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February 09, 2010
SHUTTLE NEWS
NASA Launches Endeavour On Fifth Last Shuttle Mission
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010
The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts blasted into space on a mission to deliver a module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station. Endeavour lifted takeoff at 4:14 am (0914 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center here after a launch planned for Sunday was aborted due to heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral. George Diller, a spokesman for NASA said before launch the agency was cautiously optimistic that the weather would be better Monday morning. And it was as Endeavour undertook the last planned night launch for the space shuttle ahead of it's retirement later this year. ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

DMCii Welcomes UK-Indonesia Climate Change Partnership
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Endeavour Launch Sparks Early Monday Sunrise
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SPACEMART

SES WORLD SKIES Cooperates With Andean Community
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TECH SPACE

Iran To Unveil Five Space Projects
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LAUNCH PAD

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STATION NEWS
US shuttle delivers panoramic dome to space lab
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010
The US space shuttle Endeavour on Monday soared into orbit carrying an observation deck for the International Space Station, a seven-windowed dome offering breathtaking views. The picture-perfect launch lit up the night sky at 4:14 am (0914 GMT), after a first attempt was scrubbed on Sunday due to heavy clouds over the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft and its crew o ... more

TIME AND SPACE
Atom Smasher To Jump Straight To Maximum Energy
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 09, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump straight to its maximum energy without any medium-energy proton collisions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said on its website. Experts, who gathered in Chamonix last week, revised the previous schedule according to which first physicists at the LHC were to switch to medium-energy beam collisions of 10 TeV this summer, fo ... more

RUSSIAN SPACE
Soyuz 100 Times More Reliable Than Shuttle
Moscow, Russia (Pravda) Feb 08, 2010
Richard Garriott, a videogame developer, who once boarded Russia's Soyuz rocket for a space flight said that the Russian-made ship was much more reliable than its foreign analogues. Garriott, whose father is a former NASA astronaut, paid $30 million for a flight to the iInternational Space station. He said in a televised conference that Soyuz was 100 times more a reliable spacecraft than U ... more

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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission

STATION NEWS

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STATION NEWS
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STATION NEWS
Moscow 'concerned' by US-Romania missile shield deal

Romania to host U.S. missiles

Iran tells Gulf states not to buy 'ineffective' US missiles

STATION NEWS
Iran to make missile system better than Russian: airforce

USAF Awards Raytheon Contract For Infrared-Guided Maverick Missiles

Iran opens two new missile plants

STATION NEWS
Russia displaces U.S. as Latin arms source

NATO agrees steps to fill yawning budget gap

BAE to pay 450 million dollars in fraud fines

STATION NEWS
NASA And GM Take Giant Leap In Robotic Technology

Animal rights group wants 'Robohog Day'

S.Korean scientists develop walking robot maid

STATION NEWS
Freeze on HIV spending sparks concern in Africa

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Britain to close swine flu unit as pandemic fades

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SPACEMART
First Journey For Alphabus
Toulouse, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2010
The service module of the new Alphabus generation of telecommunication satellites has completed its first journey - from Cannes to Toulouse, in France. The three-day trip was completed last Friday. The exceptional convoy was made up of a 20 m-long lorry carrying the satellite container, several escort cars and a police escort to close off streets and redirect traffic as they passed through urban areas. This platform will be used for the Alphasat I-XL satellite being built by Astrium for Inma ... read more

STATION NEWS
Hawaii aims to become green energy leader

Shedding New Light On City Of Sustainability

AREVA To Acquire US Solar Company Ausra

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STATION NEWS
Iran to inform IAEA of higher uranium enrichment plan

Iran has notified IAEA of uranium enrichment plans: envoy

Areva, EDF reach nuclear waste deal

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STATION NEWS
Haitian aid effort rushes out tents with anger building

In Haiti, doctors struggle with new wave of injured

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STATION NEWS
Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombing

Taliban defiant as Afghans flee ahead of assault

China says troubled Xinjiang faces long clampdown

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STATION NEWS
Iran opens two production lines to make drones: report

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