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Future of Space TransportationPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 15th Annual Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington. General William Shelton addressed an audience of fellow space-focused members of the Department of Defense, FAA, and NASA, along with industry partners and foreign nationals, on the future of space trans ... read more |
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  Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t ... more | .. |
  A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing It's well known that the universe is changeable: even the stars that appear static and predictable every night are subject to change. This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary ... more | .. |
  Building Blocks of Early Earth Survived Collision that Created Moon Unexpected new findings by a University of Maryland team of geochemists show that some portions of the Earth's mantle (the rocky layer between Earth's metallic core and crust) formed when the planet ... more | .. |
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  Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station 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 would be unmanned. ... more | .. |
  UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more | .. |
 Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more | .. |
  2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more |
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North Korea's Kim inspects 'nuclear-powered submarine' project
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 Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. Dubbed ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Watch Instant Replay of Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, which was initially seen on Earth near ... more | .. |
 NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now ... more | .. |
 The star factory: observing Arp 220 The galaxy Arp 220 is home to several giant star clusters-about 10 million solar masses-that are twice as massive as any comparable star cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy. McMaster University's ... more |
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 APEX Turns its Eye to Dark Clouds in Taurus A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds ... more | .. |
 50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. ... more | .. |
  LockMart Teams with PT CMI Teknologi for Indonesia National Air Space Surveillance Program Lockheed Martin signed a teaming agreement with Indonesian technology firm PT CMI Teknologi to improve airspace surveillance, safety, and management over the Indonesian Archipelago in support of the ... more | .. |
  Russia may set up defence research agency Moscow, Feb 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian government will submit a proposal to the parliament on the establishment of an advanced military research agency, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said. ... more |
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
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  France, Britain to launch joint drone project: report France and Britain are to launch a joint project to build air combat drones during a visit by Prime Minister David Cameron to Paris, newspaper Les Echos reported on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Upgrade will triple the satellite capacity for airborne radio terminals Raytheon is tripling the satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user. The enhancement is provided by an upgrade to Integrated Waveform (IW) software, fo ... more | .. |
 Space station panel installation delayed Two Russian cosmonauts will have to install International Space Station debris panels another day after their spacewalk took longer than expected, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Interference worries may scuttle cell plan An attempt by U.S. company LightSquared to set up a 4G broadband service in the frequency band next to one used by GPS satellites may be over, experts say. ... more |
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 Google bypassed Apple privacy settings: researcher Google was under fire Friday after it was revealed the Internet giant's ad-targeting "cookies" bypassed track-blocking software on Apple's web browser for iPhones and computers. ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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