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Is there profit in outer spaceNew Haven CT (SPX) Dec 16, 2011 Inside an immaculate but otherwise nondescript industrial building just outside the Beltway in suburban Virginia, half a dozen engineers and technicians, wearing lab coats, shoe covers, and hairnets, hover beside a silver-grey 10-foot-diameter metal puck. For years, the bulk of Orbital Sciences Corporation's work has been designing, building, and launching commercial, scientific, and defense satellites-probably the closest thing there is to a reliable, profitable niche in the space business. Now the com ... read more |
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  Soyuz is cleared for its second Arianespace launch from the Spaceport Arianespace's no. 2 Soyuz mission from French Guiana has been given the launch go-ahead, moving preparations into their final phase for a nighttime liftoff tomorrow with six satellite passengers. ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces: Dragon To The Space Station December 8 2011, marked the one year anniversary of Dragon's first Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight. The flight made history as SpaceX became the only commercia ... more | .. |
  NASA Concludes 2011 Testing of J-2X Engine NASA conducted its final J-2X rocket engine test of the year Dec. 14, the 10th firing in a series of tests on the new upper-stage engine that will carry humans farther into space than ever before. ... more | .. |
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  MARSIS Completes Measurement Campaign Over Martian North Pole The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. The campa ... more | .. |
  SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip ESA's SMOS satellite is designed to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity, but this innovative mission is showing that it can also offer new insight into Earth's carbon and methane cycles by mapp ... more | .. |
  A black hole's dinner is fast approaching During a 20-year programme using ESO telescopes to monitor the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a team of astronomers led by Reinhard Genzel at the M ... more | .. |
 Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes - a steady diet of cold, f ... more |
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Moscow targeted by 'massive' Ukrainian drone attack
Maxar Space Systems Secures Contract for New High-Power Communications Satellite
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  Using many instruments to track a comet In 16 years of data observations, the Solar Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) - a joint European Space Agency and NASA mission - made an unexpected claim for fame: the sighting of new comets at an ala ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Announces Commercial Availability of High Speed Guard Raytheon's High Speed Guard cross domain technology is now commercially available as an off-the-shelf product. High Speed Guard, previously offered as a service, has been on the U.S. Department of D ... more | .. |
  Gilat Selected by JSC NC Kazsatnet for High Speed Data Connectivity Gilat has been selected by JSC NC 'Kazsatnet', a Republic of Kazakhstan telecommunications company, to deploy a SkyEdge II broadband satellite network to complement its fiber and IP networks. ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Signs First launch contracts for Vega With preparations under way for the first launch of Europe's new light launcher Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Arianespace has signed its first commercial launch Service and Sol ... more |
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  USAF and Lockheed Martin Agree on Satellite Command and Control Research Project Lockheed Martin has signed a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force's Space Development and Test Directorate and Air Force Research Laboratory to i ... more | .. |
  e2v to supply gigapixel camera system for Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory e2v has signed a multi-million dollar contract for a 2 year programme to supply the complete camera system for the Javalambre Physics-of-the-Accelerating-Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) projec ... more | .. |
 Russia space agency 'bans foreign travel' They may be working to reach the final frontier, but employees of Russian space agency Roscosmos face going no further than Russia for their holidays. ... more | .. |
 Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling into Black Hole The normally quiet neighborhood around the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is being invaded by a gas cloud that is destined in just a few years to be ripped, shredded and la ... 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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  SES Further Increases Its Sales Focus On Emerging Markets SES has announced that it further increases the focus on emerging and growth markets and introduces four global sales regions with a dedicated management leading the strong SES teams in each region. ... more | .. |
  Galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to Earth Europe's Galileo system has passed its latest milestone, transmitting its very first test navigation signal back to Earth. The first two Galileo satellites, launched on 21 October, are in the midst ... more | .. |
 It's A Bird, It's A Plane No It's Stratolaunch Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose SpaceShipO ... more | .. |
 Physicists help narrow search for elusive Higgs boson New York University physicists are part of a research team that has narrowed the search for the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is a building block of the universe. In an announcement made i ... more |
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 Orbital Selects Antares as Permanent Name For New Rocket Based On Taurus II Program Orbital Sciences has announced that Antares will be the permanent operational name for the medium-class launch vehicle created by its research and development program formerly known as Taurus II. Or ... more | .. |
 Orion Drop Test Makes A Clean Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) Orion test article took its eight and final splash of the year into the Hydro Impact Basin on Dec. 13. Orion, t ... more | .. |
 Glonass satnav system targets Latin America and India The Latin American and Indian markets will be a priority for Glonass, Russia's global satellite navigation system, Russian Space Systems Deputy General Director Grigory Stupak said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Fermi Shows That Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma Rays In early November 1572, observers on Earth witnessed the appearance of a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia, an event now recognized as the brightest naked-eye supernova in more than 400 yea ... more |
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 A Galaxy Cluster Gets Sloshed Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS 3 Pathfinder Satellite to Denver on Schedule The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has delivered the program's pathfinder spacecraft to the company's Denver-area facility. The pathfi ... more | .. |
 NASA at work on 'spearfishing' for comets The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. ... more | .. |
 Russian who helped put Gagarin in space dies at 99 One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99. ... more |
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Microsoft co-founder unveils space travel plans A giant airplane that can in mid-flight launch a rocket carrying cargo and humans into orbit is the future of space travel, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Air Force and Lockheed Martin Complete Environmental Testing of Missile Warning Satellite Lockheed Martin has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Air Force's second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-2) satellite. The milestone represents the sp ... more | .. |
 Study Shows More Shrubbery in a Warming World Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have resulted in an increase in the amount ... more | .. |
 NASA Gears Up for Airborne Study of Earth's Radiation Balance NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tr ... more |
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