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Shuttles' successes, failures discussedOrlando, Fla. (UPI) Jan 6, 2011 The space shuttle enabled scientific discovery and expanded human access to space, but failed to make spaceflight routine and inexpensive, space experts say. That combination of success and a failed, unrealistic promise was discussed by a panel of experts examining the shuttle's legacy as it enters a final year of missions near the 30th anniversary of the first launch, Florida Today reported. "None of us gets tired of watching it launch, and it's going to be heartbreaking to watch that l ... read more |
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  Hotspots In Fountains On The Sun's Surface Help Explain Coronal Heating Mystery Among the many constantly moving, appearing, disappearing and generally explosive events in the sun's atmosphere, there exist giant plumes of gas - as wide as a state and as long as Earth - that zoo ... more |
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  Sugar And Spice In a packed arena, students are yelling and cheering in the bleachers at a national championship event. But this is no traditional sporting event: It's a FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST stan ... more | .. |
  Sun, Moon And Earth Line Up For Proba-2 ESA's Proba-2 microsatellite experienced a conjunction of the spheres on Tuesday, as the Sun, Moon and Earth all lined up in front of it. As people on the ground observed the 4 January partial ... more | .. |
  The Hunt For The Lunar Core The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. ... more | .. |
  Fermi's Large Area Telescope Sees Surprising Flares In Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with a propensity for fireworks-gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic particles ev ... more |
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 ISRO Official Says Swarms Of Satellites Possible Swarms of satellites in the sky and even an individual owning one is possible today - thanks to the emergence of small satellites targeted at performing specific activities, a top official of the In ... more | .. |
  GPSCaddy Golf App Now Offers Free Course Maps Calton Hill, the Scottish mobile phone application developers, have announced that all golf course maps for their prize-winning GPSCaddy app are now free. This makes GPSCaddy even better value ... more | .. |
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 Rocket City Space Pioneers Announce Partnership With Solidworks The Rocket City Space Pioneers - a partnership of Huntsville businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations - have announced that Dassault Systemes SolidWorks has partnered with t ... more |
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 Andromeda Is So Hot 'n' Cold This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars forming in its many rings. The image is a combination of observations from the He ... more | .. |
 Dawn Has A Consistent 2010 Dawn finishes 2010 much as it began the year, thrusting with its ion propulsion system in steady pursuit of a distant world. During the next year, the probe will arrive there and begin its scrutiny. ... more | .. |
 Andromeda's Once And Future Stars Two ESA observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of star formation in this, the most detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy ever taken at i ... more | .. |
  SSTL Wins ESA Environmental Monitoring Payload Contract Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has won a euros 10.69m contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) via Dutch Space to provide a Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) spectrometer as part of the ... more |
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 ISRO To Implement Regional Navigation Satellite System The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to implement the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) to provide India and neighbouring countries with the Position Navigation and ... more | .. |
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 VISTA Stares Deeply Into The Blue Lagoon This new infrared image of the Lagoon Nebula was captured as part of a five-year study of the Milky Way using ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This is a small piece of a mu ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integr ... more |
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