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WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth OrbitPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2011 Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have discovered the first known "Trojan" asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth. Trojans are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet near stable points in front of or behind the planet. Because they constantly lead or follow in the same orbit as the planet, they never can collide with it. In our solar system, Trojans also share orbits with Neptune, Mars and Jupiter. Two of Saturn's moons sh ... read more |
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  ISS to be sunk after 2020: Russian space agency Russia and its partners plan to plunge the International Space Station (ISS) into the ocean at the end of its life cycle after 2020 so as not to leave space junk, its space agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA, SpaceX agree on space station flight NASA and SpaceX, based in California, have agreed on the private spacecraft company's first date with the International Space Station, the space agency says. ... more | .. |
  Jupiter-Bound Juno Spacecraft Mated to its Rocket NASA's Juno spacecraft completed its last significant terrestrial journey, July 27, with a 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to its launch pad at the C ... more | .. |
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  NASA AIRS Movies Show Evolution of US 2011 Heat Wave The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak. ... more | .. |
  Trail Of Crumbs Discovered From Potentially Hazardous Comet A telegram was issued on July 10th by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union announcing that the Earth got impacted for a few hours by a stream of dust ... more | .. |
  Messenger Makes Another Successful Orbit Adjustment The Messenger spacecraft continued to fine-tune its orbit around Mercury yesterday afternoon when mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet Aurora Makes For An Out-of-this-World Sight aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New r ... 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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  VST looks at the Leo Triplet The VST is the newest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory. It is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, which is equipped with a giant 268-megapixel camera, OmegaCAM [2]. As the name indicates, t ... more | .. |
  Reservoirs of ancient lava shaped Earth Geological history has periodically featured giant lava eruptions that coat large swaths of land or ocean floor with basaltic lava, which hardens into rock formations called flood basalt. New ... more | .. |
  Wave power can drive intense heat of Sun A new study sheds light on why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is more than 20 times hotter than its surface. The research, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), may bri ... more | .. |
  Robot seagull flies in Scotland A German engineering firm says it has developed a robotic seagull so lifelike it fooled real birds into believing it was part of the flock. ... more |
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 SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Solar Corona Like giant strands of seaweed some 32,000 miles high, material shooting up from the sun sways back and forth with the atmosphere. In the ocean, it's moving water that pulls the seaweed along for a r ... more | .. |
 New uses for Space Station For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space. Futur ... more | .. |
  Chandra Observatory Images Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays. The observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will help tackle two of the most fundamental prob ... more | .. |
  China launches navigation satellite: Xinhua China launched its ninth navigation satellite on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing sources at the launch centre. ... more |
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 Using Satellites for Human and Environmental Security Needs Can satellites attuned to curbing human rights violations become an instrument for stopping genocide here on Earth? An opinion editorial asks this question and more in the Summer 2011 issue of ... more | .. |
  Turksat turns to GMV for control of its satellites MELCO (Mitsubishi Electronics) has awarded GMV a contract for developing the ground segment for the 4A and 4B satellites of the Turkish satellite operator Turksat. GMV is the leading ground systems ... more | .. |
  A hot species for cool structures A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg Universi ... more | .. |
 Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technolog ... more |
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  Enceladus rains water onto Saturn ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the so ... more | .. |
 MIT students to build imaging instrument to fly aboard mission to an asteroid The asteroid 1999 RQ36 may not be a household name, but astronomers predict that in less than 200 years, it may make an unforgettable impact. According to radar and optical observations, the space r ... more | .. |
 Certification for ISS onboard astronaut The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has been providing basic training to be certified as an astronaut for the International Space Station (ISS) to astronaut candidates Kimiya Yui, and Takuya Ohni ... more | .. |
 A new way to measure the expansion of the Universe A PhD student from The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth has produced one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the Universe is expanding. Fl ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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  Sandia National Labs completes final scan of space shuttle program Nine engineers from Sandia National Laboratories helped ensure Atlantis' safety from Mission Control at Johnson Space Center as the shuttle made its final flight, marking the end of NASA's 30-year s ... more | .. |
 NASA and International Partners Discuss New Uses for Space Station The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will ... more | .. |
 U.S. research sees hints of Higgs particle A U.S. particle accelerator may have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson after recent reports of similar glimpses at Europe's Large Hadron Collider lab. ... more | .. |
  Boeing and BAE Systems to Develop Integrated Directed Energy Weapon for US Navy Boeing has announced that its Directed Energy Systems (DES) division has signed a teaming agreement with BAE Systems to develop the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System for defense of U.S. Navy ships. ... more |
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  USAF Approves Production of NGC Deployable Digital Wireless System for Remote Warfighters The U.S. Air Force has approved Northrop Grumman's Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Wireless Distribution Module (WDM) for production. TDC WDM provides a line-of-sight extension of a lo ... more | .. |
  First Euro Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System Touches Down in Germany Euro Hawk, the first high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE), signals intelligence (SIGINT) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on the RQ-4 Global Hawk produced by Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) for the ... more | .. |
 JLENS Successfully Completes Endurance Test Raytheon'saerostat system - Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) - recently completed a successful endurance test. "Providing long endurance surveillance fo ... more | .. |
 Fool's gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth's evolution Fool's gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth's evolution, which took place billions of years ago. Scientists are recreating ancient forms of the ... more |
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