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Virgin spaceship to pass new milestoneLas Cruces, New Mexico (AFP) Oct 22, 2010 The world's first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based. SpaceShipTwo, which could carry paying customers into suborbital space by early 2012, had its maiden flight in the California desert in March ... read more |
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  New Research Settles Years Debate Over Diffuse Aurora New space research published this week (Thursday 21 October) in the journal Nature, has settled decades of scientific debate. Researchers from the University of California (UCLA) and British Antarct ... more | .. |
 Cosmonaut food prices skyrocket due to inflation: official The price of food rations on board the International Space Station (ISS) has increased by nearly 50 percent over the past year due to inflation, a Russian official said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  NASA Open Government Summit Emphasized Data Exchange NASA is working to publish more of its data sets online and create more opportunities to engage with the public using digital tools. This was a major part of the discussion during the monthly Open G ... more | .. |
  Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa ... more | .. |
  TerreStar Networks Files For Chapter 11 TerreStar Corporation has reported that its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc. and certain other affiliates have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under chapter 11 of the U ... more |
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Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 22, 2010Prepar3D , Lockheed Martin's professional training and simulation software, will be available for purchase starting Nov. 1 Lockheed Martin created Prepar3D (pronounced "prepared"), based on Microsoft ESP technology, as a training application for military, educational, civil and aviation professionals. The Prepar3D software lets individuals and organizations conduct realistic training ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Oct 22, 2010A navigation survey recently conducted by ABI Research has revealed differences in navigation form-factor usage compared with a similar survey conducted in 2009. While in both 2009 and 2010 PNDs are the most commonly-used type of navigation device, a significantly higher percentage of those in the United States report the use of mobile phones with navigation software in the car (24% in 201 ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because the moon is changing seasons and spring has arrived in Titan's northern hemisphere. The images were taken from about 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) away from Titan on Oct. 18, 2010, an ... more |
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Opportunity Past The 15-Mile Mark On MarsPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2390 (Oct. 14, 2010), the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) was sequenced to collect an atmospheric argon measurement along with light remote sensing. Not until Sol 2393 (Oct. 17, 2010), were onboard data volumes improved so a drive could be sequenced. On that sol, Opportunity drove over 100 meter ... read more |
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