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Europe delighted as new rocket notches up successKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Feb 13, 2012 Europe on Monday successfully launched a new lightweight rocket carrying a test payload, culminating a more than 12-year quest to master the entire range of space launchers. Cheers, tears of relief and even a soccer-style chant greeted the maiden flight of Vega, a billion-dollar bid for a stake in the market to launch small satellites. The 81-minute mission was a "qualification" flight carrying nine scientific satellites, aimed at proving a rocket incorporating several major innovations, enginee ... read more |
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  NASA kills Mars deal with Europe The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more | .. |
  Infrared Sounder on NASA's Suomi NPP Starts its Mission A powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA's newest polar-orbiting satellite, designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth's atmosphere and improve weather forecasts and ... more | .. |
 Scientists say Obama Mars cuts to hit research The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more | .. |
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 3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of scien ... more | .. |
 ESA's new Vega launcher scores success on maiden flight Vega, ESA's new launch vehicle, is ready to operate alongside the Ariane 5 and Soyuz launchers after a successful qualification flight this morning from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ... more | .. |
  Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. The views give scientists new treasure ... more | .. |
 No future for Mars? The second half of February brings news on the proposed sum of NASA's budget for 2013 fiscal year. Even though President Obama hasn't made the request yet, it is already known that the planetary pro ... more |
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  PW-Sat, Poland's first satellite launched into orbit On the 13th of February 2012, the first Polish satellite - PW-Sat - was successfully deployed on orbit. The first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched on the 13th of Februa ... more | .. |
 Obama budget slashes Mars exploration The budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama for fiscal year 2013 would slash $226 million from the US space agency's Mars exploration program, likely axing a planned partnership with Europe. ... more | .. |
  Europe's ATV space ferry set for launch to Space Station Fuel, water, oxygen, air and most of the dry cargo have been loaded into ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, as the 9 March liftoff approaches. Since arrival at Europe's Sp ... more | .. |
 Spaceborne Precipitation Radar Ships from Japan to U.S. Japanese scientists and engineers have completed construction on a new instrument designed to take 3-D measurements of the shapes, sizes and other physical characteristics of both raindrops and snow ... more |
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 UBC researchers use Google Earth to verify Mediterranean fish farming data The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth's satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers ha ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientist and Education Award Winner Leads Student Phytoplankton Study Dr. Tiffany Moisan is a NASA scientist who thrives on studying the ocean and has a passion for educating and inspiring students in ocean sciences. Last year, Moisan received an award that enabled he ... more | .. |
 NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012 With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA's Airborne Science Program and Earth system science research. Multiple aircraft and specialized i ... 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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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
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 Cosmic probe finds strange microwave 'haze' A probe designed to delve into the "Big Bang" that created the cosmos has uncovered an enigmatic fog of microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy, European astronomers reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  India says missile shield test a success India successfully tested on Friday an interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Israel conducts 'final test' on Arrow anti-missile system Israel and the United States recently carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system over the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli defence ministry said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers Icelandic officials say they are tapping the country's abundance of green energy resources to establish it as a global player in data storage center industry. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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