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African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. [1] It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs ; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection.
Mission to look for large numbers of exoplanets using the transit method K2: November 18, 2013 October 30, 2018 427 891 (+627 microlensing events) After the reaction wheels failed on Kepler, this mission was created Gaia: December 19, 2013 Ongoing 0 0 Map 1 billion astronomical objects in the Milky Way (First data Release November 2, 2016) ASTERIA
Venus Life Finder is a planned Venus space probe designed to detect signs of life in the Venusian atmosphere. [4] Slated to be the first private mission to another planet, [6] the spacecraft is being developed by Rocket Lab in collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [7]
On 12 April 2012, an international team including Levin and Patricia Ann Straat published a peer reviewed paper suggesting the detection of "extant microbial life on Mars", based on mathematical speculation through cluster analysis of the Labeled Release experiments of the 1976 Viking Mission. [23] [24]
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS; formerly SBIRS-Low) was a pair of satellites developed by the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to research the space-based detection and tracking of ballistic missiles.
Envisat was a candidate for a mission to remove it from orbit, called e.Deorbit. The spacecraft sent to bring down Envisat would itself need to have a mass of approximately 1.6 tonnes. The spacecraft sent to bring down Envisat would itself need to have a mass of approximately 1.6 tonnes.
The unmanned Mars exploration mission, commenced in 2003 sent two robotic rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to explore the Martian surface and geology. The mission was led by Project Manager Peter Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Principal Investigator Steven Squyres, professor of astronomy at Cornell University.
In 2003, MAP was renamed WMAP in honor of cosmologist David Todd Wilkinson (1935–2002), [7] who had been a member of the mission's science team. After nine years of operations, WMAP was switched off in 2010, following the launch of the more advanced Planck spacecraft by European Space Agency (ESA) in 2009.