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Is Shenzhou Unsafe?Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 16, 2012 The recent announcement that China will fly its next Shenzhou spacecraft without a crew aboard is a shock. It completely goes against a tide of recent official statements and general feelings within the spaceflight community. It's also represents an abrupt change in status for China's human spaceflight program, which has been making steady strides forward with recent missions. Last year, China staged its first docking in space, when the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong 1 ... read more |
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  Iran mulls base to launch bigger satellites Iran is planning to construct a facility to send bigger satellites into orbit, the official media reported Friday. Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the base will be used to launch one-tonne ... more | .. |
  Sailing on an Extraterrestrial Sea Many of us have sailed the Earth's lakes, bays and rivers. But, imagine sailing on an extraterrestrial sea of liquid methane-ethane a billion miles from Earth. This is the kind of idea that makes sc ... more | .. |
  Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's surface to wat ... more | .. |
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 ILS Proton Successfully Launches SES-4 International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the SES-4 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit today ... more | .. |
  "Baby Fat" on the Young Sun? Standard models predict that our Sun was much dimmer in its youth, but devising a way to keep the early Earth from freezing over has not been easy for climate modelers. An alternative solution - cur ... more | .. |
  Transforming Galaxies Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the ... more | .. |
  Landsat's Thermal Infrared Sensor Arrives at Orbital A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz. There it will be integrated into the next Landsat sat ... more |
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North Korea's Kim inspects 'nuclear-powered submarine' project
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  Gilat will provide Ka-band customer hubs and terminals for O3b's VSAT services Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that it has signed an agreement with O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new high-speed, low-latency satellite-based service for telecommunication operato ... more | .. |
 Swiss aim to launch first space cleaner Swiss scientists announced Wednesday plans to develop a machine that acts almost like a vacuum cleaner to scoop up thousands of abandoned satellite and rocket parts, cleaning up outer space. ... more | .. |
 MASER 12 launched The microgravity rocket MASER 12 has been successfully launched from SSC's launching facility Esrange Space Center. MASER 12 reached an apogee of 260 km and the experiments on board spent 6 minutes ... more | .. |
  US regulators pull plug on LightSquared US telecom regulators have pulled the plug on an ambitious plan to build a high-speed wireless broadband network, citing potential interference with GPS navigation devices. ... more |
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 Living ever after, virtually (Feature) Like most people on social networking sites, 27-year-old Aditya Yadav's profile is an active one, with a regular flow of messages and photographs. The only difference is he is no more in this world. For his family and friends though, this is a desperate attempt to keep his memories 'alive'. ... more | .. |
 Missing dark matter located Researchers at IPMU and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies. ... more | .. |
  Study: 'Crippleware' raises consumer anger Consumers dislike "crippleware," a common practice of manufacturers of removing or degrading features in existing products, a U.S. study says. ... more | .. |
  Particle collider to get energy boost European particle physicists say the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will be run at higher energies in 2012 than in previous years ... more |
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
Five things to know about Greenland
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  USAF's New Missile Warning Satellite Providing Vital Infrared Data to Users The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite is now delivering critical infrared data to users. The spacecraft is currently undergoing its rig ... more | .. |
 Planck steps closer to the cosmic blueprint ESA's Planck mission has revealed that our Galaxy contains previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves. These results give scientists new treasure to mine and tak ... more | .. |
 EU to double investment in mansion-sized supercomputers The EU said Wednesday it will double its investment in supercomputers, high-performance machines the size of a mansion that can cost more than 100 million euros ($130 million) each to build. ... more | .. |
 JPL and Caltech Cubesat Proposals Move Forward NASA has selected 33 small satellites - including two Cubesats from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, both in Pasadena - to fly as auxiliary p ... more |
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 New Planck maps reveal unseen details across the Milky Way An unambiguous detection of the Galactic Haze - a mysterious, diffuse emission from the central portion of the Milky Way - and the first all-sky map of carbon monoxide, whose emission traces the mol ... more | .. |
 NASA Reaches Higher With Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request NASA has announced a $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2013 supporting an ambitious program of space exploration that will build on new technologies and proven capabilities to expand Amer ... more | .. |
  Central and eastern Europe make history with small satellites The first satellites entirely designed and built by Hungary, Poland, Romania are now orbiting Earth after the successful maiden flight of ESA's small Vega launcher. The latest addition to Europe's v ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's Chand ... more |
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  Martian Carbon Dioxide Clouds Tied To Atmospheric Gravity Waves On 4 March 1997 the Mars Pathfinder lander fell through the thin Martian atmosphere. During its descent, instrumentation aboard the lander recorded the changing atmospheric temperature, pressure, an ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Surpasses 10-Year On-Orbit Design Life The second Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service, providing our nation's war ... more | .. |
 Space debris in the spotlight Every year, the number of small items of debris in space rises by tens of thousands. This number is currently based on estimates, as it has not been possible to track space debris accurately. ... more | .. |
 When worlds collide If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functi ... more |
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 GIS Technology Plays Important Role to Map Disease and Health Trends Thanks to the advancements in geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and mapping applications like ArcGIS, health organizations worldwide are mapping disease and sickness trends in an eff ... more | .. |
  Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed - designed and bui ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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