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Dawn Gets Vesta Target PracticePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2011 There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice! The same applies to NASA's Dawn mission to the giant asteroid Vesta. In the lead-up to orbiting the second most massive body in the asteroid belt this coming July, Dawn mission planners and scientists have been practicing mapping Vesta's surface, producing still images and a rotating animation that includes the scientists' best g ... read more |
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  Speed Demon Creates A Shock Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the Autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or W ... more | .. |
  Shot US lawmaker expected at shuttle launch US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is expected to attend next month's space shuttle launch commanded by her astronaut husband, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Planetary Society Statement On Planetary Science Decadal Survey For 2013-2022 The Planetary Science Decadal Survey committee faced a nearly impossible task: to set priorities for NASA's robotic exploration within a tight budget. They did a great job in laying out a plan for s ... more | .. |
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  Complementary Technology Could Provide Solution To Our GPS Vulnerability The GNSS Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 follows Tuesday's Royal Academy of Engineering report that set out the risks of GPS disruption from solar storms or illegal jamming an ... more | .. |
  First Release Of Calibrated LYRA Data From PROBA-2 The first calibrated measurements of solar irradiance made by the LYRA instrument on ESA's second PROBA (PRoject for On-Board Autonomy) satellite are now available to the scientific community. Futur ... more | .. |
  Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Approach Earth Nov 8 2011 Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011. The upcoming close approach by this relatively large 400 meter-sized, C-type asteroid presents ... more | .. |
  Testing Mars Missions In Morocco "This site is called Moon 2," says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, "I don't remember the re ... 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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  Stallion Renews Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES To Deliver Connectivity To Oil Rigs SES WORLD SKIES has announced it has signed a three-year capacity agreement with Stallion Oilfield Services to enable mission-critical connectivity for hundreds of oil drilling sites throughout Amer ... more | .. |
 Coalition To Save Our GPS Launched Representatives from a wide variety of industries and companies have announced that they have joined together to form the "Coalition to Save Our GPS" to resolve a serious threat to the Global Positi ... more | .. |
  The Future For Space Missions A new report from the National Research Council recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries abo ... more | .. |
 The Most Distant Mature Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have used an armada of telescopes on the ground and in space, including the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and measure the distance to the most re ... more |
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 Baby Stars Born To 'Napping' Parents Cardiff University astronomers believe that a young star's long "napping" could trigger the formation of a second generation of smaller stars and planets orbiting around it. It has long been s ... more | .. |
 Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs On Asteroid Apophis On January 31 University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid ... more | .. |
  Moon of Saturn a 'hot' research subject Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, is a veritable heat factory, pumping out heat energy equivalent to 20 coal-fueled power stations, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 A New Dawn Coming To Vesta Deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn continues thrusting with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is making excellent progress in reshaping its orbit around the sun to match that of its destination ... 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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  InterSKY 4M Provides BLOS Comms For C4I Military Systems Elbit Systems has announced the launch of its tactical broadband satellite communication (SATCOM) platform, InterSKY 4M. Designed specifically for government and military Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) ... more | .. |
  One Step Closer To Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two UAV On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a major step toward demonstrating autonomous aerial refueling between two ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more | .. |
 MapMyFITNESS To Attend 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival MapMyFITNESS has announced that it will attend and exhibit at the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival. The company aims to engage festival participants and demonstrate the ways that web and mobile techno ... more |
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 New TomTom PRO 7150 Delivers Improved Efficiency For Businesses TomTom has unveiled a new navigation device for the North American market designed for businesses to deliver clear bottom-line benefits. The PRO 7150 from TomTom Business Solutions, the business uni ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Poised For 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 instrum ... more | .. |
 Garmin Announces The G1000H For Helicopters Garmin International has announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data - flight instrument ... more | .. |
 New Marine And Coastal Geospatial Data Available Astrium GEO-Information Services has introduced new marine and coastal geospatial data that is now downloadable from its www.geostore.com store. The new data includes the Admiralty Raster Charts, an ... 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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 Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss ... more | .. |
 Celebrating 400 Years Of Sunspot Observations In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. ... more | .. |
 Voyager Seeks The Answer Blowin' In The Wind In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting NAS ... more | .. |
  TED Talks For Space Junkies One need not hold an advanced degree in astrophysics to enjoy and appreciate the Universe's infinite beauty and often bizarre mysteries. All it takes is a healthy curiosity and a splash of imaginati ... more |
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  Australian firm to open Malaysian rare earths plant An Australian mining company said Thursday it plans to finish building a huge rare earths processing plant in Malaysia late this year, in a possible challenge to China's stranglehold on the metals. ... more | .. |
  JWST's "Chassis" Gets Taken Out For A Spin The Integrated Science Instrument Module, or ISIM, is the structural heart of the James Webb Space Telescope, what engineers call the main payload. It will house the four main scientific instruments ... more | .. |
 Rover Snaps Close-Up of 'Ruiz Garcia' Opportunity is completing the last in-situ (contact) study at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover bumped 5.35 meters (18 feet) forward to approach the target "Ruiz Garci ... more | .. |
  NASA And Other Satellites Keeping Busy With This Week's Severe Weather Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a h ... more |
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