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NASA Earth observation satellite fails to reach orbitWashington (AFP) March 4, 2011 A NASA satellite that aimed to study the impact of aerosols on climate plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, delivering a $424-million blow to the US space agency. The failure of the Glory satellite launch was the second bungle for NASA climate science efforts in two years, and closely resembled a botched carbon satellite launch involving the same company, Orbital Sciences Corp., in 2009. Glory could not reach orbit after its protective clamshell-like nose cone cover failed to detach after l ... read more |
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  Weather scrubs launch of robot space plane The Florida launch of the U.S. Air Force's secret X-37B space plane was canceled Friday due to weather with another attempt set for Saturday, officials said. ... more | .. |
  China setting up new rocket production base China is setting up a new high-tech manufacturing base that will build the rockets for its ambitious space programme to put a man on the moon, state press said Friday. ... more | .. |
  NASA extends Discovery shuttle mission again The US space agency on Friday extended the shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station by another day, adding a total of two days to the shuttle's final mission before retirement. ... more | .. |
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Obama calls to say 'proud' of astronauts US President Barack Obama made a phone call to the 12 astronauts at the orbiting International Space Station on Thursday to tell them he was proud of them. ... more | .. |
  'Oddly' shaped Mars crater is studied European scientists say an image of an odd, elongated crater on Mars suggests it was carved out by a train of objects hitting the surface at a shallow angle. ... more | .. |
  Wormholes linking stars theorized European physicists say some stars could contain wormholes, tunnel-like passages connecting distant points in space-time, a concept sparking much debate. ... more | .. |
  New Day Dawns For Satellite To Study Earth's Ozone Layer After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS ... 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 | .. |
  EGNOS Navigation System Begins Serving Europe's Aircraft The EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal has been formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically ... more | .. |
 China's "Fantastic Four" Moon Plan Since 2010, this author has pursued the story that China was planning four missions to land on the Moon this decade. The idea was a big change from our earlier understanding of China's Moon plans, w ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Tells Of How Planets Are Born In A Swirl Of Dust Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing t ... more | .. |
  Britain clears way for News Corp/BSkyB deal The British government Thursday cleared the way to approve News Corp's bid to win control of broadcaster BSkyB after it agreed to spin off its Sky News operation to address competition concerns. ... more |
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  Is Radiation A Concern For Space Crops Radioactivity lingering in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident has not prevented life from creeping back at the Ukrainian site. Now researchers have discovered that ... more | .. |
  MSU Team Solves Mystery Of Missing Sunspots, Helps Predict Space Weather Solar scientists from around the world were puzzled when sunspots recently disappeared for more than two years, but a former Montana State University physics graduate student and two collaborators h ... more | .. |
 Committee Democrats Caution Against Start-Stop Approach To NASA's Funding And Goals Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held ahearing to discuss the Administration's FY 2012 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with Ch ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Hits The Road Again Opportunity is completing the exploration of Santa Maria crater before resuming the trek towards Endeavour crater. One objective is to position the rover further counter-clockwise around the s ... 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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 China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Chang'e-5 In 2017 China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more | .. |
 China's Tiangong-1 To Be Launched By Modified Long March II-F Rocket The unmanned space module Tiangong-1 that China plans to launch this year will be sent into space by a modified Long March II-F carrier rocket, an expert told Xinhua Thursday. The 8.5-tonne Ti ... more | .. |
 Space sleuths solve riddle of missing sunspots Space scientists on Thursday said they could explain why spots disappeared off the face of the Sun for two years, a mystery that had challenged a mainstream theory about our star. ... more | .. |
 Beijing to trial mobile tracking system: report A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday. ... more |
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 SES Successfully Places 650 Million 10-year Euro Bond SES S.A. has successfully placed a euros 650 million 10-year Euro bond. The bond, issued by SES S.A. and guaranteed by SES Global Americas Holdings GP, was priced at 99.486 with a coupon of 4.750% ... more | .. |
 US must be 'unafraid' of private spaceflight: NASA NASA's chief said Wednesday that America must be "unafraid" of a new future in spaceflight and vowed full confidence that private business can come up with a solution to replace the space shuttle. ... more | .. |
  Abundant Ammonia Aids Life's Origins An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State Univ ... more | .. |
  iPad, other tablets hit PC demand: Gartner Apple's iPad and other Internet-connected media tablets are draining demand for laptops and notebook computers, research firm Gartner said Thursday, sharply lowering its worldwide PC forecast this year. ... 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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  What's Hitting Earth Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids - fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks - enter the Earth's atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for more than a half an hour on a clear n ... more | .. |
  Space Systems/Loral Awarded USAF Study Contract Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that it was awarded a $1.5 million study contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's MILSATCOM Systems Directorate to evaluate options ... more | .. |
  China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Change-5 In 2017 China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more | .. |
 China Likely To Launch First Probe To Explore Mars' Surface In 2013 China is likely to launch its first probe to explore the surface of Mars in 2013, a chief scientist said here Wednesday. "Mars is the first choice for mankind's interplanetary explorations as ... more |
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 Russia Lacks Enough Carrier Rockets To Fulfill 2011 Launch Plans Russia lacks carrier rockets to carry out all space launches scheduled for 2011, the head of the Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday. "We have a number of spacecraft that should be launch ... more | .. |
  Spacewalkers Continue To Complete Tasks Spacewalker Alvin Drew installed a light on the Crew Equipment Translation Aid cart and affixed insulation to a valve module fluid line on a left hand truss segment radiator beam. Spacewalker ... more | .. |
 Time To Fly: SAGE III - ISS Prepped For ISS After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III ... more | .. |
  The Dusty Disc Of NGC 247 This image of NGC 247, taken by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, reveals the fine details of this highly inclined spiral galaxy and it ... more |
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