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First Messenger Image From Orbital Planned For March 29Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2011 This first planned image is scheduled to be taken on March 29, 2011, 7:40 UTC, or 3:40 am EDT. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER will acquire 364 images in total before beginning to downlink the data to Earth. This image will be acquired during the commissioning phase of the MESSENGER mission, during which the spacecraft and instrument performance will be verified through a series of specially designed checkout activities. During the commissioning phase, MDIS will acquire 1549 images. ... read more |
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  Newborn Stars Wreak Havoc In Their Nursery A new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a close-up view of the dramatic effects newborn stars have on the gas and dust from which they formed. Although the stars themselves are not visible ... more | .. |
  Iran sends rocket, capsule into space: IRNA Iran on Thursday signalled a broadening of its space ambitions by announcing the launch of a new rocket and a test capsule designed to house a monkey, amid Western concerns over its scientific advances. ... more | .. |
  Mapping Japan's Changed Landscape From Space Following the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, satellite imagery has been vital in providing a clear picture of the extent of devastation to aid the relief effort now under ... more | .. |
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 CU-Boulder Space Scientists Ready For Orbital Insertion Of Mercury Spacecraft NASA's MESSENGER mission, launched in 2004, is slated to slide into Mercury's orbit March 17 after a harrowing 4.7 billion mile journey that involved 15 loops around the sun and will bring relief an ... more | .. |
 First Spacecraft To Orbit Mercury Carries U-Michigan Device On March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) vehicle will begin to orbit the planet Mercury, and continue to orbit the environmentally hostile ... more | .. |
  Russian craft brings astronauts back to Earth A Russian Soyuz space capsule brought a US astronaut and two Russians safely back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday, with the crew parachuting down in the Kazakh steppe. ... more | .. |
  Super Full Moon Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big ... more |
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  Arianespace's Success Is Built On Transparency At this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace addressed an important "hot button" issue for the global launch services sector - and underscored its continued leadership a ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM And SpaceX Set Plans To Launch Satellites On Next Falcon 9 ORBCOMM and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have announced plans to carry the first two ORBCOMM next-generation OG2 satellites to orbit on the next Falcon 9 launch this year. Falcon 9 ... more | .. |
  AIAA To Host First Biennial Congressional Aerospace Policy Retreat On Friday, March 18, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will host its first biennial Congressional Aerospace Policy Retreat. This inaugural event will brief Members of Con ... more | .. |
  DLR Center Takes Over Operation Of The Swedish PRISMA Satellite Mission On 15 March 2011, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen took over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. The Swedish Space Corporat ... more |
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 NASA Satellites Show Towering Thunderstorms NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites are providing data to scientists about the Southern Atlantic Ocean Sub-tropical Storm Arani, a rare occurrence in the southern ocean. Rainfall data and cloud top temp ... more | .. |
 National Flooding Exercise Hones Use Of Satellites To Improve Disaster Mitigation Last week a team of space experts led by British company DMCii participated in a national flooding exercise, "Exercise Watermark", to determine how satellite imagery, satellite communications and sa ... more | .. |
 XTAR Launches New Brand Identity XTAR, the first commercial provider of satellite communications services in the X-band frequency, has unveiled a new brand identity which is being introduced during the Satellite 2011 conference in ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellite Sees Area Affected By Japan Tsunami A new before-and-after image pair from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a region of Japan's northeastern coast, ... 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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 Arianespace To launch Argentina's Arsat-2 Satellite ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2. Participating in this week's S ... more | .. |
  X-37B - This Is Only A Test We are regularly warned on emergency speakers that an upcoming alarm signal is only a test. It's a necessary precaution to prevent panic. Some members of community need a similar heads-up about anot ... more | .. |
  Physicists propose collider 'time travel' Two U.S. physicists say if their theory is right, the Large Hadron Collider, the world largest atom smasher, could be the world's first time machine. ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Reveals Flooding Rains From Massive East Coast Storm The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from spac ... more |
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 LRO Delivers Treasure Trove Of Data NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. ... more | .. |
 UK Space Agency Champions Adaptation Of Space Technology For Terrestrial Uses UK space technology that is being developed to explore other worlds could soon be benefiting us on ours, with the launch of the UK Space Agency's new knowledge exchange programme. The UK Space ... more | .. |
  Launch Pad 39A Operations Resume Today Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A are resuming processing operations today in preparation for space shuttle Endeavour's upcoming launch. This morning, NASA and United S ... more | .. |
  Paolo Nespoli's MagISStra Mission At Midway Point ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is now half way into his six-month mission on the International Space Station. Monday's handover of command heralds the departure of three crewmembers and the arrival of ... 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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A 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause The Japanese Earthquake Just to be clear, the Moon did not cause the earthquake in Japan. Several scientists have posted articles online clarifying the topic, and all of them, in no uncertain terms, agree that the the upco ... more | .. |
 Finally! NASA Prepares To Orbit Mercury On March 17th, NASA's MESSENGER probe will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. It's a seminal moment in planetary exploration. Researchers can finally take a good long look at a rocky worl ... more | .. |
 FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more | .. |
 Fasting For Science On ISS With almost half of the MagISStra mission behind him, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli has not had much free time on the International Space Station. In addition to his heavy workload, he has also been o ... more |
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 NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22. The Horizontal Integration Facility ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Partners To Manage Night Rover, Nano-Sat Launcher Challenges NASA is seeking partner organizations to manage the agency's upcoming Night Rover and Nano-Satellite Launcher Centennial Challenges. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technolog ... more | .. |
  Time Is Now For Human Mission To Mars "The time for a human mission to Mars is now," write the editors of "A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet," a collection of articles published in book form this month by the Journal ... more | .. |
  N. Korea rejects Seoul's plea to stop jamming signals North Korea rejected South Korea's plea on Tuesday to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul's military and mobile communications, an official said. ... more |
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