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China to launch Shenzhou-8 early NovemberJiuquan, China (XNA) Oct 27, 2011 China will launch the spacecraft Shenzhou-8 in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest deseart area. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to perform China's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center. The spacecraft and its carrier rocket, an upgraded Long March-2F, were transferred on Wednesday morning on a 20-meter-wide railway to the launch pad. The launch pad is 1 ... read more |
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  Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe In the current issue of the journal Nature, astronomers report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are n ... more | .. |
  NASA's NEEMO Mission Ending Early Due To Hurricane Rina Due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina, the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, ended earlier than planned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) op ... more | .. |
  STEREO Mission Celebrates Five Incredible Years of Science On October 25, 2006, a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observator ... more | .. |
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  NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten Comet Elenin is no more. Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. This trail of piffling particles will remain ... more | .. |
 UNH Scientists Land Roles in European and Japanese Space Missions Scientists and engineers from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have been selected to provide instruments for two upcoming satellite missions led by the European Space Age ... more | .. |
 Explorer 1 The First US Explorer On September 29, 2011, NASA announced the short list for five potential new "Explorer class" spacecraft. These missions are by definition small and relatively inexpensive, designed to be led by a sm ... more | .. |
  Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This event was seen at the end of 2010 by ... more |
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  Most vertebrates descended from ancestor with sixth sense People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this in ... more | .. |
 NASA in Final Preparations for Nov 8 Asteroid Flyby NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's o ... more | .. |
 China plans space lab docking China's unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft will be launched early next month for the first docking with the country's space lab module, scientists said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training NASA evacuated a crew of astronauts Wednesday from an underwater lab off the coast of Florida where they were training for a trip to an asteroid, due to the approach of Hurricane Rina. ... more |
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  Starlight study shows Pluto's chilly twin Sky-watchers reported on Wednesday that a small planet in deep space that triggered one of the fiercest controversies in modern astronomy appears to be a colder "twin" of Pluto. ... more | .. |
  Emirates seek French military satellite The United Arab Emirates has reopened negotiations with France for a military surveillance satellite, underlining the Persian Gulf state's concerns about Iran's expansionist policies. ... more | .. |
  Vega arrives at French Guiana in preparation for its January 26 inaugural launch The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport with this latest member of Arianespace's expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle - the ... more | .. |
 New Horizons App Now Available The team behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has launched a free app that takes iPhone and iPad users along on this historic voyage to the planetary frontier. Now a ... more |
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  Spacenet Selected by Cumberland Farms to Provide Managed Network Services Solution Gilat Satellite Networks reports that its subsidiary, Spacenet, was selected by Cumberland Farms to upgrade and manage its communications infrastructure for over 600 stores across 11 states. T ... more | .. |
  Pinpointing Stargazing Sites for More Eyes Communities across England will have a twinkle in their eye and get a big environmental and educational boost thanks to Dark Sky Discovery - a pioneering new national and regional partnership of ast ... more | .. |
 Weather Favorable for NPP Launch At this time, there is a zero percent chance of not meeting the launch weather criteria for liftoff of the NPP mission. Skies will be mostly clear with good visibility, forecasters say. At NAS ... more | .. |
 Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. The findings suggest that this disk, ... more |
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  Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around the innermost planet from 11 hours 46 minutes to a precis ... more | .. |
 Close Encounters of the Galactic Kind Astronomers have used a large survey to test a prediction that close encounters between galaxies can trigger the rapid growth of supermassive black holes. Key to this work was Chandra's unique abili ... more | .. |
  ROSAT re-entered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. ... more | .. |
 German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced ... more |
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 PPPL scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen ga ... more | .. |
  Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bri ... more | .. |
 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer ... more | .. |
  New SES Satellite Astra 1N Operational SES has announced that its new ASTRA 1N satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East. ASTRA 1N was built by Astrium on the Eurostar E3000 platform and is equ ... more |
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 Living on Tiangong With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that will follow. We're expecting China to perform two docking tests with the unmanned She ... more | .. |
 Strange Hollows Discovered on Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, rangi ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 One Soyuz launcher, two Galileo satellites, three successes for Europe 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 Gui ... more |
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