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China has Australia space tracking station: reportHong Kong (AFP) Nov 5, 2011 China has acquired a space tracking station in Australia, its first such facility in a close US ally, a report said Saturday. The station in remote Dongara, about 350 kilometres (217 miles) north of Perth in western Australia, was used during Tuesday's launch of the Shenzhou VIII mission, Hong Kong daily the South Morning China Post reported. The United States and the European Space Agency, have long had tracking facilities in Australia, including the joint US-Australian Pine Gap satellite stati ... read more |
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  Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received that ... more | .. |
  NASA Robotic Lander Test Flight Will Aid in Future Lander Designs NASA will conduct a 100-foot robotic lander altitude test flight Friday, Nov. 4, to mature the technology needed to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of ach ... more | .. |
  NASA's Fermi Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar, 100 Pulsars To-Date An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects f ... more | .. |
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 New Space Station Camera Reveals the Cosmic Shore Part of human fascination with space is the chance to look back at our own planet from afar. The unique vantage from the International Space Station affords a vista both breathtaking and scientifica ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Acquires Sim-Industries Lockheed Martin has announced the acquisition of Sim-Industries B.V., a commercial aviation simulation company located in the Netherlands. The acquisition is a demonstration of the Corporation's str ... more | .. |
  NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of ... more | .. |
  Welcome back and thank you, Mars500 The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500's six brave volunteers stepped out of their 'spacecraft' to be welcomed by the waiting scientists ... more |
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US envoys head to Moscow for Ukraine ceasefire talks
German arms firm Rheinmetall seizes on European 'era of rearmament'
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  EPOXI Mission Report For November 2011 As we approach the anniversary of the EPOXI flyby of Hartley 2, it is time to look at what we have learned about comets from this mission. In the first week of October, a special session of the annu ... more | .. |
  Galileo satellites handed over to control centre in Germany Europe's first two Galileo satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads. Marking the formal end of their LEOP Laun ... more | .. |
 Return from virtual flight to Mars 520 days without sunlight, fresh air or direct contact with the outside world - the six test subjects on the Mars500 mission have had to forego plenty of things while 'travelling' to Mars and back t ... more | .. |
 China's space industry to see accelerated expansion over next 10 years China's space industry will develop quickly over the next 10 years as the country pushes ahead with its space programs after its first space docking on Thursday. Lab modules, a space station a ... more |
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 Will China's next space mission be manned? An interview with Huang Weifen, deputy chief director of China's astronaut program. b>Reporter: /b>When will Chinese astronauts perform the space rendezvous and docking task? b>Huang ... more | .. |
 Scientists study the 'galaxy zoo' using Google Maps and thousands of volunteers The reddest galaxies with the largest central bulb show the largest bars -gigantic central columns of stars and dark matter-, according to a scientific study that used Google Maps to observe the sky ... more | .. |
 GMV Awarded Contract For Paz Satellite Control Center GMV has been awarded a 3 million Euro contract to provide the control center of the new Spanish satellite Paz, due for launch at the end of next year. The contract includes all platform-planning and ... more | .. |
 Dawn Journal For October 2011 Dawn has completed another wonderfully successful phase of its exploration of Vesta, studying it in unprecedented detail during the past month. From the time of its discovery more than two centuries ... more |
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Trump Admin sweeps away environmental protections, abolishes local remediation programs
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 Scientists reveal jealousies on 'mission to Mars' It was not always smooth sailing for the six young men who huddled in uncomfortably close quarters on a 520-day fake mission to Mars, a Russian scientist has revealed. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches navigation satellites Russia on Friday successfully launched three satellites for its global navigation system Glonass on a Proton-M rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said. ... more | .. |
Volunteers emerge from 520-day 'Mars voyage' isolation Six volunteers from a multi-national crew on Friday stepped out of an isolation module in Moscow after almost one-and-a-half years locked away from the outside world to simulate the effects of a return voyage to Mars. ... more | .. |
 China envoy loses cool over Indian map error: report The Chinese ambassador to India told a journalist in New Delhi to "shut up" in a heated exchange over a map that showed parts of India within China, newspapers reported on Friday. ... more |
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 Japan computer smashes speed record A Japanese supercomputer has broken its own record as the world's fastest machine by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, its developers announced. ... more | .. |
  City Lights Could Reveal E.T. Civilization In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Ed ... more | .. |
  NASA-sponsored study describes how space flight impacts astronauts' eyes and vision A new study sponsored by NASA finds that space flights lasting six months or more can cause a spectrum of changes in astronauts' visual systems. Some problems, including blurry vision, appear to per ... more | .. |
 Mars: How Watery a World? Does Mars have water? This question has been contentious for well over a century and a half, with extreme swings in scientific opinion - from a planet criss-crossed with canals to no water at all; f ... more |
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 Opportunity On the Lookout for Light-Toned Material The seasonal plan for Opportunity is to winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northerly tilts are favorable for solar array energy production. As such, ... more | .. |
 Mars Curiosity Rover Moved Space Launch Complex 41 For Nov 25 Liftoff The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover was moved from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Statio ... more | .. |
 China space prowess benefits world China's latest achievements in space exploration symbolize new gains of not only the Chinese but also the mankind. The successful docking of Tiangong-1 space lab module and Shenzhou-8 spacecraft at ... more | .. |
  Creation Of The Universe Takes A Lot Of Cold Chemistry The creation of the Universe was a messy business, and billions of years after the Big Bang, material still litters the dark space between stars. In these cold interstellar regions, gas and dust spe ... more |
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 Boeing to Build Commercial Spacecraft at Kennedy, Create 550 Jobs The Boeing Co. will set up Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to manufacture and assemble its CST-100 spacecraft for launches to the International Space Station ... more | .. |
  New Supply Ship Arrives, Departure Preps and Science Under Way A new Russian resupply craft arrived at the International Space Station at 7:41 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The ISS Progress 45 docked to the Pirs docking compartment after a trip to the station that began ... more | .. |
 Space now features more Chinese stars Stargazers across the globe now have one more reason to keep their eyes on the heavens with the successful docking between China's two spacecraft. The Shenzhou-8 docked with China's first space lab ... more | .. |
 VLT Observations of Gamma-ray Burst Reveal Surprising Ingredients of Early Galaxies An international team of astronomers has used the brief but brilliant light of a distant gamma-ray burst as a probe to study the make-up of very distant galaxies. Surprisingly the new observations, ... more |
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