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Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism IndustryAbu Dhabi (SPX) Feb 23, 2011 Space and satellite forum to highlight regional business opportunities for private and public sector investors - tourists will fly into space for $25,000 by 2030 The plethora of opportunities for private and public sector investors throughout the region that exist in the commercial space and satellite industry will be examined during the third annual Global Space and Satellite Forum (GSSF), in Abu Dhabi on 9-11 May. With many aspects of commercial space and satellite services continuing to take g ... read more |
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 Watch Out Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures Here Comes The Lynx Mitchell J. Schultz, space tourism specialist and managing director of Xtraordinary Adventures, recently published several articles about the possiblities of a mishap in early private space flight, ... more | .. |
 Future Of Space Tourism, Research Will Be Focus Of Conference The CEO and president of Richard Branson's space company, Virgin Galactic, will discuss the promise of space tourism at the University of Central Florida on Monday, Feb. 28. George Whitesides ... more | .. |
  Glory And Taurus Ready For Liftoff The launch of NASA's Glory spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Califor ... more | .. |
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 NASA Awards SAIC $62 Million Information Technology Contract Extension Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced it was awarded a contract extension by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Unified NASA Information T ... more | .. |
  Successful Launch Of REXUS 9 Yesterday at 12:50 local time the student rocket REXUS 9 took aloft from Esrange Space Center in the northern part of Sweden. The rocket, with its four experiments, reached an altitude of 80.6 km an ... more | .. |
  Revolutionary Design For Stratospheric High Altitude Balloon Missions Raven Aerostar announces the successful flights of multiple stratospheric balloons, including the Raven-manufactured Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) manufactured for NASA. A 14 Million Cubic Foot ... more | .. |
  Venus And Crescent Moon Pair Up At Dawn The brightest planet and the eerie waning crescent Moon will create an arresting sky scene low in the southeast in the early dawn of Monday, February 28th, and Tuesday, March 1st, 2011. "These ... 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 | .. |
  NASA Mission to Tote CU Instrument And Student Satellite A $28 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument developed to study changes in the Sun's brightness and its impact on Earth's climate is one of two primary payloads on NASA's Glory mission se ... more | .. |
  Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. ... more | .. |
  Physicists Build Bigger Bottles Of Antimatter To Unlock Nature's Secrets Once regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter-the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe-is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world. While phys ... more | .. |
  Boeing Forms Commercial Satellite Services Group to Sell Satellite Capacity Boeing has established Boeing Commercial Satellite Services to market commercial satellite telecommunications services to the U.S. government and other satellite users. Headquartered in El Segundo, ... more |
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  Israel successfully tests Arrow anti-missile system Israel and the United States on Tuesday carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system, intercepting a test ballistic missile, the Israeli defence ministry said. ... more | .. |
  Shuttle Discovery in 'good shape' for final flight NASA said Tuesday the space shuttle Discovery is "ready to fly" on its final mission to the International Space Station and the weather looks good for launch on February 24. ... more | .. |
  'Wandering' planets may have water, life Liquid water may be found on planets that have gone adrift from their stars and may have acted as stepping stones to spread cosmic life, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Shaping A Transition From Rocket Fuel To Oil Rigs Technology used to shape rocket fuel tanks could help one German company to form floats for industrial chemical tanks and oil rigs, thanks to funding from ESA. ESA's Ariane 5 rockets steer wit ... 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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 Hunt for the 'God Particle' to continue Europe's Large Hadron Collider will either prove the existence of the so-called "God Particle" within two years or it probably doesn't exist, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Blast Off! Tech Students' Winning Satellite To Be Launched Into Orbit A team of Michigan Technological University students has taken first place in the prestigious University Nanosat 6 competition, earning the rare privilege of having the Department of Defense launch ... more | .. |
  Catching Space Weather In The Act Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As y ... more | .. |
  ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano Assigned To 2013 Space Station Mission ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has been assigned to fly on the International Space Station from May to November 2013, serving as a flight engineer for Expeditions 36 and 37. Recently qualified a ... more |
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 The Patterns Of Life Are Universal When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements." He could also say "fingerprints" or "sand ripples" or "how plants grow." "Most patterns yo ... more | .. |
 GIS Development Announces Latin American Geospatial Forum GIS Development with intent to expand its activities and programs in Latin American continent has announced their upcoming conference Latin American Geospatial Forum to be organised from 17th 19th A ... more | .. |
 Google Lunar X Prize Roster Reaches 29 Teams Today, the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that t ... more | .. |
  Herschel Finds Less Dark Matter But More Stars ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star formation ... 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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 Super-Sharp Radio Eye Remeasuring the Universe Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievem ... more | .. |
 84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts To Get New Uniform, Anna Chapman Not Involved Experts are designing a new uniform for Russia's cosmonauts but former spy Anna Chapman is not among them despite some media reports, the chief of the astronaut training center said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 Intensifies 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 telesc ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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