programme.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[China's programme to launch a mission to Mars in 2020 is &quot;well underway&quot;, its top planner says, as the country moves forward with its ambitious space programme.&nbsp;
The probe will carry 13 types of payload including six rovers, the official Xinhua news agency said.&nbsp;
&quot;The Mars exploration programme is well underway,&quot; it cited the mission's chief architect Zhang Rongqiao as saying.
&quot;The payloads will be used to collect data on the environment, morphology, surface structure and atmosphere of Mars.&quot;
Zhang was speaking at the Beijing International Forum on Lunar and Deep-space Exploration, which began Wednesday.
The Long March-5 carrier rocket will blast off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in the tropical island province of Hainan, Xinhua said.&nbsp;
Once the probe is&nbsp;in orbit around Mars after a seven-month journey, a lander will separate from it and touch down in the red planet's northern hemisphere.&nbsp;
The lander will then deploy rovers to explore the surface.&nbsp;
Beijing sees its multi-billion-dollar space programme as a symbol of its rise and of the Communist Party's success in turning around the fortunes of the once poverty-stricken nation.
In July it successfully launched the Long March-4B, its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.
And in April the country's first cargo spacecraft completed its docking with an orbiting space lab -- a key development in China's goal of having its own crewed space station by 2022.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-09-20 11:36:58</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[Cassini says goodbye with plunge into Saturn]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[Cassini says goodbye with plunge into Saturn]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[NASA’s 13-year exploratory tour of Saturn has come to an end with the demise of the Cassini spacecraft. ]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[NASA&rsquo;s 13-year exploratory tour of Saturn has come to an end with the demise of the Cassini spacecraft. The long-serving machine officially brought the mission to a close in spectacular style, diving into the hazy, mysterious atmosphere of the planet it so diligently observed.
According to NASA, the plunge allowed for one last set of observations, giving scientists a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the alien world.
&quot;This is the final chapter of an amazing mission, but it&rsquo;s also a new beginning,&quot; laments NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen. &quot;Cassini&rsquo;s discovery of ocean worlds at Titan and Enceladus changed everything, shaking our views to the core about surprising places to search for potential life beyond Earth.&quot;
The mission launched back in 1997, before Cassini finally arrived at the ringed planet in 2004. Since then, it has transmitted incredible information back to NASA, furthering our understanding of Saturn and its remarkable moons.
&quot;Cassini may be gone, but its scientific bounty will keep us occupied for many years,&rdquo; adds Linda Spilker, a scientist on the project. &ldquo;We've only scratched the surface of what we can learn from the mountain of data it has sent back over its lifetime.&quot;
Interestingly, the project was extended on two occasions &ndash; first for two years, and then for another seven. It&rsquo;s last hoorah was dubbed the &quot;Grand Finale&quot;, and saw the craft conduct an unprecedented series of 22 weekly dives between Saturn and its famous rings.
&quot;Things never will be quite the same for those of us on the Cassini team now that the spacecraft is no longer flying,&quot; says Spilker. &quot;But, we take comfort knowing that every time we look up at Saturn in the night sky, part of Cassini will be there, too.&quot;
Watch the mission's final moments below: ]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-09-14 11:32:08</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[WATCH: SpaceX's worst rocket fails]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[WATCH: SpaceX's worst rocket fails]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We’ve all seen SpaceX’s marvellous accomplishments over the past few years, but founder and CEO Elon Musk has released a blooper reel of the company’s worst – and most hilarious – fails.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[We&rsquo;ve all seen SpaceX&rsquo;s marvellous accomplishments over the past few years, but founder and CEO Elon Musk has released a blooper reel of the company&rsquo;s worst &ndash; and most hilarious &ndash; fails.
&ldquo;Technically it did land... but not in one piece,&rdquo; reads one of the video&rsquo;s captions, giving you an idea of the absolute destruction that befalls some of the spacecraft in the video.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a scratch,&rdquo; reads another. Yeah, right.
Take a look at the compilation below, and try not to laugh too hard &ndash; remember, a lot of hard work and money goes into these machines!
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<pubDate>2017-09-07 07:37:24</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[NASA captures images of strong solar flares]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[NASA captures images of strong solar flares]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, NASA says.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, NASA says.
These radiation flares, which can disrupt communications satellites, GPS and power grids by reaching the upper Earth atmosphere, were detected and captured by the US Space Agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
According to the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), these so-called category X eruptions disrupted high-frequency radio communications for one hour on the Earth's side facing the sun and low-frequency communications used in navigation.
The two eruptions occurred in an active region of the sun where an eruption of average intensity occurred on September 4. The current cycle of the sun, which began in December 2008, saw the intensity of solar activity decline sharply, opening the way to the &quot;solar minimum.&quot;
Solar cycles last on average eleven years. At the end of the active phase, these eruptions become increasingly rare but still can be powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Solar storms result from an accumulation of magnetic energy in some places.&nbsp;
These jets of ionized matter are projected - at high speed into and beyond the crown of the sun - hundreds of thousands of kilometers outward.
To see more images, visit&nbsp;https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12706.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-08-24 11:29:51</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[Check out SpaceX's sexy new spacesuit]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[Check out SpaceX's sexy new spacesuit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has unveiled his company’s first ever spacesuit, posting a preview on Instagram.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has unveiled his company&rsquo;s first ever spacesuit, posting a preview on Instagram.
According to the post, the suit has already been &ldquo;double-vacuum&rdquo; pressure tested, although Musk admits that it was a challenge to balance function with aesthetics.
The suit in the picture is in fact fully-functional, and is destined for use on SpaceX&rsquo;s future missions.
According to Bleep Magazine, the suit has been designed with the help of costume designer Jose Fernandez, who is the visionary behind outfits donned by Batman, Wonder Woman and Spiderman.
&ldquo;[Mr Musk] wanted it to look stylish. It had to be practical but also needed to look great,&quot; he told the publication last year. &ldquo;When people put this spacesuit on, he wants them to look better than they did without it, like a tux. You look heroic in it.&rdquo;
Well, it looks like it&rsquo;s mission accomplished &ndash; it&rsquo;s one cool suit.



