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It's A "Go" For Endeavour's Launch On April 29Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 20, 2011 NASA managers announced that space shuttle Endeavour is ready to launch next week on its final flight to the International Space Station following a daylong Flight Readiness Review on Tuesday. Endeavour is scheduled to launch Friday, April 29, at 3:47 p.m. EDT. "We have had a very extensive and thorough review," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Space Operations. "I think the things that impressed me the most is that the team is still continuing to really work issues and l ... read more |
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  CSA Celebrates A Decade Of Success With Canadarm2 Ten years ago, Canadarm2 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. A larger, more robust successor to the Shuttle's Canadarm, Canadarm2 has provided a ... more | .. |
  Scientists See Solar Outburst In Exquisite Detail The largest disturbances to the Earth's geomagnetic environment occur when it is buffeted by solar material hurled in our direction by explosive changes in the Sun's atmosphere. These Coronal Mass E ... more | .. |
  Could Low-Cost Space Missions Keep Astronomy Aiming High Whether in the present so-called 'age of austerity' or more generous times, arguing for funds for space exploration can sometimes be hard and constrained budgets mean that some excellent scientific ... more | .. |
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  The Shocking Environment Of Hot Jupiters Jupiter-like worlds around other stars push shock waves ahead of them, according to a team of U.K. astronomers. Just as the Earth's magnetic "bow-shock" protects us from the high-energy solar wind, ... more | .. |
 Last Shuttle Ride To ISS For ESA Astronaut With "Dark Matter" Hunter ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and the five other astronauts of the STS-134 mission will be launched to the International Space Station on Space Shuttle Endeavour on 29 April to deliver a pioneering ... more | .. |
  USAF Looking At Ways To EASE Space Acquisition The Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs spoke about space acquisition during the 27th National Space Symposium here April 14 in a speech delivered on behalf of the Under Secre ... more | .. |
  NAVIGON Updates iPhone Nav App NAVIGON AG has announced the availability of the eighth update for its iPhone app, MobileNavigator, the most feature-rich navigation solution on the iOS platform. The update adds a Reality Scanner f ... 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 | .. |
 ExxonMobil Introduces Android Station Locator App ExxonMobil is launching its latest in mobile technology - the Exxon Mobil Fuel Finder application for Android. The application gives real-time maps, driving directions, and station information for n ... more | .. |
  NASA Device Inducted Into Space Technology Hall Of Fame A rotating device developed by NASA inventors to grow better living tissue specimens was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame Thursday, April 14. The Space Foundation honored the NASA tea ... more | .. |
  Gilat Chosen For Namibian Broadband Satellite Communications Network Gilat has announced that it has been selected by Telecom Namibia to provide a SkyEdge II Broadband Satellite Network to serve hundreds of locations throughout Namibia. The new, IP oriented and highe ... more | .. |
 Garmin Adds Its First Touchscreen GPS Watch To Forerunner Family Garmin International has announced the Forerunner 610 sports watch - a slim, yet robust and weather-proof touchscreen solution for serious runners seeking an extra advantage. Forerunner 610 can stan ... more |
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 TomTom Makes Driving Safer With Active Driver Feedback TomTom has announced Active Driver Feedback and WEBFLEET OptiDrive; two new features focused at further increasing TomTom's safety and efficiency benefits for businesses. Active Driver Feedbac ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
  NASA awards $270 million in spaceship contracts 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. ... 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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