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Life possible on 'large parts' of Mars: studySydney (AFP) Dec 12, 2011 Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain life. Charley Lineweaver's team, from the Australian National University, compared models of temperature and pressure conditions on Earth with those on Mars to estimate how much of the distant planet was liveable for Earth-like organisms. While just one percent of Earth's volume - from core to upper atmosphere - was occupied by life, Lineweave ... read more |
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  Second Arianespace Soyuz rolled out for launch at Spaceport Kourou In what is becoming an increasingly familiar sight at the Spaceport, another Soyuz is now erected on the launch pad and ready to receive its multi-passenger payload for Arianespace's Friday night mi ... more | .. |
  US mulls tax break for space 'burials' Americans who want to save money on taxes may want to consider rocketing their ashes into space, according to legislation being proposed in Virginia. ... more | .. |
 System could be 'brain' for Mars rovers British scientists have announced a project they say could allow Mars rovers to roam autonomously around the planet. ... more | .. |
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  Japan launches new spy satellite Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit Monday amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disasters in the region, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit Above Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an a ... more | .. |
  Two and a Half Men for Shenzhou As the launch of China's next astronaut mission approaches, a major question remains unanswered. Will the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft carry two or three astronauts? Chinese officials have not answered thi ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract to Deliver Jabiru-1 for NewSat Limited of Australia Lockheed Martin has won a contract with NewSat Limited (NewSat) of Australia to build the Jabiru-1 satellite. The construction of the satellite will commence immediately and it will be ready for lau ... more |
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 AMOS-5 Communications Satellite Successfully Launched Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, announced that its AMOS-5 satellite has been launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. AMOS-5 soared upward aboard a Proton Breeze-M launcher December 11, 2 ... more | .. |
  Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose About 3,700 years ago, people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. It slowly dimmed out of sight and was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers later found its remain ... more | .. |
  ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers Ready For Launch To ISS ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is now officially ready for liftoff on 21 December: he and his crewmates have passed their final exams and left for the launch site yesterday. Along with Andre's plane, h ... more | .. |
  Peres promotes Israeli moon probe Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more |
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 Vampire Star Reveals Its Secrets Astronomers have obtained the best images ever of a star that has lost most of its material to a vampire companion. By combining the light captured by four telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory th ... more | .. |
  Scientist Travel to Laguna Negra for Titan analog mission A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Completes Fabrication Of Sunshield Deployment Flight Structure For JWST Northrop Grumman has completed the space-qualified, graphite composite tubes that will enable the giant sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope to deploy in space. The company is leading the tel ... more | .. |
 A Tale of Tails An international group of astronomers led by Tom Scott at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Granada, Spain, has discovered extraordinary long one-sided gaseous tails in two groups of gala ... more |
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Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
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 Optically Faint Radio Sources Reborn AGN A team of researchers, mainly from Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), has detected a rare type of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which have simultaneously characteristics of youn ... more | .. |
 New Sub-mm Camera Reveals Dark Side of Universe A new camera that will revolutionize the field of submillimeter astronomy has been unveiled on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. SCUBA-2 is far more sensitive and powerful than pre ... more | .. |
 European ministers emphasise the role of space for the security of Europe and its citizens Council underlined the importance of space systems for security. They drew attention to the role of satellite systems - particularly Galileo, EGNOS and GMES - as the backbone for improving Europe's ... more | .. |
 TASC Wins $133.9 Million NASA Contract NASA has awarded TASC a five-year contract to provide highly specialized system software services. The cost-plus-award-fee contract has a potential value of $133.9 million. Under the contract, TASC ... more |
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 O3b signs agreement with Arianespace for third Soyuz launch O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, satellite-based Internet network for telecommunications operators and ISPs, has exercised the first of the two options in its contrac ... more | .. |
 Is Vesta the Smallest Terrestrial Planet NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta - and may have found a planet. Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only a ... more | .. |
  DLR tests Australian spacecraft Can new types of engine make spaceflight easier and more economical? This question is being investigated by researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR ... more | .. |
  Structural model of the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Structural Model arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands on 7 November 2011, having been flown from Japan. ... more |
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  Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... more | .. |
 Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2792 (Dec. 1, 2011), the rover bumped backwards ... more | .. |
 Russia could join ExoMars as full partner Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said. The Space News International website quoted Franco Bon ... more | .. |
 The E-ELT Moves Closer to Reality The governing body of the European Southern Observatory, the ESO Council, has approved ESO's budget for 2012. This includes preparatory work on the road to the European Extremely Large Telescope (E- ... more |
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 NASA Announces Launch Date and Milestones for Spacex Flight NASA has announced the launch target for Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012, pending completi ... more | .. |
 Milky Way's Magnetic Fields Mapped with Highest Precision With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map is of a ... more | .. |
  Geminids Meteor Shower: 'Up All Night' With NASA! Put on the hot chocolate...find a warm, toasty location...and join us on the night of Dec. 13-14 for our "Up All Night with NASA" live Web chat about the 2011 Geminid meteor shower! The Gemini ... more | .. |
  Lightweight GPS tags help research track animals of all sizes GPS tracking has shown its utility for wildlife studies, and now, development of light-weight GPS tags will allow researchers access to information about a broader range of small- to medium-sized an ... more |
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