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New European rocket lifts off on maiden flightKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Feb 13, 2012 A new lightweight rocket, Vega, lifted off from Europe's space base Monday carrying nine satellites on its inaugural flight, mission control said. "The trajectory is normal," a flight supervisor said after the first three stages, propelled by solid fuel, separated on schedule. The final stage, which uses liquid fuel, ignited as expected for three "burns" designed to slot the payload into their various orbits, she reported. After an extremely fast liftoff, the rocket was hoisted on an 81-minu ... read more |
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 NASA Seeks Game Changing Technology Payloads for Suborbital Research Flights NASA is seeking proposals for small technology payloads that could fly on future NASA-sponsored suborbital flights. These future flights will travel to the edge of space and back, testing the innova ... more | .. |
  Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications ... more | .. |
  Young Stars at Home in Ancient Cluster Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration. It is a globular cluster, and at over 10 billion ye ... more | .. |
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  New Horizons on Approach: 22 AU Down, Just 10 to Go Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto, coming to within 10 AU of its main t ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Energy Levels Decreasing As Winter Takes Hold 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. While positioned for ... more | .. |
 Venezuela Mars mission after 2030 Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Friday his country would be able to send a mission to Mars after 2030. "Venezuela has stepped onto the road to space," Chavez said on national television. ... more | .. |
 New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing the thr ... more |
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North Korea's Kim inspects 'nuclear-powered submarine' project
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 New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies New images of a nearby dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host. The hos ... more | .. |
 Subaru Telescope Captures Images of the "Stealth Merger" of Dwarf Galaxies An international team of scientists led by David Martinez-Delgado (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) has conducted research that reveals a "stealth merger" of dwarf galaxies, where an in- ... more | .. |
  The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the 504 km-diameter moon are ... more | .. |
  NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. ... more |
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 VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial ... more | .. |
 NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates Ten Years and Forty Thousand X-Ray Flares On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHE ... more | .. |
 AKARI Finds CO Molecules in 10,000,000-Degree Gas A scientific team using the Japanese AKARI infrared space observatory finds carbon monoxide (CO) molecules in the ten million degree gas associated with the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas ... more | .. |
  Europe stakes billion-dollar bet on new rocket A pencil-slim rocket is scheduled to lift into space from South America on Monday, carrying a billion-dollar bet that Europe can grab a juicy slice of the market to place satellites in low orbit. ... more |
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  Spacecraft sees slowing of Venus rotation ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, ... more | .. |
 April new date for SpaceX capsule launch Private space company SpaceX says late April is its new target for a launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
  GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say. ... more | .. |
 NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientists 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. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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  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 | .. |
 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-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 | .. |
  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 |
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