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US, Germany developing secret spy satellites: cablesOslo (AFP) Jan 3, 2011 Germany and the United States are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US embassy in Berlin leaked to WikiLeaks and obtained ... read more |
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  GSLV Broke Up When Connectors Snapped India's heavy rocket broke up midair on Christmas day when onboard connectors that transmit signals snapped inadvertently, the space agency said Friday. "The inadvertent snapping of 10 connect ... more | .. |
  Canada says it could build launch rockets Canada, which now relies on other countries to launch its satellites into orbit, has the technological ability to build its own rockets, space experts say. ... more | .. |
  GOES Look Back At 2010 The GOES series of satellites keep an eye on the weather happening over the continental U.S. and eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and had a busy time with wild weather in 2010. GOES-13 has captur ... more | .. |
 Cyclone Tasha Adds To Severe Flooding Over Eastern Australia Cyclone Tasha recently made landfall just south of Cairns along the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia during the early morning hours on Christmas Day. The storm, which had formed just o ... more |
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  Four Solar, Two Moon Eclipses To Take Place In 2011 Earthlings will have a chance to observe four solar and two total moon eclipses in 2011. The first solar eclipse will take place on January 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible fr ... more | .. |
  Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more | .. |
 Tidal Flats And Channels, Long Island, Bahamas The islands of the Bahamas are situated on large depositional platforms-the Great and Little Bahama Banks-composed mainly of carbonate sediments ringed by reefs. The islands are the only parts of th ... more | .. |
  India Plans To Launch 30 Satellites In Next Decade India is mulling to launch at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next one decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said. "We expect not less than 30 satellites," Di ... more |
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 Officials Award Production Contract For Fourth Advanced Frequency Satellite The Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate announced Dec. 17 the award of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion to Lockheed Martin Space ... more | .. |
  Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility To Close After 26 Successful Years The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, a unique collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory, will close on 31 December 2010 after 26 year ... more | .. |
  The Final Frontier Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more | .. |
  Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more |
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 Semisopochnoi Island It is the "Island of the Seven Mountains, " or more precisely in Russian: "having seven hills." This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pac ... more | .. |
  Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more | .. |
 President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more |
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  Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max' The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more | .. |
  Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system. ... more |
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 SORCE's Solar Spectral Surprise Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission - the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) - have made daily mea ... more | .. |
  A Galaxy For Everyone This collage of galaxies from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the many "flavors" that galaxies come in, from star-studded spirals to bulging ellipticals to those paire ... more | .. |
 ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8 International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more | .. |
  Did Life Fall from the Skies? Lessons from Titan In sci-fi movies, the first stirrings of life happen in a gooey pool of primordial ooze. But new research suggests the action started instead in the stormy skies above. The idea sprang from re ... more |
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