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Russian satellites crash into Pacific: space officialMoscow (AFP) Dec 5, 2010 Three Russian navigation satellites crashed into the Pacific off the US state of Hawaii Sunday after the rocket carrying them failed to reach orbit, officials from the Russian space agency said. The capsule carrying the three Glonass satellites plummeted into the sea 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) off Honolulu, one official told Russia's RIA-Novosty news agency, adding that there had been no casualties. The failure is a setback for Russia's attempt to put a satellite navigation system in place to ... read more |
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  China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected A China-made-and-launched communications satellite has for two years helped develop education and communications in Venezuela, especially in this South American nation's remote regions. More t ... more | .. |
  Malaysia To Train Experts For Aerospace Industry Malaysia will set up an institute next year to train people in the area of component manufacturing for the aerospace industry. Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Maximus Ong ... more | .. |
  Website Hosts Space Transcripts Fred Haise first hailed Houston from Apollo 13, but it was Jim Lovell who spoke the now-iconic line. "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt," Lovel said on the second ... more | .. |
  Comparison Of Dark Energy Models Physicists at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Physics at Northeastern University have made a comparison of a number of competing dark energy m ... more |
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  Boeing Completes Intersegment Testing Of FAB-T Satellite Comms System Boeing has announced that the company and the U.S. Air Force recently completed intersegment tests of communications between a Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) and an Advance ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Raises Japan's First Quasi-Zenith Satellite MICHIBIKI Aerojet congratulates Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the successful launch of the MICHIBIKI satellite aboard the H-2A launch vehicle out of the ... more | .. |
 New Observations Of Exploding Stars Reveal Pauses, Flickers And Flares Astronomers have traced the waxing and waning light of exploding stars more closely than ever before and seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for in our current understanding of how these eruptio ... more | .. |
 Federal Government Approves New German Space Strategy The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over t ... more |
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  Solar Observation Mission Celebrates 15 Years On December 2, 1995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO was launched into space from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas IIAS rocket. The joint ESA/NASA project began its work observing the s ... more | .. |
  Reflections - Personal and Planetary "I stood up, ran hard down the fully exposed starboard belly and jumped into space. Pearl Harbor closed over my head with five seconds to spare if my counting was correct before the next strafing. I ... more | .. |
  Geminids Meteor Shower: 'Up All Night' With NASA Baby, it's cold outside - but you can still enjoy the best meteor shower of the year. The 2010 Geminid meteor shower promises to be lively, with realistic viewing rates of 50-80 meteors per hour and ... more | .. |
  Snow From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of the UK's winter landscape by orbiting satellites. European Space Agency satellite instruments have ... more |
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  Dawn On A Smooth And Steady Course Dawn is maintaining its smooth and steady course through the solar system as it gradually closes in on Vesta. With the utmost patience and persistence, it continues thrusting with its ion propulsion ... more | .. |
 ASU Researcher Uses NASA Satellite To Explore Archaeological Site Remote sensing has been integral to the field of archaeology for many years, but Arizona State University archaeologist Stephen H. Savage is literally taking the use of that technology to new height ... more | .. |
  Robotic Excavations Could Help Get Helium 3 From Moon To Earth Former ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair has outlined the possibility of getting Helium-3, found on the moon, through "robotic excavations" to earth, in an attempt to resolve the planet's future energy ne ... more | .. |
 ISRO Hands Two Contracts To Arianespace Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given an estimated Rs500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was annou ... more |
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 SwRI Researchers Continue Starfighters Suborbital Space Flight Training As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight traini ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Completes First Flight Boeing has announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The X-37B landed at 1:16 ... more | .. |
  Heat Helped Hasten Beginnings Of Life There has been controversy about whether life originated in a hot or cold environment, and about whether enough time has elapsed for life to have evolved to its present complexity. But new res ... more | .. |
 ULA Enters Fifth Year With 45 Launches In 48 Months of Operation As 2010 nears its end, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is proud to celebrate its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company's 48 months of operation. ULA closed out 2010 in impressiv ... more |
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 University Of Toronto Physicists Create Supernova In A Jar A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature. A supernova is an exploding star. In a certain type of super ... more | .. |
  Blacker Than Black Black is black, right? Not so, according to a team of NASA engineers now developing a blacker-than pitch material that will help scientists gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements or observe c ... more | .. |
 US space agency finds new form of life... on Earth Bacteria that thrive on arsenic have been scooped from a California lake, a discovery that redefines the building blocks of life and offers new hope in the search for other organisms on Earth and beyond. ... more | .. |
  NASA postpones Discovery launch to February 3 The shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station will be delayed until February 3 at the earliest as engineers try to solve the mystery of the cracked fuel tank, NASA said Friday. ... more |
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