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China to launch moon-landing probe around 2013Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2011 China will launch its lunar probe Chang'e-3 around 2013, which is expected to conduct the first softlanding of a Chinese spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body. The mission of Chang'e-3 is to land on the moon safely and carry out a large number of experiments, according to sources with State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. This mission serves as a key part in the second stage of China's three-phase lunar exploration program. span class="BDL">So ... read more |
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  Gaia mirrors ready to shine ESA's Gaia mission has passed another major milestone after the completion of 10 state-of-the-art mirrors that will be used to measure the precise positions of a billion stars. With the delivery of ... more | .. |
  Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn's framing camera, used to produce the visualizati ... more | .. |
  Beware of the wildlife even quiet galaxies can get dangerours Even though a dwarf galaxy clear across the Milky Way looks to be a mouse, it may have once been a bear that slashed through the Milky Way and created the galaxy's spiral arms, writes an Iowa State ... more | .. |
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 The turbulent lives of stars The stars are boiling! The reason is the energy generated in the center of the star that wants to escape. If this does not happen quickly enough, the star starts to 'boil' in the outer layers causin ... more | .. |
  NRL TacSat-4 Spacecraft Encapsulated The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) has been encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur-IV+ launch vehicle in preparation fo ... more | .. |
  Florida is Base for US National Lab The Space Life Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the new home to the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station that is operated as a ... more | .. |
  WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. ... more |
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 Backpack technology gains traction with astronauts After years of chaffing, bruising, and discomfort in some astronauts, running in space just got easier. Whether it's a two-mile jog or a half-marathon, many astronauts on the International Space Sta ... more | .. |
 Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star About 5 thousand million years from now, our Sun will expand into a red giant, swelling to such a size that it may swallow the Earth. It will then begin to shed huge amounts of dust, surrounding its ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5 marks fifth launch for 2011 This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Arabsat-5C and SES-2, into their planned transfer or ... more | .. |
  Mythbusting for Tiangong As the launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory draws closer, media attention is intensifying. Unfortunately, there's been another flourish of bad reporting about the mission. It's time to put ... more |
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  Maxwell Technologies launch UK division to target European space market One of the United States' leading producers of components for the global space and satellite industry has opened a new UK division in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Maxwell Technologies UK Ltd has a ... more | .. |
 Tiangong-1 launch will pave way for China's first space station China will launch an unmanned module next week, paving the way for a planned space station, a spokesman for the space program said on Tuesday. Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace 1", will blast of ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 launches SES-2 satellite with chirp hosted payload on board SES S.A. reports that the SES-2 satellite was successfully launched into space on board an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. Liftoff of Ariane 5 occurred spot on time on September 21th at 18:38 pm local ... more | .. |
 Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe dark side Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter - the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe - may find a helpful tool in the recent work of researchers from Princeton ... more |
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 New 'smart' window technology described A new "smart" window can darken to save air conditioning costs on hot days and return to clear in the winter to capture heat from the sun, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Ariane rocket launches satellites after strike delay An Ariane rocket launched two communications satellites into orbit Wednesday, after strike action at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana delayed take-off by a day. ... more | .. |
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 NASA says satellite will hit Earth Sept 23 US time The US space agency has narrowed down its prediction of when a defunct six-ton satellite will crash back to Earth, saying on Wednesday that it is expected to land on September 23, US time. ... more |
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Swedish daycare to test GPS for tracking kids A daycare centre in the southern Swedish city of Malmoe said Wednesday it planned to test GPS devices for tracking children when they are out on excursions. ... more | .. |
 Spaceship factory opens in California A civilian space company has completed the first commercial spacecraft factory at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, company officials said. ... more | .. |
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  The Secret Lives of Solar Flares One hundred and fifty two years ago, a man in England named Richard Carrington discovered solar flares. It happened at 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1st, 1859. Just as usu ... more | .. |
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 Swedes makes world's largest telescope bigger On Monday, Sweden's Minister for Education and Research, Jan Bjorklund, will open Onsala Space Observatory's newest telescope. Part of Lofar, the world's largest radio telescope, it is the biggest t ... more | .. |
How the Milky Way Got Its Spiral The signature spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were likely formed by an epic collision between the Milky Way and the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher a ... more |
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  Rocky Planets Could Have Been Born as Gas Giants When NASA announced the discovery of over 1,200 new potential planets spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope, almost a quarter of them were thought to be Super-Earths. Now, new research suggests that ... more | .. |
China to launch unmanned space module by Sept 30 China will launch its unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, sometime from Sept. 27 to 30, a spokesperson said here Tuesday. The space module and its carrier rocket, Long-March II-F, have been mov ... more | .. |
 Countdown to first Soyuz launch at Kourou under way The clock is ticking for the first Soyuz flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket, which will carry the first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system into orbit, is b ... more |
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