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One Soyuz launcher, two Galileo satellites, three successes for EuropeKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 24, 2011 The first pair of satellites for Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been lofted into orbit by the first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in a milestone mission. The Soyuz VS01 flight, operated by Arianespace, started with liftoff from the new launch complex in French Guiana at 10:30 GMT (12:30 CEST) on 21 October. All of the Soyuz stages performed perfectly and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their tar ... read more |
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  Vandenberg welcomes new command chief Team Vandenberg welcomed the 30th Space Wing's new command chief master sergeant here in mid-September. Chief Master Sgt. Suzanne Talbert, a Syracuse, N.Y., native, joined Team V after spendin ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape York The project has made the decision that Opportunity will winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. On So ... more | .. |
  Space Waste Transporter: Going Where No Garbage Man has Gone Before With the growing number of incidents of falling space debris in the news, there is a pressing need to find an alternative solution. John D. Arwood, a Native American and owner of Arwood Waste, propo ... more | .. |
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 Successful launch for Europe's satellite navigation system Europe's first two fully operational Galileo satellites were successfully launched October 20 2011 from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The satellite payloads were buil ... more | .. |
  Thousands of dreams to fly on Shenzhou 8 The dreams of more than 40,000 people will be stored as text and video on a chip and sent into space along with Shenzhou VIII spacecraft next month. The Shenzhou VIII is slated to take off in ... more | .. |
  Researchers Explain the Formation of Scheila's Unusual Triple Dust Tails A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci ... more | .. |
  Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star Using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to study one of the closest protoplanetary discs to Earth, astronomers have detected cold water vapour for the first time in such an environment. Located ... 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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  Better use of Global Geospatial Information for Solving Development Challenges Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States and more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 ... more | .. |
 UH Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus. What astronomers are calling LkCa 15 b, looks like ... more | .. |
  Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a picture of a nearby star and its orbiting companion - whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona. "We have discovered a new record-hold ... more | .. |
 Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planet ... more |
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 Ancient blue stragglers Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age, but, until now, ... more | .. |
 Dark Matter Mystery Deepens Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding ... more | .. |
 German satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth. ... more | .. |
 GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients to hit US The first shoes with built-in GPS devices - to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost - are set to hit the US market this month, the manufacturer says. ... more |
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 Proposal would 'recycle' satellite parts The U.S. Department of Defense says it is looking for ways to recycle space junk thousands of miles above Earth into valuable new satellite parts. ... more | .. |
 Soyuz places Galileo satellites in orbit - mission control A Russian rocket on Friday placed in orbit the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo geopositioning system after its maiden launch from Europe's space base, mission controllers said. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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