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Flying to rendezvous with Tiangong-1Jiuquan, China (XNA) Nov 02, 2011 About 1.5 km from a launch pad in the deserts of northwest China, crowds of people observed a rocket with reverence, waiting hours through the dark for the moment when the spacecraft departed for the heavens in a brilliant burst of light and sound. At the vast Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft was comfortably seated atop a modified Long March CZ-2F rocket, illuminated by hundreds of lights at the launch pad. Crowds of spectators waited early Tuesday morning ... read more |
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  Arianespace's no. 2 Soyuz begins taking shape for launch from the Spaceport in French Guiana Preparations for Arianespace's second Soyuz mission from French Guiana are moving forward as assembly and checkout of the vehicle continue at the Spaceport. Its basic three-stage launcher is now tak ... more | .. |
  Virgin Galactic selects second pilot Space tourism company Virgin Galactic says it has selected a U.S. Air Force test pilot to helm its passenger-carrying space planes into suborbital space. ... more | .. |
  Israel test fires rocket-propulsion system: ministry Israel on Wednesday successfully tested a rocket-propulsion system from a military base in the centre of the country, a defence ministry official said. ... more | .. |
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  Large asteroid to pass by Earth Nov 8 but what if it did not An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on Nov. 8. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, a Purdue asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Eart ... more | .. |
  Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars. ... more | .. |
  NASA Launches JPL-Built Earth Science Experiment An experiment developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to test technology for future NASA Earth science missions was aboard one of five small "CubeSat" research satellites th ... more | .. |
  NMSU psychology professor sees automated cargo delivery in the future A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying drones and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. ... more |
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Calls for defence spending spree raise hackles in Spain
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 For Chinese orbiter, the chase is on For the first time, an orbiter China sends into space has a completely new mission: to rendezvous and dock with another one. At 5:58 a.m. Tuesday, a 58.3-meter-long upgraded Long March-2F rocket, ca ... more | .. |
 NASA Signs Agreement with Space Florida to Reuse Kennedy Facilities In an innovative agreement that will create new jobs, NASA has announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3, the Space Sh ... more | .. |
 Landsat's TIRS Instrument Comes Out of First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing Tuesday, October 4 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbe ... more | .. |
 What Goes Up Must Come Down As Orion Crew Vehicle Development Continues NASA's Langley Research Center completed another successful test of the Orion spacecraft's landing capabilities in their Hydro Impact Basin. While workers prepared the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) ... more |
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 NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality Read the 'CuttingEdge' newsletter for more about technology developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Tractor beams - the ability to trap and move objects using laser light - are the stuff of ... more | .. |
  Battered asteroid may have warm core On July 10, 2010, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe flew by the asteroid 21 Lutetia, which at the time was the largest asteroid ever to have been visited by a spacecraft. The fly-by oc ... more | .. |
 Mars Express observations temporarily suspended Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated that w ... more | .. |
 Halloween Weekend Snow Paints a Ghostly Picture in the U.S. Northeast A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the reg ... more |
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Trump Admin sweeps away environmental protections, abolishes local remediation programs
Smog bound Indian cities dominate global pollution rankings: report
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  Japan's Toyota unveils nursing robots Car giant Toyota on Tuesday unveiled nursing and healthcare robots aimed at helping the frail and the elderly, as the company seeks to capitalise on Japan's ageing society. ... more | .. |
  Google Maps taking viewers inside shops Google's free online map service is letting shops, gyms, restaurants and other small businesses provide viewers glimpses of what lies behind facades seen on Street View. ... more | .. |
 China mulls over sending female "taikonauts" into space China is considering sending female astronauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday. Two female astronauts have been s ... more | .. |
 Heads "up" for Chinese approach to key space maneuver Docking may be a decades-old space technology in the eyes of veteran aerospace watchers and fans, but seeing how China is going to do it will be a new experience. China launched Shenzhou-8 Tue ... more |
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 Aerospace officials confident in space docking despite degree of difficulty Aerospace officials are confident of a successful space rendezvous and docking between orbiters, despite the inherent challenges and risks, a spokeswoman for China's manned space program said at a p ... more | .. |
China's first manual space docking hopefully 2012 China plans to fulfill its first ever manual space docking by 2012, probably with women astronauts. Between the two spacecraft launches, which are scheduled both in 2012 for space docking attempts, ... more | .. |
 China to conduct another manned space mission by 2012 A China manned space program spokeswoman said here Monday that China is going to conduct another manned space mission by 2012. Spokeswoman Wu Ping said at a press briefing Monday morning that ... more | .. |
 China's satellite launch base upgraded ahead of Shenzhou-8 mission China upgraded its satellite launch center in the northwest Gobi desert to ensure that the launch of the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, went smoothly, a senior engineer said Sunday. Beijing Special En ... more |
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  Autodesk Vault Software Helps Develop World's Largest Optical Telescope What do Earth-like planets outside the Solar System look like? The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is in the midst of designing the world's largest optical telescope with help from Autodesk Vaul ... more | .. |
  New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems' The merging of two technologies under development - plasmonics and nanophotonics - is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers. The ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Lutetia Revealed In Stunning Detail ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta's fleeting flyby also suggest that this ... more | .. |
 A global discussion: directions for space science research Understanding osteoporosis, perfecting vaccines and developing new alloys all share one thing: they are just some of the many scientific fields that have advanced significantly through research perf ... more |
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  Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rates by comparing Hubble images to supercomputer simulations A new analysis of images from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with supercomputer simulations of galaxy collisions has cleared up years of confusion about the rate at which smaller galaxies merge ... more | .. |
 Mikulski Unveils JWST Permanent Exhibit at Maryland Science Center U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS), has unveiled a permanent exhibit on the James Webb Space Telesc ... more | .. |
 China launches unmanned Shenzhou 8 for first space docking China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
  Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from an intern ... more |
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