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Graduation Of Europe's New AstronautsParis, France (ESA) Nov 23, 2010 ESA's six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially 'astronauts'. The new astronauts, smiling in their blue overalls, were in the spotlight at ESA's training centre. They were presented with their certificates signed by Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General, Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of Human Spaceflight, and Michel Togini, Head of the Astronaut Group. The graduation ceremony, held in ... read more |
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  Tasks For Tiangong China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will launch at some point in early 2011. This spacecraft will later host crews of Chinese astronauts launched aboard Shenzhou spacecraft. We have seen images of t ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 next Vale ... more | .. |
  Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011 The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011. ... more | .. |
  45th Space Wing Launches NRO Satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV-Heavy Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 37 at 5:58 p.m. (EST), carrying a classified Natio ... more |
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  Hyperion Hyperspectral Imager Marks Tenth Anniversary On-Orbit NASA's first hyperspectral imager in space, built by Northrop Grumman for the Goddard Space Flight Center, is observing its tenth anniversary on-orbit, outliving its design life by 1000 percent. Ori ... more | .. |
  Aerojet's High-Power Hall System Propels USAF AEHF Satellite Aerojet has announced that its high-power Hall Thruster Propulsion System (HTPS) has successfully initiated operation on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle #1 (SV#1) that was ... more | .. |
  Development Of Humanoid Robot To Test Warfighter Protection Equipment Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). This JPEO-CBD, Joint Project Manager for Nucl ... more | .. |
  NATO agrees on Europe-wide missile defence system US President Barack Obama and his NATO allies agreed on Friday to shield Europe's peoples from rogue rocket attacks with a screen of interceptor missiles, and to invite Russia to take part. ... more |
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 Israel Unveils Newest Anti-Missile System While intelligence assessments consistently paint a grim portrait of thousands of missiles and rockets showering down on Israel's civilian population and infrastructure in the future, the Jewish sta ... more | .. |
 Redrawing Our Borders What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think of borders differently, according to Nor ... more | .. |
 DARPA Concludes Review Of Falcon HTV-2 Flight Anomaly Following an extensive six-month review, the independent Engineering Review Board (ERB) chartered to examine data collected during the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle's (HTV-2) first flight has ... more | .. |
  Profiling The Largest Solar Explosions Solar flares - they're big and they're fast. They can knock out a satellite or create a beautiful aurora. And the jury is still out on what causes these explosions. Flares, and the related cor ... more |
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 Ball Aerospace STPSat-2 Satellite Launches Aboard STP-S26 Mission The STPSat-2 satellite, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies for the U.S. Air Force STP-S26 launch, lifted off successfully from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 4:25 p.m. local time (6:25 ... more | .. |
 China To Launch First Female Astronauts After the Opening Ceremony, Yang Liwei, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Flight Project, as well as the nation's first astronaut to travel into space, says a second crew of astronauts ... more | .. |
  Stanford Students Fly In Zero Gravity To Protect Satellites From Tiny Meteoroids Stanford researchers have completed the first successful tests in zero gravity of a canopy for CubeSats - the tiny satellites that hitch rides on rockets sending larger satellites into orbit. The go ... more | .. |
 Resourcesat-2 Satellite Launch In January India's premier space agency ISRO will launch Resourcesat-2 advanced remote sensing satellite on board home-made PSLV rocket in January. The Bangalore-headquartered space agency held a mission ... more |
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  NASA's Newest Microsatellite FASTSAT Launches NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, launched at 7:25 p.m. CST Friday aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. FASTSAT is a ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011 The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011. ... more | .. |
  New Evidence For Supernova-Driven Galactic Fountains In Milky Way Observing the X-ray-bright gas in the halo of the Milky Way, ESA's XMM-Newton has gathered new data which favour a process involving fountains of hot gas in our Galaxy. Such a scenario, with t ... more | .. |
 Iran to launch new satellites soon: defence minister Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday that Tehran would soon launch into space a number of its newly designed satellites, Mehr news agency reported. ... more |
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 Hayabusa's Harvest The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the tiny particles inside the Hayabusa spacecraft's sample return container are in fact from the asteroid Itokawa. Scientists e ... more | .. |
  Thales Alenia Space And OHB-System Sign MTG Contract With ESA Thales Alenia Space, the Prime Contractor, and its partner OHB-System, have announced the signature of an Authorization To Proceed (ATP) with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Meteosat Third G ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week. Opportunity drove pa ... more |
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