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Russia sends astronauts back to space after mishapsBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 14, 2011 Russia on Monday successfully launched three astronauts for the International Space Station, boosting morale after accidents raised doubts about the reliability of its space programme. The launch of two Russians and an American on a Soyuz-FG rocket had been delayed for almost two months after an unmanned Russian Progress supply ship in August crashed into Siberia shortly after its launch on a similar rocket. The problems eroded faith in Russia's status as a space superpower just as it had taken ... read more |
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  Singapore family books $1 million Virgin space flight A Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid $1 million to become the first Asian family to fly together on space-tourism airline Virgin Galactic, the company announced Monday. ... more | .. |
  Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January: official A Russian probe that was to visit a moon of Mars but is stuck in orbit around the Earth could burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in January, the head of the Russian space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches three astronauts for space station Two Russians and an American Monday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian rocket from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an AFP correspondent said. ... more | .. |
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  Aborted Mars probe jeopardizes Russia's long-range space program On Thursday, November 10, mission control tried unsuccessfully to communicate with the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos Ground) probe which lifted off November 8. Analysts are in no mood to exaggerate the situa ... more | .. |
  Rover Continues Studies While Heading North 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 | .. |
  Bolivia expects huge benefits from Chinese-built satellite Bolivia expects huge benefits from the satellite "Tupac Katari", which is being built by a Chinese company and will be put into orbit at the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014, a government offici ... more | .. |
  Giant planet ejected from the solar system Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in The Astr ... more |
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 International consensus on joint space exploration Representatives from 28 countries, the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) met in Lucca, Italy, on 10 November for the Third International Conference on Exploration and the first ... more | .. |
  GMV Supports Successful Launch of Europe's Galileo GMV, one of the main companies contracted to establish and support Europe's satellite navigation strategy, continues to play a key role in the most recent phase of the Galileo program. GMV successfu ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Celebrates Opening of NextGen Technology Test Bed Lockheed Martin , the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and a consortium of industry partners have opened the Florida NextGen Test Bed, a laboratory ... more | .. |
  Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstration Completes Mission The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites continue to shine in their role as space sensors validating key functions and capabilities for missile tracking. "Eve ... more |
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 Thales Alenia Space to build four more satellites for O3b constellation Thales Alenia Space has announced that it had signed a contract with O3b Networks Limited to deliver four more satellites for their Medium Earth Orbit constellation. These satellites are in addition ... more | .. |
 AsiaSat Selects Space Systems/Loral to Provide Two Communications Satellites Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the leading provider of commercial satellites, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), Asia's leading satellite operator, has announced the signi ... more | .. |
 Contact with Russian Mars probe 'unlikely' - expert The Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft cannot be controlled at a low-Earth orbit, where it is currently stuck, because of its design features, a Russian space expert said on Saturday. The Mars p ... more | .. |
  Air Force Opens Door to Rocket Launch Competition The Space and Missile Systems Center here announced Nov. 7 the publication of a guide that will allow commercial launch providers to compete for future launch service opportunities. Formally c ... more |
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 Andrews Space Delivers Cargo Module Power Unit for Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft Andrews Space has completed delivery of four Cargo Module Power Units (CMPUs) that will supply power to payloads aboard Orbital's Cygnus? spacecraft. Andrews was contracted by Orbital Sciences ... more | .. |
 International Launch Services and Eutelsat Announce Launch of the W3D Satellite in 2013 International Launch Services (ILS) and Eutelsat, of Paris, France, one of the world's leading satellite operators, has announced a contract for the launch of the W3D satellite into geostationary tr ... more | .. |
  Intelsat Customers Expand Businesses with Africa's Leading Satellite Network Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, has announced new contracts with customers utilizing Intelsat's premier African video distribution satellite neighborhoods and broa ... more | .. |
  Canadian robots competition canceled Canada's national robotic competition, scheduled for this weekend in Toronto, was canceled because of declining interest, the event's organizer says. ... more |
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 Russia Mars probe considered lost: report Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Chance of Russia Mars probe rescue 'very small': report The chances of rescuing a Russian probe that is stuck in an Earth orbit after failing to set out on its planned mission for Mars are very small, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Mars explorers will include women, experts say Men walked on the Moon, but women will be among the pioneering explorers who someday step foot on Mars, said a gathering of top female space experts this week. ... more |
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 NASA readies launch of 'dream machine' to Mars The US space agency is getting ready to launch later this month the biggest, most expensive robotic vehicle ever built to explore Mars for signs of previous life there, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Shot US lawmaker speaks out in first interview US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot point-blank in the head during a January meeting with voters, has spoken out in her first interview since the attack, discussing her remarkable recovery. ... more | .. |
  Second Tiangong-1 And Shenzhou-8 docking to face light interference The space module Tiangong-1 and spacecraft Shenzhou-8 will conduct rendezvous and docking experiments twice as scheduled and then Shenzhou-8 will return to the earth while Tiangong-1 will continue t ... more | .. |
 Made-in-Chengdu to help Shenzhou spacecraft return The Shenzhou VIII spacecraft was launched under the spotlight at 5:58 am, Nov 1. It will safely land controlled by a statical pressure altitude controller, made in Chengdu. The controller, mad ... more |
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  NIST physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance Why there is stuff in the universe-more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter-is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers working at the Nat ... more | .. |
  Potential New NASA Mission Would Reveal the Hearts of Undead Stars Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos, shining on even though they're technically dead, and occasionally feeding on a neighboring star if it gets too close. They are born wh ... more | .. |
 Discovery of 2 types of neutron stars points to 2 different classes of supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more | .. |
  Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more |
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