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Worldwide Government Spending On Space To Flatten Over The Next Five YearsParis, France (SPX) Feb 18, 2011 Euroconsult, the leading international consulting and research and firm specializing in the space and satellite sectors, announced the findings of its just-published report "Government Space Markets, World Prospects to 2020." According to the report, government spending on space hit a number of major milestones in recent years, including a historic peak in combined government spending of $71.5 billion in 2010. However, after 10 years of spending increases across the globe, this trend is about to c ... read more |
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  Southampton Scientists Develop Control System To Allow Spacecraft To Think For Themselves The world's first control system that will allow engineers to programme autonomous satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed by scientists from the University of Southampt ... more | .. |
  Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more | .. |
  UK Celebrates A Decade Of Disaster Monitoring From Space A UK-led international consortium that uses satellite imagery to provide disaster mitigation celebrates its ten year anniversary this week as its members meet in London to plan for the coming decade ... more | .. |
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 Orbital Awarded Contract For SES-8 Communications Satellite By SES World Skies Orbital Sciences has reported that one of its major customers, SES of Luxembourg, has placed a firm order for its sixth STARTM communications satellite for its worldwide network. The new satellite, ... more | .. |
 Monitoring Killer Mice From Space The risk of deadly hantavirus outbreaks in people can be predicted months ahead of time by using satellite images to monitor surges in vegetation that boost mouse populations, a University of Utah s ... more | .. |
  KVH Introduces TracPhone V3, World's Smallest and Most Affordable Maritime VSAT System This week's unveiling of the ultra-compact TracPhone V3 represents the latest advancement in maritime satellite communications from KVH Industries, Inc.,. Introduced at the Miami International Boat ... more | .. |
  Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively low star fo ... 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 | .. |
  High NOON For Microwave Photons An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more | .. |
 Herschel Measures Dark Matter For Star-Forming Galaxies The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed how much dark matter it takes to form a new galaxy bursting with stars. Herschel is a European Space Agency cornerstone mission supported with important N ... more | .. |
 Ground-Based Lasers Vie With Satellites To Map Earth's Magnetic Field Mapping the Earth's magnetic field - to find oil, track storms or probe the planet's interior - typically requires expensive satellites. University of California, Berkeley, physicists have now come ... more | .. |
  Shenzhou 8 Mission Could Top Three Weeks The next flight of China's Shenzhou spacecraft will last somewhere between 20 and 22 days, according to German sources. The information was relayed to SpaceDaily by a communications officer at DLR, ... more |
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  Europe's ATV Johannes Kepler Supply Ship On Its Way To Space Station ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, has been launched into its targeted low orbit by an Ariane 5. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost t ... more | .. |
 Antrix-Devas Deal Scrapped By Indian Government The Cabinet Committee on Security has scrapped the contract between the Indian Space Research Organisation's commercial arm, Antrix, and Bangalore-based multimedia firm Devas. The five-member commit ... more | .. |
  Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more | .. |
 ATV Johannes Kepler Operating Flawlessly Following a spectacular launch on 16 February, Europe's space freighter is now in its planned orbit. Mission controllers are preparing to match its trajectory with that of the International Space St ... 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 | .. |
  Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. ... more | .. |
 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Space Operations Inc Announces First Orbital Manned Commercial Spacecraft Operational By 2012 Space Operations, Inc. has announced plans to build a two-seat manned orbital spacecraft for commercial and government use. The company plans a test launch on February 20, 2012, with a regular fligh ... more | .. |
  EU issues urgent call to 21 states on satellite network The European Commission on Thursday ordered 21 EU states to get their act together and meet a deadline to install a pan-European mobile satellite network under its broadband-for-all drive. ... more |
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 Scrap Devas ISRO Deal India Space Commission Tells Cabinet The Space Commission has recommended to the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) that the controversial S-Band spectrum deal between ISRO's commercial arm Antrix and private firm Devas Multimedia be ... more | .. |
 Reflected Glory The nebula Messier 78 takes centre stage in this image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, while the stars powering the bright d ... more | .. |
  Spectacular Flyby Of Comet Tempel 1 Tests Lockheed Built Spacecraft NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been seeking for the past four-and-a-half years. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft flawlessly ex ... more | .. |
 Former Spy Chapman May Participate In Creation Of Uniform For Space Industry Former spy Anna Chapman wants to participate in the designing of a uniform for ground specialists of Russian space centers, Gagarin Astronaut Training Center's chief astronaut Sergei Krikalev said o ... 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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 Build-Up Of The First Vega Launcher Is Complete At The Spaceport The first Vega has been assembled at the Spaceport, marking a key milestone in preparations for the introduction of this lightweight vehicle in Arianespace's launcher family. Build-up of the V ... more | .. |
  Theory: Solar system has another planet A planet, possibly four times the mass of Jupiter and with a lunar system, could be lurking in our solar system's outermost area, two U.S. scientists theorize. ... more | .. |
  Cosmonauts Conclude Russia 28th Spacewalk from Station Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka re-entered and closed the hatch on the Pirs airlock, concluding Russia's 28th spacewalk from the International Space Station. The 4-hour, 51-mi ... more | .. |
Herschel Quantifies The Dark Matter Threshold For Starburst Galaxies Modern astronomers have established that there is much more to galaxies than meets the eye, as the stars, gas and dust - perceivable by telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum - make u ... more |
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Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Computer creams human 'Jeopardy!' champs An IBM computer creamed two human champions on the popular US television game show "Jeopardy!" Wednesday in a triumph of artificial intelligence. ... more | .. |
 Mongolia Hopes To Launch Satellite By 2015 With Japan's Help Mongolia hopes to launch a space satellite by 2015 with help from Japan, local media reported Wednesday. A Japanese space exploration team visited Mongolia and organized a two-day workshop at ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Images Of Man-Made Crater On Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The space ... more |
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