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Opening Up The X-37BSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2011 The US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has generated a lot of attention and suspicion, even before the vehicle blasted off on its maiden voyage in April 2010. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe that the vehicle is an orbiting weapon, designed to attack other satellites or ground targets. This is highly implausible, for a variety of reasons, but it hints at the lack of certain facts about the spaceplane and its tasks. More sober guesses about the X-37B's purpose include space reconnaissance an ... read more |
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  Asteroid Busting Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so inten ... more | .. |
  First Stars In Universe Were Not Alone The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during form ... more | .. |
  Mars Express Puts Craters On A Pedestal ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra. Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary geological feature. So much so that early pla ... more | .. |
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  Iran Unveils Homemade Satellites And Carrier Iran unveiled four domestically- manufactured satellites on Monday, two years after it launched the first self-developed satellite into orbit, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four natio ... more | .. |
  NASA And Worcester Polytechnic Institute Are Challenge Partners NASA has signed an agreement with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of Worcester, Mass., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize comp ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts To Conduct Spacewalk Feb 16 Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are preparing to conduct a spacewalk on February 16, mission control said on Monday. Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka, both ... more | .. |
  Stunning Satellite Imagery Of Cyclone Yasi From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of tropical cyclone Yasi by orbiting satellites. Japanese Meteorological Agency and European Space Age ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit" It's a long way from the segregated south to low Earth orbit. But I am fortunate to have made the journey and to have had many opportunities to serve my nation in a 34-year career with the U.S. Mari ... more | .. |
  Humankind Sees Sun As Never Before For the first time in history a stunning view of the whole Sun is visible to the world. The unique 360 degrees view of the Sun was unveiled on Sunday 6 February 2011 after NASA's two STEREO (Solar ... more | .. |
 No Major Flaw In Failed GSLV-F06 There was no major design flaw in the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation - GSLV-F06 - which crashed seconds after take-off on December 25 last year, sai ... more | .. |
  Hughes Supports MEXSAT Project Hughes Network Systems has announced that it has been selected by Boeing to provide the Ground Communications Network (GCN) for the MEXSAT Satellite Based Network (SBN) system. The GCN is inst ... more |
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  China's hostile space capabilities worry US: official China is developing "counterspace" weapons that could shoot down satellites or jam signals, a Pentagon official said Friday as the United States unveiled a 10-year strategy for security in space. ... more | .. |
 Iran opens centre for satellite images Iran on Sunday opened its first centre to receive satellite images, a new stage in its space programme that coincides with celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. ... more | .. |
 Europe's ATV Space Ferry Ready For Launch ESA's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle is ready for launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, 15 February at 22:08 GMT from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The unmanned spa ... more | .. |
 National Security Space Strategy Targets Safety, Stability The National Security Space Strategy responds to the realities of a space environment that is increasingly crowded, challenging and competitive, said senior Defense Department officials. "The ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss Re | .. |
 Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These du ... more | .. |
  Propellant System Tests Scheduled For Discovery During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Stev ... more | .. |
 CryoSat Ice Data Now Open To All Scientists can now tap into a flow of new data that will help to determine exactly how Earth's ice is changing. This information from ESA's CryoSat mission is set to make a step change in our unders ... more | .. |
 First Ever STEREO Images Of Entire Sun It's official: The sun is a sphere. On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star-fro ... more |
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  European Commissioner: Space Is A Must To Tackle Climate Change At a Hearing held this week at the European Parliament, Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for DG Climate Action, stated that observations from space are absolutely essential on the road to mon ... more | .. |
  XMM-Newton Technology On New Telescopes Astronomers gazing deep into the night sky to uncover the Universe's secrets will soon be able to discover even more star-births and planets thanks to new telescopes being built in Chile and Mexico ... more | .. |
 NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly Resumes Training For STS-134 Mission NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will resume training as commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission on Monday, Feb. 7. With the exception of some proficiency training, Kelly has been on personal leave ... more | .. |
  Proposed Mission To Jupiter System Achieves Milestone With input from scientists around the world, American and European scientists working on the potential next new mission to the Jupiter system have articulated their joint vision for the Europa Jupit ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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  Vandenberg Launches Minotaur One A Minotaur I rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. The rocket carried a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Col. R ... more | .. |
 International Partners Discuss ISS Operations The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want t ... more | .. |
 ISRO To Launch Remote Sensing Resourcesat In February The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Resourcesat 2, a remote sensing earth observation satellite, by the end of February, officials said Monday. Remote sens ... more | .. |
 Shot US lawmaker's husband to return to space The astronaut husband of wounded US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said Friday he will lead the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour in April and plans to resume training next week. ... more |
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  Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more | .. |
  Iran expands space capabilities Iran is expanding its operational capabilities in space. ... more | .. |
 US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more | .. |
  A Six-Planet System A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA's Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University o ... more |
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