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NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration SystemWashington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2011 NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System - an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of space. The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Veh ... read more |
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  Opportunity Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake." This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr ... more | .. |
  Neutron Star Blows Away Models for Thermonuclear Explosions Amsterdam astronomers have discovered a neutron star that confounds existing models for thermonuclear explosions in such extreme objects. In the case of the accreting pulsar IGR J17480-2446, it seem ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Before OSIRIS-REx Launch Every six years, asteroid 1999 RQ36 nears the Earth - by cosmic standards - and researchers are launching a global observation campaign to learn as much as possible in preparation for the OSIRIS-REx ... more | .. |
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  Northrop Grumman to Complete Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder for Joint Polar Satellite Systems Northrop Grumman will build and deliver the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) for the Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) under a contract with NASA. JPSS is a system of polar-orbi ... more | .. |
 UC San Diego's HPWREN aids in recent supernova discovery A recent discovery by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, of a supernova within hours of its explosion was made possibl ... more | .. |
 Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption and paints ... more | .. |
  NASA's Webb Telescope Completes Mirror-Coating Milestone NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached a major milestone in its development. The mirrors that will fly aboard the telescope have completed the coating process at Quantum Coating Inc. in Moore ... 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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  Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf that may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old brown dwa ... more | .. |
  Globecast Expands African Satellite Capacity With SES Global satellite operator SES S.A. and content management and delivery company GlobeCast have announced that GlobeCast has contracted a transponder on the SES-4 satellite as well as an additional tr ... more | .. |
  NASA unveils new launcher design for Mars missions NASA unveiled its plans Wednesday for a massive new launcher capable of powering manned space flights well beyond low-Earth orbit and ultimately to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Renegade dwarf smashed up our galaxy Our world orbits a sun located on one of the arms of the Milky Way, a galaxy of some 200 billion stars with spiral limbs that whirl around a thin disk. ... more |
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  Boeing Receives Additional Wideband Global SATCOM Orders Boeing on Sept. 1 received a $1.09 billion contract modification from the U.S. Air Force adding funding to the existing Block II follow-on contract for full production, launch and on-orbit activatio ... more | .. |
 Herschel reveals how most stars formed in the Universe Do galaxies form their stars through violent and tumultuous merging events or rather via more steady and gentle processes? Scrutinising thousands of galaxies across the past 11 billion years of cosm ... more | .. |
 Mastering the fine structuring of ultrashort light fields An expedition through the fast-paced microscopic world of atoms reveals electrons that spin at enormous speeds and the gigantic forces that act on them. Monitoring the ultrafast motion of these elec ... more | .. |
  House Committee Questions Cost Of GPS Interference From Proposed LightSquared Network The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing to examine concerns and issues associated with interference on the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal from the proposed LightSquare ... more |
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 Subcommittee Democrats Urge Finding a Way for LightSquared and GPS Users to Co-Exist On Monday, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing to review the impacts of the proposed LightSquared network on federal science activities. LightSquared is a comp ... more | .. |
  The Sky is Falling As UARS Drops In UARS, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, is about to fall from the sky. This is the most exciting event that NASA has been able to stage in years. But, it is actually Mother Nature who is doing th ... more | .. |
  Squeezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day Measuring at the limits of the laws of nature - this is the challenge which researchers repeatedly take up in their search for gravitational waves. The interferometers they use here measure with suc ... more | .. |
  NASA Offers Shuttle Tiles And Space Food To Schools And Universities NASA is offering space shuttle heat shield tiles and dehydrated astronaut food to eligible schools and universities. The initiative is part of the agency's efforts to preserve the Space Shuttle Prog ... more |
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 NASA Seeks Undergraduates To Fly Research In Microgravity NASA is offering undergraduate students the opportunity to test an experiment in microgravity as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The program is accepting proposals for ... more | .. |
  Russia announces launch of 2 spacecraft in Oct-Nov Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it has tentatively set the nearest launch of a Progress space freighter on October 30 and a Soyuz manned spacecraft on November 12. Another Soyuz ... more | .. |
 Locata passes USAF critical design review for GPS alternative Locata has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) contract phase for a Locata network which will enable the USAF to deploy a new ground-based, centimeter-accurate "truth-reference l ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Continues Early Exploration Of Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2703 (Sept. 1, 2011), the rover made the first o ... more |
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  First A2100 Communications Satellite Marks 15 Years of On Orbit Operations The first Lockheed Martin A2100 commercial communications satellite has achieved its 15-year design life of on-orbit service. Launched as GE-1 on Sept. 8, 1996 aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas I ... more | .. |
 Russia delays commercial space launches after crash Russia will have to delay the upcoming launch of six US satellites and two commercial European craft due to last month's Soyuz carrier rocket mishap, Russian industry sources said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Russia sets first post-crash manned flight for November Russia on Tuesday set its next manned space flight to the International Space Station for November and said it will not let the orbiter be abandoned despite a recent accident involving its workhorse Soyuz rocket. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 Latest Exoplanet Haul Includes Super Earth At Habitat Zone Edge 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, Swit ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Fifth Generation IRCM System Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the company's fifth generation infrared countermeasures (IRCM) system specifically designed to protect military rotary-wing platforms. The demonstration prove ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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