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China paces to the MoonMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 28, 2012 China announces its next manned spaceflight to be launched next summer. What are the implications for 'senior space powers'? On February 21, Chinese space officials announced that the next manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft will be launched between June and August this year. Its main task will be to dock with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, launched in September 2011. The docking mission will be performed manually, so that the docking technology can be checked. Then, the crew will board the st ... read more |
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  Drone makers cashing in as war tactics evolve They are deadly, hard to detect and fast becoming one of the most sought-after weapons in the air defence industry. ... more | .. |
  Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was ... more | .. |
  Pioneers of Sol: The Motes in Gods Eye March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecra ... more | .. |
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  Curiosity, the Stunt Double With a pair of bug-eyes swiveling on a stalk nearly 8 feet off the ground, the 6-wheeled, 1800-lb Mars rover Curiosity doesn't look much like a human being. Yet, right now, the mini-Cooper-sized rov ... more | .. |
  Roddam resigns from space panel Eminent aerospace scientist Roddam Narasimha has resigned from the Space Commission citing the treatment meted out to some former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, in connection ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5 readied for dual-satellite launch fpr Asia-Pacific telco The second Ariane 5 for launch in 2012 by Arianespace has completed its initial assembly at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a preparation milestone for this dual-payload mission to orbit a p ... more | .. |
  XCOR Announces New Lynx Vehicle Payload Integrators At the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) 2012 in Palo Alto, California, XCOR Aerospace announced that EMXYS of Spain, Texas A and M's Space Engineering Research Center, and th ... more |
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 Ex-ISRO chief seeks fresh probe into Devas deal Blaming the space department for misleading the government and the Space Commission on the spectrum deal, former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair Sunday sought a f ... more | .. |
  China launches 11th satellite for independent navigation system China successfully launched a satellite into space at 12:12 a.m. Beijing Time Saturday, the 11th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, t ... more | .. |
  Five Solar Eruptions in 2 Days - CME On the Way From February 23 through February 24 our sun produced an astonishing five solar eruptions, launched from the top, bottom, left and right sides of the solar disk. Four of those eruptions came in just ... more | .. |
 Scientist resigns over blacklisting of ISRO stalwarts Eminent scientist Roddam Narasimha, the seniormost member of the Space Commission, has resigned to protest the blacklisting of former Indian space agency chairman G. Madhavan Nair and three others i ... more |
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  Astrophysicists from Clemson and Europe unmask a black hole A study of X-rays emitted a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away has unmasked a stellar mass black hole in Andromeda, a spiral galaxy about 2.6 million light-years from Earth. Two Clemson U ... more | .. |
  New Research Points to Erosional Origin of Linear Dunes Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes ma ... more | .. |
  ORBIT and Milano Teleport Receive Orders for VSAT Solution Based on ORBIT's OrBand ORBIT Communication Systems and Milano Teleport, the largest independent teleport in Italy, announced that they received new orders for a complete VSAT solution based on ORBIT's OrBand C-Band VSAT s ... more | .. |
 NASA Pinning Down "Here" Better Than Ever Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are. For that, they rely on a network of s ... more |
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Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau
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 Rhea Before Titan Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leadin ... more | .. |
 Black Hole Came From A Shredded Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests ... more | .. |
  Ozone Suite on Suomi NPP Continues More Than 30 Years of Ozone Data A new satellite instrument suite is now sending back detailed information about the health of the Earth's ozone layer, the shield that protects the world's population from harmful levels of the sun' ... more | .. |
 Malta signs ESA Space Cooperation Agreement Malta signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA on 20 February 2012. The objective of this agreement is to allow Malta and ESA to create the framework for more-intensive cooperation in ESA projects in ... more |
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  NuSTAR's Mirrors Baked in Zhang's Glass Kitchen It pays to persevere. No one knows this better than Will Zhang. For more than a decade, the astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., experimented with a new technique ... more | .. |
  Clyde Space wins UK Space Agency support for innovative space tech Clyde Space has been awarded funding for two advanced space technology development projects. The projects are joint developments; the first with the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory at University ... more | .. |
 Gilat Selected by JSC NURSAT to Deploy Broadband Satellite Communications Solution Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it was selected by JSC NURSAT, one of Kazakhstan's national satellite service providers, to deploy a broadband satellite IP network based on Gilat's advanced S ... more | .. |
  Humanoid Robot Exhibition Opens Drexel Engineers Week Drexel's College of Engineering will kick off its National Engineers Week celebration with an unprecedented unveiling of seven adult-size humanoid robots as part of nationwide research collaboration ... more |
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 Pulsars: The Universe's Gift to Physics Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar ... more | .. |
  A Planetary Exo-splosion Mankind's knowledge of planets, limited for most of human history to our own Earth and its solar system neighbors, has exploded in the last 20 years with the discovery of hundreds of exo-planets in the cosmos, a search with the ultimate goal of finding an Earthly twin that could harbor some form of life. ... more | .. |
 Technology and creativity go "full spectrum" at TED Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world. ... more | .. |
 Top Indian space scientist quits over blacklisting A top Indian scientist said Saturday he had resigned from the nation's Space Commission to protest the government's blacklisting of four scientists over alleged irregularities in a satellite deal. ... more |
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  The Fireballs of February In the middle of the night on February 13th, something disturbed the animal population of rural Portal, Georgia. Cows started mooing anxiously and local dogs howled at the sky. The cause of the comm ... more | .. |
 Extending the Habitable Zone for Red Dwarf Stars Stars known as red dwarfs might have larger habitable zones friendly to 'life as we know it' than once thought, researchers say. Red dwarfs, also known as M stars, are dim compared to stars li ... more | .. |
 Earth siblings can be different! The study of the photospheric stellar abundances of the planet-host stars is the key to understanding how protoplanets form, as well as which protoplanetary clouds evolve planets and which do not. ... more | .. |
 Fastest wind from stellar mass black hole discovered The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a University of Michigan doctoral student. Using N ... more |
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