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China Maps The World With BeidouBeijing, China (XNA) Apr 12, 2011 Early Sunday, China successfully launched its eighth orbiter of the Beidou system. It marks the establishment of a basic system for the navigation and positioning network. But how will the system pave the way for China's space exploration project? Another journey into the space. As the flaming tail disappears into the sky, came the rise of China's navigation network, Beidou. The rising star will join seven other satellites already in orbit to form a network which will eventually provid ... read more |
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  Space Jets In A Bottle By creating space-like conditions in a slim 4m vessel, Italian researchers have helped confirm the behaviour of astrophysical jets - streams of charged particles shot out by supermassive black holes ... more | .. |
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  NASA's JWST Marks Milestone With Completion Of Huge Assembly Stand For Flight Optics A giant structural steel frame used to assemble the eye of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Northrop Grumman teammate ITT at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Northrop Grumman is l ... more | .. |
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  PSLV Launch On April 20 Preparations for the launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) carrying RESOURCESAT-2 satellite are progressing well at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. In this mission, PSLV-C16 w ... more | .. |
  Last legends of early space flight laud Gagarin The last living legends of the early years of human space flight in the Cold War met in a rare encounter on Monday to laud the achievement of Yuri Gagarin 50 years after his historic voyage into space. ... more | .. |
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  Gagarin could have died on glitch-prone flight: scientist Yuri Gagarin's first space flight was plagued with technical problems and his ship would never have left the ground if it had been subject to today's safety standards, a top rocket scientist said Friday. ... more | .. |
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 Gagarin anniversary: Are manned missions a waste of space? On Tuesday, the world will be awash with talk of courage and vision as it looks back on 50 years of manned space flight, a trail blazed by Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute trip around the planet. ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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 Russia to honour first man in space Gagarin Russia will on Tuesday fete the memory of first man in space Yuri Gagarin whose pioneering mission remains the crowning accomplishment of its space programme and a major source of national pride. ... more | .. |
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 Spacelinq The First European Space Liner Dutch initiative SpaceLinq announces that it will operate as Europe's first spaceflight operator from within Holland's territory. Lelystad Airport is the proposed home base for the future EU Spacepo ... more | .. |
  Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar ... more | .. |
 US Leaves Space For Russia By the end of this year, NASA will no longer be able to send humans into space. According to Barack Obama's plan, responsibility will go to private companies, which are expected to come up with chea ... more |
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  NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida NASA's Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, to the Astrotech payload pr ... more | .. |
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 Putin Touts Russia's Growing Investment In Space Programs The Russian government earmarked about 200 billion rubles ($7 billion) in funding for space programs in 2010-11, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "In the far-from-easy post-cris ... more | .. |
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 UN Declares April 12 As International Day Of Human Space Flight The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution at a special session on Thursday declaring April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight. The resolution was initiated by Russia, which c ... more | .. |
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