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A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar SystemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 10, 2011 NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system. Mission scientists say the probes have just sent back some very big news indeed. It's bubbly out there. According to computer models, the bubbles are large, about 100 million miles wide, so it would take the speedy probes weeks to cross just one of them. Voyager 1 ente ... read more |
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  Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients Some asteroids may have been like "molecular factories" cranking out life's ingredients and shipping them to Earth via meteorite impacts, according to scientists who've made discoveries of molecules ... more | .. |
  NASA's infrared image of major Hurricane Adrian reveals its stormy life's blood Strong thunderstorms are the life's blood of tropical cyclones, and infrared and radar satellite data from NASA confirms that the eastern Pacific Ocean's first hurricane has plenty of them and they' ... more | .. |
 Aquarius/SAC-D Launch Mission Status Update The international Aquarius/SAC-D Earth-observing mission, carrying the NASA-built Aquarius instrument, is scheduled to launch at 7:20 a.m. PDT (10:20 a.m. EDT), June 10, 2011, at Vandenberg Air Forc ... more | .. |
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  China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 goes to outer space China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 on Thursday set off from its moon orbit for outer space about 1.5 million km away from the earth, Chinese scientists said Thursday. The orbiter left its moon or ... more | .. |
  New Crew Members Arrive at ISS The Expedition 28 crew has expanded to six members with the arrival of Flight Engineers Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa. The new trio docked to the International Space Station in the ... more | .. |
  NASA Inspector General Report into the Management of MSL Project The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), part of the Science Mission Directorate's Mars Exploration Program (Mars Program), is the most technologically challenging interplanetary rover ever designed. ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER's Solar Arrays Probe to Operate in Extreme Temperatures Orbiting Mercury Key technologies and hardware developed by Northrop Grumman gave the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury a power system that works to its maximum even in the searing heat that surrounds the planet clo ... 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 | .. |
 Opportunity Heads Toward 'Spirit Point' When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reaches the rim of a large crater it is approaching, its arrival will come with an inspiring reminder. This crater, Endeavour, became the rover's ... more | .. |
  SES-3 Satellite Arrives At Baikonour Launch Base SES S.A. announces that the SES-3 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The SES-3 spacecraft, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corpor ... more | .. |
  Students Build Space Habitats at NASA's Johnson Space Center University students are helping NASA develop potential habitats for future space missions. Three teams from across the country will visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during June to show o ... more | .. |
  Helping shape space-based technology policies A Colorado State University professor known as an international expert in the use of GPS in agriculture has been named to a federal panel that helps shape national policy on space-based technologies ... more |
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  New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade. The n ... more | .. |
 Rosetta comet probe enters hibernation in deep space The final command placing ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser into deep-space hibernation has been sent. With virtually all systems shut down, the probe will now coast for 31 months until waking up in 2014 f ... more | .. |
  Help ESA to name Europe's next mission to Space Station Now that Paolo Nespoli has returned from the International Space Station, we are looking forward to Europe's next mission. Andre Kuipers will be launched to the orbital outpost in November - but his ... more | .. |
  NASA Releases New Lunar Eclipse Video In anticipation of the upcoming lunar eclipse later this month, NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team will release anoth ... 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 | .. |
 A Mariner 10 Perspective on MESSENGER: A First-person Account Forty years ago, in 1971, I became a member of the Mariner 10 imaging science team. This Mercury flyby mission was intended to gather atmospheric data at Venus and geological and geophysical data at ... more | .. |
  NASA releases first photo of shuttle docked in space NASA on Tuesday released the first ever pictures of a US space shuttle docked at the International Space Station, taken by astronauts aboard a departing Russian spacecraft last month. ... more | .. |
  TacSat-3 Reaches 2-year Anniversary Space professionals at Air Force Space Command recently marked the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Tactical Satellite 3 and its primary payload ARTEMIS, the Advanced Responsive Tactically ... more | .. |
 New NSR Report Projects Over 1,600 Satellites To Be Launched Over The Next 15 Years According to NSR's newest market research report, Global Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Markets, the industry should launch satellites worth collectively over $250 Billion over the next 15 years ... more |
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  ISRO to begin flight testing of GSLV MkIII in next two years The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday said it will start flight testing of the GSLV Mk III for launching four-tonne class of satellites in the next two years. Addressing the ... more | .. |
 New class of stellar explosions found They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Amon ... more | .. |
 Cosmic blasts point to new class of supernova Astronomers on Wednesday reported that six ultra-bright flashes detected in deep space were ancient exploding stars that are a new kind of supernova. ... more | .. |
 Comet-chasing probe goes into hibernation in 10-year trek A billion-euro (1.47-billion-dollar) space probe was placed in hibernation on Wednesday until 2014, when it will be woken for a deep-space rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ... 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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  VLT Survey Telescope Offer Spectacular Views Of Omega Nebula The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telesco ... more | .. |
 Soyuz heads to ISS carrying Russian, US, Japanese astronauts A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off on Tuesday with a Russian, a US and a Japanese astronaut aboard headed for the International Space Station (ISS). ... more | .. |
 Japan's next gizmo: brainwave-controlled cat ears A team of Japanese inventors have come with a new device that blends the country's fascination with cuteness and its penchant for experimental high-tech - brainwave-controlled cat ears. ... more | .. |
  Romantis Goes Global Romantishas announced the formation of its new entity, Romantis Inc., headquartered in Montreal, Canada with offices in the United States. Romantis in close cooperation with the other group members ... more |
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 Hot Towers in First Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirme ... more | .. |
 New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, w ... more | .. |
 KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband SATCOM Service Makes ECDIS Compliance More Affordable In a move to increase safety and efficiency at sea, the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) new Electronic Chart and Display Information System (ECDIS) regulations require certain commercial ... more | .. |
 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches "Surfer" Waves on the Sun Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energ ... more |
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