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Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year breakMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 26, 2011 International consortium Sea Launch resumed its operations on Saturday with a launch of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a European telecoms satellite, the company said. The rocket put the Atlantic Bird 7 satellite into a high-perigee transfer orbit at 21:25 GMT. The 4.6-ton satellite was built by Astrium for Eutelsat Communications to provide digital broadcasting services for Eutelsat's customers in the Middle East and North Africa. Its scheduled in-orbit lifetime exceeds 15 ye ... read more |
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  NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona NASA this week completed the first in a series of flight-like parachute tests for the agency's Orion spacecraft. The drop tests at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona support the design ... more | .. |
  Russia may launch its first Earth remote sensing satellite in 2012 Russia's first Earth remote sensing satellite, the Kondor, may be launched in January 2012, a space official said on Thursday. "We are developing Kondor and Arkon [satellites]," deputy head of ... more | .. |
  Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition Russia would resume its program of inter-planetary explorations after a long break with an unmanned mission to the Martian satellite Phobos, a Russian space company said Thursday. According to ... more | .. |
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 NASA Posts Global Exploration Roadmap NASA is releasing the initial version of a Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) developed by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. This roadmap is the culmination of work by 12 s ... more | .. |
  FAU Physicist Develops Mathematical Method to Find Satellite Galaxies Sukanya Chakrabarti, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics for the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, has developed a mathematical method called "tidal analysis ... more | .. |
 Students Participate in Plant Investigation With Space Station Crew An investigation is stemming out of this world, planting an interest in students in more than a hundred schools across the nation. In the Plants in Space proj ... more | .. |
  New packaging for old US rocket According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, the U.S. will develop a new heavy-lift launch vehicle to send astronauts to an asteroid and to Mars. However, there is nothing revolutionary in the ne ... 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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  Sunspot 1302 Big Bad And Coming Right At Us Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. ... more | .. |
  Building the Tools for Astrobiology's Future The NASA Astrobiology program has selected eight new projects for funding under the Astrobiology Science and Technology for Instrument Development Program (ASTID). The ASTID program is an essential ... more | .. |
 An Angry Bird in the Sky A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus (The Cen ... more | .. |
  ECIT researchers use liquid crystals to replace space motors Researchers at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) and the Northern Ireland Semiconductor Research Centre (NISRC) at Queen's University Belfast have devise ... more |
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 NASA searches for burned up satellite debris NASA officials scrambled Saturday to locate any remains of a bus-sized satellite - the biggest piece of US space junk to plummet to earth in 30 years - that disintegrated upon on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. ... more | .. |
  US satellite TV network launches Netflix challenge US satellite television provider DISH Network has teamed with Blockbuster to stream films in a challenge to online video rental giant Netflix. ... more | .. |
  Japan launches new spy satellite Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit Friday, officials said, in its latest effort to beef up surveillance against the threat of North Korean missiles. ... more | .. |
  Exploring an asteroid with the Desert RATS Earlier this month, European scientists linked up with astronauts roaming over the surface of an asteroid. Desert RATS, NASA's realistic simulation of a future mission, this year included a European ... more |
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 Opportunity Continues to Study Chester Lake Rock Outcrop Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2717 (Sept. 15, 2011), the rover successfully brushed the surface target ... more | .. |
  From the Comfort of Home, Web Users May Have Found New Planets Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars ... more | .. |
  Russian space agency needs reforms - Roscosmos head The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that recent failed launches were a reflection of the agency's management problems. "We have found the causes [of the failures] a ... more | .. |
  Saturn Moon Enceladus Spreads Its Influence Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice - first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. It po ... more |
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  Chang'e-2 sends data back from L2 China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 has sent back the first batch of data while orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2) about 1.7 million km away from Earth. The orbiter is scheduled to trav ... more | .. |
 PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network PlusComms Pty Limited based in Sydney, Australia has announced that it is building a Global Space Network (GSN) subject to financing. The project involves 3 x 30m dishes in key locations around the ... 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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 Living in the Galactic Danger Zone We know for certain that life exists in the Milky Way galaxy: that life is us. Scientists are continually looking to understand more about how life on our planet came to be and the conditions that m ... more | .. |
 NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans ... more | .. |
 NASA to fund 'space taxis' NASA says it will fund the development of at least two space taxi proposals that could send astronauts into orbit aboard U.S. vehicles by late 2016. ... more | .. |
NASA refines satellite crash course, a bit NASA on Thursday refined the crash course of a six-ton defunct satellite, saying it is likely to miss North America, though its exact landing spot remains unknown. ... more |
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 Neil Armstrong says US space program 'embarrassing' Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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