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Discovery shuttle poised for final launchCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 24, 2011 Discovery, NASA's oldest and most journeyed space shuttle, is poised to launch Thursday on its final mission, wrapping up a near three-decade legacy of orbital travel. When the storied spacecraft lifts off at 4:50 pm (2150 GMT), it will mark the beginning of the end of the US space shuttle program, with Discovery the first of the remaining three shuttles headed for retirement this year. The closure of the shuttle program will leave a gaping hole in the American space mission, forcing astronauts ... read more |
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 A historic last launch for groundbreaking Discovery NASA's most heavily traveled spacecraft, the shuttle Discovery, is to launch Thursday on its final mission after a storied, 27-year career that has broken ground in many ways. ... more | .. |
  Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery When two galaxies merge to form a giant, the central supermassive black hole in the new galaxy develops an insatiable appetite. However, this ferocious appetite is unsustainable. For the first ... more | .. |
  Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism Industry 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 p ... more | .. |
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 Findings Raise New Questions About Dark Matter Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. Th ... more | .. |
  Boeing Offers India Significant Space Cooperation Boeing has offered to partner with India on manned space missions, including on the very significant "composite cryogenic tanks" for the launch and propulsion control of rockets. The developme ... more | .. |
  24 hour delay for launch of NASA satellite NASA on Wednesday pushed back by one day launch of its Glory Earth-observation satellite, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
 Chandra Finds Superfluid In Neutron Star Core NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star. Superfluids created in laboratori ... 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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  Crew Prepares For ATV-2 And Shuttle Discovery The Expedition 26 crew took some time off Wednesday as it gets ready for the arrival of Europe's second cargo vehicle "Johannes Kepler." Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli spent time Wednesday packing ge ... more | .. |
 Olympic Flame May Be Sent To ISS The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos is positive about a recently advanced idea to send Olympic Flame to the International Space Station (ISS) and back to Earth as a part of the preparations f ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Awarded UAS Common Architecture Working Group Contract The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $3.3 million contract to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) Architecture Working Group (UCSWG). Sponsored by the Unm ... more | .. |
  ThalesRaytheonSystems Announces Command View Mobile For C4I Solution ThalesRaytheonSystems has developed a mobile application for its Command View C4I product that will enable users to gain essential situational awareness and decision-making information on a variety ... more |
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  System Integration Test For SM-3 Kinetic Warhead Completed Raytheon and Aerojet have completed a kinetic warhead system integration test for Standard Missile-3 Block IB. The test verified the ability of the warhead to detect, track and intercept a moving ba ... more | .. |
 RC-12X Aircraft Provides Highly-Capable SIGINT Systems To Warfighter Northrop Grumman will field the first systems in the upgraded RC-12X Guardrail fleet, providing the U.S. Army with unparalleled signals intelligence (SIGINT) capability, under a recent task order aw ... more | .. |
 JLENS Program Achieves Critical Milestone Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) program has successfully demonstrated the ability to transmit from an elevated aerostat. The JLENS dem ... more | .. |
  Out Of Thin Air Imagine a priceless painting that has been all but ruined by a ravaging storage room fire. The beautiful paint, painstakingly applied in a multitude of colors, is obscured by layers of dark soot. A ... 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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 First Series Of Laser-Guided Maverick Captive Flight Testing Completed Raytheon has completed a series of initial captive carry flight tests of the AGM-65E2/L, the newest variant of the laser-guided Maverick missile. The laser-guided Maverick missile is a direct- ... 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 | .. |
  'Black carbon' key to tackling climate threat: UN report Curbing sooty particles emitted by burning biomass and smog caused by traffic fumes would slow the onslaught of climate change and deliver many health benefits, a UN report said here on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 $7 bn UAE missile deal expected this spring A Lockheed Martin official said on Tuesday that he expects an agreement to be concluded this spring for the United Arab Emirates to buy an anti-ballistic missile system reputedly worth about $7 billion. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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