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Japan's low-cost space programme pushes the limitsTokyo (AFP) Dec 19, 2010 Despite its shoestring budget, Japan's space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon. The past year has seen Japan's space agency JAXA chalk up several world firsts, including the safe return of a deep-space probe that picked up asteroid dust from a potato-shaped space rock on an epic seven-year odyssey. The Hayabusa (Falcon) ended its five-billion-kilometre (three-billion-mile) missi ... read more |
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  China Launches Seventh Orbiter For Indigenous Global SatNav System China successfully launched an orbiter into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province at 4:20 a.m. Beijing Time Saturday. It was the seventh orbiter that ... more | .. |
  Robot Arm Improves Performance Of Brain-Controlled Device The performance of a brain-machine interface designed to help paralyzed subjects move objects with their thoughts is improved with the addition of a robotic arm providing sensory feedback, a new stu ... more | .. |
  NASA Helps Create A More Silent Night The holidays are here and the nation's airports are busier than ever -thousands of airplanes taking off and landing. Passengers and people living around airports are reminded that the airplane is no ... more | .. |
 France's Industrial Policy And Future Of The Space Sector On Tuesday, 14 December 2010, President Sarkozy went to the French department of Eure to pay a field visit devoted to French industry and more particularly the future of the space sector. Duri ... more |
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  NASA's LRO Creating Unprecedented Topographic Map Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape. "This dataset is being used t ... more | .. |
  Paolo Nespoli Arrives At ISS The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft docked this evening with the International Space Station carrying ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman. They will stay in ... more | .. |
  ISRO Puts Off GSLV Launch The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s next Geosynchronous Satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-FO6) flight from the Satish Dhawan spaceport at Sriharikota, 100 km north of here, scheduled for Mo ... more | .. |
  Solstice Lunar Eclipse Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse. The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21 ... more |
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 Voyager Crosses Point Of Solar Stillness 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 | .. |
  Fuel error cost Russia three navigation satellites: official The costly launch failure that caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own satellite system was the result of a fuel miscalculation, a commission charged with probing the accident said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Cause of missile defense test failure unclear: US A top US general said Thursday it was unclear why an interceptor meant to knock out incoming ballistic missiles failed in a test for the second time in a row. ... more | .. |
 Obama vows to pursue US missile defense plans President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to pursue the deployment of US missile defense systems and rejected Russia's claim that doing so would justify withdrawing from a new nuclear arms control treaty. ... more |
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 Air Force, Lockheed missile warning satellite set The U.S. Air Force and its Lockheed Martin partner have successfully completed the final test of the first geosynchronous satellite, billed GEO-1. ... more | .. |
 Russian rocket docks with space station A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts on Friday docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's mission control said. ... more | .. |
  Year Of The Dragon 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 ... more | .. |
  NASA's arsenic life-form scientist answers critics The NASA-funded scientist whose discovery of a bacterium that thrives on arsenic prompted an avalanche of criticism responded Thursday with a statement answering questions about her research. ... more |
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 Virgin Galactic To Join NASA Submissions For Orbital Spaceflights Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has announced that it will be supporting Sierra Nevada Space Systems' (SNC) and Orbital Sciences Corporation's (OSC) work on commercial space vehicles. Fo ... more | .. |
ISRO Set To Launch Heaviest Satellite For Telecom And TV Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation were set to launch their heaviest satellite from near here on Monday to retire an old one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV an ... more | .. |
  Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble, is the result of gas that is being shocked by the expa ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying t ... more |
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 Solid 2010 Results For Aerospace With another solid financial performance in 2010, the aerospace industry has again demonstrated its vital importance to the U.S. economy. "Aerospace has produced solid results, including a new ... more | .. |
  Light Dawns On Dark Gamma-ray Bursts Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic events in the Universe, but some appear curiously faint in visible light. The biggest study to date of these so-called dark gamma-ray bursts, using the ... more | .. |
 Arianespace To Launch ESA's First Sentinel Satellite ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract for the launch of Sentinel-1A, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. ... more | .. |
  Experiment Hurtled Into Aurora Above Norway By NASA Rocket A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andoya Rocket Range into auror ... more |
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