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First Crew for TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 05, 2011 The successful first docking mission to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has cleared the path for greater things to come. The flight of the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft demonstrated two successful dockings with the laboratory, as well as showing that this new production model of Shenzhou also works well. Chinese engineers can celebrate this successful mission, but they will have plenty of work to do in the weeks ahead. Every mission generates rivers of engineering data, and this will all need ... read more |
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  Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ... more | .. |
 MSL Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. That first of ... more | .. |
  New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto NASA's New Horizons mission reached a special milestone this past week on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft. It's taken New Horizons 2,1 ... more | .. |
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 Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an ... more | .. |
  China launches 10th satellite for independent navigation system China successfully launched a satellite into space at 5:07 a.m. Beijing Time Friday, the 10th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, the ... more | .. |
  Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... more | .. |
 Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ma ... more |
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  Stars Have Found a New Way to Die Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief and intense flashes of gamma-ray radiation that can occur randomly from any direction of the sky. They are so powerful that a single such event can be as luminous a ... more | .. |
 Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more | .. |
  Unique geologic insights from "non-unique" gravity and magnetic interpretation The December GSA TODAY science article, "Unique geologic insights from "non-unique" gravity and magnetic interpretation," is now online. The article is open-access. In many fields of applied s ... more | .. |
  Ugandan works on space project from mother's backyard Chris Nsamba says that at one time or another every successful scientist has been called a madman, and some think he is crazy about working to send the first Ugandan into space - from the backyard of his mother's home. ... more |
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 ESA gives up bids to contact stranded Russian space probe The European Space Agency said it will no longer try to make contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt if attempts made Friday fail. ... more | .. |
 China post office offers letters from space China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space. ... more | .. |
  X-37B on Overtime The US Air Force has officially confirmed that the second flight of their X-37B robot spaceplane is on overtime. This small experimental spacecraft, which resembles a car-sized space shuttle, has be ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Awarded Microscale Power Conversion Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop more efficient radio frequency (RF) transmitter technology through the Microscale Pow ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman Awarded MASTER Ground Processing Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $5.75 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development for the Modular Architecture for Signal-processing, Tracking and Exploitation R ... more | .. |
  Indra Makes In Cadiz A Flight Demonstration Of Its Unmanned Aircrafts Pelicano And Mantis In the framework of the European Robotics Week Indra has made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircrafts: the Pelican helicopter and the Mantis plane, at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz). The ... more | .. |
 Names proposed for new elements An international panel has proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table. ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace Selected by NASA to Study Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human e ... more |
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 SAIC Completes Vibro-Acoustic Test Capability, Facility for NASA Science Applications International has completed design and construction services, providing NASA with a new vibro-acoustic test capability (VTC). The VTC includes a mechanical vibration facility (M ... more | .. |
 ATK Awarded $20 Million UltraFlex Solar Array Contract from Orbital ATK was awarded a $20 million contract by Orbital Sciences to provide its UltraFlex solar arrays to power Orbital's enhanced Cygnus cargo logistics space vehicle, which is being utilized under NASA' ... more | .. |
  Photos show Iran base decimated by blast A recent deadly explosion at a missile base in Iran caused major devastation and will take much longer to repair than a top Iranian general has predicted, according to an analysis of new satellite photos of the site. ... more | .. |
 The next generation of superstars to stir up our galaxy Three astronomers at the University of Toronto have found the most numerous batch of young, supermassive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundreds ... more |
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 Astronomers look to neighboring galaxy for star formation insight An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creatio ... more | .. |
  Gilat Introduces Very Lightweight Ku-Band Broadband Solution for Airborne Applications Gilat Satellite Networks introduced the satcom-on-the-move (SOTM) solution for airborne applications, featuring a very small Ku-band broadband antenna customized for airborne use. "Gilat's str ... more | .. |
 Swift Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual Personality A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collisi ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Tests New Scalable Warhead on GMLRS-Plus Rocket Lockheed Martin has tested a new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Plus (GMLRS+) 'scalable effects' warhead, which enables users to select the range of the warhead's detonation power depending on ... more |
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  Raytheon Receives Approval for $1.7 Billion Patriot Sale to Saudi Arabia Raytheon has received U.S. Congressional and State Department approvals on a $1.7 billion Direct Commercial Sales contract to upgrade the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Patriot Air and Missile Defense Sy ... more | .. |
 Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists at The University ... more | .. |
 US student report points to larger China nuclear arsenal An unconventional project by US university students has concluded that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than current estimates, drawing the attention of Pentagon analysts. ... more | .. |
 In the final days astronomers hunt for signal of impending doom An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova. The study, subm ... more |
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