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Earth's Gravity Revealed In Unprecedented DetailParis, France (ESA) Apr 01, 2011 Paris, France (ESA) Apr 01, 2011 After just two years in orbit, ESA's GOCE satellite has gathered enough data to map Earth's gravity with unrivalled precision. Scientists now have access to the most accurate model of the 'geoid' ever produced to further our understanding of how Earth works. The new geoid was unveiled today at the Fourth International GOCE User Workshop hosted at the Technische Universitat Munchen in Munich, Germany. Media representatives and scientists from around the world have ... read more |
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![]() Arianespace Flight VA201: Interruption Of The Countdown In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA201's launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting the ... more | .. |
![]() Arctic Ice Gets A Check Up Scientists tracking the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice said that 2011 was among the lowest ice extents measured since satellites began collecting the data in 1979. Using satellites to track ... more | .. |
![]() Witnesses Say Future Of NASA Human Space Flight Is Uncertain today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Mysterious "Ribbon" Of Energy And Particles Isolated In a paper to be published in the April, 2011, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including lead author Nathan Schwadron and othe ... more | .. |
![]() Searching For Alien Life? Try Failed Stars The search for alien life usually focuses on planets around other stars. But a lesser-known possibility is that life has sprung up on planets that somehow were ejected from their original solar syst ... more | .. |
![]() Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft ASTRA investigates new technologies for making low cost observations of the physical parameters of the atmosphere. We develop and test platforms capable of delivering scientific instruments to altit ... more | .. |
![]() Spring Is Fireball Season What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors. "Spri ... 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 | .. |
![]() Raven Industries Manufactured Balloon Sets Records On March 4, 2011, a Raven Aerostar designed and manufactured Zero Pressure Balloon, flown by Cornell University graduate students, broke the world Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning records for ... more | .. |
![]() GREAT Spectrometer Readied For Flight On SOFIA Scientists recently completed a series of nighttime, ground-based testing of the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, or GREAT, spectrometer in preparation for a series of astrono ... more | .. |
![]() Wind Can Keep Mountains From Growing Wind is a much more powerful force in the evolution of mountains than previously thought, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led research team. Bedrock in Central Asia that would ... more | .. |
![]() RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami And Earthquake Damage In Japan Japan needs maps. Not just any kind-detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this bridge is out, this port is damaged, t ... more |
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![]() Kepler Spacecraft Takes A Look Inside Red Giant Stars NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars. "No one anticipated seein ... more | .. |
![]() White Dwarfs Could Be Fertile Ground For Other Earths Planet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade, though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable. But it could be that the best place to look for p ... more | .. |
![]() Earth Movements From Japan Earthquake Seen From Space Satellite images have been essential for helping relief efforts in Japan following the massive quake that struck on 11 March. Now scientists are using ESA's space radars to improve our understanding ... more | .. |
![]() Antonio Tajani To Visit ESA/ESRIN Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, is to visit ESA's ESRIN Establishment in Frascati near Rome on Monday 4 April. During ... 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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![]() STSS Demonstration Satellites Track Short Range Missile During ALTB Test Bed Exercise The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites kept an unblinking watch on a boosting missile during an Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) ... more | .. |
![]() First Color Image Of Mercury From Orbit The first image acquired by MESSENGER from orbit around Mercury was actually part of an eight-image sequence, for which images were acquired through eight of the WAC's eleven filters. Here we ... more | .. |
![]() MSUA Honors KVH For Innovation In Satellite Communication In 2007, KVH Industries unveiled a revolutionary approach to satellite communications with the introduction of its mini-VSAT Broadband SM network and compact TracPhone V7 hardware. This breakt ... more | .. |
![]() Study Of 'Ruiz Garcia' Rock Completed 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 |
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![]() The Rose-Red Glow Of Star Formation The vivid red cloud in this new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope is a region of glowing hydrogen surrounding the star cluster NGC 371. This stellar nursery lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the ... more | .. |
![]() Texas Astronomers Find Super-Luminous Supernova Astronomers led by graduate student Emmanouil "Manos" Chatzopoulos and Dr. J. Craig Wheeler of The University of Texas at Austin have found another extremely bright, rare supernova to add to the new ... more | .. |
![]() Launch Training In Full Swing At Kennedy At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts and ground crews will begin training related to the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) today. The STS-13 ... more | .. |
![]() MESSENGER offers close-up of mysterious Mercury NASA celebrated Wednesday hundreds of stunning photographs from the Mercury MESSENGER probe as it began a year-long mission to orbit and map the solar system's mysterious innermost planet. ... 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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![]() When Is An Asteroid Not An Asteroid On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to begin orbiting t ... more | .. |
![]() Student Teams Selected For 'Fly Your Thesis!' 2012 Four teams of university students have been selected to conduct their experiments in a series of parabolic microgravity flights on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. The research ranges from helping r ... more | .. |
![]() TEXUS 49 Lifts Off With Four German Experiments On Board The TEXUS 49 sounding rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 29 March 2011 at 06.01 CET. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) rocket, carrying four German exp ... more | .. |
![]() The Big Rock Candy Solar System The earliest rocks in our solar system were more like candy floss than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The earliest rocks in ... more |
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![]() Japan's HTV-2 Cargo Spaceship Undocks From ISS Japan's HTV-2 Konotori robotic cargo space ship undocked from the International Space Station at 7.45 pm Moscow time (15.45 GMT), a Russian mission control center official said on Monday. The ... more | .. |
![]() Russia To Launch Space Freighter To ISS On April 27 A Russian cargo spacecraft will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 27, the Federal Space Agency said on Tuesday. The Progress M-10M will lift off atop a Soyuz-U carrier ... more | .. |
![]() NASA probe aims to unlock Mercury's secrets NASA scientists pored Wednesday over stunning new images of Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system's least-understood planet. ... more | .. |
![]() China set to outstrip US in science research output China has shot to second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines and in a few years will take the top spot from the United States, according to a new report. ... more |
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