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Soyuz poised for Globalstar second-generation satellite launch at BaikonurBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 28, 2011 Another Soyuz is ready for liftoff at the service of Arianespace - with this workhorse launcher to carry six Globalstar second-generation satellites in a mission scheduled for tomorrow night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will be the third of four flights contracted to Arianespace for the orbiting of 24 second-generation spacecraft in Globalstar's mobile satellite voice and mobile satellite handset data services. The previous two Baikonur Cosmodrome missions with Globalstar's ... read more |
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  WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some might say resembles a wreath. You might even think o ... more | .. |
  First J-2X Engine Rockets Through First Round of Testing The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.? It's NASA's first new human-rated rocket engine to be developed in 40 years. The J-2X engine - hi ... more | .. |
  TRMM Satellite Measured Washi's Deadly Rainfall NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was providing forecasters with the rate in which rainfall was occurring in Tropical Storm Washi over the last week, and now TRMM data has ... more | .. |
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  CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves ESA's CryoSat mission has been gathering detailed information on the thickness of Earth's ice since its launch in 2010. Through international collaboration, this state-of-the-art mission is soon to ... more | .. |
  Star images helping to save Vatican books Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky. The Library neede ... more | .. |
  A galaxy blooming with new stars The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ever ta ... more | .. |
  Arvidson To Be Participating Scientist on New Mars Rover NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, h ... more |
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Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
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 Time for a Change? Calendar Overhaul Proposed Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of ... more | .. |
 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, call ... more | .. |
  Owner of house hit by satellite fixes roof himself amid compensation snag A Siberian homeowner who miraculously escaped serious injury when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house had to fix it himself as the authorities wrang ... more | .. |
 Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets. ... more |
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  China's satellite navigation system live: Xinhua China's home-grown satellite navigation system launched a limited positioning service Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said, as the country seeks to break its dependence on foreign technology. ... more | .. |
 Wheel Passes Checkup After Stalled Drive This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called "Komati" on the "Saddleback" outcrop. After two d ... more | .. |
 Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev ... more | .. |
 INTEGRAL deciphers diffuse signature of cosmic-ray electrons Astronomers exploiting six years worth of data from ESA's INTEGRAL mission have pinned down the individual processes contributing to the high-energy Galactic interstellar emission produced by cosmic ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth
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  Cryogenic Testing Completed for Webb Telescope Mirrors Cryogenic testing is complete for the final six primary mirror segments and a secondary mirror that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The milestone represents the successful culmination ... more | .. |
  NASA Conducts Orion Parachute Testing for Orbital Test Flight NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday, Dec. 20, in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry as ... more | .. |
  New Exo planets raise questions about the evolution of stars University of Toulouse and University of Montreal researchers have detected two planets of sizes comparable to Earth orbiting around an old star that has just passed the red giant stage. This planet ... more | .. |
 Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel NASA's Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting that's out of this world. The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The o ... more |
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 Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the wo ... more | .. |
  New crew arrives at international space station The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard. The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhs ... more | .. |
  Christmas Comet Lovejoy Captured at Paranal The recently discovered Comet Lovejoy has been captured in stunning photos and time-lapse video taken from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet graced the southern sky after it had unexpect ... more | .. |
Siberian man miraculously unharmed as satellite piece crashes through roof A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was ... more |
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 Some nearby young stars may be much older than previously thought Low in the south in the summer sky shines the constellation Scorpius and the bright, red supergiant star Antares. Many of the brightest stars in Scorpius, and hundreds of its fainter stars, are amon ... more | .. |
 Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts say. ... more | .. |
 Russian satellite hits 'cosmonaut street' in Siberia A fragment of a Russian satellite that crashed into Siberia in the latest setback for Russia's space programme hit a residential house on a street named after cosmonauts, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Scientists eye Mercury magnetic puzzle Mercury, the smallest planet and the closest to the sun, has an unexpectedly weak magnetic field, and European researchers have fingered the sun as the culprit. ... more |
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 $25 computer nears production An eagerly awaited $25 computer is about to go into production in Britain in the hope it will inspire a new generation of technology-savvy kids, its maker said. ... more | .. |
  Russia test-fires two nuclear missiles The Russian military on Friday successfully test-launched two intercontinental nuclear-capable missiles, the defence ministry said. ... more | .. |
 Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defence ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia's embattled space programme. ... more | .. |
 Emirates 'close to French satellite buy' French hopes of selling 60 Dassault Rafale fighters to the United Arab Emirates may be dimming but France is reported to be close to another major military contract: a surveillance satellite built by Astrium. ... more |
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