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ESA Council Appoints DirectorsParis, France (ESA) Mar 23, 2011 The Council of the European Space Agency has appointed a team of Directors who will assist the Director General in the reorganised structure that takes effect on 1 April 2011. The motive for changing the structure of the organisation is to make ESA even more competitive and efficient to increase its added value for Member States and third parties. The timing is associated with the start of the third mandate of the Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain. The Director General wanted the Counci ... read more |
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 NASA Ushers In New Space Exploration Era At Wallops Flight Facility NASA ushered in a new era of space exploration at its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony opening the new Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF). The H ... more | .. |
  Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments ... more | .. |
  Cassini Finds Saturn Sends Mixed Signals Like a petulant adolescent, Saturn is sending out mixed signals. Recent data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the variation in radio waves controlled by the planet's rotation is different in ... more | .. |
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  Juno Marches On NASA's Juno spacecraft has completed its thermal vacuum chamber testing. The two-week-long test, which concluded on March 13, 2011, is the longest the spacecraft will undergo prior to launch. ... more | .. |
  Is Space Like A Chessboard Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space. Space is usually considered infinitely divisible - given any two po ... more | .. |
  Fewer Towers For CSIRO Rural Broadband Wireless In what could prove to be a major breakthrough for people living in rural and regional Australia, CSIRO is developing wireless broadband technology that could operate using barely a quarter the numb ... more | .. |
  NASA IR Satellite Imagery Shows Cyclone Cherono Dwindling Three days of NASA infrared satellite imagery provides a clear picture to forecasters of the effect wind shear has had on former Cyclone Cherono. Wind shear increased near Cyclone Cherono this weeke ... 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 | .. |
  Johns Hopkins Sends MESSENGER Into Mercury Orbit At about 9 p.m. EDT on Saint Patrick's Day, engineers at the Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of Johns Hopkins University, received confirmation that the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Envi ... more | .. |
 Space Systems/Loral Selected To Provide Broadcast Satellite For Australia And New Zealand Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a spacecraft for Australian telecommunications service provider, SingTel Optus. The satellite, Optus ... more | .. |
 The Importance Of Being Magnetized Our nearest planetary neighbors, Mars and Venus, have no oceans or lakes or rivers. Some researchers have speculated that they were blown dry by the solar wind, and that our Earth escaped this fate ... more | .. |
  LockMart Makes Strides In Human Space Exploration Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-ar ... more |
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  Later, Uranus: New Horizons Passes Another Planetary Milestone New Horizons is ready to put another planet - or at least the planet's orbit - in its rearview mirror. The Pluto-bound spacecraft crosses the path of Uranus around 6 p.m. EDT on March 18, more than ... more | .. |
  Globe At Night Tracks Light Pollution Poorly aimed and unshielded outdoor lights are more than an annoyance. They waste more than $2 billion (17 billion kilowatt-hours) of energy in the United States each year. Poorly shielded roadway l ... more | .. |
  Roscosmos Sets April 5 For Soyuz TMA-21 Launch Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has approved the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 5. The launch was originally scheduled ... more | .. |
 KinetX Provides Key Navigation Support for NASA Mission to Orbit Mercury On the evening of March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft fired its main engine for 15 minutes to perform a Mercury capture maneuver and became the first spacecraft in history to orbit the inner ... 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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 Orbital Sciences And Segovia Join Satellite Industry Association The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announced that two new companies have joined the organization: Orbital Sciences Corporation and Segovia, Inc. "SIA is delighted to welcome both Orbital ... more | .. |
  Globalstar Takes Delivery Of Six New Satellites In Preparation For May Launch Globalstar has taken delivery of six new second-generation satellites at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Technicians from launch services provider Arianespace and satellite manufacturer Thale ... more | .. |
  Webb Sunshield Like An Umbrella On The Shores Of The Universe The James Webb Space Telescope has a unique shield to protect its sensitive instruments from the heat and light of the sun. The sunshield is like an umbrella popping open on the shores of the cosmos ... more | .. |
  GPS Mundi Releases Points Of Interest Files For Ten More Major Cities We have all been there: We spend an hour navigating through an unfamiliar city looking for a place, only to find that the information in our trusty GPS is outdated or just plain wrong because it was ... more |
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  Commercial Rocket Engine Testing Continues At NASA Center NASA's Stennis Space Center is moving ahead in supporting Orbital Sciences Corporation testing of Aerojet's AJ26 engines for commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station. Orbita ... more | .. |
  84 Teams To Compete In NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
  Dawn Opens Its Eyes, Checks Its Instruments After a hibernation of about six months, the framing cameras on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft have again ventured a look into the stars. The spacecraft also powered up its visible and infrared mappin ... more | .. |
 Under Pressure? Turn To Space Tech When engineers come up with a super-strong new material for building shipping containers, trucking trailers and aircraft parts, it is a major challenge to simulate its strength and reliability accur ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Alternatives Have Begun In Bid To Hear From Spirit 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 ha ... more | .. |
  Russian Investigators Probe Roscosmos Workers For Glonass Loss The Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday it is probing workers at Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, for negligence that may have caused the loss of three Glonass-M satellites in D ... more |
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