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First Vega starts journey to Europe's SpaceportParis, France (ESA) Oct 05, 2011 The first elements of Europe's new Vega small launcher left Italy last Thursday to begin their long journey to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the final step towards its inaugural flight in January. After several intense weeks of checking the hardware and equipment - and the shipping paperwork - Vega's Zefiro-23 and Zefiro-9 motors and the AVUM fourth stage were carefully packed and left Avio's facility in Colleferro, where they were built. During the night, the convoy headed to ... read more |
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  UK set to unlock the secrets of the Sun and search for dark energy Two major new space missions with significant UK involvement have just been given the green light. With funding from the UK Space Agency, space scientists and industry partners in the UK are set to ... more | .. |
  The Most Distant and Ancient Supernovae in the Young Universe A team of Japanese, Israeli, and U.S. astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to assemble the largest sample ever found of the most distant exploding stars called supernovae, which emitted their light ... more | .. |
  Draconid Meteor Outburst On October 8th Earth is going to plow through a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, and the result could be an outburst of Draconid meteors. "We're predicting as many as 750 meteors per ... more | .. |
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  Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries Global and high resolution mapping of Enceladus confirms that the weather forecast for Saturn's unique icy moon is set for ongoing snow flurries. The superfine ice crystals that coat Enceladus's sur ... more | .. |
  The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater Curiosity is about to go to Mars. The car-sized rover, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is scheduled for launch in late November or early December 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center. After an eig ... more | .. |
  Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Rock Interior Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues with the in-situ (contact) science investigation of the surface r ... 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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  ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds Astronauts' jobs sometimes weigh heavy on them: crews returning from space briefly endure 'g-loading' more than four times Earth normal. Scientists interested in hypergravity need to create it for m ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch Mexican satellite Mexsat 3 Mexican government's communications and transport administration, Secretara de Comunicaciones y Transportes, has awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the country's new Mexsat 3 telecommunicat ... more | .. |
  Takeoff For Tiangong The launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has finally taken place. Apart from marking the debut of Tiangong as an operational spacecraft, it's worth considering what else we can already lear ... more | .. |
  The 'Pacman Nebula' High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are of ... more |
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  ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole A fleet of spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge 'bullets' of gas being driven away from the 'gravi ... more | .. |
  NASA's Next Generation Spacecraft Brought to Life by a New Generation of Students Recent Cleveland State University graduates Adina Feigenbaum and Nick Matej were tapped by NASA's Glenn Research Center to design an exciting new look into the Orion spacecraft, the agency's deep sp ... more | .. |
  Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole A fleet of spacecraft including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a supermassive black hole. Observations reveal huge bullets of gas being driv ... more | .. |
 Asia's biggest tech fair opens in Japan Smartphones detecting bad breath and radiation, twistable remote controls and a super-thin tablet computer featured among the cutting-edge gadgets at Asia's biggest tech fair in Japan Tuesday. ... more |
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 'Dark energy' targeted in European space mission So-called dark energy, believed to play a role in the accelerated expansion of the Universe, will be studied in a major science mission to be launched later this decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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