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NASA spacecraft is first to orbit MercuryWashington (AFP) March 17, 2011 A NASA spacecraft began orbiting Mercury Thursday, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet, the space agency said. The craft, known as MESSENGER, began the orbit around 9:00 pm (0200 GMT) on a mission to circle the planet for one Earth year in an unprecedented study of the tiny, hot planet. The spacecraft began its journey more than six years ago, traveling through the inner solar system and embarking on flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury. NASA said that by achie ... read more |
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 MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury NASA's MESSENGER probe has become the first spacecraft to enter orbit about Mercury. At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Ph ... more | .. |
  Cassini Sees Seasonal Rains Transform Titan's Surface As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spac ... more | .. |
 First Messenger Image From Orbit Planned For March 29 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 ... more | .. |
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  Iran Sends Rocket, Capsule Into Space 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 advan ... more | .. |
  Launch Of New ISS mission Slated For April 5 The launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying members of a new crew to the International Space Station has been tentatively scheduled for April 5, a source at the Baikonur Space Center said on ... more | .. |
 Europe agrees to space station extension Europe has formally endorsed the extension of operations at the International Space Station until 2020 and put the required financing in place, officials said. ... more | .. |
  SES And ILS Announce Launch Of SES-6 On ILS Proton In 2013 International Launch Services (ILS) and SES have announced the launch of SES-6 in 2013 on ILS Proton. SES-6 is the sixth mission under the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) signed in June 2007 betwee ... 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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 MESSENGER On Autopilot For Orbit Insertion MESSENGER is now on autopilot, faithfully executing a detailed set of instructions required to achieve its historic rendezvous with Mercury tomorrow night. At 8 a.m. Tuesday, all attitude re-o ... more | .. |
  When A Bus Becomes A Satellite Alphabus has met Alphasat. Europe's largest telecom satellite is taking shape with final assembly and testing ready to begin in Toulouse, France. Planned for launch in late 2012 on Ariane 5, Alphasa ... more | .. |
  XTAR Awarded Bandwidth Contract from Intelsat General XTAR, LLC, the first U.S. commercial provider of services in the X-band frequency, has been awarded a bandwidth contract from Intelsat General Corporation. The multi-million dollar contract calls fo ... more | .. |
  Arachnophobes Beware: Hubble Snaps Close-Up Of The Tarantula The wispy arms of the Tarantula Nebula were originally thought to resemble spindly spider legs, giving the nebula its unusual name. The part of the nebula visible in this image from Hubble's Advance ... more |
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 LockMary To Launch DigitalGlobe WorldView-3 Earth Imaging Satellite Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin, has announced that it has been chosen by DigitalGlobe to launch that company's next-generation, high-res ... more | .. |
 ASC Signal to Demonstrate Next Gen Controller ASC Signal will demonstrate the enhanced capabilities of its Next Generation Controller (NGC) for satellite antenna systems at SATELLITE 2011 in Washington, D.C., March 15-17. The technical enhancem ... more | .. |
 SpaceX And SES Announce Satellite Launch Agreement As the Satellite 2011 conference kicked off in Washington, D.C., Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and SES have announced an agreement to launch an SES satellite using the Falcon 9 rocket. ... more | .. |
  LockMart GPS III Team Completes Key Flight Software Milestone The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Position System, known as GPS III, has successfully completed the program's first major flight software integratio ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss Re | .. |
  Joint STARS Demos Multispectral Intelligence Sensor Integrated Into New KAB With the goal of reducing the sensor-to-shooter timeline to just minutes and expanding airborne ground surveillance command and control, Northrop Grumman has completed the installation and testing o ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 NASA spacecraft prepares to enter Mercury's orbit A NASA spacecraft is poised to enter the orbit of Mercury later Thursday, and it will circle for one Earth year in an unprecedented study of the tiny, hot planet that is closest to the Sun. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  Advanced Emulation Accelerates Deployment Of Military Network Technologies The US Army will soon be conducting a series of network developmental exercises and evaluations at Fort Bliss, TX and White Sands Missile Range that are intended to evaluate technologies and integra ... more | .. |
 Tactical Communications Group Completes Deployment Of Ground Support Systems Tactical Communications Group (TCG), the leading independent provider of tactical data link (TDL) software solutions for military test, training, simulation and operational applications worldwide, h ... 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 |
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