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Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin downUniversity Park, PA (SPX) Nov 08, 2011 Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous probes into outer space, but why have we never found evidence of other civilizations doing the same? A pair of postdoctoral researchers at Penn State, approaching the problem mathematically, shows that we have not looked in enough places to ensure that no extraterrestrial artifacts exist ... read more |
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  NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more | .. |
  China masters space command, control China's space control network has realized integrated command and control, which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according ... more | .. |
 China's great big leap skyward A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago. Two days later, the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module, accomplishing China's first space dockin ... more | .. |
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 White House: No contact yet from E.T. In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more | .. |
  Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third flight to service the International Space Station has begun its build-up at the Spaceport, preparing this heavy-lift launcher for an early 2012 mission from Fren ... more | .. |
  Giant solar flare detected A giant sunspot that erupted last week has been ranked as one of the largest solar flares seen in years, U.S. scientists said. ... more | .. |
  Is the Pluto System Dangerous? New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. We've taken the s ... more |
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US envoys head to Moscow for Ukraine ceasefire talks
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  Astrium contracted to build DirecTV 15 communications satellite Paris, France (SPX) Nov 08, 2011 ASTRIUM, Europe's leading space company, has been selected by DirecTV, one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services to design a ... more | .. |
  Six Astrium satellites on the same flight Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Pleiades 1 Very High ... more | .. |
 Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more | .. |
  Stalled Weather Systems More Frequent in Decades of Warmer Atlantic Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ... more |
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 What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov. 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nat ... more | .. |
  NASA's Future Up In Space In a recent interview at the White House, President Obama addressed NASA's future. He said, "I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that w ... more | .. |
  Map mischief creates furore in India New Delhi lodged a diplomatic protest with China after a map used in a commercial presentation showed sections of northern India as part of China. ... more | .. |
  Russia aims for first conquest of Mars Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union. ... more |
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Trump Admin sweeps away environmental protections, abolishes local remediation programs
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 China has Australia space tracking station: report China has acquired a space tracking station in Australia, its first such facility in a close US ally, a report said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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