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ALPHA stores antimatter atoms for nearly 17 minutesGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 07, 2011 The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has created and stored a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for up to 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes), with an indication of much longer storage time as well. ALPHA announced in November, 2010, that they had succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for the first time ever, having captured 38 atoms of antihydrogen and storing each for a sixth of a second. In the weeks following, ALPHA continued to ... read more |
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  Mitsubishi Electric to Double Satellite Production Capacity Mitsubishi Electric has announced that under a plan to double annual satellite production capacity from four satellites to eight, it will invest approximately 3 billion JPY to enlarge and upgrade it ... more | .. |
  Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System Jupiter, long settled in its position as the fifth planet from our sun, was a rolling stone in its youth. Over the eons, the giant planet roamed toward the center of the solar system and back out ag ... more | .. |
  Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - part 3 Our wake-up call came at 8am (later than expected): the winds in Marambio were an incredibly strong 80-100 km/h (50-60 mph), and we were on hold, waiting for a break in the weather. Aside from the u ... more | .. |
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  'Live' airborne astronomy I had already been working on the SOFIA project for some years, when back in 1998, a consortium of German research institutes (Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy in Bonn, University of Cologne, ... more | .. |
  Indra To Supply Satellite Communications Systems To Brazil's MoD Indra will provide rapid deployment satellite communications systems to Brazil's armed forces. The contract was awarded through public tender where Indra competed with the main companies of the sect ... more | .. |
 FOGE Reaches 10 On June 4th, the Federation of Galaxy Explorers (FOGE) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a formal gala event. For those of you who do not know about FOGE, it is a non-profit educational organiza ... more | .. |
  Three Satellites See Eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Volcano from Space NASA's Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Par ... 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 | .. |
  Building harmonious outer space to achieve inclusive development China hopes all countries would continue to strengthen open and inclusive international cooperation characterized by equality and mutual benefit and further improve related laws in outer space explo ... more | .. |
 Astrophysicists use X-ray fingerprints to study eating habits of giant black holes By studying the X-rays emitted when superheated gases plunge into distant and massive black holes, astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have provided an important test of a long-st ... more | .. |
  Weizmann Institute Observatory Captures Images of a New Supernova Exploding stars are the "factories" that produce all the heavy elements found, among other places, in our bodies. In this sense, we are all stardust. These exploding stars - supernovae - are highly ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Studies Rock Outcrop Opportunity has exceeded 30 kilometers (nearly 19 miles) of odometry! The rover spent the last few sols investigating some exposed rock outcrop en route to Endeavour crater, now just a few kilometer ... more |
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  New Crew Members Prepare for Launch Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:12 p.m. EDT Tuesday (2:12 a.m. Wednesday, Baiko ... more | .. |
 Fly Your Thesis! 2011 campaign The second series of flights in ESA's 'Fly Your Thesis!' programme concluded recently. After many months of preparation, the 10-day campaign culminated with four student experiments making three par ... more | .. |
 A Salute to the Spirit of Mars The Voyagers are, perhaps, the best known example. Launched in the 1970s to explore the outer planets, the iconic spacecraft have zoomed far beyond their original targets to the edge of interstellar ... more | .. |
  Gliese's Hints of Habitability An international team of astronomers has ruled out transits of a water-rich or hydrogen-helium atmosphere planet for Gliese 581e. The host star itself is relatively quiet which means good news for t ... 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 | .. |
  Wake turbulence during cruising flight When aircraft fly, they generate turbulent airflow behind them known as 'wake turbulence', which can affect following air traffic. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfa ... more | .. |
 Science and Maintenance for Station Crew The three residents of the International Space Station were busy with science experiments and maintenance activities Friday as they await the arrival of three additional crew members. Joining ... more | .. |
  NASA, NSBRI Select 12 Proposals To Support Crew Health On Missions NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 12 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performanc ... more | .. |
  Russia plans to launch six Glonass satellites in 2011 Russian Space Agency Roscosmos plans to launch five Glonass-M satellites and one Glonass-K satellite in 2011, Roscosmos' deputy chief Anatoly Shilov said Wednesday. The first launch of the Glo ... more |
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  Teledyne and Aerojet form alliance to build rocket engines Teledyne Technologies reports that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., in Huntsville, Ala., has signed a letter of agreement to form a strategic alliance with Aerojet - General Corpora ... more | .. |
  Shipments Of Sea Launch Zenit-3Sl Hardware Resume On Schedule Sea Launch has resumed shipments of Zenit-3SL hardware in preparation for its return to launch operations in the third quarter of 2011. The two-stage Zenit-2S booster, manufactured by PO Yuzhm ... more | .. |
  Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission On 8 June, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch ESA's Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months. During this loneliest leg of its decade-long mission, R ... more | .. |
 Boeing Announces Workforce Reductions in Space Exploration Division Boeing has issued 60-day advance layoff notices to approximately 510 employees in its Space Exploration division, resulting primarily from the planned completion of the Space Shuttle program. ... 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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 ATV-2 adjusts ISS orbit; ext TMA Soyuz assembled Russia's Mission Control raised the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 3.74 km (2.3 miles), to 346,4 km (215.2 miles), a Mission Control spokesman said on Friday. "The adjustmen ... more | .. |
  Did A Massive Solar Proton Event Fry The Earth Close to the end of the last ice age there was a sudden disappearance of many mammalian species which some paleontologists say was the most severe since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million ... more | .. |
 Five Steps Toward Future Exploration The NASA Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program has announced a set of new projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the astrobiological explorati ... more | .. |
  The Power of A Moon Rock Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The six space flights returned 2,200 se ... more |
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  Missing link found in the biology of cloud formation over the oceans Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimet ... more | .. |
 One year in isolation The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters home about the highlights, monotonous life, te ... more | .. |
 Homemade Danish rocket takes off A home-made rocket built by two Danes successfully blasted off from a floating launch pad off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Friday, nine months after its first test flight failed due to a defective hair drier. ... more | .. |
Comet probe to enter 'hibernation' Controllers of a European comet-hunting spacecraft say they will put it in deep-space hibernation for the next 31 months as it heads for its distant target. ... more |
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