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May 07, 2015

New bid to contact Europe's comet probe
Paris (AFP) May 7, 2015
Europe will launch a new bid Friday to communicate with its comet lander Philae, hurtling towards the Sun some 360 million kilometres (224 million miles) from Earth, ground operators said. Philae's orbiting mothership Rosetta will reopen communications lines for 10 days to listen for any call from the slumbering robot, Paris-based Rosetta project manager Francis Rocard of France's CNES space agency told AFP on Thursday. Chances for contact improve daily as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko draws c ... read more

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Russian Telescope Captures Burning Up Progress Spacecraft Russian astronomers have captured a video of what is apparently the falling Progress spacecraft three days before it is scheduled to burn up. The falling Progress spacecraft has been reportedl ... more		Damaging Radiation Effects on Travelers to Mars We already know that interplanetary travel will be extremely expensive and may take months or years to achieve one-way trips to Mars and other planets. In addition to the long travel times and expen ... more		Japan, US sign agreement to develop hypersonic missile interceptor Xi, Putin hail ties as 'stabilising' force in chaotic world US forces lose strategic African position in Niger		Successful SpaceX escape test 'bodes well for future' SpaceX's Dragon capsule sailed through the first flight test of its emergency astronaut escape feature Wednesday, a critical step toward launching people into space from US soil in the next two years. ... more
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