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China launches unmanned Shenzhou 8 for first space dockingBeijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2011 China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020. The Shenzhou VIII blasted off from the Gobi desert in China's northwest, the state Xinhua news agency said, separating from its carrier rocket, a modified Long March-2F, about 200 kilometres above the earth. It is due to join with the Tiangong-1 or "Heavenly Palace", possibly within days, in what would be the country's first space docking with ... read more |
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 China mulls over sending female "taikonauts" into space China is considering sending female astronauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday. Two female astronauts have been s ... more | .. |
 Heads "up" for Chinese approach to key space maneuver Docking may be a decades-old space technology in the eyes of veteran aerospace watchers and fans, but seeing how China is going to do it will be a new experience. China launched Shenzhou-8 Tue ... more | .. |
 China's satellite launch base upgraded ahead of Shenzhou-8 mission China upgraded its satellite launch center in the northwest Gobi desert to ensure that the launch of the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, went smoothly, a senior engineer said Sunday. Beijing Special En ... more | .. |
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 Aerospace officials confident in space docking despite degree of difficulty Aerospace officials are confident of a successful space rendezvous and docking between orbiters, despite the inherent challenges and risks, a spokeswoman for China's manned space program said at a p ... more | .. |
 China's first manual space docking hopefully 2012 China plans to fulfill its first ever manual space docking by 2012, probably with women astronauts. Between the two spacecraft launches, which are scheduled both in 2012 for space docking attempts, ... more | .. |
 China to conduct another manned space mission by 2012 A China manned space program spokeswoman said here Monday that China is going to conduct another manned space mission by 2012. Spokeswoman Wu Ping said at a press briefing Monday morning that ... more | .. |
  Autodesk Vault Software Helps Develop World's Largest Optical Telescope What do Earth-like planets outside the Solar System look like? The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is in the midst of designing the world's largest optical telescope with help from Autodesk Vaul ... 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
RTX radar selected to support autonomous X 62A fighter testing | .. |
  New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems' The merging of two technologies under development - plasmonics and nanophotonics - is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers. The ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Lutetia Revealed In Stunning Detail ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta's fleeting flyby also suggest that this ... more | .. |
  A global discussion: directions for space science research Understanding osteoporosis, perfecting vaccines and developing new alloys all share one thing: they are just some of the many scientific fields that have advanced significantly through research perf ... more | .. |
  Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rates by comparing Hubble images to supercomputer simulations A new analysis of images from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with supercomputer simulations of galaxy collisions has cleared up years of confusion about the rate at which smaller galaxies merge ... more |
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 Mikulski Unveils JWST Permanent Exhibit at Maryland Science Center U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS), has unveiled a permanent exhibit on the James Webb Space Telesc ... more | .. |
  Look, no hands -- robot uses gecko power to climb walls Inspired by the gecko, scientists have developed a tank-like robot that can scale vertical walls and crawl over ledges without using suction cups, glue or other liquid bonds to adhere to the surface. ... more | .. |
  Russian Progress space freighter undocks from ISS Russia's unmanned Progress M-10M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday for its return to Earth. The freighter detached from the platform at about 13:04 Mos ... more | .. |
 The Lutetia asteroid - a prehistoric relic New information has been published about the Lutetia asteroid that was observed in 2010 and its properties. The analysis of the data collected during the spacecraft fly-by indicates that Lutetia is ... more |
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  Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from an intern ... more | .. |
Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate A new analysis of Hubble surveys, combined with simulations of galaxy interactions, reveals that the merger rate of galaxies over the last 8 billion to 9 billion years falls between the previous est ... more | .. |
  Astrium successfully delivers Arabsat-5C satellite in orbit The Arabsat-5C satellite has been handed over to ARABSAT by Astrium as part of the in-orbit delivery contract. In less than a week, Arabsat-5C is the third satellite based on the highly reliable Ast ... more | .. |
  Small but agile Proba-1 reaches 10 years in orbit A good photographer needs agility. So it is with ESA microsatellite Proba-1, which turns in space to capture terrestrial targets. Celebrating its tenth birthday this week, Proba-1's unique images ar ... more |
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 Pacman Nebula Gets Some Teeth To visible-light telescopes, this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted in 1980. ... more | .. |
Sweet Dreams for Tiangong At some point in 2012, astronauts will board China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1. This will probably mark the longest Chinese human spaceflight so far, with astronauts expected to live on boa ... more | .. |
  Vega getting ready for exploitation The Flight Readiness Review (FFR) for the Vega launcher was held in Frascati, Italy on October 13 and 14. Based on this review, the Director-General of the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to sta ... more | .. |
German-Chinese SIMBOX ready for launch A very special space breakthrough is approaching; on 31 October at 23:00 CET (1 November at 06:00 local time) the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 will be launched on board a Long March rocket from the ... more |
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  Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch The 520 days of isolation for the Mars500 crew will end on 4 November, when the hatch of their 'spacecraft' is opened for the first time since June last year. Scientists eagerly await the final samp ... more | .. |
 Russia launches first supply ship for ISS after mishap Russia on Sunday launched its first supply ship destined for the International Space Station since the embarrassing loss of a similar vessel in August raised questions about its space programme. ... more | .. |
 MSU satellite orbits the Earth after early morning launch Montana State University now has a satellite in space, and it's already talking. Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m. Mountain time, a student-built satellite called Explorer-1 [Prime] roared ... more | .. |
 NASA Launches Multi-Talented Earth-Observing Satellite NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space early today aboard a Delta II rocket after liftoff at 5:48 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ... more |
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 Ball Aerospace-Built NPP Satellite Launched Successfully NASA's NPP satellite built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit this morning at 2:48 PDT (5:48 EDT). NASA's first Earth-observi ... more | .. |
 Faster-than-light experiment to run again An experiment in Europe that seemed to suggest some sub-atomic particles were traveling faster than the speed of light will be run again, scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Station Crew Prepares For Progress Departure and New Arrivals The Expedition 29 crew members living and working aboard the International Space Station made preparations for the departure and arrivals of a series of visiting Russian spacecraft and continued the ... more | .. |
 Russian space freighter leaves ISS A Russian Progress M-10M freighter left the International Space Station for a return flight to Earth Saturday, officials said. ... more |
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