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March 11, 2014
A team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. led the development of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science investigation, NASA's first optical communication experiment from the space station, which launches March 16 aboard SpaceX-3.
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March 7, 2014
NASA is building new technologies to refuel and repair existing satellites in orbit. After concluding a successful ground-based test of robotic satellite refueling technology, NASA is preparing for a new round of demonstrations on the space station.
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March 5, 2014
Researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., developed a sophisticated piece of flight hardware called a Lightning Imaging Sensor to detect and locate lightning over the tropical region of the globe.
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March 4, 2014
With many small, relatively inexpensive satellites deploying from the space station, it may seem like low-Earth orbit is full of these compact cubes conducting research and demonstration missions.
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March 3, 2014
Some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in space compared to their behavior on Earth, which could help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumors that don't respond to current treatments.
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February 28, 2014
A new study, MicroRNA Expression Profiles in Cultured Human Fibroblast in Space - Micro-7 for short - will examine the effect of gravity on DNA damage and repair.
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February 27, 2014
The Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA's Ames Research Center is working to upgrade the smartphones currently equipped on a trio of volleyball-sized free-flying satellites on the space station.
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February 27, 2014
A process investigated aboard the space station known as microencapsulation is able to more effectively produce tiny, liquid-filled, biodegradable micro-balloons containing specific combinations of concentrated anti-tumor drugs.
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February 26, 2014
Four current and upcoming SPHERES technology demonstrations are of particular significance to robotics engineers, rocket launch companies, NASA exploration and anyone who uses communications systems on Earth.
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February 12, 2014
A new fleet of 28 small satellites made by Planet Labs, called Flock 1, is considered the largest single constellation of Earth-imaging satellites ever to launch into space. They began deploying Feb. 11 from the International Space Station.
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February 10, 2014
The Multi-Gas Monitor, a shoebox-sized, battery-powered monitor aboard the space station, can measure the concentrations of multiple gases within the air inside of it in less than one second.
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February 6, 2014
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System is scheduled to launch to the space station in Sept. 2014 to help researchers determine what state-of-the-art, three-wavelength laser technology can do from space to measure aerosols in Earth's atmosphere.
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February 3, 2014
A rehydration beverage developed by John Greenleaf, physiologist and former researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center, to treat low body water in astronauts is now being used to improve human performance under various conditions on Earth.
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February 1, 2014
The announcement by the Obama Administration to support the extension of the orbiting laboratory to at least 2024 gives the station a decade to continue its already fruitful microgravity research mission.
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January 21, 2014
Fire continues to be a focus of study with the Burning and Suppression of Solids-II (BASS-II) experiments, which recently launched to the International Space Station aboard the Orbital 1 cargo resupply mission.
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January 16, 2014
The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image collects data that help researchers discover, study and understand the physics behind the lifecycle of our universe. MAXI was key in two recent publications sharing results that make strides in astrophysics.
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January 11, 2014
23 new Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) research studies departed for the ISS with the Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus launch on Jan. 9. Many SSEP accomplishments were presented at their annual 2013 conference.
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January 7, 2014
In its first commercial resupply journey after completion of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, the Orbital-1 mission will deliver some very interesting new scientific investigations to the space station.
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January 6, 2014
The Antibiotic Effectiveness in Space investigation, scheduled to launch in January aboard the first contracted Orbital resupply flight to the space station, is a systematic attempt to probe the reasons for antibiotic resistance in space.
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