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Wanted: Habitable MoonsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2012 As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satellites that could hold water on their surface, if the parent planet circles close enough to its sun. When the Kepler science team announced the discovery of 1235 planetary candidates in February 2010, the candidates included 37 Neptune-sized planets and 10 Jupiter-sized planets within their star's habitabl ... read more |
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  Ariane 5, Soyuz, Vega: Three world-changing launch vehicles After confirming its world leadership in 2011, Arianespace is now ramping up for operations in 2012. It aims to carry out seven Ariane 5 launches, five Soyuz launches and the first Vega launch. ... more | .. |
  'Mini moons' may surround Earth Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
  China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more | .. |
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  Opportunity Well Positioned For Another Winter On Mars Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op ... more | .. |
  Successful Compatibility Testing of UHF Hosted Payload on Intelsat-22 It's pretty cool to think about the power of satellite communications (SATCOM), and the advantages it provides for our military customers. What's definitely not cool is the fact that interoperabilit ... more | .. |
  Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening A hemispherewide phenomenon - and not just regional forces - has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. Frigid freshwater flowing into the Arc ... more | .. |
  Dawn Wraps Up A Stunning Year Of Asteroid Exploration Dawn concludes 2011 more than 40 thousand times nearer to Vesta than it began the year. Now at its lowest altitude of the mission, the bold adventurer is conducting its most detailed exploration of ... more |
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Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
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  Intelsat General Helps US Navy Maximize Use of Leased Bandwidth Our nation's defense systems require the most cutting-edge solutions in the areas of end-to-end satellite and terrestrial communications. In order to achieve this, the U.S. Navy needed to be able to ... more | .. |
  Astronomical Imaging Propelled to New Extremes On December 16, 2011, a decade of hard work culminated at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, when a next-generation adaptive optics (AO) system produced its first ultra-sharp wide field image. The ... more | .. |
  NASS Awarded Wiring Harness Assembly Contract for Blue Devil II Airship North American Surveillance Systems Inc., (NASS), a global leader in surveillance system integration, has been awarded multiple contracts for the U.S. Air Force Blue Devil Block II Airship. "N ... more | .. |
  ARISSat-1/KEDR Amateur Radio Satellite Deorbits On January 4, 2012, the Amateur Radio satellite, ARISSat-1/KEDR ended its 5 month mission as it deorbited through Earth's atmosphere. A report from the AMSAT web site states, "The last full telemetr ... more |
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 Satellites: Europe's Arianespace sets 13 launches for 2012 European satellite launch operator Arianespace said on Thursday it had scheduled 13 missions for 2012, the first year in which it would deploy rockets in all three categories of payload. ... more | .. |
  2011 in Polish astronautics The year 2011 was very important for the space industry development in Poland. This article contains a short summary of most important Polish space-related events. b>Poland to join ESA br> /b ... more | .. |
 Happy New Year for European Radio Astronomy RadioNet3, a four-year, 9.5M euro project offering unprecedented access to 18 state-of-the-art European radio telescopes, including the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) in Chile and the James C ... more | .. |
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... 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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 Globalstar Europe Satellite Services Signs Agreement With TS2 Satellite Technologies Globalstar Europe Satellite Services has announced that it has signed an authorized distribution agreement with TS2 Satellite Technologies, a leading provider of satellite communication products and ... more | .. |
  Association of Old Crows Recognizes the Dangers of Persistent GPS Interference The November 2011 testing of LightSquared's wireless broadband service proposal found no significant interference to cellular phone text and voice capabilities but did find significant disruption of ... more | .. |
  New computer model explains lakes and storms on Titan Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more | .. |
 Smoke Particles Are Not All the 'SAME' Where there's smoke, you need a functioning smoke detector that can tell the difference between, say, smoke particles and dust. Yet in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station ... more |
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 Magnetically-levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. ... more | .. |
  The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts of th ... more | .. |
 Ecliptic Shoots for Moon at End of a Record Year The year 2011 was a record year of launch activity for Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation and its RocketCam product family, with a total of 17 RocketCam systems successfully launched-12 onboard variou ... more | .. |
 Through hardship to the stars "Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January. Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus ... more |
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 Reality Check for Indian Astronauts India's decision to stretch out its plans for an indigenous astronaut launch to 2020 or beyond will probably disappoint some. It's a long way in the future, but the decision is an unavoidable realit ... more | .. |
  Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. ... more | .. |
 Stranded Mars probe could fall to Earth in 11 days: report Fragments of Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt could fall to Earth on January 15, the spokesman of Russia's military space forces told Russian news agencies on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Leaping lizards tip tails for soft landing Jumping lizards adjust the position of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dinosaurs probably did likewise. ... more |
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  Strange crystals said from outer space It turns out unusual crystals found in Russia weren't formed on Earth, researchers say, but rather came from outer space. ... more | .. |
 Navy Researchers Investigate Small-Scale Autonomous Planetary Explorers Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers ... more | .. |
 Gilat Announces Extension of Service Agreements with Colombian Ministry Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, through the "Fondo de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Communicaciones", has exten ... more | .. |
 Subaru's Sharp Eye Confirms Signs of Unseen Planets in the Dust Ring of HR 4796 A The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National ... more |
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