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SpaceX Secures Launch Contract In Major Asian MarketHawthorne, CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2011 telecommunications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) from its Cape Canaveral launch site in the second quarter of 2013. The contract brings another international launch to the United States to fly with SpaceX. Thaicom is the eighth non-U.S. customer manifested for upcoming flights aboard the Falcon 9. "This deal highlights the confidence that satellite operators have in SpaceX capabilities, and is the latest example of the effect SpaceX is having on the international comme ... read more |
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  Age of Aquarius Dawns With California Launch NASA's 'Age of Aquarius' dawned Friday with the launch of an international satellite carrying the agency-built Aquarius instrument that will measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans to advance our un ... more | .. |
  Commercial Rocket Engine Test Firing Experiences Early Shutdown An Aerojet AJ26 flight engine for Orbital Sciences Corporations' Taurus II space launch vehicle experienced a premature shutdown during a test firing on June 9. The test was conducted on the E-1 Tes ... more | .. |
  Small Sun-watcher Proba-2 offers detailed view of massive solar eruption ESA's Proba-2 small Sun-watcher was among the flotilla of satellites on watch as the Sun erupted spectacularly this week. After years of relative quietness, the Sun is waking up. Tuesday 7 Jun ... more | .. |
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 STEREO Sees Complete Far Side The far side unveiled! This is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth. Captured on June 1, 2011, the composite image was assembled from NASA's two S ... more | .. |
 Canadian Microbolometer Sensor Focusing on Oceans, Fires and Volcanoes Canada's Earth Observation Program reached new heights Friday with the successful launch of the 4th Argentinian Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) aboard a Delta II rocket. The New I ... more | .. |
  Orbital Awarded Contract for Thaicom 6 Communications Satellite Orbital Sciences Corporation report that THAICOM Plc. has awarded the company a firm contract for the Thaicom 6 communications satellite. Based on Orbital's GEOStar-2 satellite platform, the Thaicom ... more | .. |
  Rosetta's first glimpse of the comet Approximately 163 million kilometers still separate ESA's spacecraft Rosetta from comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, its 2014 target. Despite this remarkable distance, scientists from the Max Planck Insti ... 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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  Entry, descent and surface science for 2016 Mars mission ESA and NASA have announced the scientific investigations selected for their 2016 ExoMars lander demonstrator. They will probe the atmosphere during the descent, and return the first ever data on el ... more | .. |
 Landsat Satellite Images Compare Before and After Springfield Tornado Satellites provide a lot of useful information and the Landsat 5 satellite captured an image of the long damage track created on June 1, 2011 when a tornado tracked from Springfield to Sturbridge, M ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives Contract to Support Iridium NEXT Boeing has announced that it has received a contract from Thales Alenia Space to provide system integration and testing support for Iridium NEXT. Iridium NEXT is the next-generation satellite conste ... more | .. |
  Satellite Takes 3-Billionth 'Photo' For a satellite that's only five years old, CALIPSO has accomplished a lot. The Earth-observing spacecraft took its three-billionth photo - actually a "lidar profile" - on June 2. June 7 marke ... more |
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  China probes into origin of universe on "roof of the world" At the foot of snow-capped Tanggula Mountain, 789 matrix detectors and 5,000 square meters of carpet detectors are probing into the depths of the universe by analyzing cosmic rays streaming into the ... more | .. |
 Good night, Rosetta - European comet chaser goes into hibernation On 8 June 2011, the Rosetta spacecraft will be put into hibernation after having travelled through space for more than seven years. To reduce energy consumption, the European probe will be flying in ... more | .. |
  Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly the coldest temperature achievable to form a super ... more | .. |
  Blood Red Moon Predicted Get set for an amazing adventure. The eclipse will be visible over more than half the globe, throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia. ... 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 Space Program Completes Critical Review Northrop Grumman recently completed a systems requirement review (SRR), the first of several important steps to design, build and deliver a new spacecraft bus to reduce costs to space operations. ... more | .. |
  Meteorite holds clues to organic chemistry of the early Earth Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of our planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago, including materials tha ... more | .. |
 Up, Up and Away for Mars In April, NASA's Spaceward Bound project returned to Zzyzx, California, in the Mojave Desert. Spaceward Bound brings together primary-grade science teachers with scientists to conduct astrobiology r ... more | .. |
  Aircraft systems in the environmental chamber The plane takes off from Munich in bright weather, temperature 10 degrees Celsius, and lands in Anchorage, Alaska, in driving snow, temperature minus 15. Parked on the airfield overnight, the aircra ... more |
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  Space station puts out welcome mat The International Space Station will see a lot of traffic, culminating with the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis on the shuttle's last mission, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Quest for 'God particle' has setback Scientists chasing the elusive particle known as the Higgs boson - thought to be the origin of mass - expressed disappointment when a U.S. lab turned up zip. ... more | .. |
Soyuz docks at ISS carrying Russian, US, Japanese astronauts A Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian, a US and a Japanese astronaut aboard docked Thursday at the International Space Station, the Russian control centre said. ... 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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