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Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New HorizonsHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 05, 2011 At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and still has four more years of travel to go. New Horizons headed for the lonely world of Pluto on the outer edge of the solar system. Although astronomers now call Pluto a dwarf planet, "it's actually a large place, about 5,000 miles around at the equator," says Alan ... read more |
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  50 percent more satellites to be launched in the decade ahead Euroconsult has forecasted that an estimated 1,145 satellites will be built for launch during the next ten years (2011-2020), 51% more satellites than the previous decade. These projections come fro ... more | .. |
  Discovery Sheds Light on Ecosystem of Young Galaxies A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies take i ... more | .. |
  Space Agencies Meet To Discuss A Global Exploration Roadmap Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the ... more | .. |
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  Bad weather hampers search for debris of Russian space freighter Poor weather conditions in South Siberia's Altai Republic may prevent the search for the crash site of a Progress-M spacecraft for the second consecutive day, a Russian space official said on Friday ... more | .. |
  Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express ESA's Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. I ... more | .. |
 Finishing Work at Tinsdale 2 Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi ... more | .. |
 Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars like ... 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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  Cryogenic Catering Truck Comes to the ALMA Observatory The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the telescopes at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/ ... more | .. |
  Venus scientists see research 'bias' Scientists studying Venus say NASA has a bias against the planet when it come to scientific missions and infrequent visits are hindering their research. ... more | .. |
  Higgs boson may be found by end of year The hunt for the elusive Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva say, and could be over this year. ... more | .. |
  Space junk at dangerous 'tipping point': study Clouds of space junk orbiting the Earth have reached a dangerous "tipping point", threatening to smash satellites and endanger astronauts, US scientists warned in a study this week. ... more |
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  Alien Life More Likely on Dune Planets Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, res ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. ... more | .. |
 NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more | .. |
  Time To End Pork Barrel Monster Rocket And Expensive Russian Space Ferry The Texas Space Alliance (TXA) urged Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the rest of the Texas Congressional delegation to give their full support to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's call for transferring funding ... more |
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 Chandra Finds Nearest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth ... more | .. |
  Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta with tremendous success, and the peripatetic adventurer is now in powered flight again, on its way to a new location from which to scru ... more | .. |
 The Star That Should Not Exist A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost ent ... more | .. |
  The diamond planet A star that changes into a diamond planet? What sounds like science fiction is apparently reality. The discovery was made by an international team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Great Britain, ... more |
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  SwRI selected as payload integrator for three NASA suborbital flight opportunities research providers Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been selected to provide payload flight integration services as part of three suborbital flight provider contracts recently announced by NASA to Virgin Galact ... more | .. |
  Wyle Selects Paragon Software For Disaster Recovery Solutions For ISS Paragon Software Group reached a milestone in the company's brief history as it soared into the heavens on the final flight of America's Space Shuttle Atlantis. Selected by NASA's Prime Bioast ... more | .. |
 Japanese Asteroid Mission a Success A space mission to a nearby asteroid launched in 2005 has yielded some interesting clues about Earth's early formation. Japanese scientists on that mission report in the journal Science that despite ... more |
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 Ariane 5's upper payload completes its integration at the Spaceport Integration of the upper portion of Ariane 5's dual-passenger "stack" has been completed, with the Arabsat-5C satellite and SYLDA dispenser system now encapsulated inside the launcher's payload fair ... more | .. |
 Russian Firm Unveils Plan for Space Tourism A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for ... more | .. |
 Third ATV begins its preparations for launch on Ariane 5 The preparation campaign for Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has begun in French Guiana as this large cargo resupply spacecraft is readied for a spring 2012 Ariane 5 launch by Ariane ... more | .. |
 Progress 44 accident and its consequences for Space Station The six astronauts on the International Space Station are safe and continuing their normal work after the loss of their space-bound cargo craft on 24 August. While the cause of the accident is being ... more |
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 Kazakhstan won't ban Russian rocket launches from Baikonur Kazakhstan does not plan to ban launches of Russian rockets from its space center in Baikonur after accident with Progress M-12M space freighter, Talgat Musabayev, the head of the Kazakh space agenc ... more | .. |
 Hubble movies reveal solar-system-sized traffic jams When it comes to big-budget action movies, Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan prefers Hubble to Hollywood. Using Hubble Space Telescope images collected over 14 years, Hartigan has created ... more | .. |
 Orbital Receives License for Taurus II COTS Demonstration Mission Orbital Sciences has received a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program ... more | .. |
 Canadian Robot Repairs Components on the Space Station Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully replaced a faulty circuit-breaker box on the orbiting lab. The robot swapped ... more |
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