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Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space StationSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2012 Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission, that will dock with the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, would be launched without a crew. Chinese media sources now state that the crew will also enter the Tiangong 1 laboratory after docking indicating engineers are confident that the mission can work. The mission is slated to take place between June and August. ... read more |
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  Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ... more | .. |
 ISS may become Martian flight simulator Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the n ... more | .. |
  Microbial oasis discovered beneath the Atacama Desert Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have f ... more | .. |
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 China to launch spacecraft in June: report China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China A ... more | .. |
  NASA Performs First J-2X Powerpack Test of the Year Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center conducted an initial test of the J-2X engine powerpack Feb. 15, kicking off a series of key tests in development of the rocket engine that will carry humans ... more | .. |
  Space Systems/Loral-Built SES-4 Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, has announced that the SES-4 satellite, designed and built for SES, is successfully performing post-launch maneuver ... more | .. |
 NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Booster Risk Reduction Solutions NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort. NASA is looking for a ... more |
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North Korea's Kim inspects 'nuclear-powered submarine' project
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 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Completes J-2X Powerpack Test Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the first in a series of powerpack hot-fire tests on the J-2X engine, which is being developed for NASA to power humans further into space than ev ... more | .. |
 The quest for sugars involved in origin of life Sugars give rise to enormous biochemical interest given the importance and diversity of the functions they carry out: they act as an energy storage system and serve as fuel for a number of biologica ... more | .. |
  Cleaning up Earth's orbit A Swiss satellite tackles space debris The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth - primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components - is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat ... more | .. |
 SES Relocates AMC-3 Satellite To 67 Degrees West To Serve Latin American Growth Markets SES S.A. reports that the AMC-3 satellite is being relocated from its former location of 87 degrees West to 67 degrees West to optimize coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. T ... more |
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 Media Networks Latin America Signs Major DTH Capacity Agreement With SES SES has announced that Media Networks Latin America (MNLA) has signed a long-term capacity deal to expand its pay-TV service across Central America and the Caribbean. Under the milestone partn ... more | .. |
  Lasers and GPS technology improve snow measurements Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are working with colleagues to solve a critical wintertime weather mystery: how ... more | .. |
  Russian cosmonauts begin ISS spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday in a spacewalk due to last six hours, Russia's mission control centre said. ... more | .. |
  Report seeks to integrate microbes into climate models The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry ... more |
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
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  New web tool to improve accuracy of global land cover maps An interactive web tool has been developed to improve the accuracy and extent of global land use and forest cover information. The new 'Geo-Wiki' uses Google Earth and information provided by a glob ... more | .. |
  India to test new long-range missile: official India will next month test a new long-range nuclear-capable missile which can strike targets more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) away, a defence research spokesman said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Is Shenzhou Unsafe? 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 ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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