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Japanese rocket puts cargo into orbitTokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2011 A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit on Saturday, Japan's space agency said. The H-IIB rocket took off from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan on schedule at 2:37 pm (0537 GMT). Around 15 minutes later it put the cargo unit into a planned orbit, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The "Kounotori (stork) 2" space vehicle is carrying five tonnes of supplies, including food, water and expe ... read more |
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  Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more | .. |
  ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Meteorological Satellite Russia launched on Thursday a Zenit-3SB rocket carrying a meteorological satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said. "The launch was carried ... more | .. |
  Beaming Rockets Into Space Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed b ... more |
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  Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies Seen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays originating from beyond our galaxy provide a steady glow in every direction. Astronomers have long suspected that t ... more | .. |
  NASA sets final space shuttle mission for June 28 Despite budget uncertainties, NASA on Thursday announced plans to send the space shuttle Atlantis on the final mission of the US program June 28, after which the famed fleet will be retired. ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Program Baselines STS-135 On Thursday, the Space Shuttle Program baselined the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. It is NASA's intent to fly the mission with orbiter Atlantis carrying the Raffaello multipur ... more | .. |
 Rover Is Spending Several Weeks At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Ma ... more |
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 NASA's Glory Mission Will Study Key Pieces Of Climate Puzzle Earth's climate continues to change at a rapid pace. Last week, NASA announced that 2010 was tied as the warmest year on record. Likewise, the last decade was the warmest in the 130-year global temp ... more | .. |
 Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. For the fourth t ... more | .. |
  Romania Accedes To ESA Convention Romania took a step further in its relations with ESA by signing the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 20 January 2011, to become the 19th ESA Member State. The signing ceremony too ... more | .. |
  Redfern Integrated Optics Awarded Contract For Development Of Laser For Space LIDAR Redfern Integrated Optics has announced that it has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR contract for further development of its breakthrough single-frequency narrow-linewidth semiconductor laser, suitable f ... more |
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  Obama Administration To Release New Space Security Strategy The Obama administration is expected to release its National Security Space Strategy sometime in the next few weeks. The document will spell out how the Department of Defense and the Office of the D ... more | .. |
  ISRO Allocates Resources For Research On Manned Mission The Indian Space Research Organisation has allocated Rs. 9.8 crore to Institute of Aerospace Medicine for upgrading its laboratories to conduct research for its manned mission into space. "The ... more | .. |
  No Direct Link Between Black Holes And Dark Matter Massive black holes have been found at the centers of almost all galaxies, where the largest galaxies - who are also the ones embedded in the largest halos of dark matter - harbor the most massive b ... more | .. |
 St. John, US Virgin Islands Part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the island of St. John incorporates both a land-based national park and a sea-based national monument. First established in 1956 and later expanded by the U.S. Congr ... more |
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  Galileo Satellite Undergoes Launch Check-Up At ESTEC Galileo's first satellite is undergoing testing at ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands, checking its readiness to be launched into orbit. This marks a significant step for Europe's Galileo sat ... more | .. |
 Computer makes 3D images from flat photos A three-dimensional image of human faces can be constructed from flat 2-D images, a discovery that can be useful in security applications, U.S. researchers say. ... 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 |
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 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for NanoSail-D On Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Techno ... more | .. |
  GD Awarded Contract To Supply Next-Gen Deep Space Network Antennas General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies received a $40.7 million contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to build two additional 34-mete ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Prepares For Valentine's Day Comet Rendezvous 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 l ... more | .. |
 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 |
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