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March 02, 2015
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SpaceX launches two communications satellites
Washington (AFP) March 2, 2015
US space transportation company SpaceX launched two commercial communications satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday evening. The rocket, carrying an Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast (ABS) satellite, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on schedule at 10:50 pm (3:50 GMT) into the perfectly clear night. The two satellites deployed 30 minutes afterwards, SpaceX said on Twitter. Equipped with electric propulsion systems, they will orbit above the equator at an altitude of 22,370 miles (36,000 k ... read more
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Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan
A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers. Taking a simultaneou ... more
SPACEMART

University establishes master's program for space entrepreneurship
The University is planning to offer a master's degree in space entrepreneurship beginning in May. The program will be a part of the larger Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization program, ... more
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Soyuz-2.1a Rocket Takes Military Satellite to Designated Orbit
A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket put a military satellite into its designated orbit Friday, a defense ministry spokesman, Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, told RIA Novosti. The satellite separated from the ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Pluto Science, on the Surface
New Horizons remains healthy and on course for its prime Pluto system science in July! As I write these words I am flying to a dress-rehearsal simulation (called a "sim") of the closest approach por ... more


OUTER PLANETS

Science Shorts: How Big Is Pluto's Atmosphere?
How big is Pluto's atmosphere? This is not a typical question one finds in planetary science. Earth's atmosphere has an equivalent thickness - the thickness if you compress the atmosphere to uniform ... more
Human 2 Mars Conference Mat 5-7 2015 - Washington DC 26th Space Cryogenics Workshop Small Modular Reactors - USA - 2015 Nuclear Decommissioning Conference Europe May 2015
Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review
IRON AND ICE

OSIRIS-REx Mission Completes System Integration Review
This week marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center
Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy. "A stellar nursery in what seem ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Aerospacelab and Xona Unite to Transform Satellite Navigation
GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
TIME AND SPACE

What Big Bang? Universe May Have Had No Beginning at All
What we don't know about the Universe... could fill the Universe. Two theoretical physicists have suggested nothing like the Big Bang played a role in the start of our universe 13.8 billion years ag ... more
TECH SPACE

ADS delivers LISA Pathfinder propulsion and science modules for testing
LISA Pathfinder's propulsion and science modules are leaving the UK for the last time. Airbus Defence and Space will ship the two modules to IABG (Industrie Anlagen Betriebs Gesellschaft), near Muni ... more
SPACEWAR

Too Ambitious to be True? Iran Plans to Send Humans to Space by 2016
It was all smiles and cheers on Iran's National Day of Space Technology, celebrated this year on February 17, as the country unveiled a prototype of a spacecraft allegedly capable of taking a human ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Diamantino Sforza - Gentleman Farmer of Prince George's County
Diamantino Sforza is a gentleman farmer in the Italian tradition, competing with his 85-year-old father for the first tomato, the first cucumber and the first pepper of the season. His father's fami ... more
STATION NEWS

Watching Alloys Change from Liquid to Solid Could Lead to Better Metals
If you put a camera in the ice machine and watched water turn into ice, the process would look simple. But the mechanism behind liquids turning to solids is actually quite complex, and understanding ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
Neolithic Mariners: Unveiling the Mediterranean's Oldest Boats
Greece to buy seven Canadian water bombers for wildfires
IRON AND ICE

'Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion
Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 ... more
SPACEWAR

See Me: DARPA Seeks Tiny Satellites to Map Terrain for US Troops
An American defense contractor is developing small satellites capable of quickly providing US ground troops with images of their surroundings. In December, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Age ... more
IRON AND ICE

Dark Energy Camera catches breathtaking glimpse of comet Lovejoy
On December 27, 2014, while scanning the southern sky as part of the Dark Energy Survey, researchers snapped the above shot of comet Lovejoy. The image above was captured using the 570-megapix ... more
MARSDAILY

Curiosity confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere
The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosph ... more
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Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Construction Reaches Home Stretch
The Vostochny cosmodrome construction in Russia's Far East has reached a home stretch, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday. "Vostochny reaches home stretch. Mainly, becaus ... more

EARTH OBSERVATION

India to Soon Have Better Earth Observation Satellites
India will soon have satellites with improved earth observation capability, said space agency chief A.S.Kiran Kumar in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. "The future of earth observation relies o ... more
TECH SPACE

New research predicts when, how materials will act
In science, it's commonly known that materials can change in a number of ways when subjected to different temperatures, pressures or other environmental forces. A material might melt or snap in half ... more
Training Space Professionals Since 1970

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review
TECH SPACE

Watching bonds form using femtosecond X-ray liquidography

STATION NEWS

US astronauts speed through spacewalk at orbiting lab

EXO LIFE

Guiding our Search for Life on Other Earths

SPACE SCOPES

Improved vision for James Webb Space Telescope

EXO LIFE

Tributes pour in for Leonard Nimoy, aka Mr Spock

TIME AND SPACE

New insight found in black hole collisions

TECH SPACE

New NASA Space Cowboy Deploys Its 'Lasso'

SPACEMART

Russia's Yamal-601 Teleco Sat to b launched in 2018

MISSILE DEFENSE

Three rockets launched near-simultaneously in Aegis test

EARLY EARTH

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve

NASA Hopes to Continue Cooperation on ISS Until 2024

The building blocks of the future defy logic

Australia researchers create 'world first' 3D-printed jet engines

Felling of tropical trees has soared, satellite shows, not slowed

ALMA reveals mild environment around super black hole

ASC Signal secures NOAA contract for satellite antennas

Atlantic and Pacific oscillations caused 'false pause' in warming

California Landscape is Mix of Green and Brown

A solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter itself

Astronomers find impossibly large black hole

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Drills at 'Telegraph Peak'

Looking through the 3D Universe

CubeSats offered deep-space ride on ESA asteroid probe

Russia's New ISS Module to Be Ready in Early 2016

It's All About The Infrared At The Webb

Navy flight tests Trident II ballistic missiles

Spacewalk to go ahead on Sunday despite helmet leak

Dawn begins exploration of the first dwarf planet

Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn

UN report urges drones for peace missions

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