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Countdown begins for Chineses space station programBeijing, China (XNA) Apr 27, 2011 Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a news conference that it also wants the public to get involved by suggesting names for the space station, due to completed around 2020. According to documents provided by the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, is composed of a core module and two ... read more |
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  Tugboats in Space Rendezvous and docking in orbit is tricky. Take a huge, complex target like the International Space Station, and the task becomes even trickier. The problems of getting spacecraft to dock with ... more | .. |
  STS-134 Astronauts Arrive at Kennedy for Launch The six astronauts for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station now are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their prelaunch preparations. The crew arriv ... more | .. |
  NASA's Chandra Finds New Evidence on Origin of Supernovas Astronomers may now know the cause of an historic supernova explosion that is an important type of object for investigating dark energy in the universe. The discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ra ... more | .. |
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  SES To Invest In New Luxembourg Satellite Control Facilities And Business Center In a foundation stone laying ceremony SES S.A. celebrated its EUR 34 million investment in a new state-of-the-art satellite control facilities at its Betzdorf campus as well as in an additional Busi ... more | .. |
  Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, X-Sat functioning satisfactorily The country's latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two micro satellites launched by home grown PSLV-C16 rocket on April 20 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh ''are functioning satisfact ... more | .. |
 Searching for dark matter and antimatter The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) will be located outside the International Space Station (ISS) and will use its various detectors to seek cosmic radiation in space. On 29 April 2011, at 21:47 C ... more | .. |
  Red Flag Space Operations: Not Just A Flyer's Exercise The 21st Space Wing made Air Force history in February as two of its space control units participated in Red Flag 11-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. This was the first time Air Force Space Command ... 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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  Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, ... more | .. |
  See You On The ISS Said The Spider To The Fly Thousands of K-12 students will be paying close attention when NASA's space shuttle Endeavour rumbles off the launch pad April 29 from Florida on its final flight, which will be toting a payload con ... more | .. |
 The Big Picture Wins Big Remember life before cell phones? Or GPS? Or tablet computers? Kind of hard, isn't it? Air traffic management researchers feel the same way about life before the Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) ... more | .. |
 Researchers working to advance predictability research initiatives Faculty from the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology are leading the school's predictability research initiatives with multiple projects that could one day lead to more accurate forecasts o ... more |
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  GOES-13 Satellite Eyeing System With High Risk of Severe Weather A low pressure area currently over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin has created conditions that call for a forecast of severe weather in the eastern third of the U.S. and one area is even la ... more | .. |
 Rice-born detector finds heaviest antimatter Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This newly observed particle is the heaviest antimatter particle ever ... more | .. |
  DLR measures the shape of a barn owl wing in flight The flight of birds is still largely unexplored; in particular, the movements performed during the beat of a wing and the airflow around the wing remain a puzzle to scientists. The German Aerospace ... more | .. |
 Global Crossing Inks New Capacity Deals With SES WORLD SKIES Well positioned to serve emerging markets, SES WORLD SKIES has announced three new capacity deals with Global Crossing to meet growing connectivity demand across Latin America. The agreements ... 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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 Countdown begins for Friday's US shuttle flight Countdown began Tuesday for the US space agency's launch of the shuttle Endeavour, with preparations proceeding smoothly and the weather forecast looking pleasant for the Friday liftoff, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Bacteria seen surviving 'hypergravity' Several species of bacteria can survive in "hypergravity" environments more than 400,000 times Earth's gravity, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Europe approves powerful research lasers The European Commission says it has approved plans to build new lasers that will dwarf the power of existing lasers for research into particle physics. ... more | .. |
Telescopes looking for alien life shut off A telescope array in California built to listen for signals from distant alien civilizations has been shut down for lack of money, its operators say. ... more |
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  GSAT-8 put through its paces The Indian GSAT-8 multi-role spacecraft for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission is undergoing an in-depth checkout at the Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for its liftoff on May 19. G ... more | .. |
 Russia's Progress M-09M spacecraft to be sunk in Pacific Russia's Progress M-09M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in the remote area in southern Pacific Ocean later on Tuesday after it undocked from the International Space Station on April 22, a spokesman fo ... more | .. |
 Russia prepares to launch space freighter to ISS A Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the Progress M-10M cargo spacecraft has been transferred to a launch pad at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan in preparation for the April 27 launch, Russia's Fed ... more | .. |
 T-38s Soar as Spaceflight Trainers Years before the space shuttle would glide home to a safe touchdown on runways in California and Florida, astronauts pitched the noses of T-38 jet trainers toward the same runways to find out what i ... 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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  Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan. And now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who ... more | .. |
 Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. "It's like finding a ... more | .. |
 End of an Era This week, Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off on STS-134, the second to the last shuttle flight as a government-owned launch vehicle. Even as you read this article, Kennedy Space Cente ... more | .. |
  SecuraPets Introduces Better Way To Find Lost Pets According to the ASPCA, about 5 to 7 million companion animals enter shelters every year. But, the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy states that less than 2 percent of cats and onl ... more |
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 Topcon First Major Company To Track New GLONASS K1 Satellite Signals Within an hour of the first signal emanating from the new GLONASS K1 satellite on April 7, Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) engineers were tracking the satellite's L1 and L2 signals. TPS receivers t ... more | .. |
 Handheld Group Wins Large Public Transportation Tender For Rugged PDAs The has been awarded the contract to supply the Netherlands Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NS) with more than 10,000 rugged Nautiz handhelds, 6,000 of which will be the Nautiz eTicket Pro, contai ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Cascading Material Pours onto a Young Star Astronomer Joel Green of The University of Texas at Austin has been following a rare massive flare from a nascent star similar to the early Sun using the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel Sp ... more |
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