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US private rocket readies key demonstration launchWashington (AFP) Nov 30, 2010 American firm SpaceX readied Tuesday the first demonstration launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to low Earth orbit for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program next week. Dubbed COTS 1, the December 7 launch will also mark the first time a private firm attempts to have a spacecraft - SpaceX's Dragon capsule - re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, a key step in developing commercial launchers to put people into space. It will be the first of three demonstration launches for Falcon ... read more |
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  Searching The Heavens For Newborn Stars SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is ready to take off into the heavens for its first science flight this week. Two astronomy professors, Mark Morris of the Unive ... more | .. |
  Studying Sun's Effects On Earth's Climate The University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have announced the formation of a new collaborative res ... more | .. |
  NSS Calls On Congress To Pass NASA Authorization Act Of 2010 In late September 2010, after many months of debate, Congress passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. This three-year authorization demonstrated a bipartisan, cooperative effort on the part of bo ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientist To Speak At Imagination Station About Webb Telescope A NASA research physicist working on the next generation space telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope, will be giving a presentation to visitors of the Imagination Station science center in ... more |
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  Mapping Mangroves By Satellite Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coastlines. But ground-based evidence suggests these vital coastal for ... more | .. |
 Novel Services For Tropical Forest Monitoring With Satellite A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the Euro ... more | .. |
  Venus Holds Warning For Earth A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA's Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus, it could be a warning against injecting our atmosphe ... more | .. |
 NASA Sets Coverage For COTS 1 Launch The first SpaceX Falcon 9 demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program is targeted for liftoff on Tuesday, Dec. 7. Liftoff will occur from Launch Complex 40 at ... more |
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  Opportunity Making Progress To Endeavour Crater Opportunity continues to make progress towards Endeavour crater while collecting remote-sensing science observations along the way. The rover drove on Sols 2424 (Nov. 18, 2010), and 2427 (Nov. ... more | .. |
  Integral Helps Unravel The Tumultuous Recent History Of The Solar Neighbourhood Just like archaeologists, who rely on radioactive carbon to date the organic remains from past epochs, astronomers have exploited the radioactive decay of an isotope of aluminium to estimate the age ... more | .. |
  NATO mulls missile cooperation with Russia NATO leaders have snubbed suggestions by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to unite his country's missile system with that of the Western alliance. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Back To Normal, Ready For Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft resumed normal operations Nov. 24. All science instruments have been turned back on, the spacecraft is properly configured and Cassini is in good health. Mission mana ... more |
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  Demanding Design Boosts Shuttle Engine A space shuttle main engine burns at 6,000 degrees F, but the outside of the nozzle remains cool to the touch. Prior to launch, sometimes it even frosts over. The nozzle technology that allows ... more | .. |
  Emirates, Bahrain seek U.S. rocket systems As concerns about Iran's military power among Arab states in the Persian Gulf mount, the United Arab Emirates and tiny Bahrain are acquiring U.S.-built long-range artillery rocket systems amid a major arms buildup to counter the Islamic Republic. ... more | .. |
  O3b Networks Secures Funding For Satellites O3b Networks has announced that it has secured its final funding round before service launch. O3b Networks is the developer of a new fiber-quality, satellite-based global internet backbone for Telec ... more | .. |
 HUT, 20 Years Later Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-da ... more |
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 -chasing-condont-early-vertebrate-bg.jpg) Ancient Wind Held Secret Of Life And Death The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University o ... more | .. |
 UBC Physicists Make Atoms And Dark Matter Add Up UBC and TRIUMF physicists have proposed a unified explanation for dark matter and the so-called baryon asymmetry--the apparent imbalance of matter with positive baryon charge and antimatter with neg ... more | .. |
  NASA To Announce Astrobiology Finding: Major Impact On Search For Life NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of ... more | .. |
 Rainforest Collapse Drove Reptile Evolution Global warming devastated tropical rainforests 300 million years ago. Now scientists report the unexpected discovery that this event triggered an evolutionary burst among reptiles - and inadvertentl ... more |
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  Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels Of Oxidized Mercury In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is called Yam ha-Melah, the "sea of salt." Now measurements show that the sea's salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface. The atmosphere ... more | .. |
 IceBite Blog: Remote Control On Thursday, Nov. 18th, we had a very exciting day. Our Mars drill was to be operated by a class of 5th grade students from Valley View School in Pleasanton, California. We got up early in the morni ... more | .. |
 Bridging Between Earth And Space TECHBREAK is a new foresight initiative led by the European Science Foundation to identify the technology areas that could benefit the space sector. It goes beyond space-related technologies to brin ... more | .. |
  World-Leading Spatial Experts Meet In Sydney Senior CSIRO scientists will this week host a meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Sydney to discuss developing and implementing new standards for geospatial and location technology. ... more |
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