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Obama under fire over space plansWashington (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets. "We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth orbit and the International Space Station for an unpredictable length of time in the future," Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, warned lawmakers at a recent hearing. The end of the space shuttle era has left America's hu ... read more |
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  Gravitational waves that are 'sounds of universe' Einstein wrote about them, and we're still looking for them - gravitational waves, which are small ripples in the fabric of space-time, that many consider to be the sounds of our universe. Jus ... more | .. |
  ALMA Opens Its Eyes Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope ... more | .. |
  Scientists Release Most Accurate Simulation of the Universe to Date "Bolshoi" supercomputer simulation provides new benchmark for cosmological studies. The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gi ... more | .. |
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 NASA's new plan for massive rocket greeted with enthusiasm, criticism The announced plans by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build a massive rocket are being greeted with both enthusiasm and criticism in the United States. The new roc ... more | .. |
 Novel design approach offers vehicle for space innovation Small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) plans to jump-start space innovation by combining state-of-the-art avionics with flight proven systems in a low cost 50kg class satelli ... more | .. |
  First Images from ALMA The detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae Galaxies are the first astronomical test images released to the public from the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and c ... more | .. |
  Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbits Glonass satellite Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has put into orbit a Glonass-M navigation satellite, Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. He said the satellite separated from th ... 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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  NASA Leads Study of Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Loss A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperat ... more | .. |
 STFC funding paves the way for UK leadership in E-ELT instrumentation Pounds 3.5 million in funding from STFC over the next two years has put UK astronomers in a strong position to take a leading role in the development of key instruments on the European Extremely Lar ... more | .. |
 Iran postpones monkey's ride into space Iran's plans to send a live monkey into space have been postponed indefinitely, the country's top space official said, quoted on Monday by the state television website. ... more | .. |
 Budget battle splits U.S. scientists U.S. scientists are split over congressional threats to cut funding for the overdue and over-budget James Webb Space Telescope, observers say. ... more |
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  Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic cosmological simulations of the evolving universe to-date, thanks to NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer. Using the "Bolshoi" simulation c ... more | .. |
  Dawn's fourth anniversary Dawn's fourth anniversary of being in space is very different from its previous ones. Indeed, those days all were devoted to reaching the distant destination the ship is now exploring. Celebrating i ... more | .. |
 Microgravity Science Glovebox Team Celebrates 10,000 Hours of Glovebox Operation The Microgravity Science Glovebox team has reason to celebrate. On Sept. 13 at 7:45 p.m. CDT, the science facility hit 10,000 hours of operation, orbiting high above us on board the International Sp ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies NASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the ... more |
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  DLR ROKVISS robotic arm returns from space The ROKVISS (Robotik-Komponenten-Verifikation auf der ISS - Robotic Components Verification on the ISS) technology experiment developed by the German Aerospace Center has returned to Earth after six ... more | .. |
  NASA Awards Historic Green Aviation Prize NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies d ... more | .. |
  Pee power: Urine-loving bug churns out space fuel Scientists on Sunday said they had gained insights into a remarkable bacterium that lives without oxygen and transforms ammonium, the ingredient of urine, into hydrazine, a rocket fuel. ... more | .. |
 Commercial space deliveries 'within months': NASA The US space agency NASA said Monday it expects commercial operators will deliver cargo to space within months, stressing that private missions were crucial to its future human activities. ... more |
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  In Chile desert, huge telescope begins galaxy probe A powerful telescope affording a view of the universe unmatched by most ground-based observatories gazed onto distant galaxies for the first time Monday from deep in Chile's Atacama desert. ... more | .. |
  Snafu as China space launch set to US patriotic song It was supposed to be a patriotic tribute to China's technological prowess. Instead, a video showing the launch of China's first space station module inadvertently glorified the country's biggest rival. ... more | .. |
  Heavy Metal Stars Produce Earth-Like Planets Based on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers hunting for terrestrial planets should focus on smaller stars with an abundance of metals. New research reveals that, like their giant c ... more | .. |
  Mars Express finds water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. Thi ... more |
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  The washable wearable antenna Wearing an antenna - without anyone knowing - is making a splash in the world of search and rescue. ESA has provided research and development guidance to Finnish company Patria, with the help of Tam ... more | .. |
  Orbiting ORS-1 Satellite System Operating Successfully Following the successful June 29, 2011 launch, completion of all on-orbit checkout activities and transition to operational status, the U.S. Air Force is reporting that the ORS-1 satellite and groun ... more | .. |
 Doubts Over Fomalhaut b As astronomers continue to rack up exoplanet discoveries by the dozen, the precise status of just one may not seem like much to fret over. But Fomalhaut b is different. Unveiled in 2008, the t ... more | .. |
 Civilians given chance to reach for the stars Officials in charge of astronaut recruitment say civilians could soon get the chance to compete for a place on a spacecraft. Bai Yanqiang, deputy chief of the program's astronaut system, said ... more |
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 Tiangong-1 Forms Cornerstone Of China's Space Odyssey China's first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, is slated to blast into orbit between 13:16 and 13:31 GMT Thursday, just one day prior to China's National Day on Oct.1. It will be the latest showcase of ... more | .. |
 China to launch rockets with larger thrust says chief engineer China is working on the development of a new generation of carrier rockets featuring a larger thrust to cater to the demand of building a space station, a chief rocket engineer said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 "Heavenly Palace" China's dream home in space With a length of 10.4 meters and maximum diameter of 3.35 meters, China's first space lab module is hardly the size of any palace. But its name Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace-1," speaks for a dream ... more | .. |
 Chief designer explains Chinese way of mastering space docking technology Some developed countries acquired docking technology crucial to landing a space station decades ago, and, to catch up with leaders in space technology, China plans to use more speed and cut costs, s ... more |
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