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Year Of The DragonBethesda MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2010 A new era in spaceflight opened last Wednesday with the successful first flight of Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Dragon capsule by a non-government entity. It demonstrated the ability to maneuver on orbit, deorbit, enter the atmosphere, deploy its parachutes, and be recovered intact. Had it had people on board, which it could have, with its rudimentary short-duration life support system, they would have had a "nice ride," according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. That it didn't was d ... read more |
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  Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system The US space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the outer edge of the solar system where wind from the Sun is no longer blowing outward, but sideways, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  ESA Makes The Sun Available To Everyone New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. Just download the viewer and b ... more | .. |
 India's solar mission moving ahead India's Solar Mission, aimed at generating 20,000 megawatts of solar power in the country over the next decade, has generated a positive response since it was launched in January, a government agency said. ... more | .. |
  Bolivia, China ink deal to build telecoms satellite Bolivia and China have signed a deal to build a 300-million-dollar communications satellite to be launched into space within three years, officials here said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Satellite Data Provide A New Way To Monitor Groundwater In Agricultural Regions When you dive into that salad full of lettuce grown in the American West, there's a good chance you are enjoying the product of irrigation from an underground water source. These hidden groundwater ... more | .. |
  SBIRS Completes Major Testing Milestone The U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin-led Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has successfully completed the Final Integrated System Test (FIST) of the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite, a ma ... more | .. |
 Satellites Pinpoint Drivers Of Urban Heat Islands In The Northeast Cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston are prominent centers of political power. Less known: Their size, background ecology, and development patterns also combine to make them unusually w ... more | .. |
  Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new ali ... more |
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 How Hard Are We Pushing The Land We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever - if not more and more so - on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway fr ... more | .. |
 Portugal Marks Ten Years In ESA Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Portugal joining ESA as a Member State, Jose Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister of Science and Higher Education, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General, ... more | .. |
  'Out of this world' Most Successful Exhibition Of Ruhr 2010 Project The exhibition 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' will end on 30 December 2010. It has been the most successful exhibition held at the Gasometer in Oberhausen by far. The exhibi ... more | .. |
 Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet An international team of astronomers has discovered a fourth giant planet, HR 8799e, outside our solar system. The new planet joins the three planets that were the subjects of the first-ever images ... more |
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 IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of ... more | .. |
  LockMart Successfully Tests First GMLRS+ Rocket Lockheed Martin has successfully launched a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Plus (GMLRS+) rocket recently in a test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The GMLRS+ rocket, which is equipped ... more | .. |
 NASA Names Waleed Abdalati As Agency's New Chief Scientist NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Waleed Abdalati the agency's chief scientist, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science p ... more | .. |
  Space Sensor Makes Bolts Smarter Technology developed for the International Space Station and a Mars rover is helping European auto-parts manufacturers to engineer lighter, stronger and safer drivetrains and axles. Bolts are ... more |
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 Global Eruption Rocks The Sun On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into spa ... more | .. |
 Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space As Solar Wind Slows To Zero The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar ... more | .. |
  India to boost its Akash missile arsenal Bharat Electronics expects to win around $3.3 billion worth of contracts for the surface-to-air Akash missile system in the next several months, a company official said. ... more | .. |
  Research Points To Better Understanding Of Carbon In Comets Using a comet as a far-flung laboratory, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has shown that the ionization lifetime of carbon is much shorter than what is currently used in calculations by come ... more |
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 Boeing Submits Proposal For Second Round Of NASA CCDev Program Boeing has submitted its proposal for the second round of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Boeing plans to advance the design of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft ... more | .. |
 Iran Plans To Build Second Spaceport Iran plans to construct its second spaceport, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour said on Sunday. "At present, there is only one space launch base in the country.. ... more | .. |
  GPS Tracking Technology Helps With Winter Weather Technology gave us the ability to predict severe winter weather and now it's helping when it comes to dealing with the aftermath. Due to the recent record of snow fall in the northeast, munici ... more | .. |
 NavCom Announces New Capabilities NavCom Technology has announced new capabilities for the SF-3050 multi-frequency GNSS receiver and Sapphire GNSS OEM board. In addition to the integrated StarFire/RTK GNSS capabilities, the SF ... more |
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