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Arianespace blasts another pair of satellites into orbitKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 07, 2011 Arianespace orbited a pair of commercial relay satellites for direct television broadcasting services tonight on Ariane 5's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011. During a 38-minute flight from the Spaceport in French Guiana, this workhorse vehicle lofted the ASTRA 1N and BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R spacecraft, delivering an estimated payload lift performance to geostationary transfer orbit of 9,095 kg. - which included a combined mass of 8,240 kg. for the two satellites, along with the launcher's dual-payload ... read more |
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  Mars' northern polar regions in transition A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. ... more | .. |
  NASA launches Juno mission to Jupiter The US space agency on Friday launched an unmanned spacecraft, Juno, on a five-year journey toward Jupiter for clues on how the gas giant and other planets in our solar system were formed. ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Companies To Study Storing Cryogenic Propellants In Space NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space. These capabilities are important for the agency's future deep space human exploratio ... more | .. |
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  NASA Announces Next Opportunity For Cubesat Space Missions NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2012 and 2014. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payload on previou ... more | .. |
 Nearing First Landfall of Large Crater Opportunity is now only about 120 meters (394 feet) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover drove four times in the last week on Sols 2670, 2671, 2674 ... more | .. |
  Crew Stows Spacesuits, Completes Robotics Checkout The six Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station wrapped up a busy workweek Friday as they stowed equipment used in Wednesday's spacewalk and completed an extensive checkout ... more | .. |
  The Physics of Crop Circles In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim ... 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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 Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows on Mars Dark, finger-like features that appear and extend down some Martian slopes during the warmest months of the Mars year may show activity of salty water on Mars. They fade in winter, then recur the ne ... more | .. |
  Europe Takes Step Toward Detecting Gravitational Waves Scientists operating Europe's gravitational wave observatories have combined efforts this summer to search for gravitational waves. This groundbreaking research is being taken forward in Europe whil ... more | .. |
  View from the Summit: Hunting for KBOs at the Top of the World John Spencer is a member of the New Horizons mission science team, and the coordinator and self-described "cat-herder-in-chief" for the effort to find a Kuiper Belt object flyby target for New Horiz ... more | .. |
 45th Space Wing Supports Successful Atlas V Juno Launch The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing provided flawless Eastern Range support for the successful launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Juno spacecraft Friday. The launch occ ... more |
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 Citizen Scientists Discover a New Horizons Flyby Target The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the Ice Hunters website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the fir ... more | .. |
 Space Scientists Seek Returns from JEDI A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) instrument that will delve into the dynamics of the solar system's largest planetary magnetic field was launched Friday aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft ... more | .. |
  Fusion diagnostic developed at PPPL sheds light on plasma behavior at EAST An instrument developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has enabled a research team at a fusion energy experiment in China to observe--in ... more | .. |
  Boeing Selects Atlas V Rocket for Initial Commercial Crew Launches Boeing has selected the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to launch the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft from Florida's Space Coast. "This selection marks a majo ... more |
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Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language Models
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like
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  La Ninas distant effects in East Africa For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nino Southern Oscillation) known as El Nino/La Nina. Du ... more | .. |
 Georgia Tech Scientists To Help NASA Interpret Data From Juno Mission In August of 2016, when NASA's Juno Mission begins sending back information about the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, research done by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers using a 2,400-pound ... more | .. |
  The Odds for Life on a Moonless Earth Scientists have long believed that, without our moon, the tilt of the Earth would shift greatly over time, from zero degrees, where the Sun remains over the equator, to 85 degrees, where the Sun shi ... more | .. |
  Radar system could makes runways safer German researchers say a new sensing system to spot debris on a runway could prevent disasters like the 2000 crash of the Concorde in France that killed 113. ... more |
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 Flowing water on Mars sparks new hunt for life traces Scientists have found evidence of flowing salt water on steep Martian slopes, which if confirmed would be the first discovery of active liquid water on the red planet, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. "NASA's Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts launch Gagarin satellite on second try Two Russian cosmonauts on Thursday completed a marathon spacewalk in which they launched a student-made satellite honouring the first spaceman Yuri Gagarin after initially aborting the delicate task. ... more | .. |
  Sea level rise less from Greenland, more from Antarctica During the last prolonged warm spell on Earth, the oceans were at least four meters - and possibly as much as 6.5 meters, or about 20 feet - higher than they are now. Where did all that extra ... 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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 Penn Chemists Make First Molecular Binding Measurement of Radon Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 04, 2011 Even in trace quantities, the radioactive gas radon is very dangerous; it is second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer deaths in the United State ... more | .. |
 Grapes protect against ultraviolet radiation Some compounds found in grapes help to protect skin cells from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, according to a study by researchers from the University of Barcelona and the CSIC (Spanish National Re ... more | .. |
 NASA's Jupiter Probe Ready for Launch 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 ... more | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  "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 | .. |
  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 |
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