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Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch No Earlier Than May 16Kennedy Space Center FL (NASA) May 09, 2011 NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also extended the length of Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station from 14 to 16 days. If Endeavour launches on May 16, liftoff would be at 8:56 a.m. EDT. At 3 p.m. on Monday, May 9, NASA Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses and Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach will hold a news conference at Kennedy Space Center in Flo ... read more |
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  Next Generation Missile Warning Satellite Launched Successfully The first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched Friday at 2:10 p.m. EDT from Cape Canavera ... more | .. |
  ESA hands over keys to Soyuz launch site The official ceremony marking ESA's handover of the Soyuz launch site to Arianespace took place at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, after the site was declared ready for the first flight and the ... more | .. |
  Hot Spring Horsetails Oldest Existing Land Plant Over 100 million years ago, the understory of late Mesozoic forests was dominated by a diverse group of plants of the class Equisetopsida. Today, only one genus from this group, Equisetum (also know ... more | .. |
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 Endeavour shuttle launch delayed again: NASA The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed for a third time, until at least May 16, as engineers try to fix an electrical problem, NASA announced Friday. ... more | .. |
 Paper announces discovery of 1 of earliest minerals formed in solar system In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite, one of the earliest minerals formed in our solar system. It ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Small Payloads Launched Careers of Many Airlines can not afford to fly with empty seats very often - and Space Shuttle orbiters can't leave valuable payload capacity "on the ground." Costing hundreds of millions of dollars per flight, NAS ... more | .. |
  Venezuela parliament authorizes new satellite program with China Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday endorsed a new satellite contract program with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries. The parliament published the author ... 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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  Space Adventures proposes modified Soyuz TMA for Lunar tourists U.S. Space Adventures, the only company currently offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial fl ... more | .. |
 Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolution higher than two meters. Scanex ... more | .. |
  China launches rocket to monitor space environment China successfully launched a space environment-monitoring rocket Saturday morning from the southern island province of Hainan as part of the nation's key "Meridian Project." The rocket was se ... more | .. |
  Gilat to Provide Turnkey VSAT Network and Operations for Interim Satellite Service in Australia Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Optus Networks Pty Limited to provide a SkyEdge II Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network, installation, operation and maintenance for the Australi ... more |
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  SSTL delivers groundstation equipment for UK operational space HQ As part of the Astrium-led Earth Observation (EO) Hub project at the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) in Harwell, small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has compl ... more | .. |
  Mars Express Sees Deep Fractures on Mars Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep a ... more | .. |
  Messenger Completes First 100 Orbits Of Mercury MESSENGER has completed its 100th orbit around Mercury. Since its insertion into orbit about the innermost planet on March 17, the spacecraft has executed nearly 2 million commands. The data g ... more | .. |
 Artists switch from easels to touch-screens Autodesk on Friday released a major update to SketchBook Pro software that has artists switching from pencils and paints to virtual canvasses on iPhones or iPad tablet computers. ... 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 | .. |
 Pivotal Shift Underway in Satellite Observations of Earth Making use of Earth remote sensing satellites to help monitor and perhaps defuse conflict is among the topics presented in the Spring 2011 issue of Imaging Notes magazine - a unique publication devo ... more | .. |
  ISS orbit to be readjusted for Soyuz TMA-20 return The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) on Thursday, Russian Mission Control said. "The readjustment is necessary to ensure the best condit ... more | .. |
 NASA, Space Community Remember 'Freedom 7' On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The slender, 82-foot-t ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons ... more |
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  First IAC in Africa: Global space actors to meet in Cape Town The 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2011) will be organised in Cape Town, South Africa between Monday 3 October and Friday 7 October 2011. Media representatives are invited to attend ... more | .. |
 Four Planets Huddle Up Before Dawn Next Week Four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye huddle quite close together in the pre-dawn sky next week, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. On the morning of May 10, Venus an ... more | .. |
 Space Adventures Reflects Upon A Decade In Space Tourism Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, has outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additiona ... more | .. |
 Orbital Space Tourism Demand Space projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite, Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha and Russian Orbital Technologies plans have created increasing interest in orbital space tourism, an ... 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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 Opportunity Images Small Craters Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with a brief sojourn through a small field of young impact craters. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first American into space, A ... more | .. |
  NASA Administrator Visits Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. The solar-powered Juno space ... more | .. |
  A Water Ocean on Titan Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more | .. |
 ISS Orbit raised to help crew return to Earth The International Space Station's orbit was raised 0.62 miles Thursday to help NASA's Catherine Coleman and other crew members return to Earth, Russia said. ... more |
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 Romania, US conclude talks on missile shield Bucharest and Washington have concluded talks on the deployment of US missile interceptors in Romania and will sign the agreement next autumn, Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said Thursday. ... more | .. |
US marks 50 years since second human spaceflight Three weeks after the world marked 50 years since Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space, the United States is honoring the American who followed him, Alan Shepard. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Participates in E2DS Energy and Climate Change Conference Chief technology officers (CTO) from Northrop Grumman shared their views this week on how the aerospace, defense and security sector can leverage its expertise to address the challenges faced by the ... more | .. |
 Patriot Test Fires PAC-3 MSE Missile Raytheon's Patriot Air and Missile Defense System successfully test fired Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) missile recently at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. "This de ... more |
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