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ATV Johannes Kepler Gears Up For Space JourneyParis, France (ESA) Jan 17, 2011 ATV-2 is almost ready for launch on 15 February from Europe's Spaceport. It will be the heaviest load ever lofted into space by the Ariane 5 rocket, making the 200th flight of the European launcher even more spectacular. ESA's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle space ferry, named after the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, is now fully fuelled, its oxygen tanks are filled and most of the cargo from ESA and NASA is placed inside. Only last-minute cargo of up to 400 kg will b ... read more |
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  ViviSat Launched U.S. Space and ATK have announced the creation of ViviSat, a new satellite life extension venture. ViviSat provides geosynchronous satellite operators with flexible, scalable, capital-efficient, and ... more | .. |
  NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. ... more | .. |
  NASA Invites Students To Send Experiments To The Edge Of Space NASA is inviting student teams to design and build experiments the agency will fly into the stratosphere, a near-space environment, more than 100,000 feet above the Earth. NASA's second annual ... more | .. |
  Mars Desert Research Station 2011 Field Season Begins Mars Desert Research Station Crew 97 Summary Report - Crew 97 is a diverse team composed of various backgrounds and skill-sets which blend together to perform research at the Mars Desert Research St ... more |
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  Inclined Orbits Prevail In Exoplanetary Systems A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered that inclined orbits may be typical rather than rare for exop ... more | .. |
  Improved Measurements Of Sun To Advance Understanding Of Climate Change Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change. In a n ... more | .. |
  US Likely To Lift Ban On ISRO And DRDO Soon The U.S., which imposed curbs on trade with defence entities like ISRO and DRDO following India's nuclear tests in 1998, has set in motion regulatory changes to lift the ban soon, thus fulfilling a ... more | .. |
  Partner Galaxies Wildly Different In New WISE Image NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies - a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner blazing with smoky star formation. ... more |
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  Discovery Mission Specialist Injured But OK STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the Int ... more | .. |
 Scanning The Red Planet Like a scanner in orbit, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Mars Express spacecraft has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet since 10 January 2004, spotting volcanoes, trenches, ... more | .. |
  Planck Team Releases Extensive Compact Source Catalogue The Planck Collaboration presented the first science results to emerge from the mission, covering compact and diffuse foreground emission sources, at a conference held from 10 to 14 January 2011 in ... more | .. |
  Finding High-Energy Surprises In 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 |
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  Chandra Images Torrent Of Star Formation A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. M82 is located about 12 million light-years from Earth and is the nearest place to us wh ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Map Dark Matter In Massive Galaxies A team of astronomers led by Dr. David Pooley of Eureka Scientific has made an important determination of the amount of dark matter in massive galaxies using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provid ... more | .. |
 End of US shuttle program poses safety risks: panel 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. ... more | .. |
 Heaviest Known Black Hole In Our Cosmic Neighborhood Astronomers led by Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin have measured the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood by combining data from a giant telescope in Hawai'i a ... more |
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  NASA says it can't afford new rocket, spacecraft NASA this week told Congress it cannot afford to build a new heavy-lift rocket and spacecraft to replace the retiring space shuttle program within the timeframe and budget approved by lawmakers. ... 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 | .. |
Astronaut Kelly 'hopeful' to lead Endeavour launch Astronaut Mark Kelly, whose lawmaker wife is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, still intends to lead the Endeavour shuttle's mission to space on April 19, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Galileo satnav system called 'stupid idea': US cable The head of a German firm working on Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system called it a "stupid idea" being pushed by France for military reasons, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed Thursday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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