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End of US shuttle program poses safety risks: panelWashington (AFP) Jan 13, 2011 A climate of uncertainty in the US space program combined with the approaching retirement of the shuttle missions presents safety risks, a government advisory panel said Thursday. "Lack of clarity and constancy of purpose among NASA, Congress, and the White House is a key safety concern," the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said in its annual report. "From the aspect of safety, the lack of a defined mission can negatively affect workforce morale and the ability to attract and maintain the necess ... read more |
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  The Two-Faced Whirlpool Galaxy These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. The image at left, taken in visible light ... more | .. |
  Taking The Pulse Of A Black Hole System Using two NASA X-ray satellites, astronomers have discovered what drives the "heartbeats" seen in the light from an unusual black hole system. These results give new insight into the ways that black ... more | .. |
  Studying Paolo's Brains ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, now working as a flight engineer on the International Space Station, is busy with a range of scientific experiments. The latest is peering inside his head to help unders ... more | .. |
  SOFIA Opens New Window On Star Formation In Orion A mid-infrared mosaic image from the SOFIA airborne observatory offers new information about processes of star formation in and around the nebula Messier 42, in the constellation Orion. The im ... more |
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  Russia To Launch Ocean Satellite In March Russia will launch an oceanography satellite in March to keep track of a vast amount of data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Release The Largest Color Image Of The Sky Ever Made The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and it's free to all. The image has been put together over the last decade from million ... more | .. |
 Reverence For The Heavens Our Sun is just one small point of light in the swirl of suns that shape the disc of the Milky Way. The galaxy's hundreds of billions of stars are strewn so widely apart, it would take a spaceship ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Climate-Monitoring Sensor Prepares for Launch A NASA spacecraft carrying a Raytheon-built sensor designed to measure the global distribution of aerosols in Earth's atmosphere has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for ... more |
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 Radius Block Installation To Begin On Discovery Tank Technicians will begin installing additional support structures, called radius blocks, to space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank's support beams known as "stringers" as the shuttle stands insi ... more | .. |
 Planck's New View Of The Cosmic Theatre The first scientific results from ESA's Planck mission were released at a press briefing in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy to the distant re ... more | .. |
  New Telescope Exploring Solar System Outback In the outer reaches of our solar system lies a mysterious region far more remote and difficult to explore than the Australian outback. It remains the only part of our solar system not visited by sp ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Capture A Stronger La Nina New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Nina event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 s ... more |
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 Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Identified Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to ... more | .. |
  ISRO-Enabled Control Room For Anti-Naxal Operations A state-of-the-art control room with giant TV screens that will help track the offensive of security forces in Naxal strongholds with satellite imaging and GPS has been activated at the CRPF headqua ... more | .. |
 High-Energy Surprises In Constant Crab Nebula The combined data from several NASA satellites has astonished astronomers by revealing unexpected changes in X-ray emission from the Crab Nebula, once thought to be the steadiest high-energy source ... more | .. |
  Gravity Lensing Brightens Distant Galaxies Astronomers who survey galaxies in the distant universe are getting some unexpected help from gravity, according to a new study. In a presentation at the American Astronomical Society meeting ... more |
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  New Insights Into Sun's Photosphere NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the research team at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have reported new insights into the small-scale dynamics of the Sun's photosphere. The o ... more | .. |
  Indonauts Must Wait For A Better Rocket The 2010 Christmas Day failure of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle was a sad blow to India's space program. ISRO, India's space agency, lost a rocket and a major satellite. There's an ... more | .. |
 Toronto Astronomers Share In Planck's Treasure Trove Of Science University of Toronto astronomers are in Paris as part of an international conference announcing the first scientific results of the Plank space telescope mission. Launched in May, 2009, the t ... more | .. |
  Replica of pioneering computer to be built A replica of the world's first modern computer, first run more than 60 years ago, will be built at a former U.K. code-breaking center, engineers say. ... more |
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 Space Adventures Signs Three Seat Soyuz Deal For 2013 Manifest Space Adventures has reached an agreement with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the So ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Discover Close-Knit Pairs Of Massive Black Holes Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawaii (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive ... more | .. |
  Bolivian President Defends Satellite Project Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday that a telecommunications satellite to be built and launched by China would greatly contribute to Bolivia's development. The two countries signed ... more | .. |
  ATM Is Readied For Its February Launch On Ariane 5 The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for Arianespace's year-opening mission in 2011 - which also will be the milestone 200th flight of an Ariane launcher - is ready for integration on its Ariane 5, ... more |
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