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NASA Satellite Sees An Early Meteorological Winter In US MidwestGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2010 NASA's Terra satellite captures daily visible and infrared images around the Earth and took a daytime image of a blanket of snow in the Upper Midwest this week. Even though astronomical winter is less than two weeks away, the central and eastern U.S. are already experiencing meteorological winter. Meteorological winter is basically an identification of the winter season based on "sensible weather patterns" for record keeping purposes. That means "meteorological winter" happens whenever snow ... read more |
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  Russia suspends satellite launch after failures: report Russia's space agency has suspended this month's launch of a European satellite after a rocket failed to take its payload into orbit last weekend, Interfax reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
  ISS Tracks Months-Long Voyages Of Ships At Sea ESA's experimental ship detector on the International Space Station has pinpointed more than 60 000 ocean-going vessels so far. It has been able to follow the routes of individual ships for months a ... more | .. |
  Study: Earth's precious metals from space Gigantic collisions 4.5 billion years ago injected precious elements such as gold and platinum into on Earth, the moon and Mars, a study suggests. ... more | .. |
  The Three Ages Of Mars There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have b ... more |
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  Army Nanosatellite On First Flight The first U.S. Army nanosatellite lifted off of Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral at 10:43 a.m. Eastern. This is the launch of the first U.S. Army-built satellite in more than 50 years. U.S. Army Spac ... more | .. |
  Fahrenheit -459: Neutron Stars And String Theory In A Lab Using lasers to contain some ultra-chilled atoms, a team of scientists has measured the viscosity or stickiness of a gas often considered to be the sixth state of matter. The measurements veri ... more | .. |
  NASA, SpaceX giddy over historic orbit launch NASA and SpaceX chiefs shook their heads with disbelief and joy Wednesday after a perfect launch into orbit and back of the company's Dragon capsule, a historic first for the future of space travel. ... more | .. |
  Intergalactic Weather Map This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from Earth. ... more |
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  BSAT-3b Satellite Begins Service The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite is now operational following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems. The spacecraft is located at orbital location 110 degrees east ... more | .. |
  Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes To The Sky The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor - an encouraging start for an instrument designed to probe the cosmic neighbo ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more | .. |
 MegaPhase RF Cables Enable Conclusion Of Seven-Year Deep Space Program MegaPhase cables have contributed to the first and only asteroid dust capture from space. The Hayabusa space probe was equipped with MegaPhase's GrooveTube RF cable assemblies. The seven year missio ... more |
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  New JPL Workers Shed Training Wheels For Rocket Launch Less than three years after obtaining college degrees, a group of early-career employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add "rocket launch" to their resumes. Re ... more | .. |
  Japan probe shoots past Venus, may meet again in six years A Japanese space probe has hurtled past Venus after failing to enter the planet's orbit as planned, the space agency said Wednesday, but it voiced hope for a successful rendezvous six years from now. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX Dragon Does Two Orbits Before Pacific Splashdown US company SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched a space capsule into orbit and back, marking the first such attempt by a private enterprise and a major milestone in the future of space travel. ... more |
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 South Africa unveils space agency South Africa unveiled its national space agency on Thursday, aiming to become a leader in earth observation technology across the continent in 10 years, the minister of science and technology said. ... more | .. |
  STSS Demonstration Satellites Detect ICBM Test Launch The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration program satellites, built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, detected the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Mis ... more | .. |
 Russia probes navigation system spending after crash Russia launched a probe Tuesday into whether the money assigned to create a satellite navigation rival to the US GPS system was being wisely spent, prosecutors said, after the latest launch ended in failure. ... more | .. |
 ASU Astronomer Opens New Window Into Early Universe Thirteen billion years ago our universe was dark. There were neither stars nor galaxies; there was only hydrogen gas left over after the Big Bang. Eventually that mysterious time came to an end as t ... more |
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 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first carbon-rich world e ... more | .. |
 France getting EADS spy satellites France's Ministry of Defense says Paris has ordered two spy satellites in a $1 billion contract with EADS Astrium. ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Discover New Planet In Planetary System Very Similar To Our Own An international team of astronomers has discovered and imaged a fourth giant planet outside our solar system, a discovery that further strengthens the remarkable resemblances between a distant plan ... more | .. |
  Sneak Attacks From Sun Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes of be ... more |
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