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ILS Protests Unfair Subsidies To ArianespaceBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Mar 24, 2011 ILS International Launch Services (ILS), citing the recurring subsidies provided to its primary competitor, Arianespace, is waging an aggressive protest and intends to pursue "all avenues of recourse to stop such inordinate and direct subsidization of Ariane's commercial operations," said ILS President Frank McKenna. This followed the most recent decision by the 18-nation European Space Agency (ESA) on March 17 to grant an additional infusion of funds totaling 250 million euros ($318 million) to s ... read more |
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  Are You A Martian Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If t ... more | .. |
 Two Ariane 5 And One Soyuz Flights Are Now Being Prepared Arianespace is maintaining the mission pace with its heavy-lift and medium-weight vehicles as two Ariane 5 flights are being readied at the Spaceport in French Guiana, with a Soyuz campaign also und ... more | .. |
  ESA's Council Decisions Decisions on the future of the European space sector were made at ESA's Council meeting in Paris on 16 and 17 March. ESA Member States participating in the International Space Station (ISS) ex ... more | .. |
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  WTA Releases New Satellite Operator Benchmarks Report The World Teleport Association has published a new report, Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2011, in which teleport operators worldwide rate the commercial and operational performance of the top satell ... more | .. |
  NASA's Successful 'Can Crush' Will Aid Heavy-Lift Rocket Design On March 23, NASA put the squeeze on a large rocket test section. Results from this structural strength test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will help future heavy-lift l ... more | .. |
 XCOR And ULA Demonstrate Revolutionary Rocket Engine Nozzle Technology United Launch Alliance (ULA) and XCOR Aerospace have announced their successful hot-fire demonstrations of a lighter-weight, lower-cost approach to liquid-fueled rocket-engine vacuum nozzles. The ne ... more | .. |
 Life Lessons In The UAE Whether or not you remember the winter of 2011 as unusually cold or snowy, an adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in th ... 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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  A Very Cool Pair Of Brown Dwarfs Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, along with two other telescopes, have shown that there is a new candidate for the coldest known star: a brown dwarf in a d ... more | .. |
  NASA Global Hawk Takes Earth's Temperature Over Pacific Ocean A Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter ... more | .. |
 Thirst For Knowledge: NASA Eyes World's Water As the world moves toward adding a few more billion people in the coming decades, many people who keep an eye on the horizon find themselves worried about water. Drinking water, water for irrigation ... more | .. |
  First LockMart-Built Milstar II Satellite Marks 10 Years In Service The first Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service, providing our nation's warf ... more |
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  Learn About Future Space Missions At Town Hall Meeting The University of Central Florida is hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday, March 31, about NASA's planetary missions in the next decade. The public meeting is sponsored by the National Rese ... more | .. |
 ASTRA Increases Reach Over All Platforms SES ASTRA has announced that it has extended its technical reach across Europe, and now serves 135 million TV homes in Europe and North Africa via its satellite fleet. This is more than half of all ... more | .. |
 New Adhesive Earns Patent, Could Find Place In Space A recently patented adhesive made by Kansas State University researchers could become a staple in every astronaut's toolbox. The patent, "pH dependent adhesive peptides," was issued to the Kansas St ... more | .. |
 FCC Grants Globalstar Authority To Operate Second-Generation Satellite Constellation Over US Globalstar has announced that the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Globalstar authority to operate its second-generation satellites within the United S ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Raytheon BBN Technologies To Protect Internet Comms For Military Abroad Raytheon BBN Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon, has been awarded $1.9 million in defense research funding to develop safeguards for military Internet communications abroad. T ... more | .. |
  Official Outlines Global Missile Defense Strategy U.S. efforts to build effective missile defenses are more important than ever for defending the nation and its deployed forces and for cooperating with allies and partners, a senior defense policy o ... more | .. |
 Satellites track complete missile flight Two low-Earth-orbiting U.S. satellites have detected and tracked a ballistic missile launch through all phases of flight for the first time, officials said. ... more |
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  Russian Military To Buy 36 ICBMs, 2 Missile Subs In 2011 The Russian Defense Ministry will buy 36 strategic ballistic missiles, two strategic missile submarines and 20 strategic cruise missiles this year, Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday. O ... more | .. |
 Russia to double missile output Russia will double its ballistic missile production starting in 2013, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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 ESA Council Appoints Directors 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 c ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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