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ISS astronauts land safely in Kazakhstan: mission controlMoscow (AFP) May 24, 2011 A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said Tuesday. "They have landed and all is well. They landed at approximately 0627 (0227 GMT)," a spokesman for mission control told AFP. Russia's Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, and NASA's Catherine Coleman landed in the correct location to the east of the town of Jezkazgan after spending 159 days i ... read more |
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  Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems Just Keeps Growing NASA's Kepler spacecraft is proving itself to be a prolific planet hunter. Within just the first four months of data, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of tho ... more | .. |
  Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in prepa ... more | .. |
  NASA Hopes It's Time To Explore Titan The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence that implies the possible existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. In fact, Titan has been characterized as ... more | .. |
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  Black Holes Spin Faster And Faster Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the ... more | .. |
  Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent a ... more | .. |
  A Million Roofs Forgotten The NSW solar scandal just gets better and better. The government's retrospective commercial legislation to cut the solar feed in tariff will now seek to define a hardship loss for some solar home own ... more | .. |
  Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the ... 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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  NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga. Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor seen by their network in almost three years of operation. On May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter ... more | .. |
  Russia opens negligence case over loss of Glonass satellites Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case on charges of negligence that led to the loss of three Glonass satellites last year, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday. The satelli ... more | .. |
  Orbit Raising Operation of GSAT-8 Satellite Conducted Successfully The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-8 was successfully conducted at 03:58 hrs (IST) this morning (May 22, 2011) with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GS ... more | .. |
 Expedition 27 Crew Undocks from Station After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli undocked from the station ... more |
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  Satellites monitor Icelandic ash plume As Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano spews ash high into the atmosphere, satellite observations are providing essential information to advisory centres assessing the possible hazards to aviation. Th ... more | .. |
  Galileo: Europe prepares for October launch The European Space Agency, Arianespace and the European Commission has announced that the launch of the first two satellites of Europe's global navigation satellite system is planned to take place o ... more | .. |
  Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - Part 1 Once you've been to Antarctica, you just really want to go back. There is a sign in the lunch room here at Marambio base, that says (with poetic license thanks to Pablo): "When you arrived you barel ... more | .. |
  A New View Of An Ancient Habitable Planet The Visible Paleo-Earth (VPE), the first collection of photorealistic visualizations of our planet from space in the last 750 million years, has been released by The Planetary Habitability Laborator ... 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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 EU announces launch date for first Galileo satellites The European Union announced Monday it will launch the first two satellites in its long-delayed and hugely over-budget Galileo navigation system from French Guiana on October 20. ... more | .. |
 Bennett team discovers new class of extrasolar planets University of Notre Dame astronomer David Bennett is co-author of a new paper describing the discovery of a new class of planets - dark, isolated Jupiter-mass bodies floating alone in space, far fro ... more | .. |
  Stratospheric UAV Payloads Provide New Ways to Chase Al Qaeda The classic special operations success in killing Osama bin Laden was certainly supported by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). That was undoubtedly a difficult operation given the limited endurance b ... more | .. |
  Intelsat General To Support Armed Forces Radio And Television Service Intelsat General, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat, S.A., has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $145 million to provide comprehensive satellite connectivity to the Ar ... more |
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 US Navy and Northrop Grumman-led UCAS-D Flight Test Team Honored Twice by USAF The U.S. Air Force has recognized for operational excellence the U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman flight test team that successfully conducted first and subsequent flights of the Navy's X-47B unmanned air ... more | .. |
 RAF Announces New Reaper Squadron A new Reaper squadron is to form at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire which will control the aircraft over Afghanistan from the UK for the first time. Speaking at the disbandment of Number XIII Tornado ... more | .. |
 NASA/University Japan Quake Study Yields Surprises When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense ... more | .. |
  Shuttle Tile Inspection Clears Endeavour For Return To Earth Mission managers cleared Endeavour's thermal protection system for re-entry after analysis of data and images from an early-morning focused robotic inspection of the tiles. A conversation with ... 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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  Endeavour Crater Just Three Miles Away For Opportunity Mars Rover Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater, now less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away. The rover drove on four of the last six sols. On Sol 2595 (May 13, 2011), Opportunit ... more | .. |
  Environmental Tectonics Forms Non-Profit NASTAR Foundation to Support Aerospace Industry Environmental Tectonics has announced the formation of the NASTAR Foundation, a non-profit organization that fosters opportunities for people of all ages to experience the excitement of aerospace ex ... more | .. |
  ILS Proton Successfully Launches Telstar 14R And Estrela do Sul 2 for Telesat International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 into orbit on an ILS Proton for Telesat, a leading global fixed satellite services operator. The ILS P ... more | .. |
 Climate scientists reveal new candidate for first habitable exoplanet The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exop ... more |
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 Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supe ... more | .. |
 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at acc ... more | .. |
 NASA's Atlantis Moves To Launch Pad May 31 For Final Shuttle Launch Space shuttle Atlantis will begin moving to its launch pad at 8 p.m. EDT on May 31, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The six-hour rollout from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building is a majo ... more | .. |
 Satellites for Asia and India are orbited on Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve on ... more |
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