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Japan's first Venus probe struggling to enter orbitTokyo (AFP) Dec 7, 2010 Japan's first space probe bound for Venus was struggling on Tuesday to enter the planet's orbit, the space agency said. The Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter, a box-shaped golden satellite fitted with two paddle-shaped solar panels, blasted off from a space centre in southern Japan in May. The probe, nicknamed "Akatsuki" or "Dawn", reversed its engine to slow down and enter the planet's gravitational field but lost contact with ground control longer than had been anticipated, the Japan Aerospace Ex ... read more |
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  Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing In 2012, China will launch her first manned space mission since 2008. The gap between missions has been long, and it will be interesting to see the program continue. Despite the anticipation, we sti ... more | .. |
 China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport China is building a science theme park in the middle of its newest spaceport to promote space science among the country's younger generation. The theme park, covering an area of 1,800 mu (120 ... more | .. |
  Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Kazakh Space Agency Seeks Extra Funding For New Baikonur Launch Pad Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Ru ... more |
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 US company's spacecraft launch delayed to Thursday American company SpaceX will attempt Thursday to launch its first space capsule into orbit and back, in a key test for the future of commercial space flight as NASA winds down its shuttle program. ... more | .. |
  NASA Ejects Nanosatellite From Microsatellite In Space On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satel ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Will Orbit Sicral 2 Milcomms Satellites Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) has chosen Arianespace to launch the Sicral 2 satellite in the framework of a turnkey contract that the Italian Defense Ministry and the French DGA armament agency ( ... more | .. |
  So You Think You Can Solve A Cosmology Puzzle Cosmologists have come up with a new way to solve their problems. They are inviting scientists, including those from totally unrelated fields, to participate in a grand competition. The idea is to s ... more |
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  Drilling For The Future Of Science Students in Robert Palassou's fifth-grade class at Valley View School got an unusual treat last month when scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center visited their Pleasanton, California, classroom ... more | .. |
  Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program's Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ah ... more | .. |
  New bacteria found living on Titanic wreck A new bacteria has been found in the wreck of the Titanic, growing in "rusticles," icicle-like structures on the ship's rusting iron, Canadian researchers say. ... more | .. |
  ISRO Renews Deal With EADS Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has renewed a five-year contract with EADS Astrium, Europe's leading satellite system specialist, for joint marketing of satellites. Announcing this d ... more |
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 GPS Not Working A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn't workin ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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