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Russia loses military satellite: reportsMoscow (AFP) Feb 1, 2011 Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch. The Russian defence ministry confirmed that it had lost sight of the craft - a dual-use vessel that can draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets. The incident came just a month after President Dmitry Medvedev sacked two top space officials for a similar setback and delivered ... read more |
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 Fuelling The Clyde Space Rocket Glasgow based Clyde Space, a leading provider of miniature spacecraft, has secured a funding package worth Pounds 1m, including significant equity investment, to support the company's growth in a b ... more | .. |
  USAF Selects Northrop Grumman To Research SOA IT For Integrated Air And Space Command And Control The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to demonstrate information interoperability among different implementations of service-oriented architecture (SOA) information technology ( ... more | .. |
  US space shuttle Discovery reaches launch pad The US space shuttle Discovery was rolled out to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its planned liftoff on February 24, NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Spacecraft finds new comets, asteroids A NASA spacecraft surveying our solar system has discovered previously unknown objects, including 20 new comets and more than 33,00 asteroids, scientists say. ... more |
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  CERN accelerator to run another year The closure of Europe's Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back a year because the machine is running so well and giving scientific results, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 SBIRS Team Passes Major Flight Ops Test Milestone On Path To GEO-1 Launch The U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin-led Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has successfully completed a major space to ground interface and functional system test for the first geosynchronous ( ... more | .. |
  Our Sun And Beyond Our Sun has been around for about 4.6 billion years, and will probably last for another few billion years. Although this may seem to be a long time, it is a relatively short interval in the life of ... more | .. |
  The Brotherhood Of Speed About fifty miles northeast of Los Angeles, the small town of Rosamond slumbers on the edge of the Great American Desert. Here the air is thin and cold, and in the distance the smog in the LA basin ... more |
  
SPHEREx completes first full sky infrared map of the cosmos
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission
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 Tracking The Origins Of Speedy Space Particles NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft combined with computer models have helped track the origin of the energetic particles in Earth's magneti ... more | .. |
  Gilat's Spacenet Awarded Multi-year Contracts For Over 27,000 Lottery Sites Spacenet was selected to provide SkyEdge TM broadband satellite terminals, deployment, operations and maintenance to support state lotteries. The multi-year contract awards from the past month ... more | .. |
  Space Agency Investigates Novel Analogue Self-Steered Antennas Bulky present generation satellite dishes and ground terminals could become relics of the past thanks to research currently being conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA) by Queen's University ... more | .. |
  Channel island named first 'dark sky' community The Channel Island of Sark has been designated the first dark sky community in the world in recognition of the lack of light pollution that allows clear views of the stars at night, officials said Monday. ... more |
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  ISRO Awaits Data On GSLV Failure The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is awaiting data analysis from Russia, who supplied the cryogenic engine, to finalise its report on the failure of the GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite La ... more | .. |
  Intensive Preparations For ATV Freighter Launch To ISS 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 ... more | .. |
  Traffic Monitoring With TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Satellite Constellation Traffic monitoring from space, day and night, from more than 500 kilometres up above; is that possible? Indeed it is! In fact, it has been demonstrated several times in the past - once with the Shut ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 Israel to work on European space projects Israel on Sunday signed an agreement with the European Space Agency for cooperation on space technology and exploration of the solar system, the Israeli science and technology ministry said. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Solemn tributes mark 25th Challenger anniversary Tributes were planned at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Friday marking 25 years to the day that the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing seven astronauts and forever altering US perceptions about the risks of human spaceflight. ... 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 | .. |
Greenwich observatory sets admission fee Visitors to Britain's Royal Observatory will pay $16 beginning in March to stand with one foot in each of the eastern and western hemispheres, officials said. ... 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 | .. |
 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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