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MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary ConferenceNantes, France (SPX) Oct 06, 2011 MESSENGER scientists on Wednesday highlighted the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. The findings were presented in 30 papers and posters as part of a special session of the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Nantes, Frances. Scientists will also look ahead to MESSENGER observations still to come and to ... read more |
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  University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptun ... more | .. |
  Dawn at Vesta: Massive mountains, rough surface, and old-young dichotomy in hemispheres NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since mid-July, has revealed that the asteroid's southern hemisphere boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show th ... more | .. |
  Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that the ... more | .. |
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  AAS Society Members Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Three members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have been named recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that half of the SEK 10 mi ... more | .. |
 Herschel finds first evidence of Earth-like water in a comet A team of astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have discovered the first comet containing water that is similar in isotopic composition to that in Earth's oceans. This detection, in th ... more | .. |
  Moller International Seeks Sponsorships for M400X Moller Skycar Moller International has announced that sponsorship packages are available for the first manned, untethered flight of the Moller Skycar M400X. The Company is beginning an eighteen month campaign cel ... more | .. |
  EDRS: an independent data-relay system for Europe becoming reality A public-private partnership contract signed with Astrium means that ESA is moving ahead with an independent, European satellite system that will speed up the transmission of large quantities of dat ... 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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  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 | .. |
  Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious 'dark energy' motivate ESA's next two science missions. Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected by ESA's Science Programme Committee ... more | .. |
 SSTL redefines the cost of radar imaging with NovaSAR-S Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has announced completion of the development phase of its new low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system. Called ... more | .. |
  Astronomers reveal supernova factory The discovery proves what astronomers have long believed: that the galaxies which are the universe's most efficient star-factories are also supernova factories. The astronomers used a worldwide netw ... more |
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  NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open to students in kindergarten throug ... more | .. |
  NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics 'Breakthrough' Award More than seven years after completing their three-month prime missions on opposite sides of Mars, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been selected for lifetime achievement award honors as part ... more | .. |
  Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... more | .. |
  Russia launches US telecoms satellite into orbit Russian successfully launched a US Intelsat satellite into space late Wednesday, aboard a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, a Russian space agency official said. ... more |
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 U.S. sues astronaut over space camera A federal judge in Florida has refused Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's request to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks the return of a space camera. ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 First Vega starts journey to Europe's Spaceport 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 fligh ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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