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World has five years to avoid severe warming: IEAParis (AFP) Nov 9, 2011 The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday. On current trends, "rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change," the IEA concluded in its annual World Energy Outlook report. "The door to 2.0 C is closing," it said, referring to the 2.0 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) cap on global warming widely accepted by scientists an ... read more |
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  Russia tries to save stranded Mars probe Russia made desperate efforts on Thursday to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that now hangs in a low Earth orbit and could potentially crash back down in a matter of days. ... more | .. |
  Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
  NASA Proposes Orion Spacecraft Test Flight In 2014 NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and ... more | .. |
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  NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
  Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause la ... more | .. |
  Whitehouse Says No Contact With ET The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no cred ... more | .. |
  High-Volume Production of QUANTUM Chip Scale Atomic Clock Begins Symmetricom, Inc. has selected Kyocera America, Inc. to help produce its QUANTUM SA.45s Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC). Since its market introduction in January 2011, the CSAC has built strong momen ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customer
Raytheon advances next generation short range interceptor with ballistic test
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 Stellar Extremophiles Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected. Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Instead of ... more | .. |
 Studying Biology's Dark Matter Astrobiologists have long been interested in microorganisms that can survive in the harshest environments that Earth has to offer, from deep sea vents to geothermal hot springs. Unfortunately, these ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Drives Canada Back To Mars In less than a month, NASA will take a bold new step in the exploration of Planet Mars with the launch of a new rover, Curiosity. Curiosity is the centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mi ... more | .. |
 Russian probe fails to set course to Mars A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said. ... more |
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 China launches remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched the remote-sensing satellite Yaogan XII Wednesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi province, according to a press release from the center. ... more | .. |
  The second Soyuz launcher's Fregat upper stage is readied for flight A focus of activity for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now on the Spaceport's S3B clean room facility, where the medium-lift launcher's Fregat upper stage is being readied f ... more | .. |
  Astronomy: Hubble 'whodunnit' is resolved at last Accusations that a giant of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, quashed a Belgian cleric who beat him to making one of the greatest discoveries of modern times are unfounded, Nature said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  New elements join the periodic table Chemistry students bent on memorizing the periodic table of elements have three new names to commit to memory, scientists meeting in Britain said. ... more |
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Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
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Large asteroid makes rare fly-by of Earth A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Congress and NASA: expedite commercial crew The end of the Space Shuttle program this summer caused the US to voluntarily give up its capability to put our own astronauts into orbit. By doing so before a new human spaceflight launch system is ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Ends 2011 With Three Launcher Campaigns On November 7, for the first time in the history of Arianespace, the company's operating teams were all deployed concurrently on the Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center in ... more | .. |
 Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km a ... more |
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  Preparing to Stock the Medicine Cabinet for Long-Duration Missions When aerospace engineers design the new vehicle intended for long-duration space travel, they will need to include a good-sized medicine cabinet. Stocking it, however, is more of a challenge than a ... more | .. |
 U.S. institute wraps up data collection in Russian Mars 520-day mission simulation For the past 17 months, researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) collected data to evaluate the impact of prolonged operational confinement on the sleep, performance ... more | .. |
 NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars. ... more | .. |
 Moscow's Mars pioneers hail success, gripe at space rations Six men who spent 520 days in isolation in Moscow to simulate a flight to Mars on Tuesday spoke of their pride at becoming "spacemen" but complained of the monotony and cravings for crusty baguettes. ... more |
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  In GPS case, US court debates '1984' scenario The US Supreme Court delved Tuesday into the issue of privacy amid 21st century technology, hearing arguments on whether police can use a GPS device attached to a vehicle to track a suspect without a search warrant. ... more | .. |
  Giant solar flare detected A giant sunspot that erupted last week has been ranked as one of the largest solar flares seen in years, U.S. scientists said. ... more | .. |
 White House: No contact yet from E.T. In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more | .. |
NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more |
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 Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send m ... more | .. |
 Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more | .. |
  What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov. 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nat ... more | .. |
 NASA's Future Up In Space In a recent interview at the White House, President Obama addressed NASA's future. He said, "I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that w ... more |
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