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Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 IntensifiesEureka, CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2011 The rush of data released earlier this month from the Kepler science team is intriguing for what it saw and didn't see in its first 4 months of observations. The relatively small Kepler space telescope is very good at what it does. It has a highly sensitive array of CCDs (light sensors) that has taken about 21 months of data. We saw the release of a small part of that data recently. It revealed more than 1200 potential extrasolar planets. If a reasonable percentage of these worlds turn out to be i ... read more |
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  Can WISE Find The Hypothetical Tyche In Distant Oort Cloud In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter ... more | .. |
  China Mars probe set for November launch China's first Mars probe will be launched from a Russian rocket in November, two years later than originally planned, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  NASA Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Discovery Mission Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 4:50 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. T ... more | .. |
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  One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft - carrying seven science instru ... more | .. |
  Glory Promises New View of Perplexing Particles Climatologists have known for decades that airborne particles called aerosols can have a powerful impact on the climate. However, pinpointing the magnitude of the effect has proven challenging becau ... more | .. |
  ISS Partners Mull Unique Photo-Op The international space station (ISS) partners are currently discussing a possibility to stage an extraordinary photo opportunity in March that would yield photo and video images of the space statio ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... 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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 Cleaning The Air Would Limit Short-Term Climate Warming An assessment report to be released this week by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization shows that reducing emissions of two common air pollutants - black c ... more | .. |
  Good Health Report After Hiatus In Communications Opportunity emerged from the solar conjunction in good order. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two ... more | .. |
  A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out What would our solar system look like if visitors from other worlds took a series of pictures? NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft did just that by piecing together the first portrait of our solar sys ... more | .. |
 Advanced NASA Instrument Gets Close-up On Mars Rocks NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard "chemical element reader" to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument is one ... more |
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 Back To The Roots Of The Solar System Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain det ... more | .. |
  Weather radar used in wildlife studies A U.S. scientist says using storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as they emerge at night is advancing a new scientific discipline dubbed "aeroecology." ... more | .. |
  Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say. ... more | .. |
 Are plant hydraulics a path to adaptive dream machines? Airplanes might soon have flexible wings like birds and robots could change shape as they please thanks to research under way on mimosa plants, researchers said. ... 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 | .. |
 Bolden to announce fate of shuttles NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden says he will decide by this spring where the agency's three shuttle orbiters will be housed in their retirement. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX to focus on astronaut capsule Commercial space company SpaceX says it has put off development of its Falcon rocket to focus on its Dragon capsule intended to take astronauts into orbit. ... more | .. |
 Experiment volunteers take 2nd 'walk on Mars' Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis. ... more | .. |
 As US cuts back, China aims to be top at science China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. ... more |
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 No US stockpile of rare earths: experts The United States should not try to stockpile precious elements for new energy technologies, experts said Friday after China announced plans to tighten control of its rare earths industry. ... more | .. |
Obama vows US will 'out-hustle' world President Barack Obama vowed Friday to make America "the best place on Earth to do business," making his case for investments that have sparked a raging budget battle with Republicans. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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  Worldwide Government Spending On Space To Flatten Over The Next Five Years 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 ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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