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NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientistsWashington (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 US President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europe on Mars exploration, scientists said Thursday. The White House is proposing a $1.2 billion budget for the US space agency, down from $1.5 billion this year, according to Louis Friedman, a former NASA official and co-founder of the Planetary Society who was briefed on the matter. "It's certainly dead," Friedman told AFP, referring to the ... read more |
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  Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon? In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push th ... more | .. |
  Tidal Forces Could Squeeze Out Planetary Water Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said. These findings might significantly affect se ... more | .. |
  Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle is integrated on Ariane 5 The third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for launch by Arianespace was installed atop its Ariane 5 at the Spaceport, marking one of the final steps in preparations for a March 9 liftoff o ... more | .. |
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  Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Lab Computer Issue Resolved Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it. The fix involves changing how cert ... more | .. |
 Spectra Systems Products on Their Way to Mars Spectra Systems, a technology company that provides banknote security features to many of the world's central banks, has one of its products on the way to Mars as part of the NASA Curiosity rover mi ... more | .. |
 Pleiades captures its first images using e2v sensors Pleiades, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using e2v high performance imaging sensors. Two types of e2v sensors (for panchroma ... more |
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  Astrogenetix and NASA Sign Agreement to Continue Developing Medicines in Space to Save Lives on Earth Astrogenetix has entered into a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA that commits to providing the critical resources needed to continue utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) and to further ... more | .. |
  NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode this week as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft ... more | .. |
  Satellite telephony is unsafe Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption alg ... more | .. |
  Russia to build powerful laser facility Russia intends to build the world's most powerful laser research station at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, a Russian nuclear official said. ... more |
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 Astronaut Don Pettit Shares Passion for Science from Space NASA and the American Physical Society (APS) have partnered to share unique videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans from around the world. NASA astronau ... more | .. |
  Space tours to the Moon - why not? The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced pla ... more | .. |
 Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d ... more | .. |
  Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and ... more |
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
Five things to know about Greenland
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  Japan scientist makes 'Avatar' robot A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" one step closer to reality. ... more | .. |
  Antarctic lake could reveal new life, say scientists Russian scientists said Thursday a probe to a pristine lake deep under the ice of Antarctica could bring revelations on the evolution of the planet Earth and possibly even new life forms. ... more | .. |
 Largest virtual telescope operational in Chile Astronomers in Chile said this week they had created the world's largest virtual optical telescope by using a special technique to combine images from the four most powerful devices as if they were a single device. ... more | .. |
 NASA PIT Crews Essential to Commercial Space Endeavor Just as every race car driver has a pit crew to keep them on track on the way to a victory quickly and safely, the seven aerospace companies that have teamed up with NASA's Commercial Crew Program h ... more |
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  CU-Boulder study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Bou ... more | .. |
  Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the magnetic fi ... more | .. |
  Birthday Cake for X-37B It's almost time to light a candle for one of the world's most intriguing spacecraft. No, I don't mean ignite the rocket for launch. The second mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is approaching t ... more | .. |
 Jacob Bleacher Gives Free RATS Talk at Library of Congress The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, wi ... more |
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 Augmented reality promises astronauts instant medical knowhow A new augmented reality unit developed by ESA can provide just-in-time medical expertise to astronauts. All they need to do is put on a head-mounted display for 3D guidance in diagnosing problems or ... more | .. |
 Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a simi ... more | .. |
 Sierra Nevada Delivers Flight Test Vehicle Structure One of NASA's industry partners, Sierra Nevada(SNC), recently delivered the primary structure of its first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company's facility in Louisville, Colo., where it w ... more | .. |
 SpaceX to Launch AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 in 2014 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in ... more |
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  Russia May Spend Almost $12 bln on Glonass in 2012-2020 Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's answer to the U.S. G ... more | .. |
 NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a c ... more | .. |
 Astronauts seen and heard Seeing ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on the International Space Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing fro ... more | .. |
  China publishes high-resolution full moon map China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma ... more |
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