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NASA inks agreement with maker of Atlas V rocketWashington (AFP) July 18, 2011 NASA said Monday that it had reached an agreement with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to try to adopt the Atlas V commercial rocket to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin designed to provide cost-efficient rockets to send US government missions into space. The agreement was unveiled as the shuttle Atlantis prepares to return to earth Thursday from the ISS, its final voyage after three decades of space shuttle flights. ... read more |
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  Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving More than seven years into what was planned as a three-month mission on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than 20 miles, which is more than 50 times the mission's origi ... more | .. |
  Shuttle Atlantis heads home from space station The crew of Atlantis undocked Tuesday from the International Space Station, wrapping up the last visit by a US shuttle to the orbiting outpost and setting its sights on an emotional homecoming. ... more | .. |
 Russia sends observation satellite into space A Russian Zenith-3M rocket with an observation satellite blasted off early Monday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The rocket with Fregat-SB upper stage and Russian astrophysical obse ... more | .. |
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  Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more tha ... more | .. |
  Two NASA Probes Tackle New Mission: Studying The Moon Two small NASA probes that had been used to study space weather now are orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition. The spacecraft, called Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence ... more | .. |
  Being "Secondary" is Important for a Webb Telescope Mirror "Secondary" may not sound as important as "primary" but when it comes to the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope a secondary mirror plays a critical role in ensuring the telescope gathers inf ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Under One Mile from Crater Rim Opportunity has exceeded 32 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) of distance on Mars and is now less than 1.5 kilometers (approximately a mile) from the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
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  FY12 House Funding Bill for NASA On July 13, the House passed a bill that addresses the FY12 NASA budget. The total recommended amount is $16.81 billion. Here are a few details on this budget. For FY11 the NASA appropriation was $1 ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Commercial Partnership With ULA Through a new agreement, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will provide technical information to NASA about using the Atlas V rocket to launch astronauts into space. The announcement was made Monday at U ... more | .. |
  Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around Vesta After almost four years traveling through space, the NASA Dawn spacecraft reached its destination and entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on 16 July 2011. On board Dawn, among other instruments, ... more | .. |
  Juno Processing Continues in Florida Processing on NASA's Juno spacecraft continues with the spacecraft being inserted into its payload fairing. The payload fairing acts as a protective cocoon that will shield Juno from the elements du ... more |
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 Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first probe to enter orbit around an objec ... more | .. |
 Dawn arrives after four year journey After covering 2.8 billion kilometers (1.7 billion miles) on its own, after traveling for nearly four years through the lonely emptiness of interplanetary space, after being bound by the gravity onl ... more | .. |
 Atlantis undocks from space station one final time Shuttle Atlantis inched away from the International Space Station early Tuesday for a final time, undocking from the outpost to begin its historic return to Earth, NASA officials said. ... more | .. |
 US astronauts somber as shuttle era comes to an end The Atlantis roars back to Earth this week ending America's vaunted space shuttle program and frustrating a generation of astronauts who see their chance to soar into the cosmos sharply limited. ... more |
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 Russia launches 2 foreign satellites into orbit Russia launched early on Saturday a Proton-M rocket carrying a Kazakh and a U.S. communications satellites from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said. "T ... more | .. |
 Shuttle's end opens new era, new legal issues in spaceflight The space shuttle's final mission marks the end of an era, but also opens an unprecedented age of private and commercial spaceflight. This new era will require international collaboration to keep wa ... more | .. |
  Second Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends First Signals from Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIF-2, renamed SVN-63, is functioning n ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Testing of Next-Gen J-2X Rocket Engine NASA conducted a combined chill test and 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine that could help carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit to deep space. The test ... more |
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  Strong El Nino could bring increased sea levels, storm surges to US East Coast Coastal communities along the U.S. East Coast may be at risk to higher sea levels accompanied by more destructive storm surges in future El Nino years, according to a new study by NOAA. The study wa ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, fo ... more | .. |
 When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock the Earth into chaos Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing a new study of the orbital evolution of minor planets Ceres and Vesta, a few days before the flyby of Vesta by the Dawn spacecraft. A team of astronomers fou ... more | .. |
  Atlantis crew leaves historic flag aboard ISS Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts brought with them a historic U.S. flag that flew aboard shuttle Columbia on America's first shuttle flight, STS-1 in 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Admini ... more |
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Conventional photon entanglement reveals thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensions
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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 "Space taxi" coming The last Atlantis shuttle which docked with the ISS this week is due to return to Earth on July 21st . From then on, astronauts and cargoes will be delivered to the ISS by Russian Soyuz spaceships. ... more | .. |
 Aura Satellite Measures Pollution Butterfly from Fires in Central Africa Fires raging in central Africa are generating a high amount of pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite, with the ominous shape of a dark red butterfly in the skies over south ... more | .. |
 US spacecraft enters giant asteroid's orbit The US spacecraft Dawn has entered the orbit of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, the US space agency announced early Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Launches GSAT-12 Satellite India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) successfully launched GSAT-12 communication satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch of PSLV-C17 was the eight ... more |
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 ILS Proton Successfully Launches the SES-3 Satellite for SES International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the SES-3 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit for SES of Luxembourg, one of the world's largest telecommunications satellite oper ... more | .. |
 Obama dials for pizza, gets space station Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a very long-distance call Friday from US President Barack Obama, who joked that he thought he was dialing out for pizza. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Awarded DoD Contract to Develop a Secure, Attributed Military Network System Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $16 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under phase two of the Military Networking Protocol (MNP) progra ... more | .. |
 NASA in Australia for Mars research NASA says it is using a remote region of Australia's outback as a training ground for planetary scientists preparing to send a new rover to Mars. ... more |
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