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India designing reusable spacecraftBhubaneswar, India (PTI) May 12, 2011 Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, P S Veeraraghavan on Wednesday said India`s space scientists are designing a reusable space craft, which is likely to be launched in 2030. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently working on Human Spacelift Project or the man mission in 2015 and Chandrayan-II in 2013, he said. "The winged Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has already been configured. It will give India an edge in space sci ... read more |
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  Dawn - first visual contact with Vesta The camera system on board the Dawn spacecraft has acquired its first image of the massive asteroid Vesta. Although the mission's first target is still about 975,000 kilometres away, appearing as ju ... more | .. |
  Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt and Climate When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's l ... more | .. |
  Astronauts Learn Ropes Strapping in Crews Astronauts climbing into a space shuttle are typically thinking about lots of things, from trajectories and abort scenarios to systems and when to talk to the launch team and mission controllers. No ... more | .. |
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  Mayflower Test Satellite Proves Successful During Recent SpaceX Mission Northrop Grumman and Applied Minds have announced the success of a recent launch and orbit of a Mayflower test microsatellite. Data gathered from around the world was analyzed, showing all tested sy ... more | .. |
 Texas Space Alliance Celebrates New Space "Tourism" Law The Texas Space Alliance congratulated the governor and legislature on passing what it hopes will be the first of a new wave of pro-commercial space laws in the last weeks, and called for the Texas ... more | .. |
  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more | .. |
  Russian firm accused of selling rocket engines to US at half cost Russian engineering corporation Energomash sold rocket engines to the United States at half production cost, losing $32 million as a result, the Russian Comptroller's Office said on Wednesday. ... more |
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Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
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  Flipping Hot Jupiters More than 500 extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than the sun - have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these syste ... more | .. |
  NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ... more | .. |
 Mississippi Flooding Captured by NASA Satellites The Mississippi River reached nearly 48 feet in Memphis, Tenn., on May 10, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It was the highest water level for Memphis since 1937. Several of NAS ... more | .. |
 What a scorcher: 'Hot Jupiter' puzzle explained Scientists on Wednesday said they could explain why heat-seared giant planets in other solar systems can mysteriously orbit their star the "wrong" way. ... more |
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  Worried on China, US seeks rules in space The United States said Wednesday it wanted to set guidelines with China on the use of space, voicing worries that the Asian power is increasingly able to destroy or jam satellites. ... more | .. |
 Google notebooks challenge Microsoft Notebook computers powered by Google software are heading to market in a direct assault on the Windows operating system at the heart of Microsoft's technology empire. ... more | .. |
  Russian defense ministry may broadcast live Bulava missile launches The Russian Defense Ministry plans to broadcast live test launches of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on its new website, spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. Russia plans t ... more | .. |
  United States unfolding missile defense in Europe de facto says Rogozin The United States is already deploying its missile defense system in Europe without waiting for an agreement with Russia, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. Romania announced on Tuesd ... 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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  Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop EHF SatComms Antenna for B-2 Bomber A new antenna system now under development by Northrop Grumman will enable the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to send and receive battlefield information securely by satellite up to 100 times faster than ... more | .. |
  Europe's first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraft Pau Pyrenees in southern France has become Europe's first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only this highly accurate space navigation signa ... more | .. |
 Broadband Lidar Instrument Successfully Tested on NASA's DC-8 How do instruments end up on satellites orbiting the Earth? For many of them, long before they are ever launched into space, they are tested from NASA airplanes. One of the objectives of the NASA Ai ... more | .. |
  Israeli researcher develops nano-scale gyroscope Jerusalem, Israel (XNA) May 11, 2011 Israeli researcher Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering, has developed a nano-scale gyroscope, the Ha'aretz ... more |
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  Doppler effect found even at molecular level - 169 years after its discovery Whether they know it or not, anyone who's ever gotten a speeding ticket after zooming by a radar gun has experienced the Doppler effect - a measurable shift in the frequency of radiation based on th ... more | .. |
 AFIT education paves way to space How far can a higher education take you? About 220 nautical miles - straight up. That's at least true for retired Col. Steve Lindsey, an astronaut with NASA and graduate of the Air Force Institute o ... more | .. |
 Raging storms sweep away galactic gas ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies. Suspected for years, these outflows may have the power to strip galaxies of gas and ... more | .. |
 Soyuz launch from Europe space base set for October The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe's space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. ... 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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 Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace Delivers Deployable Reflector to Astrium for Alphasat I-XL Spacecraft Astro Aerospace has delivered its fourth deployable AstroMesh reflector to Astrium in Toulouse, France, this one for the Alphasat I-XL spacecraft that will provide commercial, broadband telecommunic ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU Guides MESSENGER Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury Northrop Grumman's space navigation aid recently provided key guidance and control information that allowed NASA's MESSENGER to become the first spacecraft to successfully orbit Mercury, marking the ... more | .. |
 Engineering Tests Leading The Way For NASA's Next Neemo Mission To determine how best to explore asteroids in the future, NASA scientists and engineers are taking their experiments underwater in the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, ... more | .. |
 Materials: Out of This World Space isn't empty. Space is considered an environment - an extreme environment, filled with entities that can be harmful to spacecraft. In space, there are several environmental threats that c ... more |
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 All Eyes on the Shuttle Perhaps one of the most impressive images is that of a space shuttle lifting off the launch pad. But more than just an impressive sight, images play a critical role in shuttle flight safety. Each su ... more | .. |
 Caught in the act by Herschel ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has detected massive amounts of molecular gas gusting at high velocities - in some cases in excess of 1000 kilometres per second - from the centres of a set of mergi ... more | .. |
  Fundamental question on how life started solved For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bo ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects 'Whipple' Mission for Technology Development As part of its Discovery Program, NASA has selected three potential missions for 2016 that would look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial ocean on one of Saturn's moons; ... more |
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