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Mankind's messenger at the final frontierParis (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 It looks like a dustbin lid strapped to a cluster of fishing rods. Its computer is so puny it could not even start up your iPhone. And if E.T. wants to listen to the message it brings, he'll need a gramophone to play it on. But in the history of space exploration, there is not a probe that can touch the glittering career of Voyager 1, mankind's first messenger to the cosmos. Thirty-five years after it was launched, the doughty explorer is on the brink of leaving the Solar System and heading into ... read more |
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  Birth of a planet The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary research ... more | .. |
  Dawn Of A New Mission To Proto Planet Ceres An interplanetary spaceship left Earth in 2007. Propelling itself gently and patiently through the solar system with a blue-green beam of xenon ions, it gradually spiraled away from the sun. It sail ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams ... more | .. |
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  Rapidly rotating white dwarf stars can solve the missing companion problem for Type Ia supernovae The research group of Izumi Hachisu (The University of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio University) and Ken'ichi Nomoto (Kavli IPMU, The Univiersity of Tokyo) discovered that a Type Ia supernova occurs aft ... more | .. |
  Israel's Arrow 3 missile to be tested soon After nearly year's delay, Israel's Arrow 3 anti-missile is to be tested soon. ... more | .. |
  Gilat Enhances SkyEdge VSAT Platform's Disaster Recovery Capabilities with Automated Dual IPsec Provides ATM banking, retailers and other distributed enterprises with rapid recovery for continuous processing without the need for additional hardware. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has announced ... more | .. |
 Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected ... more |
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Trump says not considering US strikes on Venezuela
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  Monitech Announces Zero-Installation Tracking System for Automotive Industry Monitech and Telit Wireless Solutions have announced the launch of Monitech's Car Lighter Tracker or CLT, a zero-Installation compact tracking device based on Telit's cellular M2M, GPS+GLONASS satel ... more | .. |
  Astrium installs new terminal in Mexico to receive SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 imagery Astrium Services and the Mexican federal government's Ministry of agriculture, livestock farming, rural development, food and fisheries (SAGARPA), signed an agreement this spring to upgrade the ERME ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Complete First Launch Exercise for Next Generation GPS Satellites Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have successfully completed the first launch readiness exercise for the U.S. Air Force's next generation GPS III satellites. The exercise is a key milestone demonstratin ... more | .. |
  Boeing 702MP Selected for first Intelsat EpicNG Satellite The Boeing 702MP satellite bus has been selected by Intelsat S.A. for the Intelsat 29e satellite, the first of the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG next-generation high-performance system. " ... more |
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  Seeing the Birth of the Universe in an Atom of Hydrogen Windows to the past, stars can unveil the history of our universe, currently estimated to be 14 billion years old. The farther away the star, the older it is - and the oldest stars are the most diff ... more | .. |
  Astronauts Take Second Spacewalk Astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide began a spacewalk on Wednesday in another attempt to install a power unit on the International Space Station. The operation was broadcast live on ... more | .. |
 Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta Mission controllers received confirmation that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second dest ... more | .. |
 35 years on, Voyager 'dancing on edge' of outer space NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be "dancing on the edge" of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said. ... more |
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Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
UN support for Morocco's plan for Western Sahara 'historic': King Mohammed VI
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 Africa needs own space agency: Sudan's Bashir Africa needs its own space research agency, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a regional conference of communications ministers who met on Wednesday as the continent's IT sector grows. ... more | .. |
 Mobile users wary of privacy invasion by apps: survey Users of mobile devices are rejecting or uninstalling some apps because of concerns about how much personal and private information is collected, a US survey showed Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 The mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered The universe is comprised of a large amount of invisible matter, dark matter. It fills the space between the galaxies and between the stars in the galaxies. Since the prediction of the existence of ... more | .. |
  Curiosity Has a Photo Day Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Nav ... more |
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  Russia Delays 2012 Military Launches After Satellite Failure Russia will delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch last month, a top defense official said on Tuesday. The delays will be "insignificant," Russian ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman to Supply Bridge Navigation Systems for Swire Group's Dry Cargo Ships Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to supply navigation bridge equipment for a series of 39,500-dwt dry bulk cargo ships being built in China for the China Navigation Company Pte. Ltd., Si ... more | .. |
 A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 A new superterran exoplanet (aka Super-Earth) was found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163 by the European HARPS team. The planet, Gliese 163c, has a minimum mass of 6.9 ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins- ... more |
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  SES inks capacity deal with Romantis for Russia and Central Asia SES has signed a capacity agreement with Romantis, a global provider of satellite capacity and networking equipment, to support the growing connectivity needs across Russia and Central Asia. R ... more | .. |
 KVH Introduces New TracPhone V7-IP for mini-VSAT Broadband Service its latest initiative to advance the quality, speed, and affordability of broadband data connectivity at sea, KVH Industries, Inc., introduces a revolutionary new onboard terminal for its industry-l ... more | .. |
  ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15 The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between the Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vigilant, recording the combination of r ... more | .. |
  NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye ... more |
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 Unique Gamma Ray Station to Be Built on Baikal Work began by the Siberian Lake Baikal to create a unique gamma ray observatory, which will span 100 square kilometers in one of the world's cleanest places, researchers said on Sunday. The Tu ... more | .. |
 Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA After a careful four-day road trek from Switzerland, the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has arrived at ESA for testing. During its time at ESA's ESTEC facility in the ... more | .. |
 Crew Wraps Up Preparations for Wednesday's Spacewalk The Expedition 32 crew finalized preparations Tuesday for a second spacewalk in less than a week in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a replacement power-switching unit on the Internati ... more | .. |
 Africa eyes joint space agency African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers. ... more |
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