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Europe defends 'stupid' Galileo satelliteStrasbourg (AFP) Jan 18, 2011 Europe stood by its much-delayed and over-budget Galileo satellite navigation system on Tuesday despite a rising price tag and a contractor's description of the project as "stupid." Previously estimated to cost 3.4 billion euros, the European Commission said an extra 1.9 billion euros was needed to complete the constellation of satellites, raising its price tag to 5.4 billion euros ($7.2 billion). Aimed at rivaling the US-built Global Positioning System (GPS) and Chinese and Russian projects, th ... read more |
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  Voyager spacecraft going strong at age 33 NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, approaching the edge of the solar system, are still operating and sending back data 33 years after their launch, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Next Mars Rover Will Check For Ingredients Of Life Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover. The specific work planned fo ... more | .. |
  Cosmonauts To Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, i ... more | .. |
 Gardening In Space With HydroTropi Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, converting light and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Plant growth may be an important part of human survival in exploring space, as well. Gardenin ... more |
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  ESA's Mercury Mapper Feels The Heat Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the ... more | .. |
  Inclined Orbits Prevail A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered that inclined orbits may be typical rather than rare for exop ... more | .. |
  Discovery Of A Pulsating Star That Hosts A Giant Planet Recently published in an article of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has discovere ... more | .. |
  Crosslink Capability Between STSS Demonstration Satellites Verified The effectiveness of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites has been expanded after a communications crosslink was activated and successfully tested by Northrop G ... more |
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  3D Model Of Ionosphere F-Region The first global simulation study of equatorial spread F (ESF) bubble evolution using a comprehensive 3D ionosphere model, SAMI3, has been demonstrated. The model self-consistently solves for the ne ... more | .. |
  Wave-Generated 'White Hole' Boosts Hawking Radiation Theory A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed an experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 19 ... more | .. |
  Kazakhstan Ratifies Space Cooperation Agreement With Russia Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law the ratification of a Russian-Kazakh space cooperation agreement, the government press service said on Monday. The intergovernmental a ... more | .. |
 ISRO Ready To Provide Satellite Images Of Sabarimala India's premier space agency ISRO has offered to provide to the Kerala government satellite pictures of Sabarimala area for taking measures to prevent disasters like the stampede that claimed 102 li ... more |
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 SES ASTRA Expands In Central And Eastern Europe SES ASTRA has announced a further expansion into central and eastern Europe, and its entry into a new growth market, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator Satellite BG will use three ... more | .. |
 The Big Bang The night sky seems to present a view of a calm and unchanging Universe. But, in 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe is, in fact, expanding at enormous speed. He noted that galaxies outs ... more | .. |
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 The Best Way To Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better Dark energy is a mysterious force that pervades all space, acting as a "push" to accelerate the Universe's expansion. Despite being 70 percent of the Universe, dark energy was only discovered in 199 ... more | .. |
 Heaviest Known Black Hole In Our Cosmic Neighborhood Astronomers led by Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin have measured the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood by combining data from a giant telescope in Hawai'i a ... more | .. |
  Partner Galaxies Wildly Different In New WISE Image NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies - a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner blazing with smoky star formation. ... more | .. |
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 Astronomers Map Dark Matter In Massive Galaxies A team of astronomers led by Dr. David Pooley of Eureka Scientific has made an important determination of the amount of dark matter in massive galaxies using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provid ... more | .. |
 Chandra Images Torrent Of Star Formation A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. M82 is located about 12 million light-years from Earth and is the nearest place to us wh ... more | .. |
 Planck Team Releases Extensive Compact Source Catalogue The Planck Collaboration presented the first science results to emerge from the mission, covering compact and diffuse foreground emission sources, at a conference held from 10 to 14 January 2011 in ... more |
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