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SpaceX, NASA Target Oct. 7 Launch For Resupply Mission To Space StationCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 21, 2012 NASA managers, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) officials and international partner representatives Thursday announced Sunday, Oct. 7, as the target launch date for the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. International Space Station Program managers confirmed the status and readiness of the Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon cargo spacecraft for the SpaceX CRS-1 mission, as well as the space st ... read more |
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  Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn ... more | .. |
  Curious About Life: Interview with David Blake The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
 Fueling underway with the Galileo satellites for next Soyuz launch from French Guiana Both passengers for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from French Guiana are entering their final processing phase, which includes fueling of the two Galileo navigation satellites prior to their in ... more | .. |
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  NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock En Route to First Destination NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about hal ... more | .. |
  Knight Foundation invests to accelerate data projects Six media innovation ventures that make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality, elections, demographics and more received a total of $2.22 million today as winners ... more | .. |
  Large Monolithic Imager sees first light on the Discovery Channel Telescope The Large Monolithic Imager (LMI), a camera built at Lowell Observatory and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), recently took a set of first-light images on Lowell's 4.3-m Discovery Cha ... more | .. |
  Cavenauts return to Earth The international team of astronauts taking part in ESA's caving adventure have returned to Earth after spending six days underground. The voyage to the surface of our planet took them five hours fr ... more |
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  Radar Measurements of Highest Precision Scientists of KIT and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have reached a record precision in radar distance measurements. With the help of a new radar system, an accuracy of one micrometer was achieved in ... more | .. |
  Gilat's Spacenet Installs 10,000th Dollar General VSAT Gilat Satellite Networks has equipped its 10,000th Dollar General store with Spacenet's advanced SkyEdge VSAT technology. Dollar General has more retail locations than any other retailer in the U.S. ... more | .. |
 SATADSL To Market SES Broadband In Sub-Saharan Africa SES Broadband Services has announced that it has signed an agreement with SatADSL for the distribution of its satellite broadband service, SES Broadband, in Sub-Saharan Africa. The service will be p ... more | .. |
 First Images from SPOT 6 Satellite Astrium Services has posted the first images from the SPOT 6 satellite, just 3 days after its launch on 9 September. SPOT 6 will assure continuity of data from the series of satellites operati ... more |
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  BSkyB keeps licence but James Murdoch criticised Britain's media regulator on Thursday allowed pay-TV giant BSkyB to keep broadcasting, but blasted former boss James Murdoch for failing to uncover the hacking scandal at his father's empire. ... more | .. |
  US space shuttle in California on final flight The US space shuttle Endeavour arrived Thursday in California, where it will make a spectacular series of flypasts before finally heading into retirement near where it was built. ... more | .. |
  China launches another 2 navigation system satellites China successfully launched another two satellites into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 3:10 a.m. Beijing time on Wednesday. They were the 14th and 15th s ... more | .. |
 NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission The car-sized Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the Red Planet last month, is the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious planetary mission in many years. But it is just one of a sweepi ... 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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 We are not alone Space exploration has become a national priority for China - and a Hong Kong scientist appointed to an international body searching for alien life says he is confident many of us will live to see th ... more | .. |
 Dark Bands Run Through Light Layers This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows a close-up view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed fr ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Looks at Ground Ahead, Moons Above A series of daily drives has taken NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity to a vantage point about halfway to a science destination area called Glenelg. The rover has been using its Mast Camera to examine the ... more | .. |
'Jake Matijevic' Contact Target for Curiosity The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front of the rover. The rock is about ... more |
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 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle Endeavour Land in Houston NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Endeavour mounted on top landed at Houston's Ellington Field at 10:40 a.m. CDT. Public viewing at Ellington has been extended to 9 p.m. CDT, ... more | .. |
  NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Lab Sensors Enable First Light for the Dark Energy Camera Early in the morning of September 12 the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the Victor Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, recorded its first images of a so ... more | .. |
 Gaia Payload Module Integration Completed Integration of the Flight Model of the Gaia Payload Module has been completed. It has undergone acceptance vibration testing; thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing will be carried out towards t ... more |
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 Astrium wins DEOS contract to demonstrate in-orbit servicing Astrium is preparing a new technology mission for the maintenance and disposal of satellites. At the ILA Berlin Air Show, the DLR Space Administration announced that Astrium Friedrichshafen will be ... more | .. |
 Mars rover to launch first rock study NASA's Curiosity Rover will study its first martial rock Friday, more than a month after landing on the Red Planet, mission officials said. ... more | .. |
 Improved positioning indoors The NAVVIS positioning system is primarily based on visual information. The TUM researchers had to develop a special location recognition system for this project. They started by taking photos of a ... more | .. |
 Capturing defective satellites in space - DLR awards contract to Astrium A service satellite captures an uncontrollable satellite in space, repairs or refuels it and, at the end of the mission, ensures that the defective satellite is disposed of in a controlled manner. S ... more |
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 Hubble Sees NGC 7090 - An actively star-forming galaxy This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from the Earth, meaning we cannot easily see the spiral arms ... more | .. |
 Pioneering UK project to improve land carbon intelligence accuracy and reliability British satellite imaging company DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) is launching a ground-breaking project with support from the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board to provide ... more | .. |
 One Degree Imager Debuts at WIYN Telescope at KPNO The days when professional astronomers peered through telescopes are long gone. Today, the camera or other instrument that is attached to the telescope is as important as the telescope itself. Over ... more | .. |
 HISPASAT chooses Arianespace to launch its Amazonas 4A and AG1 satellites Spanish operator Hispasat has once again chosen launch services company Arianespace, this time for its two satellites Amazonas-4A and Hispasat AG1. They will be the 8th and 9th satellites from the H ... more |
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