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NASA Spacecraft Prepares For Valentine's Day Comet RendezvousPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2011 NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 8:37 p.m. PST (11:37 p.m. EST), on Feb. 14. The mission will allow scientists for the first time to look for changes on a comet's surface that occurred following an orbit around the sun. The Stardust-NExT, or New Exploration of Tempel, spacecraft will take high-resolution images during the encounter, and attempt to measure the composition, distribution, and flux of dust emitted into the coma, or materi ... read more |
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 More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more | .. |
  The Orion Nebula: Still Full Of Surprises This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than just a p ... more | .. |
  Raytheon To Open GPS Collaboration Center In SoCal Raytheon's new Global Positioning System Collaboration Center opening in February 2011 in El Segundo, Calif., will allow U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems personnel to interact with the GPS O ... 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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  Global Observer Makes First Hydrogen-Powered Flight The Global Observer unmanned aircraft system successfully completed its first flight powered by the aircraft's hydrogen-fueled propulsion system here Jan. 6. This milestone marks the beginning ... more | .. |
 IAI delivers 12 UAVs to Russia in key deal Israeli Aerospace Industries has delivered a dozen unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia under a $400 million contract that will eventually allow Moscow to manufacture advanced drones that will significantly enhance its military capabilities. ... 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 | .. |
  Spaceflight And ISILaunch Team To Provide Global Spaceflight Services For Small Payloads Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) and Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILaunch) have announced that they have teamed to create a global spaceflight services provider for small and secondary payload ... more |
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  James Webb Space Telescope's Beryllium Mirrors There are heavy metal videos, and now there's a "Not so heavy metal video." This one isn't about music however, it's about beryllium, the primary ingredient in making state-of-the-art mirrors for th ... more | .. |
 Japan delays space cargo launch Bad weather delayed Wednesday the launch of a Japan space agency mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
  Special Aerospace Services Holds First Annual Commercial Human Spaceflight Tech Forum Special Aerospace Services, a woman-owned aerospace company committed to developing and providing innovative aerospace solutions to the aerospace industry, U.S. government agencies, Department of De ... more | .. |
 Flooding In Brisbane Suburbs This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates flooding in suburbs of the Brisbane, Australia metropolitan region. The Brisbane area experienced catastrophic flooding following unusually heavy rainf ... more | .. |
  Joint STARS Successfully Supports JSuW JCTD Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) test bed aircraft recently completed the second of two deployments to Naval Air Station Pt. Mugu, Calif., in suppo ... more |
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  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 | .. |
  Missiles off target in major Taiwan drill Taiwan held a major missile drill Tuesday just days after rival China unveiled an aircraft that uses stealth technology, but several misses spoiled the exercise. ... more | .. |
  Expert: 'Cyberwar' an exaggerated threat National military countermeasures against possible cyberwarfare are a waste of time and money, the British author of an infamous hacker's "guide" says. ... 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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