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Soyuz, with first Galileo satellites, launched from KourouKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Oct 21, 2011 A Soyuz rocket lifted off on Friday on its maiden flight from Europe's space base here, carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system, an AFP reporter saw. The launch -- the first by the veteran rocket beyond Russia's historic bases at Plesetsk and Baikonur -- is part of a commercial deal struck in 2003 to extend the range of Arianespace, which markets services from the European Space Agency (ESA) base in Kourou. ... read more |
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 SpaceX Completes Key Milestone to Fly Astronauts to International Space Station Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced it has successfully completed the preliminary design review of its revolutionary launch abort system, a system designed for manned missions usin ... more | .. |
  Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral ... more | .. |
  The Spark Of A New Era Was A Blast For Rocket Science Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill c ... more | .. |
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  NASA postpones climate satellite launch to Oct 28 NASA on Wednesday set October 28 for its planned launch of a satellite to help weather forecasters predict extreme storms and offer scientists a better view of climate change. ... more | .. |
  Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar re ... more | .. |
  Space weather prediction model improves NOAA's forecast skill NOAA is now using a sophisticated forecast model that substantially improves predictions of space weather impacts on Earth. Better forecasts offer additional protection for people and the technology ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. "If we conclude that there is something unusu ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
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  VISTA finds new globular star clusters and sees right through the Milky Way The dazzling globular cluster called UKS 1 dominates the right-hand side of the first of the new infrared images from ESO's VISTA survey telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. But if you can ... more | .. |
  1 clock with 2 times The unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity is one of the most exciting and still open questions in modern physics. General relativity, the joint theory of gravity, space ... more | .. |
  Princeton model shows fallout of a giant meteorite strike Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking the Earth, Princeton University researchers have developed a new model that can not ... more | .. |
  ISS orbit readjusted by 3 km The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by 3.1 km (1.9 miles), a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said. The maneuver was carried out late on Wednesday using th ... more |
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 CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth Volcanologists from the Universities of Leicester and Durham have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding ... more | .. |
  Russia surprised as Apple uses Glonass in new iPhone The secret is out and making Russia proud: pop culture and geek tech icon Apple has picked Russia's Glonass navigation system to run alongside GPS in its iPhone 4S models that hit stores this month. ... more | .. |
  Tokyo tech fair opens with robotic clapping of hands From robotic hand-clapping arms to a device that could show tsunami alerts in the sky, Japanese technology researchers showcased their latest inventions in Tokyo Thursday. ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Launches ViaSat-1 for ViaSat International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the ViaSat-1 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton fo ... more |
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 Water Vapor Reveals How Stars Form Around Black Hole An international team led by astronomer Paul van der Werf (Leiden University, The Netherlands) has discovered that a black hole in the young universe is surrounded by a large disk of gas and dust, w ... more | .. |
  Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star is the first to show spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm In Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ... more | .. |
  Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume ... more |
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 Expedition 30 to ISS could be launched on Dec 21 This year's last launch of a manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) could come on December 21, a Russian space official said on Tuesday. The launch of the Soyuz TMA-03M pil ... more | .. |
 ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028 The service life of the International Space Station (ISS) may be extended until 2028, a Russian space official said on Tuesday. The service life of the ISS ends in 2015 but participants of the proje ... more | .. |
 Photo Reveals Planet-Size Object as Cool as Earth The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion - whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona - will be revealed by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin ... more | .. |
  Formation of Scheila's Triple Dust Tails Explained A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, mainly from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Scienc ... more |
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 GIS Technology Plays Critical Role to Aid Joplin Tornado Survivors In disasters, geographic information systems (GIS) technology aids survivors and facilitates city reconstruction. According to Gabriel Schmidbauer, GIS professor at American Sentinel University, GIS ... more | .. |
  Space tourism gaining momentum The space tourism industry, despite a slow start amid speculation and doubts, is gaining momentum, an industry conference in New Mexico heard. ... more | .. |
  BSkyB profits dip despite revenue rise British pay-TV giant BSkyB said Wednesday that net profits dipped in the first quarter of the group's financial year despite a solid jump in revenues and it winning a fee for News Corp.'s failed takeover. ... more | .. |
 Observing quantum particles in perfect order Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have evolved in the last years into an interdisciplinary tool for many-body solid state and quantum physics. But so far only limited possibilities were available ... more |
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  P-T Extinction Hit Oceans Harder than Land While the cause of the mass extinction that occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods is still uncertain, two University of Rhode Island researchers collected data that show that terrestrial ... more | .. |
  German satellite to crash to Earth 'at the weekend' A German satellite the size of a car is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday, adding they had little idea where the fragments were likely to land. ... more | .. |
 Quantum Dynamics of Matter Waves reveal exotic Multi-Body Collisions At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves. Due to interactions between the atoms fundamental quantum dynamic ... more | .. |
 Amateur Skywatchers Spot Near Earth Asteroid Threat For the first time, observations coordinated by ESA's space hazards team have found an asteroid that comes close enough to Earth to pose an impact threat. The space rock was found by amateur astrono ... more |
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