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June 02, 2010
STATION NEWS
ISS Expedition 23 lands safely in Kazakhstan
Moscow (AFP) June 2, 2010
A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian cosmonaut, a US astronaut and a Japanese astronaut has landed in Kazakhstan, a mission control official in Moscow said Wednesday. Russian Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi of Japan and US astronaut Timothy Creamer "landed south-east of Kazakhstan's town of Jezkazgan" and "felt normal," the official said. They were returning from a mission to the International Space Station. The team were shown live on the Vesti 24 news channel smiling and waving as doctors an ... read more

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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Announce Contract For Launch Of YAMAL 401 And YAMAL 402
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MARSDAILY

520 Days On A Simulated Flight To Mars
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SPACE SCOPES

First High-Res Image From LOFAR Radio Telescope Array
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STATION NEWS

China May Become Space Station Partner
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Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

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ATSB: Small Satellite e-novation
SPACEMART

Loral Selected To Provide Anik G1 Satellite To Telesat
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SPACEMART

SSC And KARI Signs Contract
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SPACEMART

Orbital Selected For Azerspace/Africasat-1a Satellite
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SUPER COMPUTERS

China boasts world's second-fastest supercomputer
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SPACEWAR

Boeing Team Ships First SBSS Spacecraft To Launch Site
GPS NEWS

China To Launch Fourth Orbiter For Global Satellite Navigation Network
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GPS NEWS

Google Maps directions lead injured walker to court
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MARSDAILY

Spirit Still In Deep Sleep
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TECH SPACE

World's first iPad lookalike on sale in China
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TIME AND SPACE

Backwards Black Holes Might Make Bigger Jets
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SPACE TRAVEL
Al Gore, wife Tipper, to separate
Washington (AFP) June 1, 2010
Former US vice president and anti-global warming campaigner Al Gore and his wife Tipper have told friends that they will separate after four decades of marriage, an aide said Tuesday. "They've asked for privacy during this time, for them and their family," said Kalee Kreider, of the Office of Al and Tipper Gore. Kreider confirmed that the Gores - whose affection for each other was evide ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
Spacecraft set for Earth and comet flybys
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 1, 2010
NASA says its Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft successfully performed a trajectory maneuver to refine its orbit prior to an upcoming Earth flyby. The maneuver will place the spacecraft on a trajectory to fly past Earth June 27 prior to its Nov. 4 flyby of comet Hartley. The trajectory maneuver, on Friday, involved the spacecraft's engines being fired for 11.3 seconds, NASA said. Whil ... more

SOLAR SCIENCE
Hinode Discovers The Origin Of White Light Flare
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 28, 2010
A joint Japan-United States research team has identified the origin of the white light emission in solar flares. The team, led by Dr. Kyoko Watanabe, an aerospace project research associate at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, made its discovery by quantitatively analyzing an X-class solar flare, which was observed by two successive, solar-observing satellites: Hinode and the NASA SMEX mis ... more

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TECH SPACE

Microsoft sticks up for Windows operating system

IRON AND ICE

Post-Mortem Of A Comet


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IRON AND ICE
Marine Corps Tests New Fighting Vehicle

Russia To Test New Model Of Kalashnikov Assault Rifle In 2011

Textron Tactical RPG Airbag Protection System Demos Maturity And Performance

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Russia demands explanation for US missiles in Poland

Russia unhappy with US missiles in Poland

First US Patriot missile battery in Poland: embassy

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Bulava Probe Results Ready For Russian Government Review

LockMart Dedicates New PAC-3 Missile Facility

US Patriot missile unit deploys in Poland, Russia bristles

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Global military spending soars despite crisis: report

A400M contracts may not be signed till autumn: EADS chief

EU bids to ban export of hunting rifles

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Robots Walking And Running Better

Molecular Robots On The Rise

A Possible New Face Of US Human Space Exploration

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Scientists could end flu pandemic alert: WHO

Swiss defend swine flu vaccine purchase

Anti-HIV drugs slash risk of virus transmission by 92 percent

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SPACE SCOPES
Novel Observing Mode On XMM-Newton Opens New Perspectives On Galaxy Clusters
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2010
Surveying the sky, XMM-Newton has discovered two massive galaxy clusters, confirming a previous detection obtained through observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the 'shadow' they cast on the Cosmic Microwave Background. The discovery, made possible thanks to a novel mosaic observing mode recently introduced on ESA's X-ray observatory, opens a new window to study the Universe's largest bound structures in a multi-wavelength approach. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bo ... read more

IRON AND ICE
European Investments In Innovation And Solar Energy

Solar Gets A Warm Welcome In Hermosa Beach

SolarMagic Chipset Makes Solar Panels Smarter

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Work starts on Brazil's third nuclear reactor

Decreased Investments In The Nuclear Energy Market In Fourth Quarter

Areva says it will halt depleted uranium shipments to Russia

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Central America reels from Tropical Storm Agatha

Donor countries to meet on Haiti rebuilding effort

Louisiana residents add hurricane fears to oil woes

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Turkish PM committed to reform despite Kurdish rebel attacks

Afghan, NATO forces retake remote area from Taliban

Georgia ruling party heads for landslide local polls win

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Boeing Receives First F-16 For Conversion Into QF-16 Aerial Drone

Boeing Conducts Test Flight Of ScanEagle Compressed Carriage

US Air Force tests hypersonic UAV

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