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Indian-French satellite put into orbitHyderabad, India (AFP) Oct 12, 2011 An Indian-French satellite that will study monsoon patterns and global warming was launched on Wednesday from a space centre in southern India. The satellite was one of four successfully released into orbit from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) centre in Andhra Pradesh in a boost to India's ambitious space exploration programme. The Megha-Tropiques satellite, a joint project between the ISRO and the French government space agency CNES, will examine climatic and atmospheric changes i ... read more |
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  New View of Vesta Mountain From NASA's Dawn Mission A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. The peak of Vesta's so ... more | .. |
  Iran to launch research satellite into space Iran is going to launch domestically- built Navid satellite by Safir satellite launcher by the end of March 2012, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. Navid (promise) is a re ... more | .. |
  Series of bumps sent Uranus into its sideways spin Uranus's highly tilted axis makes it something of an oddball in our Solar System. The accepted wisdom is that Uranus was knocked on its side by a single large impact, but new research to be presente ... more | .. |
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  Real star power In the Crab Nebula, in the constellation Taurus, a remnant of an exploded star has astrophysicists scratching their heads, reassessing their theories about gamma rays - the highest-energy form of li ... more | .. |
  Electronic Compass Market Finds its Way to 73 Percent Growth in 2011 With navigation features becoming standard in smartphones like Apple Inc.'s iPhone as well as in tablets and gaming devices, the market for electronic compasses is set to close this year with sizabl ... more | .. |
  Russia puts off building of AK-T space laboratory Russia has postponed the building of the AK-T space laboratory due to lack of scientific projects the station has been designed for, a Russian space agency official said Friday. The project wo ... more | .. |
  In Response to New York Bait-And-Switch, Brown Calls on NASA to Reevaluate Shuttle Site Placement In response to reports of a bait-and-switch regarding plans for the Space Shuttle Enterprise, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called on NASA to reopen the assignment of the Enterprise shuttle to exis ... more |
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  Astrophysicists Find Evidence of Black Holes' Destruction of Stars Astrophysicists have found evidence of black holes destroying stars, a long-sought phenomenon that provides a new window into general relativity. The research, reported in the latest issue of the As ... more | .. |
 Suspects in the quenching of star formation exonerated Supermassive black holes millions to billions times the mass of our Sun lie at the heart of most, maybe all large galaxies. Some of these power brilliantly luminous, rapidly growing objects called a ... more | .. |
 Survey gives clues to origin of Type Ia supernovae The largest survey to date of distant exploding stars is giving astronomers new clues to what's behind the Type Ia supernovae they use to measure distances across the cosmos. These stellar exp ... more | .. |
 Astronomers find bounty of failed stars: One youngster only six times heftier than Jupiter A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has discovered over two dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs, including a lightweight youngster only about six times heftier than Jupiter, that reside ... more |
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  Japanese scientist unveils 'thinking' robot Robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems - just like humans - sound like science fiction. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Joins Industry Partners in Honoring USAF for Historic Contributions Through GPS Raytheon joins industry partners in congratulating the United States Air Force (USAF) for the International Astronautical Federation's 60th Anniversary Award, presented at IAF ceremonies Oct. 4 in C ... more | .. |
 Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from Crab Pulsar Iowa State University astrophysicists are part of an international team that unexpectedly discovered very-high-energy gamma rays from the already well-known Crab pulsar star. The team's findin ... more |
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  Did Earth's oceans come from comets ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has found water in a comet with almost exactly the same composition as Earth's oceans. The discovery revives the idea that our planet's seas could once have ... more | .. |
  Boeing and Lion Air Pioneer Precision Satellite Navigation Technology Boeing and Lion Air, an all-Boeing Next-Generation 737 operator, are pioneering the use of precision navigation technology in South Asia with the introduction of Required Navigation Performance (RNP ... more | .. |
 Almahata Sitta Meteorites Could Come From Triple Asteroid Mash-Up Analysis of fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which landed in Sudan in 2008, has shown that the parent asteroid was probably formed through collisions of three different types of asteroids. ... more | .. |
 The First Detection of Abundant Carbon in the Early Universe A research team of astronomers, mainly from Ehime University and Kyoto University in Japan, has successfully detected a carbon emission line (CIV1549) in the most distant radio galaxy known so far i ... more |
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  Astrium to build EUTELSAT 9B Astrium, Europe's leading space company, has been selected by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ELT) to build EUTELSAT 9B, a high-power broadcast satellite addressing high-growth video market ... more | .. |
 Hyperactive Hartley 2 has a split history The latest analysis of data from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft shows that comet 103P/Hartley 2 is hyperactive in terms of the material it spews out, compared to the other comets observed up close to ... more | .. |
 Measuring Billions of Elusive Neutrinos Flowing Through the Earth Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measur ... more | .. |
 Russia sets priorities for federal space program The Russian space agency Roscosmos has prioritized commercial use of its satellites as part of the federal space program until 2015. "By 2015, we are planning to increase the number of Earth o ... more |
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 Mission to Mysterious Uranus Earlier this year, the Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended that NASA consider sending a mission to the planet Uranus. With all the attention paid to Mars, Jupiter, and even poor little Plut ... more | .. |
  Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each Mart ... more | .. |
 UK Space Agency investment targets growth in the local space industry The first 8.5 million pounds of investment from the UK's National Space Technology Programme was announced Tuesday by the Science Minister, David Willetts. This boost to the UK space sector will mat ... more | .. |
  Indra Tries In Madrid And Seville Space Technology To Detect Heat Islands Indra has led in Spain the Heat Islands European project oriented to study the benefits of using Earth observation satellite imaging to study the climate in urban areas. The project, which jus ... more |
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 On-time preparations continue for Soyuz' milestone mission from French Guiana Preparations for the first Soyuz launch from French Guiana are on track for its historic liftoff later this month with two Galileo navigation satellites. "We're right on the timeline, and ever ... more | .. |
 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity finished her in-situ work at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater and is on the move again. On Sol 2726 (Sept. 24, 2011), the rover performe ... more | .. |
  Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is Titanium a valuable mineral, it is key to helping s ... more | .. |
  Russia puts new Rus-M carrier rocket project on hold The Russian space agency has dropped plans to construct a new Rus-M carrier rocket by 2015, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Friday. "We have come to the conclusion that we do not need ... more |
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