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January 27, 2011
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US Drops ISRO And DRDO From Entities List
Washington DC (PTI) Jan 27, 2011
Meeting the long pending Indian demand, Obama administration removed nine Indian space and defense related companies including those from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), from its export control 'Entity List'. The decision that came out close to India's Republic Day, is said to be a move towards strengthening high technology trade between the two countries. "This action marks a significant milestone in reinforcing the US- ... read more

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GPS NEWS

Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June
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LAUNCH PAD

Russia Plans To Build Carrier Rocket For Mars Missions
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russian Space Programs Underfunded
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DEEP IMPACT

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MOON DAILY

NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing
NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Runaway Star Plows Through Space
A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Surve ... more
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SATURN DAILY

A Fizzy Ocean On Enceladus
For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Finds A New Contender For Galaxy Distance Record
Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ancient galaxy ever seen, ... more
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TECH SPACE

When Artemis Talks, Johannes Kepler Listens
After Ariane 5 lofts ATV Johannes Kepler into space on 15 February, ESA's Artemis data relay satellite will be ready for action. Artemis will provide communications between Johannes Kepler and ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA's Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets A Silvery Blanket
Technicians from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., completed the installation of thermal blankets on NASA's Aquarius instrument last week, as the Aquarius/Satelite de Aplicacione ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

An Astronomer's Field Of Dreams
An innovative new radio telescope array under construction in central New Mexico will eventually harness the power of more than 13,000 antennas and provide a fresh eye to the sky. The antennas, whic ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely From Rocky Body
A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus. Data ... more
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SPACEMART

DLR 2011 - Research Has High Priority In Germany
The missions and projects planned by the German Aerospace Center in 2011 underline the importance of research in Germany, specifically in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport and secu ... more
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MARSDAILY

The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close
During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more
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SPACEMART

Antrix To Boost Market Share In Remote Sensing Data Products
Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), plans to increase its remote sensing data products market share with the launch of Resource-sat-2, a remote s ... more
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TECH SPACE

LockMart To Enhance Space Systems Development With Opening Of New Virtual Laboratory
Lockheed Martin plans to increase the affordability and efficiency of space system development with the opening of a new advanced technology and virtual simulation facility, known as the Collaborati ... more
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MARSDAILY

DLR Researchers Simulate The Martian Atmosphere
To support the European ExoMars Mission to explore the Red Planet, an international project is being launched on 20 January 2011 with the aim of simulating the entry of spacecraft into the martian a ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astronomer discounts chances of alien life
A leading U.S. astronomer says there is no hope of finding alien life in space because all other planets discovered so far are to hostile for life. ... more
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SPACEMART

SES ASTRA Provides Albanian Post Offices With ASTRA2CONNECT Internet Access
SES ASTRA has announced that it will provide the Albanian Post with its satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect to offer customers free internet access in rural areas throughout the country. In ad ... more
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SPACEMART

Britain gives News Corp. more time over BSkyB bid
Britain's government on Tuesday said it would allow Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. more time to argue its case for a full takeover of British broadcaster BSkyB despite state concerns over competition. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Virtual lab for space systems planned
A virtual laboratory to help engineers test products and processes before physical creation is being opened in Colorado by Lockheed Martin. ... more
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MARSDAILY

New images of martian moon released
The European Space Agency has released close-up portraits of Mars's moon Phobos, taken as the ESA Mars Express spacecraft flew within 60 miles of it. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Physicist Wins NAS Award
A senior astronomer at the National Solar Observatory has been awarded the Arctowski Medal of the National Academy of Sciences for "for major contributions to understanding the Sun's magnetic fields ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Black Holes
The term "black hole" does not mean empty hole. This astrophysical phenomenon is anything but empty. It is just the opposite, a great amount of matter packed into a very small area. Think of a star ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Solar Sail Stunner
In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet. ... more
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TECH SPACE

'Smartphone Satellite' Developed By Surrey Space Researchers
Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed 'STRaND-1', a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit a ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia's Spaceship Debris Slump Into Pacific Ocean
The Russian space cargo ship Progress M-08M left orbit and fell into the Pacific Monday after three month of work at the International Space Station (ISS), reported the Mission Control Center outsid ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Looking Back At Uranus
As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed

Inclined Orbits Prevail

Inclined Orbits Prevail In Exoplanetary Systems

SPACE TRAVEL
When Artemis Talks, Johannes Kepler Listens

NASA's Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets A Silvery Blanket

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SPACE TRAVEL
Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June

Raytheon To Open GPS Collaboration Center In SoCal

Galileo Satellite Undergoes Launch Check-Up At ESTEC

SPACE TRAVEL
Slow progress in U.S.-China space efforts

China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

SPACE TRAVEL
Russian Astronomers Predict Apophis-Earth Collision In 2036

Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

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MOON DAILY

Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander
Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more
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STATION NEWS

Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured 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, insta ... more
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MARSDAILY

Chinese Astronaut Performs Well In Mars-500 Project
A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here. Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medi ... more
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TECH SPACE

SDA Now Performs Conjunction Screening For More Than 300 Satellites
The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced that it now provides conjunction assessment (C ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

First Delta IV Heavy Launches From Vandenberg
The first West Coast Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was launched from Space Launch Complex-6 here Jan. 20 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast of the United S ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

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
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SPACE TRAVEL

Mumbai's washermen fear rise of the machines
At Mumbai's open-air Dhobi Ghat, Prem Shankar Kanojia picks up items from a pile of laundry stacked at the side of a concrete washing tank and submerges them in water murky with soap suds and grime. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Google looks to its next decade
Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future. ... more
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