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Russia beefs up Plesetsk space center fundingMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2011 Russia will spend over 5 billion rubles ($170 mln) on the development and expansion of the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia this year, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on Wednesday. The money will be spent on "the construction and reconstruction of facilities at the Plesetsk space center," he added. This includes the reconstruction of a local motorway, the construction of a new barracks and a cafeteria. The center's energy supply system will also be modernized ... read more |
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  GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon As early as Sept. 8th, NASA's GRAIL mission will blast off to uncover some of the mysteries beneath the surface of the Moon. That cratered gray exterior hides some ... more | .. |
  SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares The sun's surface dances. Giant loops of magnetized solar material burst up, twist, and fall back down. Some erupt, shooting radiation flares and particles out into space. Forced to observe this dan ... more | .. |
  Honeywell Wins Ground Systems and Mission Operations At Goddard Honeywell has won a five-year, $450 million contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO) services for the agency's fleet of scienti ... more | .. |
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  NASA Needs to Preserve Skilled Astronaut Corps In Post-Shuttle Era NASA should take steps to ensure that it maintains a highly trained astronaut corps to meet International Space Station (ISS) crew requirements while accounting for unexpected attrition or demands o ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity tools to map its inner core for the first time. Scientists ... more | .. |
  Japan test fires Venus probe engine Japan on Thursday said it had successfully test-fired the engine of its "Akatsuki" space probe in preparation for a renewed attempt to get it into orbit around Venus in 2015. ... 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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  Earth's gold a gift of meteor showers Precious metals in Earth's mantle are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after the planet was formed, U.K. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Weather threatens moon mission launch NASA says clouds and thunderstorms in Florida could disrupt the launch of twin satellites on a mission to study the moon's gravitation field. ... more | .. |
 Attempt to revive silent satellite planned British scientists say they will try to revive a satellite launched almost 40 years ago that has been silent since 1996. ... more | .. |
 US astronaut shortage poses risks: study The United States does not have enough astronauts to meet the changing needs of human spaceflight in the coming years, warned a report Wednesday by a non-profit group that advises on science policy. ... more |
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 Japan firm creates radiation-detecting plastic Japan's Teijin Chemicals Limited said Wednesday it had created a plastic that emits a blue light when exposed to radioactivity, which it says will lead to cheaper radiation detectors. ... more | .. |
  Our Galaxy Might Hold Thousands of Ticking "Time Bombs" In the Hollywood blockbuster "Speed," a bomb on a bus is rigged to blow up if the bus slows down below 50 miles per hour. The premise - slow down and you explode - makes for a great action movie plo ... more | .. |
  Malfunction at devices connection blamed for orbiter launch failure China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said Monday that malfunction at connection between devices of rocket led to the orbiter launch failure last month. Investigation result showe ... more | .. |
 ViaSat Wins Contracts from Boeing for Ground Based Beam Forming System for Mexican Satellite System ViaSat has been awarded contracts valued at approximately $40 million by Boeing to develop a ground based beam forming (GBBF) system for the Mexican Satellite System (MEXSAT). The beam forming ... more |
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  Tiangong 1 might be launched in late September Due to the launch failure of the experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, the Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1, the prototype of the Chinese space experiment station, which was scheduled to launch in ... more | .. |
 Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos They were always mysterious. 26 years had to pass before the prediction of theoretical physics was confirmed and the existence of neutrinos was finally proven experimentally in 1956. The reason for ... more | .. |
  KVH mini-VSAT Broadband Service Now Fully Global with Live Service in South America KVH Industries has announced that mini-VSAT BroadbandSM service is now available to mariners in South American waters, officially completing the original global coverage plan for the maritime satell ... more | .. |
  Ultrafast substorm auroras explained From time to time, sudden releases of energy in Earth's magnetosphere lead to major disturbances that result in bright auroral displays over the planet's polar regions. These auroras are caused by a ... more |
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  Cleaning up with space tech There's just about nowhere that state-of-the-art space technologies cannot reach - from the martian atmosphere to those hard-to-clean spots under the couch. The search for space dust is giving us cl ... more | .. |
 Getting the picture via satellite As cinema owners worldwide begin to embrace new digital technologies via satellite, audiences are being given more ways to enjoy an evening at the movies. ESA has helped to pave the way to digital a ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the as ... more | .. |
Moon Mission Ready to Fly At the prelaunch news conference Tuesday, the twin moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will send them on their mission were reported ready to fly, with th ... more |
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  Americans tap into location-based services: study One in four Americans uses their cellphone to get directions or to receive recommendations about nearby attractions based on their present location, according to a survey published on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  NASA mulls 'what-ifs' of unmanned space station NASA is mulling the worst-case scenarios of leaving the $100 billion International Space Station unstaffed for a period of time following the crash of a Russian rocket, US astronauts said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA orbiter shows moon surface in stunning clarity A NASA spacecraft has snapped the clearest views ever of the surface of the moon, down to the tire tracks and footprints left by visiting astronauts decades ago in the lunar soil. ... more | .. |
 SES Reach Agreement For Distribution Of Satellite Broadband Across Central And West Africa SES S.A. has reached an agreement with Sea and Space Exploration for the distribution of SES' proven satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect in 20 countries in Central and West Africa. ASTRA ... more |
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 Louisiana Tech and NASA partner to conduct zero-gravity experiments Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data that was flown on NASA's STS-134 space shuttle End ... more | .. |
 NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool. The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data ... more | .. |
 Gilat Selected to Provide Satellite Broadband Network for Security Communications Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected to provide a multi-million dollar SkyEdge II broadband network and services for security communications in Latin America. The network will be used to ... more |
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