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Arianespace Announces Eutelsat ContractParis, France (SPX) Jan 18, 2011 Continuing a 28-year relationship marked by 25 launch campaigns, Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced they have concluded a new contract for a satellite launch in the 2012 period. The contract, signed in December 2010, for an Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Centre, provides Eutelsat with launch diversity and schedule assurance for its significant in-orbit expansion programme of six satellites to be launched by mid-2013. Commenting on this latest contract, Arianespace ... read more |
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  ISRO Ready To Provide Satellite Images Of Sabarimala India's premier space agency ISRO has offered to provide to the Kerala government satellite pictures of Sabarimala area for taking measures to prevent disasters like the stampede that claimed 102 li ... more | .. |
  Kazakhstan Ratifies Space Cooperation Agreement With Russia Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law the ratification of a Russian-Kazakh space cooperation agreement, the government press service said on Monday. The intergovernmental a ... more | .. |
  The Big Bang The night sky seems to present a view of a calm and unchanging Universe. But, in 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe is, in fact, expanding at enormous speed. He noted that galaxies outs ... more | .. |
  The Best Way To Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better Dark energy is a mysterious force that pervades all space, acting as a "push" to accelerate the Universe's expansion. Despite being 70 percent of the Universe, dark energy was only discovered in 199 ... more |
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  Extra shuttle mission this year in doubt Delays in the space shuttle Discovery's mission for repairs to its fuel tank raise doubts about an extra shuttle mission this year, U.S. officials say. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Forget Planet X New Technique Could Pinpoint Galaxy X Planet X, an often-sought 10th planet, is so far a no-show, but Sukanya Chakrabarti has high hopes for finding what might be called Galaxy X - a dwarf galaxy that she predicts orbits our Milky Way G ... more |
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  ATV Johannes Kepler Gears Up For Space Journey 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 ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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