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Stratolaunch Systems Announces Ground Breaking At MojaveHuntsville, AL (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 Stratolaunch Systems announced Friday the ground breaking on a production facility and hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Stratolaunch Systems, founded by Paul G. Allen, is a private aerospace development company that will construct a one-of-a-kind composite aircraft for launching medium class payloads to space. The construction of these facilities will be performed by the Bakersfield-based Wallace and Smith General Contractors. The fabrication facility, an 88,000 square foot building, ... read more |
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 Delta 4 Launches Air Force Wideband Global SATCOM-4 Satellite A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carrying the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 Thursday evening y at 7:38 p. ... more | .. |
  Satellite observes spatiotemporal variations in mid-upper tropospheric methane over China Atmospheric methane (CH4), one of the main greenhouse gases, has increased dramatically worldwide since the pre-industrial era. However, much work is needed to build on intermittent and scattered ob ... more | .. |
  Fourth WGS Satellite Sends First Signals from Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the fourth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite it is delivering to the U.S. Air Force. The signals indicate that WGS-4, the first in the Block ... more | .. |
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 Third ATV Launch Campaign Proceeding Towards March Launch Fueling is underway for Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will be launched by Arianespace in March aboard an Ariane 5 on an International Space ... more | .. |
  Leap Second To Be Added to Clocks on June 30th On June 30, 2012, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 7:59:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, wh ... more | .. |
  The Helix in New Colors ESO's VISTA telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, has captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are ... more | .. |
  T-rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recentl ... more |
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Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
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  NASA Joins MIT and DARPA for Out-of-This-World Student Robotic Challenge NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for the third annual Zero ... more | .. |
  Scientists Make First-Ever Observations Of Comet's Demise Deep Inside Solar Atmosphere In a paper to be published tomorrow in the journal Science, for the first time ever scientists at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC ... more | .. |
 Planck Telescope Warms up as Planned The High Frequency Instrument aboard the Planck space telescope has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe. The sensor ran out of coolant on ... more | .. |
 International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities The long-term sustainability of our space environment is at serious risk from space debris and irresponsible actors. Ensuring the stability, safety, and security of our space systems is of vital int ... more |
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  Raytheon sonars and desktops heading south U.S. Raytheon has received an $80.8 million modification contract to provide 25 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar systems to the Australian navy's air fleet. ... more | .. |
 U.S. denies radar affected spacecraft The United States has denied powerful electromagnetic emission from a U.S. radar caused the failure of a Russian spacecraft that fell to Earth. ... more | .. |
 Boeing to Build More Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites for USAF Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production option, ... more | .. |
 Inaugural Vega Mission Ready For Liftoff Final checkout of Europe's new Vega launcher was completed last Friday, marking another milestone towards its maiden flight from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first Vega lau ... 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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  Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's M ... more | .. |
  MIT researchers find critical speed above which birds and UAVs will crash The northern goshawk is one of nature's diehard thrill-seekers. The formidable raptor preys on birds and small mammals, speeding through tree canopies and underbrush to catch its quarry. With reflex ... more | .. |
 Adjusting Robotic Arm on Amboy Rock Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity is conduc ... more | .. |
  China plans to launch 21 rockets, 30 satellites this year China plans to launch 21 rockets and 30 satellites this year, exceeding its record of 19 rockets and 22 satellites launched in 2010, the main contractor for the country's space program told Xinhua o ... more |
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  Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more | .. |
 Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi ... more | .. |
 Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope's adaptive optics an ... more | .. |
 Catching a Comet Death on Camera On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. That the comet met its fate this way was no surprise - but the chance to ... more |
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  Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria - Chryseobacterium and Paenispo ... more | .. |
  Just A Three Year Cruise Left Before Pluto Flyby Today - as we mark the sixth anniversary of our launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on January 19, 2006 - New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 22 times as far ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteo ... more | .. |
 Fate of 'leap second' being debated A decision whether to keep a system of adding so-called leap seconds to the global time system is being considered at a meeting in Switzerland, scientists say. ... more |
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 'Flaws' blamed for Russian space failure The failure of a Russian Mars mission that crashed back to Earth was due to testing errors and engineering flaws, the head of the country's space agency says. ... more | .. |
 Faint 'satellite galaxy' discovered A faint "satellite galaxy" 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance, says University of California, Davis, physics professor Chris Fassnacht, who ... more | .. |
 Russia talks of permanent moon base Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it is in talks with European and U.S. partners about creating permanent manned research bases on the moon. ... more | .. |
 Voyager Instrument Cooling After Heater Turned off In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument more than ... more |
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