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NASA awards $270 million in spaceship contractsWashington (AFP) April 18, 2011 NASA on Monday announced it has awarded nearly 270 million dollars to four companies, including Boeing and SpaceX, to help their pursuit of making a spacecraft to replace the US space shuttle. The Houston, Texas-based aviation giant Boeing received the biggest contract - $92.3 million - as part of the second round of NASA commercial crew development program, or CCDev2. Sierra Nevada Corporation, a Colorado-based company that is at work on its DreamChaser shuttle, won the second largest sum at ... read more |
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  A Tale Of Two Deserts Because the surface of Mars today is bone-dry and frozen all year round, it's difficult to find any place on Earth that is truly Mars-like. But two locations, Antarctica's Upper Dry Valleys and the ... more | .. |
  Search For Dark Matter Moves One Step Closer To Detecting Elusive Particle Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other instituti ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Moves NPP Satellite To Thermal Vacuum Chamber For Final Testing Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has moved the NPOESS Preparatory Satellite (NPP) to the thermal vacuum chamber for final testing. NPP was lowered into Ball's chamber on March 2, 2011, to ... more | .. |
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  IAU Global Office Of Astronomy For Development Launched The South African Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, has launched the IAU Global Office of Astronomy for Development at the headquarters of the South African Astronomical Observa ... more | .. |
 Large Galaxies Stopped Growing Seven Billion Years Ago Galaxies are thought to develop by the gravitational attraction between and merger of smaller 'sub-galaxies', a process that standard cosmological ideas suggest should be ongoing. But new data ... more | .. |
 Zoom-Up Star Photos Poke Holes In Century-Old Astronomical Theory The hottest stars in the universe spin so fast that they get a bit squished at their poles and dimmer around their middle. The 90-year-old theory that predicts the extent of this "gravity darkening" ... more | .. |
  India Starts Countdown For Launch Of Three Satellites The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday began a 54-hour countdown for the launch of three satellites, an ISRO press secretary said. Remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, as w ... 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 | .. |
  NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort. Each company will receive between $22 million and $92.3 million to advance ... more | .. |
 LockMart Commends Congressional Action On NASA Spacecraft Following months of short-term, stop-gap funding for NASA, Lockheed Martin welcomes final passage of the FY 2011 budget by the Congress, which has been sent forward for President Obama's signature. ... more | .. |
  Clouds, Clouds, Burning Bright High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. First noticed in 1885, these clouds are known as noctilucent, o ... more | .. |
  USA Announces End-Of-Program Workforce Reduction United Space Alliance has announced that, following the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, the company will implement a major workforce reduction in late July and early August due to the co ... more |
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 LockMart Awarded Contract For Iridium NEXT Satellites Thales Alenia Space has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to develop, test and support integration of payload application software for the Iridium NEXT satellites. Thales Alenia Space is t ... more | .. |
  Ocean Front Is Energetic Contributor To Mixing Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the ocean depths and keeping it from going back into the atmosphere. For more than two decades scien ... more | .. |
  Aegis BMD System Engages Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile For First Time Lockheed Martin's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system successfully tracked and engaged an intermediate range ballistic missile using data from a remote AN/TPY-2 radar during a test off the ... more | .. |
  LockMart To Respond To Joint Air-To-Ground Missile Request Lockheed Martin says it will respond to the government's Request for Proposal (RFP) for the next phases for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command issued ... 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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 Astrium GEO-Info Services Looks Back On The Chernobyl Disaster 25 Years Later With EO Technologies The first satellite image of the Ukrainian site was acquired by SPOT1 only ten days after the explosion, demonstrating the value of Earth-imaging satellites in responding to natural and man-made dis ... more | .. |
 ITT's Commercial Imaging Payload Passes Major Milestone ITT reached a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the imaging payload for WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe's high-resolution commercial Earth imaging satell ... more | .. |
  The Watched Pot And Fast CMEs Back in 2008, the solar cycle plunged into the deepest minimum in nearly a century. Sunspots all but vanished, solar flares subsided, and the sun was eerily quiet. "Ever since, we've been wait ... more | .. |
 Landsat: Who Are The Customers Exactly who uses Landsat satellite imagery and what value do they derive from the information? In the first study of its kind, U.S. Geological Survey investigators surveyed a broad cross section of ... more |
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 Celestial Fireworks From Dying Stars This image of the nebula NGC 3582, which was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows giant loops of gas bearing a striking ... more | .. |
 Kepler's Census Of Sun-Like Stars NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 Sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars. Prior to Kepler's launch in M ... more | .. |
  Roberto Vittori's DAMA Mission To ISS ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori is set to fly on the next Space Shuttle mission in late April to deliver the large Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer science payload to the International Space Station. Dedic ... more | .. |
  DLR Publishes The Results Of Its Volcanic Ash Measurement Flights One year ago, on 14 April 2010, the Icelandic volcano of Eyjafjallajokull erupted and effectively grounded large parts of the air transport sector across Europe. At this time, there was no defined l ... 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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  Next Generation Space Telescope Marks Key Milestone The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror for space observations will begin final round-the-clock cryogenic testing this week. These tests will c ... more | .. |
 LOFAR Takes The Pulse Of The Radio Sky A powerful new telescope is allowing an international team led by University of Manchester scientists to have their "best-ever look" at pulsars - rapidly rotating neutron stars created when massive ... more | .. |
  Rear Admiral Craig Steidle Named President Of Commercial Spaceflight Federation The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that Rear Admiral Craig E. Steidle (U.S. Navy, Ret.) has been named as President, effective May 15. Admiral Steidle was approved for the ... more | .. |
  Far-Future Astronomers Could Still Deduce The Big Bang One trillion years from now, an alien astronomer in our galaxy will have a difficult time figuring out how the universe began. They won't have the evidence that we enjoy today. Edwin Hubble ma ... more |
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  Thousands of shuttle workers losing jobs Almost 2,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be laid off after the last shuttle flight, a contractor says. ... more | .. |
 Israel becomes CERN nuclear group member Israel's cabinet on Sunday announced it had approved the country's membership in the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, becoming the research group's first non-European delegation. ... more | .. |
 NASA mission control named for Chris Kraft NASA says its Mission Control Center will be renamed to honor Christopher C. Kraft Jr., America's first flight director of human space missions. ... more | .. |
 No Fleet Future For X-37B The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite ... more |
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