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Europe set for landmark launch with robot freighterParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2011 A robot freighter is poised to blast into the skies on Tuesday in the heftiest liftoff in Europe's space programme that will also bring its tally of launches to a historic 200. Designed to supply mankind's outpost in orbit, the Johannes Kepler will be hoisted by an Ariane 5 ES super-rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff is pencilled for 2208 GMT. A successful mission will boost the case for scientists who want the ATV to be the template of a manned spacecraft, placing ESA on an equal footi ... read more |
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  Rockets, doughnuts could face ax in US budget cuts Hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars have been wasted on everything from doughnuts to rockets, auditors told Congress Thursday as budget-minded lawmakers prepared to slash science funding. ... more | .. |
  Boeing To Study Commercial Space Capabilities For Military Use Boeing has received a $900,000 study contract from the Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Systems Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Under the agreement, ... more | .. |
  NASA readies Discovery shuttle for launch NASA says it is stepping up countdown preparations at Kennedy Space Center for the planned Feb. 24 launch of space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
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  ATK And Astrium Unveil Liberty Rocket For NASA CCDev-2 Competition ATK and Astrium are working together in response to NASA's Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement. The team is offering NASA launch services with the Liberty rocket. This new launch veh ... more | .. |
 SpaceX shows off its blackened 'Dragon' craft Bearing brown and black scorch marks from its fiery tour in orbit in December, the Dragon spacecraft built by US company SpaceX went on display in the US capital on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Asteroid's near hit changes its orbit An asteroid passing Earth at just 3,400 miles was the closest near miss on record, and Earth's gravity sent it into an entirely new orbit, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Cosmonauts To Perform 28th Russian Space Station Spacewalk For the second time in less than a month, two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Feb. 16 to install a pair of earthquake and lightning sensing experiments, an ... 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
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 Stardust Heading Into The Bonus Round A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Ti ... more | .. |
  Giant Ring Of Black Holes Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring - not of jewels, but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-year ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Ships Out First Orion Spacecraft The Lockheed Martin Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The spacecraft is headed to Lockheed Marti ... more | .. |
 Astronaut's space tales aim to inspire When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin thinks back on his 12-year career, he estimates he must have read to a half million children, sometimes in classrooms, sometimes via videolink from space. ... more |
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  IBM's 'Watson' to take on Jeopardy! champs Nearly 15 years after an IBM machine defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, the US computer pioneer is rolling out another device to challenge mankind. ... more | .. |
  Taurus XL Ready To Launch Glory Spacecraft The Glory spacecraft and its Taurus XL launch vehicle are coming together at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as NASA gets ready to launch its first Launch Services Program mission of 2011. ... more | .. |
 PM Forms Commission To Probe ISRO Agreement Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has formed a high-level commission to look into allegations of revenue losses in the allocation of space spectrum using S-band - high value and scarce radio waves - bet ... more | .. |
 Second Last Shuttle Launch Campaign Grinds On 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 |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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 LightSail-1 On NASA Short List For Upcoming Launch NASA announced this week that the Planetary Society's LightSail-1 solar sail mission is on their short list for upcoming launch opportunities. The missions selected are Cubesats destined for piggyba ... more | .. |
  Russia To Launch Glonass Satellite Feb 24 Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center on February 24, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The Glonass satellite network is Russia's answer ... more | .. |
  For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. Or at least that's not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bonga ... more | .. |
  Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red Planet 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t ... more |
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US space shuttle unharmed after tool accident Inspectors found no damage to the Space Shuttle Discovery or to its external reserve tanks after a thin multi-piece measuring tool fell during repair work, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight Marketplace The Competitive Space Task Force, a coalition of fiscal conservatives and free-market leaders, has unveiled its strategy for creating a free and competitive market for spaceflight and space services ... more | .. |
  Brown Kills Effort To Move Aeronautic Research Away From NASA An amendment supported by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) preserving civil aeronautics research and development at NASA passed the Senate this morning as part of the Federal Aviation Administration ( ... more | .. |
  Medvedev Calls For Russian Space Exploration Program Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program. "I believe this is a very important topic, even in terms of our scientific ambitions, ... 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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 U.S. Electrodynamics Achieves DoD Highest Level Security Requirements U.S. Electrodynamics Incorporated (USEI) has announced that the company was recently rated compliant with the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Category (MAC) I and Confidentiality Level ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X-Image Of The Month: Calving Icebergs On Queen Maud Land If the city of Bonn were located on the edge of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, in the Antarctic, its inhabitants would now be embarking on a journey through the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. An iceberg with ... more | .. |
  KVH Doubles Mini-VSAT Broadband Capacity Across Three Key Regions To meet the demands of a growing international commercial subscriber base, KVH Industries has completed a major capacity increase across three key regions of the mini-VSAT BroadbandSM satellite comm ... more | .. |
 TIBA Extends Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES Already home to Latin America's premier cable neighborhood, SES WORLD SKIES, has announced a capacity extension agreement with TIBA to enable the distribution of an expanding channel lineup across L ... more |
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 eSpace Seeks Entrepreneurial Space Companies For Incubator Program eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace start-up companies, has announced its third round call for new inc ... more | .. |
 Supernet Serves Growing VSAT Market In Pakistan SES WORLD SKIES has announced that it has signed an agreement with Supernet Limited, Pakistan's leading satellite service provider, for high powered Ku-band transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satelli ... more | .. |
  NRL Researchers View The Sun In 3D Beginning on February 6, 2011, the two STEREO spacecraft are 180 degrees apart providing Naval Research Laboratory scientists with a 360-degree view of the Sun. NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Rela ... more | .. |
 Tool Makes Search For Martian Life Easier Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin ... more |
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