First picture of SpaceX spacesuit. More in days to follow. Worth noting that this actually works (not a mockup). Already tested to double vacuum pressure. Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function. Easy to do either separately.
A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Aug 23, 2017 at 12:59am PDT


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<pubDate>2017-08-23 09:51:40</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[WATCH: NASA's view of the total eclipse]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[WATCH: NASA's view of the total eclipse]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This past Tuesday saw the United States experience a cross-country total solar eclipse, the first since 1918, and NASA was on hand to capture it in some unconventional ways.]]></description>
<body_text><![CDATA[This past Tuesday saw the United States experience a cross-country total solar eclipse, the first since 1918, and NASA was on hand to capture it in some unconventional and highly-advanced ways.
Across 14 states, eager stargazers within a 113km-wide band were able to put on their protective eyewear and watch two celestial bodies converge, with the moon almost completely blocking out the sun.


A post shared by NASA Johnson Space Center (@nasajohnson) on Aug 22, 2017 at 3:49pm PDT



According to AFP, several towns within the zone were flooded by visitors. Madras, Oregon, a small town of 7 000 residents, became 100 000 strong for the day.
It has become, as NASA predicted, the most photographed eclipse of all time, thanks to the immense popularity and reach of social media.


A post shared by Andy.C / Photography (@andy.c.photography) on Aug 22, 2017 at 8:17pm PDT



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A post shared by Country Living (@countrylivingmag) on Aug 22, 2017 at 6:10pm PDT



Meanwhile, scientists at NASA have come up with different angles, adding to the swathe of photos already posted online.
This video, taken by the agency&rsquo;s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, shows the eclipse casting its shadow across the States over a period of 12 images. It&rsquo;s quite remarkable.

In another creative twist, NASA managed to capture footage of the International Space Station passing across the face of the sun before it became smothered by the moon.

The next time we here in South Africa will see a total eclipse will be in 2021, when residents of Stellenbosch will have a prime view.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-07-18 09:17:07</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA['Peculiar' signals emerge from nearby star]]></heading>
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<description><![CDATA[Some very &quot;peculiar signals&quot; have been noticed coming from a star just 11 light-years away, scientists in Puerto Rico say.]]></description>
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Some very &quot;peculiar signals&quot; have been noticed coming from a star just 11 light-years away, scientists in Puerto Rico say.
The mystery has gripped the internet as speculation mounts about the potential for a discovery of alien life on the red dwarf star known as Ross 128 -- despite the best attempts of astronomers to put such rumors to rest.
&quot;In case you are wondering, the recurrent aliens hypothesis is at the bottom of many other better explanations,&quot; said a blog post by Abel Mendez, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.
Something unusual first came to light in April and May, when the team was studying a series of small and relatively cool red dwarf stars, some of which are known to have planets circling them.
Ross 128 is not known to have planets, but &quot;we realized that there were some very peculiar signals in the 10-minute dynamic spectrum that we obtained from Ross 128.&quot;
The signals were observed May 13 at 0053 GMT, and &quot;consisted of broadband quasi-periodic non-polarized pulses with very strong dispersion-like features,&quot; he wrote.
&quot;We believe that the signals are not local radio frequency interferences (RFI) since they are unique to Ross 128 and observations of other stars immediately before and after did not show anything similar.&quot;
There are three main possibilities to explain the bursts.
They could be emissions similar to solar flares.&nbsp;
They could be emissions from another object in the field of view of Ross 128.
Or they might be a burst from a high orbit satellite, Mendez wrote.
Since the signals are likely too dim to be picked up by other radio telescopes in the world, Mendez said that scientists at the Arecibo Observatory joined with astronomers from SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life) would use the Alien Telescope Array and the Green Bank Telescope to observe the star for a second time late Sunday.
The results of these observations should be posted by the end of the week, he said.
&quot;I have a&nbsp;Pina Colada ready to celebrate if the signals result to be astronomical in nature,&quot; Mendez said.]]></body_text>
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<pubDate>2017-07-12 09:55:18</pubDate>
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<heading><![CDATA[NASA peers into Jupiter's Great Red Spot]]></heading>
<title><![CDATA[NASA peers into Jupiter's Great Red Spot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed a flyby of Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot, gazing into the eye of the storm.]]></description>
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NASA&rsquo;s Juno spacecraft has completed a flyby of Jupiter&rsquo;s famous Great Red Spot, gazing into the eye of the storm.
While the agency hasn&rsquo;t released any close-ups just yet, it promises to do so in the coming days, giving us a new angle on the 16 000-kilometer-wide maelstrom that has been churning furiously for centuries.
&ldquo;On July 4 at 7:30 p.m. PDT (10:30 p.m. EDT), Juno logged exactly one year in Jupiter orbit,&rdquo; says NASA. &ldquo;At the time of perijove, Juno was about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.&rdquo;
Juno was launched back in August 2011, with its mission being the study of the solar system&rsquo;s largest planet.
Once its work in orbit is done, it will be plunged into the gas giant&rsquo;s atmosphere, unravelling more and more of the planet&rsquo;s mysteries.
&ldquo;For generations people from all over the world and all walks of life have marveled over the Great Red Spot,&rdquo; says Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute. &ldquo;Now we are finally going to see what this storm looks like up close and personal.&rdquo;]]></body_text>
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