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Technical failure delays Endeavour launch to MondayCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) April 29, 2011 The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour was delayed at least 72 hours Friday due to a technical failure with the shuttle's heating units that arose shortly before liftoff, NASA said. Engineers were working to determine what caused the problem, which postponed until at least Monday the shuttle's last journey to the International Space Station in what will mark the second to last shuttle flight ever. "We hope we can get there by Monday," said shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach. If not, oth ... read more |
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  China to attempt first space rendezvous China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday. ... more | .. |
  US seeks changes in India's DTH satellite policy The US has said it will ''encourage'' India to change its policies which give exclusive rights to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for selling the satellite capacity to the lucrative di ... more | .. |
  Putin fires Russia space chief after mishaps Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday fired the Russian space agency chief after a series of high-profile setbacks cast a shadow on the 50th anniversary year of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight. ... more | .. |
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  UMaine Students Test Wireless Sensors on Rocket Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California's Mojave Desert. ... more | .. |
  ESA prepares Soyuz for dry roll-out The first Russian Soyuz ST rocket built for launch from the European Space Agency's site at Kourou in French Guyana will be rolled out to the launch pad for dry systems tests on April 29, the Russia ... more | .. |
  Building a Heavenly Palace in outer space China's permanent space station, the Heavenly Palace, is to be launched into orbit within a decade. According to Chinese media reports, the 60-ton craft will include a central module and two laborat ... more | .. |
  NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed ... 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 | .. |
  Arianespace to launch ABS-2 in 2013 Arianespace has confirmed the launch date for the ABS-2 satellite for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS), one of the leading satellite operators in the Asia Pacific. ABS-2 will be launched by an Ariane ... more | .. |
  Russia, Sweden to boost space cooperation Russia and Sweden agreed on Wednesday to improve cooperation in the space industry, including their intention to launch Swedish satellites using Russian carrier rockets. The two countries sign ... more | .. |
  Andromeda's coat of many colours ESA's fleet of space telescopes has captured the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, in different wavelengths. Most of these wavelengths are invisible to the eye and each shows a different a ... more | .. |
  First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology The origins of my new book - "First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth" - lie more in journalism than in science. As a relatively recent convert to space and science ... more |
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 Next-generation US space racers outline plans A handful of companies competing to make the spaceship to replace the iconic US shuttle said Thursday they are racing to shrink what will be a long gap in flying Americans into space aboard US craft. ... more | .. |
  $53 million pledged to Kickstarter in two years Kickstarter, a website which collects donations for creative projects, said Thursday that it has received pledges of more than $53 million since its launch two years ago. ... more | .. |
 BSkyB says net profits sink in third quarter BSkyB, the British pay-TV giant being wooed by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., announced on Thursday that third-quarter net profits fell owing to one-off charges, but added that demand was buoyant. ... more | .. |
  New material creates invisibility U.S. researchers say they've created a cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range, which lies between infrared and microwaves. ... 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 | .. |
  Impact of cloudy sunlight on energy balance depends on light wavelength Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected ... more | .. |
 Chip satellites depart on Endeavour's final launch A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, radiat ... more | .. |
  Profiling Polar Craters with the Mercury Laser Altimeter MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) uses a laser to measure the distance from the spacecraft to Mercury's surface. The instrument sends a laser pulse to Mercury and measures the time it takes ... more | .. |
  'Spinstars' - First Polluters of the Universe From the analysis of the chemical composition of some of the oldest stars in our Galaxy, an international team of astronomers led by Cristina Chiappini from the Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Pot ... more |
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 NNSA Announces New Space Debris Modeling All this week, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is highlighting its advanced supercomputing capabilities with a week of features demonstrating the science and technology work done ... more | .. |
  World's Smallest Ku-band Maritime VSAT Terminal Receives FCC License KVH Industries has announced two key developments for its new TracPhone V3 satellite communications system and mini-VSAT BroadbandSM network. The first shipments of the TracPhone V3, the smallest Ku ... more | .. |
 Goodrich Delivers ORS-1 Satellite Goodrich, the prime contractor for the Operationally Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite, has announced that the pre-ship review was successfully completed last week and the satellite is being prep ... more | .. |
 NASA Receives European Commitment To Continue ISS The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Wednesday, April 27, to discuss increased efforts to use the station as a test-bed for exploration. ... 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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  Boulder, Huntsville are "Final Two" in National Solar Observatory Competition The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA Inc.) has elected to pursue advanced negotiations with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Alabama in Huntsville ... more | .. |
  Russia to build aerospace defence shield Russia will build a national aerospace defense shield by the end of 2011, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov told reporters on Tuesday in the cosmonau ... more | .. |
 Cargo Craft Launches as Crew Prepares for Space Shuttle The ISS Progress 42 resupply craft launched Wednesday morning to replenish the International Space Station. Launch was at 9:05 a.m. EDT (7:05 p.m. Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ... more | .. |
 Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... more |
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 Meteors from Halley's Comet Looking for an adventure? Get up in the wee hours of the morning May 6th and head out into the country, far from the city lights. You won't be alone. The birds will be up and singing about the comin ... more | .. |
 Russia launches cargo vessel for space station An unmanned Russian cargo vessel set off Wednesday on a mission to supply the crew on board the International Space Station with a new shipment of equipment and supplies. ... more | .. |
 Apple denies tracking iPhones, to fix 'bugs' Apple on Wednesday dismissed claims it was tracking iPhone users but said it would fix software "bugs" that resulted in location data being unencrypted and stored for up to a year. ... more | .. |
  Russia tests missiles amid nuke talks Russia has successfully test-fired a Sineva ballistic missile from one of its nuclear-powered submarines, a spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry said. ... more |
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