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Latest Exoplanet Haul Includes Super Earth At Habitat Zone EdgeGeneva, Austria (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 The HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile is the world's most successful planet finder. The HARPS team, led by Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Switzerland), has announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including sixteen super-Earths. This is the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. The new findings are being presented at a conference on Extreme Solar Systems where 350 exoplanet experts are ... read more |
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  Statement on Importance of Supporting Planetary Exploration The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planeta ... more | .. |
  Advances In Space Medicine Threatened By Funding Cuts Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to ... more | .. |
  Keeping Rocket Engine Fuel Lines Bubble Free in Space You are in space... your spacecraft is tumbling out of control, you need to fire your control rockets, the fuel is sloshing all around the inside of the tank... where is your liquid fuel? Without gr ... more | .. |
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  Proliferating Surveillance Satellites Almost 50 Earth observing satellites were launched in the past 10 years in addition to military and weather satellites. A further 200 or so are expected to be launched by 2020. Eight countries have ... more | .. |
  Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever des ... more | .. |
  Three ISS crew members scheduled to return on Friday Three members of the crew currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday, September 16, the Russian mission control center said. The Soyuz TM ... more |
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Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
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  Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011 A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, made from alu ... more | .. |
  First Galileo satellite touches down in French Guiana The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned c ... more | .. |
 Methane Debate Splits Mars Community Observations over the last decade suggest that methane clouds form briefly over Mars during the summer months. The discovery has left many scientists scratching their heads, since it doesn't fit int ... more | .. |
  Where does all the gold come from Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals ... more |
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  Gilat Selected to Provide Cellular Backhaul Solution to South East Asian Mobile Network Operator Gilat has signed an agreement for the delivery of its SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution, based on the SkyEdge II platform, to a leading South East Asian mobile network operator. As part of th ... more | .. |
 Space food, shuttle tiles for sale by NASA The US space agency is offering schools and universities a special deal on astronaut cuisine and heat tiles from the now extinct space shuttles, just over 20 dollars a pack, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Russia sets space crew's return after crash Russia said Monday it would return three of the six international crew members on board the International Space Station to Earth later this week despite no immediate plans to send up their replacement. ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT ... more |
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 Ball Aerospace To Develop Cryogenic Storage and Transfer Concepts for NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to ... more | .. |
 Production on major part of China jumbo rocket completed, maiden voyage by 2015 Production on a major part of China's Long March-5 large-thrust carrier rocket has been completed and its maiden voyage is expected to take place during the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (201 ... more | .. |
 Soyuz-U carrier rocket crash - causes announced, questions remain On August 24, the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, which was to bring Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft to the ISS, failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch. The intergovernme ... more | .. |
 NASA Sits Tight as Unmanned Space Station Considered The failure of a Russian Soyuz cargo rocket several minutes after launch last month, and Russia's decision to suspend all Soyuz launches while it investigates the cause, has created some problems fo ... more |
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 First Space-Bound Orion Comes Alive With First Weld Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in N ... more | .. |
  Top Scientists Head To Perth For Talkabout SKA Top astronomers and engineers from nine countries will meet in Perth this week to plan for pre-construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) at The Path to SKA-low workshop. Hosted by the I ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all of N ... more | .. |
ATK Conducts Third Test of Next-Gen Solid Rocket Motor ATK has conducted a third successful ground test of the next-generation solid rocket motor. The successful test, known as Development Motor (DM-3), is an important milestone in further validating th ... more |
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  Falling satellite could scatter debris A decommissioned NASA satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere within the next few weeks and may scatter debris across a 500-mile stretch of land. ... more | .. |
 NASA launches twin spacecraft to study Moon's core NASA on Saturday launched a pair of unmanned spacecraft on a journey to study the core of the Moon and hopefully reveal how it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The twin GRAIL satellites, sho ... more | .. |
 European satellite in French Guiana launch A European satellite has arrived in French Guiana for a launch on a Soyuz rocket, the first Soyuz launch to be held in South America, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors. ... more |
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  NASA spacecraft carrying CU-Boulder instruments observes new characteristics of solar flares NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy f ... more | .. |
  Automated Tool Points Way to Safe Separation of Aircraft on Final Approach Air traffic controllers at the Minneapolis Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) are using an innovative next generation tool developed by Lockheed Martin and the Federal Aviation Administration ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch Amazonas-3 for Hispasat Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite. Petra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairwoman of Hispasat, Carlos Espinos, CEO of Hispasat, and Jean-Y ... more | .. |
  Asia Broadcast Satellite Awards Optimal Satcom Multi-Year Deal For Enterprise Capacity Management Optimal Satcom has been awarded a multi-year contract by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to provide its industry leading, enterprise satellite capacity system to help manage ABS' growing commercial s ... more |
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