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Intensive Preparations For ATV Freighter Launch To ISSParis, France (ESA) Jan 31, 2011 The fuel and most of the cargo are loaded and ATV has been hoisted to the top of Ariane 5 as teams on four continents prepare for the 15 February launch of Johannes Kepler from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With launch scheduled in just 18 days, experts from ESA, partner agencies and industry teams are in the busy final stage of making Johannes Kepler ready for space. Liftoff is set for 15 February at 22:07 GMT (23:07 CET) from Kourou. After eight days of orbital manoeuvres th ... read more |
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  BrahMos Aerospace To Make Cryogenic Engines For Indian Rockets Missile makers BrahMos Aerospace will manufacture the cryogenic engine once the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) perfects the technology, said a senior official Sunday. The company is ... more | .. |
 Russian Space Freighter Progress M-09M Docks With ISS A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz-U booster rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur space ce ... more | .. |
  Removal From US Entity List Not Enough The US action in removing space and defence-related Indian entities from the export control list was "good", but much would depend on its licensing policy as many items required by these organisatio ... more | .. |
  Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation. Scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Integra ... more |
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 NASA Testing Of Commercial Engine Flies High You see a lot of smiles around the E-1 Test Stand at John C. Stennis Space Center these days. Engineers involved in testing Aerojet's AJ26 rocket engine for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Taurus II ... more | .. |
  City Tech Research Team Casts Light On Asteroid Deflection So you think global warming is a big problem? What could happen if a 25-million-ton chunk of rock slammed into Earth? When something similar happened 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs and other fo ... more | .. |
  Kerala Travel Agency Eyes Space Tourism Kerala Travels has many firsts to its credit. Billed as the first travel agency in Kerala, it was the first to come out with a tourism brochure, offer Antarctica-Arctic packages and now is working o ... more | .. |
 US Hoping To Become 'Close Partner' Of India In Space Exploration A senior official of the Obama administration has said that United States is hoping to become 'close partner' of India in space exploration. The removal of the Indian Space Research Organizati ... more |
  
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 Russian cargo ship sends supplies to space An unmanned Russian cargo vessel brought a fresh supply of food, fuel and oxygen Sunday for the six-strong crew of the International Space Station, Russian space official said. ... more | .. |
  Nokia in maps tie-up with China's Sina, Tencent Nokia on Friday announced a deal with Chinese Internet firms Sina and Tencent to let phone users upload their location to social networks together with tips on local services via Nokia's map service. ... more | .. |
  3D techonology helps study ocean waves Stereo vision" will let researchers study waves pounding against the shore to better understand a violent, ever-changing environment, U.S. scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Russian Answer To US Reusable Robotic Spacecraft In The Offing Russian researchers are working on an unmanned spacecraft similar to the U.S. Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle, Space Troops chief Oleg Ostapenko said on Thursday. He said, however, it was not ... more |
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 Major exhibit of NASA material opens in Stockholm A major exhibit of more than 400 space-related objects, from engines to space suits to food rations, opened in Stockholm Friday in the largest gathering of NASA objects outside of the US. ... more | .. |
  Veteran ERS Satellite Provides New Insight Into Greenland's Plumbing Warmer summers may paradoxically slow down the speed of glaciers flowing towards the sea, suggests new research. This investigation, using data from ESA's oldest environmental satellite, has importa ... more | .. |
 Orbital Awarded Contract By Thales Alenia Space For Iridium NEXT Satellites Orbital Sciences has announced that it has signed a systems integration and test contract with Thales Alenia Space, the prime contractor for Iridium NEXT, the next-generation satellite constellation ... more | .. |
 JAXA Selects Spirent For Multi-GNSS Testing To further the development of the Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) program, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications' testing solutions to verify perf ... more |
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 Activities At Esrange Space Center 2011 The year of 2011 will be full of interesting space missions at Esrange Space Center - Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) operational base for rocket and balloon launches, testing of new aerospace veh ... more | .. |
 NanoSail-D Flies Free Call it a 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 circ ... more | .. |
 Crew Attaches Japanese Resupply Vehicle To ISS Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli used the station's robotic arm to attach the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) to the Earth-facing port of the ... more | .. |
 Eruption Of Colima Volcano Colima Volcano, Mexico's most active, has been erupting since 1998. The eruption began with several months of earthquakes beneath the volcano, followed by explosions and rockfalls at the summit lava ... more |
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 DigitalGlobe Collaborates With Satellite Sentinel Project To Keep Eye On Sudan DigitalGlobe has announced that it has collaborated with the Satellite Sentinel Project to deliver the first images and analysis of the evolving situation in Sudan following the country's historic v ... more | .. |
  Construction Of World's Largest Radio Telescope Begins In Southwest China Workers in southwest China's Guiyang Province have started leveling the ground upon which a five-hundred-meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST) will stand, local authorities said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Rover Conducting Science At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. The southeast region of the rim shows evidence for hydrated sulfat ... more | .. |
  NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of a flyby planned for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. The images were taken on Jan. 18 and 19 from a distance of 2 ... more |
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 Hubble Sees Farther Back In Time Than Ever Before Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to it limits by finding what they believe to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe-at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, som ... more | .. |
 Two Rockets Set To Launch From Poker Flat Research Range Scientists from Virginia Tech and the University of Colorado are preparing to launch two NASA sounding rockets for two experiments at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks. The launch window ... more | .. |
 BSkyB profits surge amid News Corp. takeover saga BSkyB posted soaring profits on Thursday as the British pay-TV giant awaited a possible full takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and as it bids to repair its reputation after a sexism scandal. ... more | .. |
  Gemini South Shines First Sodium Laser "Constellation" In the early morning of January 22, 2011 at 4:38am, Chile Summer Time, a new era in high-resolution astronomy began with the successful propagation of a 5-star sodium laser guide star "constellation ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 First Light For VIRUS-W Spectrograph The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, saw "first light" on 10th November at the Harlan J. Smith ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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