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Super Earth Could Be Steaming Hot Or Full Of GasPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2010 A team of astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, has made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere, by using a ground-based telescope. A super-Earth is a planet up to three times the size of Earth and weighing up to 10 times as much. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, are a significant milestone toward eventually being able to probe the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for signs of life. The team determined the planet, GJ 1214b, is either blanketed with a ... read more |
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  US private rocket readies key demonstration launch 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. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Finds Warm Cracks On Enceladus New images and data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique Saturn-lit view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. They reveal a more complicat ... 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 | .. |
  Astronauts drink tea in Moscow before December blast-off Three Russian and NASA astronauts drank tea Wednesday with the head of the Russian space agency in Moscow as they prepared to blast off later this month to the International Space Station (ISS). ... more |
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  Silicon-Germanium For Space Electronics Applications A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a novel approach to space electronics that could change how space vehicles and instruments are designed. The new capabili ... more | .. |
  First Scientific Flight For The SOFIA Airborne Observatory The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), has commenced scientific operat ... more | .. |
  Sarkozy To Address ISRO Scientists Indian space agency ISRO is gearing up to host French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni at its headquarters here Saturday and will interact with top scientists. According to I ... more | .. |
 To Boldly Go - But On A Tight Budget Britain's space experts are keeping their fingers crossed that their Pounds 250m a year budget won't fall victim to the public spending cuts. Dr David Williams, chief executive of the UK Space Agen ... more |
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  Pits, Flows, Other Scenes In New Set Of Mars Images Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortme ... more | .. |
  World's Fastest Camera Takes A New Look At Biosensing A European consortium comprising NPL, ST Microelectronics, the University of Edinburgh, and TU Delft has been involved in the development and application of the Megaframe Imager - an ultrafast camer ... more | .. |
 HYLAS Satellite Reaches Geostationary Orbit HYLAS (Highly Adaptable Satellite), which was launched successfully on November 27, 2010 by the European Ariane-5 V198 launch vehicle, has reached the geostationary orbit. It may be recalled t ... more | .. |
  Roster Of Runways Ready To Bring A Shuttle Home Long before a space shuttle crew spots its intended landing target, mission controllers closely monitor the spacecraft, the astronauts and the weather at a roster of runways around the globe. Meanwh ... more |
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  Russian tactical nuclear missiles a US concern Russia moved tactical nuclear warheads to within miles of its borders with NATO countries as recently as late spring, complicating US ties with Moscow, a report said Tuesday, as Congress mulled a new arms control treaty. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 Spain Supplies Weather Station For Next Mars Rover The first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars will provide daily weather reports from the Red Planet. Expect extremes. Major goals for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory include assessing ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 Boeing defense arm sees 'flattish' year The defense arm of US aerospace giant Boeing is expecting a lackluster year followed by a modest pickup in 2012, the head of the unit said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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Obama foes recommit to blocking his agenda US President Barack Obama's Republican foes laid out a year-end strategy on Wednesday that could doom efforts to approve a nuclear pact with Russia and lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military. ... more |
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