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NASA's Jupiter Probe Ready for LaunchKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 04, 2011 NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to lift off on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. On Aug. 4, at about 5 a.m. PDT (8 a.m. EDT), the Jupiter explorer will be rolled some 1,800 feet (about 550 meters) from the 286-foot-tall (87-meter) Vertical Integration Facility, where the Atlas V rocket and Juno were mated, to its launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "Our next move will be much farther - about 1,740 million miles [2,800 million kilometers] to Jupiter ... read more |
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  Space Systems Loral Expands Senior Management Team to Accommodate Business Growth Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will expand its senior management team in order to accommodate increased business and prepare for further growth. David Bernstein was named Senior Vice President of ... more | .. |
  "Big Splat" May Explain The Moon's Mountainous Far Side The mountainous region on the far side of the Moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Past 20-Mile Mark As it Nears Large Crater Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more | .. |
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  VISTA Finds 96 Star Clusters Hidden Behind Dust Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new open star clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. T ... more | .. |
  Make outer space safe for all Gregory L. Schulte, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, recently told reporters that the United States has proposed to establish regular dialogue with China in an effort to cr ... more | .. |
  First observational test of the 'multiverse' The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles - making up the 'multiverse' - is, for the first time, being tested ... more | .. |
  64 satellites launched by ISRO so far The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has so far launched 64 satellites and of these seven failed, Lok Sabha was informed Wednesday. Minister of state in the ministry of personnel, pub ... 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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  MESSENGER Marks Seventh Anniversary of Launch Seven years ago, on August 3, 2004, MESSENGER left Earth aboard a three-stage Boeing Delta II rocket to begin a journey that would take it more than 15 laps through the solar system, through six pla ... more | .. |
  First of Many Miniaturized Helio Instruments For WINCS To be Delivered More than a decade ago, technologist Fred Herrero realized that to truly understand the ever-changing dynamics of Earth's upper atmosphere, he would need an armada of satellites gathering simultaneo ... more | .. |
  Earth Impacts: More Likely in the Past or Present? Is the Earth more likely or less likely to be hit by an asteroid or comet now as compared to, say, 20 million years ago? Several studies have claimed to have found periodic variations, with the prob ... more | .. |
  Half of Earth's Heat from Radioactive Decay Nearly half of the Earth's heat comes from the radioactive decay of materials inside, according to a large international research collaboration that includes a Kansas State University physicist. Stu ... more |
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 LADEE Completes Mission Critical Design Review NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This means the LADEE observatory ... more | .. |
 Rare crystals found in meteorite Japanese researchers say they found opal-like crystals in a meteor that fell in Canada in 2000, the first extraterrestrial discovery of such unusual crystals. ... more | .. |
  Russia marks 'forgotten spaceman's' historic flight Russia on Saturday marks 50 years since Gherman Titov became the second man in orbit, a historic achievement long eclipsed by the first space flight of his friend and rival Yuri Gagarin months earlier. ... more | .. |
  Welsh tech firm starting U.S. company A Welsh technology firm has launched a U.S. company to provide ground mobility and aircraft landing solutions to the U.S. military and government. ... more |
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like
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  Russians abort nanosatellite launch during space walk Two Russian cosmonauts on Wednesday embarked on a six-hour space walk from the International Space Station that ran into immediate problems when they aborted a bid to launch a mini-satellite in honour of Yuri Gagarin. ... more | .. |
 Moon's mountains made by slo-mo crash: study The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by a slow-motion collision with a smaller companion moon knocked off its orbit, says a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  S. Korea to fine Apple over tracking feature South Korea's telecoms regulator said Wednesday that it would fine the Korean unit of US technology giant Apple over an iPhone feature that can track the location of users. ... more | .. |
 India to help Afghanistan in expanding media network India will help Afghanistan to expand the mass media network and build communication infrastructure in the conflict-hit country, it was decided at a meeting of officials of the two countries here Mo ... more |
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  Kodak Imaging Technology Used To Explore Jupiter When NASA's Juno spacecraft is launched this week to begin its five-year voyage to the planet Jupiter, image sensor technology from Eastman Kodak will be on board to help capture images of the gas g ... more | .. |
 3D Printing Now Possible in Zero-Gravity Conditions 3D Systems Corporation reports that its affordable BfB( 3000 3D printer successfully completed two zero-gravity test flights in partnership with MADE IN SPACE, a start-up dedicated to providing solu ... more | .. |
 Unified Model For Active Galactic Nuclei Requires A Rethink Scrutinising a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei with INTEGRAL, astronomers have found that, unexpectedly, sources affected by stronger absorption at lower energies show an excess emission in t ... more | .. |
 NPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing The NPP satellite sits surrounded by 144 rock concert speakers. They're stacked in a circle 16 feet high in a testing room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. As engineers set up for the e ... 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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  Another step closer to Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft is another step closer to Vesta; only 5200 kilometres now separate the asteroid and its new 'neighbour', Dawn. The Framing Camera on board the spacecraft is imaging Vesta's su ... more | .. |
  Raytheon to Provide Wisconsin County's First Interoperable Communications System Raytheon has been awarded a contract to provide Rock County, Wis., with its first interoperable communications system, a 20-site conventional P25 digital land mobile radio system. It will provide se ... more | .. |
 EADS acquires Vizada for its Astrium Division Astrium, has entered into an agreement to acquire Vizada from Apax France, a French Private Equity fund and the majority shareholder, for $ 960 million. The transaction is subject to customary regul ... more | .. |
 Invisibility cloak closer to reality Scientists have devised an "invisibility cloak" material that can hide objects from detection using light that is visible to humans, a U.S. journal reports. ... more |
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  Southampton engineers fly first printed aircraft Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world's first 'printed' aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. The SULSA (Southampton Univ ... more | .. |
  US shuttle debris surfaces amid Texas drought A piece of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia has surfaced in eastern Texas, where a severe drought has dried up a lake and exposed debris from the 2003 accident, NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water Scientists are reporting development of a new aquatic microrobot that mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider - the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Develops Miniature Antenna To Extend Millimeter Wave Friendly ID Technology Raytheon has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This ... more |
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