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NASA'S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet FlybyPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2011 Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An hour after closest approach, the spacecraft turned to point its large, high-gain antenna at Earth. It is expected that images of the comet's nucleus collected during the flyby will be received on Earth starting at about midnight California time (3 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 15). Preliminary data already ... read more |
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  Obama: Five-year freeze on NASA budget President Barack Obama on Monday proposed reining in expenses at NASA, sending a 2012 budget blueprint to Congress that calls for a five-year freeze on spending levels at the US space agency. ... more | .. |
  Experiment volunteers 'walk on Mars' Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
  Glory Aims To Unravel Uncertainties About Aerosols Engineers and technicians at Vandenberg Air Force base, Calif., are preparing the Earth-observing satellite Glory for launch on Feb. 23. In orbit, the satellite's two science instruments will study ... more | .. |
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 Mars, Brought To You By Corporate Sponsors NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search En ... more | .. |
 The Two Faces Of Tempel 1 Just one year before its Feb. 14 encounter with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed the largest rocket burn of its extended life. With the spacecraft on the opposite side of the sol ... more | .. |
  The Astrobiology Of Cancer Despite decades of research and billions of dollars, cancer remains a major killer, with an uncanny ability to evade both the body's defenses and medical intervention. Now an Arizona State Universit ... more | .. |
  Boeing-built LightSquared Space-Based Network Ready to Begin Service Boeing has completed the post-launch testing and on-orbit handover of the first LightSquared satellite and Space-Based Network (SBN). The satellite system has been accepted by LightSquared and is re ... more |
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Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  Ariane 5 Ready For Launch Of Automated Transfer Vehicle Johannes Kepler An Ariane 5 with the heaviest payload ever for this workhorse Arianespace launcher is poised for liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on an historic mission to service the International Space ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Ready To Receive Yahsat 1A And Intelsat New Dawn The 57th Ariane 5 to be launched from French Guiana has completed the initial build-up process, preparing it to receive a dual-payload of commercial telecommunications satellites. This heavy-l ... more | .. |
  Knesset urges $1.4 billion Iron Dome buy The Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has recommended the military buy 13 batteries of the Iron Dome anti-missile system at a cost of $1.4 billion amid repeated warnings by military commanders of the threat of a major missile blitz. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Catching The Rays During Solar Conjunction Opportunity continues to be in the period of solar conjunction. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the tw ... more |
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 Stardust Set To Meet Its NExT Comet Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second. It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the ... more | .. |
  Building A Global Thermostat In L1 The sun is the predominant source of energy for the Earth. While there are long- and short-term variations in solar intensity that effect periodic global climate changes, there is also a secular tem ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Budget NASA announced Monday an $18.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2012 that supports a reinvigorated path of innovation, technological development and scientific discovery. The budget supports a ... more | .. |
 Walking On Mars Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain. The highlight of the Mars500 ... 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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  New View Of Family Life In The North American Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This cosmic community is called the North America ... more | .. |
  University of Ulster Launches Rocket Project with Japan Space Agency An international project to improve safety and enhance the performance of rocket launchers is underway between two University of Ulster academics and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ... more | .. |
 NASA Names Winning Experiments In Kids Micro-G Challenge Astronauts aboard the International Space Station this spring will conduct six experiments designed by middle school students from across the country. The winning proposals of the "Kids in Micro-g" ... more | .. |
  Market For Satellite Video Services To Top $27 Billion By 2020 In its recently released report, Euroconsult, the leading international consulting and analyst firm in the satellite sector, forecasts that the market value for video transmission services over sate ... more |
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 Europe set for landmark launch with robot freighter 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. ... more | .. |
 Two-Timing Spacecraft Has Date With Another Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet ... more | .. |
 JPL Airborne Sensor To Study Rivers Of The Sky They're called atmospheric rivers - narrow regions in Earth's atmosphere that transport enormous amounts of water vapor across the Pacific or other regions. Aptly nicknamed "rivers in the sky," they ... 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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  Lake-Effect Theory Sinks, But Quake Timing Questions Go A chronology of 1,000 years of earthquakes at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault nixes the idea that lake changes in the now-dry region caused past quakes. However, researchers say, the timel ... more | .. |
 First Ever STEREO Images Of The 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 | .. |
  Astro_Paolo And Views From Space Paolo Nespoli, ESA's astronaut working and living on the Space Station, is sharing his experience with the world via a constant flow of beautiful photos and tweets. Let's hear from Paolo what he thi ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Undergoing Flight Environmental Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate/weather satellite is undergoing flight environmental testing at Ball Aerospace ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 NASA spacecraft speeds toward comet encounter A NASA spacecraft is just hours from its long-anticipated encounter with a comet, and skywatchers hope the flyby will shed light on how the comet's surface has changed since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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