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Russia blames scientists for rocket crashesMoscow (AFP) Oct 18, 2011 Russia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country's underpaid rocket scientists. A probe into the August 24 crash of the unmanned Progress cargo ship and an August 18 error that put Russia's biggest satellite in the wrong orbit blamed both mishaps on the state-run Roskosmos space agency and its workers. The decision said the Prosecutor General's office would be pressing for discipli ... read more |
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  Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in New Mexico British billionaire Richard Branson on Monday opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the new home for his company, Virgin Galactic. ... more | .. |
  "Failed Stars" Galore with One Youngster Only Six Times Heftier than Jupiter An international team of astronomers has discovered over two-dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs that reside in two young star clusters. One brown dwarf is a lightweight youngster only about six ti ... more | .. |
  Galaxy mergers not the trigger for most black hole feeding frenzies A survey of distant galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope has put another nail in the coffin of the theory that galaxy mergers are the main trigger for turning quiescent supermassive black holes ... more | .. |
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  Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Van ... more | .. |
  Ultrasound 2: Taking Space Imaging to the Next Level Every year there are strides made in medical technology that improve research capabilities and the quality of care for patients. The decade-old ultrasound on the International Space Station, for ins ... more | .. |
  In Search of Virus Fossils Here's a theory for a comedian to consider: dinosaurs done-in by avian flu. Silly as that may be, we imagine that viruses have been infecting organisms since life first appeared on Earth, but this i ... more | .. |
  New Mystery on Mars's Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... 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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 Astrotech Subsidiary Awarded Task Order for NASA Mission Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) has won a fully-funded task order under the previously announced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for payload processing support at the Easte ... more | .. |
  Gravitational biology and space life sciences and implications for the Indian space program This paper is an introduction to gravitational and space life sciences and a summary of key achievements in the field. Current global research is focused on understanding the effects of gravity/micr ... more | .. |
 ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings Arizona State University is no stranger to space exploration missions. Whether to Mars or other solar system targets, its involvement with NASA planetary exploration began in the 1970s and at presen ... more | .. |
  Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror On Saturday 15 October, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei Munchen, Bavaria, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of ... more |
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  Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists want to join Europe's ExoMars mission Russian scientists want to join European Space Agency's ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) mission to study the Red Planet, a leading Russian space researcher said. "From the scientific point of vie ... more | .. |
  Galileo - keeping time with atomic clocks An equation with four unknowns - at least, that is how satellite navigation is summarised by Walter Paffgen, Managing Director of the German Aerospace Center's Space Applications Company and Head of ... more | .. |
 First Soyuz ready for liftoff from French Guiana Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 17, 2011 The first Soyuz to take off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now at its launch pad. The rocket that will carry the first two Galileo navigation s ... more |
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 Opportunity Keeps Rolling With an Eye on Future Havens for Next Winter Opportunity is moving generally north across Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater with an eye ahead to the next winter. With her solar arrays dustier and atmospheric opacity higher than in ... more | .. |
 While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) seems to have gotten tired of waiting for NASA to commit to its share of the joint 2016/2018 Mars missions that were planned to lay the groundwork for an eventual del ... more | .. |
  UChicago launches search for distant worlds Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of th ... more | .. |
 Space Exploration Technologies Ready to Compete for Upcoming DoD Launches Today the U.S. Air Force issued a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the NRO and NASA that serves as a joint agreement on the process they will use to allow new companies to compete to provide l ... more |
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 Observatory Seeks a New Name for Transformed Scientific Icon The most famous radio telescope in the world is about to get a new name. The Very Large Array, known around the world, isn't what it used to be. The iconic radio telescope, known around the world th ... more | .. |
 New entrant certification strategy announced The U.S. Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and NASA announced Oct. 14 their strategy for certifying commercial launch vehicles that could compete for future contracts for space launch m ... more | .. |
 Distant Galaxies Reveal The Clearing of the Cosmic Fog Scientists have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to probe the early Universe at several different times as it was becoming transparent to ultraviolet light. This brief but dramatic phase in cosmic hi ... more | .. |
 Hubble survey carries out a dark matter census Cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is one of the first targets in a Hubble survey that will allow astronomers to construct the highly detailed dark matter maps of more galaxy cluster ... more |
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 ESO and Chile sign agreement on E-ELT At a ceremony in Santiago, Chile the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Moreno and ESO's Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, signed an agreement regarding the European Extremely Large Telescop ... more | .. |
 JWST Marks Program Milestone With Completion of Giant Flight Sunshield Alignment Table The 2,000-pound platform that engineers will use to precisely align the Webb telescope's enormous five-layer sunshield is completed, with work slated to begin on flight-like template membranes early ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder to play key role in global student space experiment competition A University of Colorado Boulder space center will play a key role in a new international contest being sponsored by YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures and several space agencies that challenges 14- ... more | .. |
 Huge stakes riding on maiden Soyuz launch from Kourou Prestige and a multi-billion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soyuz rocket next Thursday when the Soviet-era workhorse launches from Europe's space base in South America. ... more |
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 Factfile on Galileo, Europe's rival to GPS Following is a snapshot of Europe's Galileo space-based navigation system, the first satellites of which are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from Kourou, French Guiana. ... more | .. |
 Russia invited to join Mars missions Europe has formally invited Russia to participate in financially troubled unmanned space missions to Mars set for 2016 and 2018, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic to give NASA a ride Space tourism company Virgin Galactic says it has signed a deal to give NASA scientists rides into space to conduct experiments. ... more | .. |
  Dwarf planet may not be bigger than Pluto The dwarf planet Eris, responsible for Pluto's demotion from planet status in 2006, is not bigger than Pluto and may even be smaller, French scientists say. ... more |
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