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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of VestaPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2011 NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins Aug. 11, at an altitude of nearly 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) and will provide in-depth analysis of the asteroid. Vesta is the brightest object in the asteroid belt as seen from Earth and is thought to be the source of a large number of meteorites that fall to Earth. The Dawn team unveiled the fir ... read more |
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  Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def When it comes to magnetic fields, Jupiter is the ultimate muscle car. It's endowed with the biggest, brawniest field of any planet in the solar system, powered by a monster engine under the hood. ... more | .. |
  Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton For Inmarsat-5 Inmarsat reports that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, schedu ... more | .. |
  SES selects Gilat for the delivery of Consumer Ka-band equipment for ASTRA2Connect SES S.A. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. have announced that they have signed an agreement for the delivery of network equipment and Ka-band end user terminals for SES's satellite-based Internet s ... more | .. |
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  India eyes manned space missions India's space agency has plans to launch a manned space mission in the future, but a lot of work needs to be done before that to ensure such missions are failure-proof, a top scientist has said. ... more | .. |
 Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more | .. |
  Russian Spacewalkers to Move Cargo Boom, Deploy Ham Radio Satellite Two Russian cosmonauts will leave the confines of the International Space Station on Aug.3 to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deplo ... more | .. |
  Atlantis Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment Atlantis carried many science and research experiments in its middeck during NASA's last shuttle flight, STS-135, in July. Among these was a plant experiment developed at Kennedy Space Center's Spac ... 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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 CU-Boulder faculty part of Juno Mission to Jupiter Several University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expecte ... more | .. |
  The Orbital Perspective of Astronaut Ron Garan "Hello from space!" greets astronaut Ron Garan as an opening to his recently published video blog. Garan's goal is to show how this orbital research facility can help improve life on Earth, while al ... more | .. |
  Commercial Space Industry Works With NASA and Creates Tech Jobs in Silicon Valley Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, and John Celli, President of Space Systems/Loral, met on July 29 to discuss commercial space industry capabilities ... more | .. |
 Reinventing Space We have been using the space environment for the last 50+ years. Satellites have been placed in orbits that take advantage of natural perturbations while offering convenient geometries for various m ... more |
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  The First True View of Global Erosion Every mountain and hill shall be made low, declared the ancient prophet Isaiah. In other words: erosion happens. But for the modern geologist a vexing question remains: how fast does this erosion ha ... more | .. |
  Taiwan's Foxconn to use one million robots by 2014 Taiwan IT giant Foxconn - hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants - plans to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the next three years, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  Russia to carry out 3 space launches in August Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it is planning to launch two satellites and a space freighter next month. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched on August 18 on board a Prot ... more | .. |
  Heart Of Darkness Found Astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii have confirmed in a new paper that a troupe of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way comprise the darkest known galaxy, a ... more |
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 New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health h ... more | .. |
 Herschel uncovers hidden oxygen in Orion Herschel has found the first robust evidence of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula. The observed abundance is ten times larger than indicated by previous observations of other molecular clouds, bu ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic Appoints Its First Chief Financial Officer In this newly created role, Sunshine will be responsible for managing the company's financial strategy, driving growth and overseeing all finance and accounting functions as Virgin Galactic transiti ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Saves Money with First Combined Atlas and Delta Shipments on Mariner United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed Friday the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Ala., to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on t ... more |
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 What Lies Inside Jupiter Jupiter's swirling clouds can be seen through any department store telescope. With no more effort than it takes to bend over an eyepiece, you can witness storm systems bigger than Earth navigating r ... more | .. |
 BSkyB sweetens shareholders, James Murdoch remains boss British pay-TV giant BSkyB offered its shareholders over Pounds 1.0 billion in payouts Friday as it moves on from a failed takeover bid and phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno to circle Jupiter for 'planetary recipe' The US space agency plans to launch next week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed. ... more | .. |
 SOHO Watches a Comet Fading Away On Nov. 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft came within 450 miles of Comet Hartley 2, a small comet not even a mile in diameter, which takes about six and a half years to orbit the sun. Designated offi ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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 Voyage to Vaccine Discovery Continues with Space Station Salmonella Study Any scientist can tell you that research is a time-consuming pursuit. In fact, it can take decades to show results, as the knowledge compounds and inspires additional studies. This building of ... more | .. |
 Dawn Views Dark Side of Vesta Dawn took this image over Vesta's northern hemisphere after the spacecraft completed its first passage over the dark side of the giant asteroid. It is northern hemisphere winter on Vesta now, so its ... more | .. |
 Vietnam Selecting Belgium For Second EO Satellite The government of Vietnam decided to go ahead with a second microsatellite for earth observations, through its VNREDSAT (Vietnam Natural Resources Environment and Disaster monitoring small Satellite ... more | .. |
  Sweet 16 For Alma As First European Antenna Reaches The High Site The ALMA project, that will revolutionize our knowledge of the Universe, now has a sufficient number of antennas in place to produce its first science observations. The 16th antenna, also the first ... more |
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 Diamond Impurities Bonanza for Geologists Studying Earth's History Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that tell the story of Earth's distant past ... more | .. |
 'Trojan' asteroid shares Earth's orbit Earth is not alone in its orbit around the Sun - a small 'Trojan' asteroid sits in front of our planet and leads it, according to British science revue Nature, which published the discovery Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Why Tiangong is not a Station Hub There's been another round of inaccurate reporting in the Chinese media about China's Tiangong space laboratory. Stories have claimed that Tiangong 1, due to be launched within two months, is the co ... more |
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