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ESA chief hits at 'anarchy' over space station planningLe Bourget, France (AFP) June 20, 2011 Europe's space chief on Monday said the International Space Station faced lean times as a result of the US shuttle phase-out and said project planning for transport to the ISS had been "anarchy". Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), said the scheduled phase-out of the US space shuttle meant "we are not in a very comfortable situation, and that's just a euphemism." "The biggest lesson from the international space station programme is entirely the lack of a jo ... read more |
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  Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini f ... more | .. |
 Johannes Kepler has left the ISS Europe's Johannes Kepler ATV cargo ferry undocked from the International Space Station Monday at 14:46:30 GMT (16:46:30 CEST). The craft is now leaving the orbital outpost far behind and will end it ... more | .. |
  China to launch new communication satellite China will launch a new communication satellite, Zhongxing-10, in the next few days at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. Sources with the center said Sunday that a Long M ... more | .. |
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  Looking for new vistas of space exploration With the ISS slated to go out of business in 2020 the world needs to decide exactly where manned cosmonautics is going from there. Speaking at a professional roundtable, held on the fringes of the I ... more | .. |
  SSTL expands into state-of-the-art technical facility Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has moved its technical operations into The Kepler Building, a new Pounds 10 million state-of-the-art technical facility, providing assembly, testing and inte ... more | .. |
  STS-135 Crew Arrives in Florida for Countdown Rehearsal The four veteran astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission arrived Monday evening at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their prelaunch countdown rehearsal. "I speak on be ... more | .. |
  International team to discover neutrinos can change 'flavors' An international research team led by Japan and including the University of Colorado Boulder may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Ban ... 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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  Loral Selected to Provide Multi-Mission Communications Satellite to Telenor Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to provide a multi-mission spacecraft for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc). The satellite, THOR 7, will include Telenor's first Ka-b ... more | .. |
  JWST completes first round of cryogenic mirror test The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror for space observations completed final cryogenic testing this week. The ten week test series included t ... more | .. |
  Scientist analyzes the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 Nearly one year ago, a repurposed NASA spacecraft flew by the comet Hartley 2. As a result, a multitude of high-resolution images were gathered over 50 days that allow scientists to understand the n ... more | .. |
 Signing of EDA-ESA Administrative Arrangement ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met EDA Chief Executive Claude-France Arnould at the Paris Air and Space Show Monday to sign an Administrative Arrangement on cooperation between ESA and th ... more |
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  Rocketdyne J-2X Engine Ready for Test Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne completed assembly of the first J-2X upper-stage engine for NASA's next era of human spaceflight in preparation for demonstration testing expected to begin this month at ... more | .. |
 One-Hundred-Year Starship Study - Part 2 The May 9 Launchspace email release introduced the latest idea from the "Department of Mad Scientists," a study of a 100-year starship mission. This is a joint NASA/DARPA project to generate ideas f ... more | .. |
  Raytheon's First-of-Its-Kind Space-Based Hyperspectral Sensor Marks Second Year on Orbit A groundbreaking space sensor built by Raytheon has completed its second year on orbit, exceeding its design life by 100 percent. The Advanced Responsive, Tactically Effective Military Imaging Senso ... more | .. |
  NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in ... 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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 NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satel ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting cont ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Receives US Navy Contract to Support Satellite Communication System The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company a $51.6 million contract to provide logistics support for the communication terminals of the Navy's Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program (NESP). ... more |
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 Euroconsult Report Forecasts 7 Percent Annual Increase In MSS Revenue Over Next Decade Euroconsult, the leading international consulting and analyst firm specializing in the satellite communications market, said in a new report on mobile satellite services (MSS) that continued demand ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Endures Its First Hot Season Yesterday the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed the first of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit about Mercury. During these hot seasons, the ... more | .. |
  19-Mile Mark See Opportunity For A Solar Panel Clean Up Opportunity continues to make excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with under 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) to go before the first landfall on the rim. On Sols 2622, 2626, 2627 and 2628 ... more | .. |
  Model Ordinance to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting International Dark-Sky Association The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) announce public release of the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO), a valuab ... 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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 NASA Issues Announcement For Solar Electric Propulsion Studies NASA issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a solar electric propulsion system demonstration to test and validate key capabilities and technologies ... more | .. |
 Firestorm of Star Birth in the Active Galaxy Centaurus A Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-in ... more | .. |
 ATV preparing for fiery destruction ATV Johannes Kepler has been an important part of the International Space Station since February. Next week, it will complete its mission by undocking and burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere hig ... more | .. |
 Phobos slips past Jupiter Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movi ... more |
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 Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013. Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on ... more | .. |
 Commercial Spaceflight Federation Supports Use of Space Act Agreements For the next phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Development Program, following CCDev Rounds 1 and 2, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation strongly supports the use of Space Act Agreements (SAAs) under ... more | .. |
 European endorsement for space hazards program The European Commission recently set out the EU's main space priorities, which include protection of Europe's space assets. The affirmation spotlights the Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Pro ... more | .. |
 Former Astronaut Develops Powerful Rocket As scientists develop plans one day to send humans to Mars, they know the journey will involve many hazards for the astronauts, including possibly many months of exposure to dangerous radiation outs ... more |
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