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Alternatives Have Begun In Bid To Hear From SpiritPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2011 Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year. The rover team has tried to contact Spirit for months with strategies based on the possibility that increasing energy availability might wake the rover from hibernation. The team has now switched to communication strategies designed to address more than one problem on the rover. If no signal is heard from Spirit in the ... read more |
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  From Outer Sol To The Inner Rock Human Space Is Growing It's easy for a space enthusiast to feel depressed right now. The end of the Shuttle program is nigh. NASA seems neglected and directionless. Budgetary issues threaten spaceflight globally. Bu ... more | .. |
  Large Hadron Collider Could Be World'S First Time Machine If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year - could be the first machine capabl ... more | .. |
  Mercury In 3D Coming Soon Early on 18 March 2011, a spacecraft swung into orbit around Mercury for the first time: NASA's MESSENGER began orbiting the planet at 01:45 CET. The mission carries scientific instruments designed ... more | .. |
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  New Study Finds Apex Fossils Aren't Life Structures thought of as the oldest known fossils of microbes might actually be microscopic mineral formations not associated with life, suggesting that astrobiologists have to be careful calling al ... more | .. |
 Next Mars Rover Gets A Test Taste Of Mars Conditions A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year. Tests inside the 25-f ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Completes Study Of Ruiz Garcia Rock Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact) investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover used the robotic arm (Instrument Deplo ... more | .. |
 Planetary Exploration Suit Will Be Tested In Antarctica University of North Dakota aerospace engineer and researcher Pablo de Leon is part of a unique mission to test a UND planetary exploration suit - the NDX-1 - at a remote military base in Antarctica. ... 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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  Stars Gather In Downtown Milky Way The region around the center of our Milky Way galaxy glows colorfully in this new version of an image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The data were previously released as part of a lo ... more | .. |
  Thomas Reiter Appointed Director Of Human Spaceflight At ESA On 17 March 2011, Thomas Reiter, Executive Board Member responsible for Space Research and Technology at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), was appointed a ... more | .. |
  Russia says delayed space flight on for April 5 Russia said Friday it had solved the problem that caused it to delay the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station and would proceed with the mission on April 5. ... more | .. |
  Fortuitous Timing For NASA's New Space Weather App NASA's new iPhone application couldn't have come at a better time. A few hours before a gigantic bubble of electrified gas and charged particles erupted from the Sun, NASA officially released the ne ... more |
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 Astronaut Cady Coleman Shares Her Love of the Flute from Space Astronaut Cady Coleman took time during an interview with reporters to play her flute onboard the International Space Station. "I play the flute on the ground and it's one of the things I love ... more | .. |
  A New View Of Moon 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 | .. |
 NASA spacecraft is first to orbit Mercury A NASA spacecraft began orbiting Mercury Thursday, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet, the space agency said. ... more | .. |
  Gilat Announces New Military Modem For Robust Tactical Satcom-On-The-Move Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has introduced a new military satellite modem - the MLT-1000 - and was showcased for the first time at Satellite 2011 in Washington DC this week. MLT-1000 will pr ... 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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  European space missions in jeopardy European space scientists say they're rethinking potential space missions after learning NASA won't be contributing significant funding to any of their efforts. ... more | .. |
 Intelsat Picks MDA For Satellite Servicing Intelsat has announced that it has entered into an agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA") for the servicing of Intelsat's on-orbit satellites via a space-based service vehic ... more | .. |
  NASA Glenn "Drops" Student Microgravity Experiments NASA has selected four high school teams of students to test their science experiments in a competition that simulates the microgravity in space. The experiments will be dropped next week into a 79- ... more | .. |
 Student Teams Working On 'Spin Your Thesis!' Four teams of university students will develop and perform experiments in hypergravity during ESA's second 'Spin Your Thesis!' campaign. The students will use the Large Diameter Centrifuge fac ... more |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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