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Far-Out PhotosynthesisGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2012 Everyone knows that we as humans literally owe the air we breathe to the greenery around us. As school children we learned that plants (as well as algae and cyanobacteria) perform the all important biological "magic trick" known as photosynthesis, which helps generate the atmospheric oxygen we use in every breath. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria alter our planet in a way that only life can: they use photosynthesis to completely change the composition of the Earth's atmosphere. Since the days when ... read more |
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  A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected in 2004 in ... more | .. |
  Russia to Focus on Its Orbital Cluster - Popovkin Russia will prioritize the development of its satellites over manned spaceflight, aiming to boost the country's economy, the head of the Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives Phased Array Antenna System Contract from Yahsat Boeing has finalized a firm-fixed-price contract with Al Yah Satellite Company (Yahsat), the United Arab Emirates-based multipurpose satellite operator, to design and build active electronically ste ... more | .. |
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  NASA Measures Impact of Huge Solar Flare on Earth's Atmosphere A key NASA instrument that can directly measure the impact of solar events on the Earth's upper atmosphere has weighed in on the huge flare that impacted Earth last week. The flare was conside ... more | .. |
  Artemis Listens Out For ATV Whisper On Route To ISS ESA's Artemis communications satellite is in action again to ensure the safe arrival of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle at the International Space Station with vital supplies. Contai ... more | .. |
 Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth's up ... more | .. |
 Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the U.S. Strategic ... more |
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Macron proposes French nuclear extension, Ukraine troop deployment
China says to hike defence spending by 7.2% this year
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  Not your average heat shield In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, a team of French researchers has proposed isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat-essentially "thermal cloaking." This method, which the ... more | .. |
 First Boeing 702 Medium Power Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from Intelsat 22, the first of a series of 702MP (medium power) satellites it is delivering for Intelsat. The signals indicate that Intelsat 22 is heal ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Adjusts Orbital Path And Tests Instruments NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, has adjusted its flight path for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August. Tests completed aboard Curiosit ... more | .. |
 Space Observations of Mercury Transits Yield Precise Solar Radius A group of scientists from Hawaii, Brazil and California has measured the diameter of the Sun with unprecedented accuracy by using a spacecraft to time the transits of the planet Mercury across the ... more |
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  ILS Proton Launches Intelsat 22 Intelsat S.A., and International Launch Services (ILS) announced today that an ILS Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 22 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: Can long space missions work? As the United States considers a manned mission to Mars by the mid-2030s, ongoing research is beginning to raise doubts about the ability of human astronauts to survive such a multi-year journey in zero gravity without severe and possibly permanent physical or psychological damage. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea takes rocket main body to launch site North Korea has transported the main body of a long-range rocket to a site in the far northwest of the country in preparation for next month's launch, Seoul's military said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Europe's smart supply ship on its way to Space Station ESA's ATV Edoardo Amaldi lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, Friday at 04:34 GMT (05:34 CET, 01:34 local) on an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, heading towards t ... more |
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
BAE Systems selected to develop NOAA's next-generation space weather satellite
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  NASA's Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Element ... more | .. |
 Experimental Payloads Selected For Commercial Suborbital Flights NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 24 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons and a commercial parabolic aircraft. Six ... more | .. |
  Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light-Speed Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our Galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a s ... more | .. |
 Researchers take first-ever measurement of auroral turbulence using a nanosatellite radar receiver Researchers from SRI International and the University of Michigan have taken the first-ever measurement of naturally occurring auroral turbulence recorded using a nanosatellite radar receiver. The r ... more |
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  VISTA Stares Deep into the Cosmos ESO's VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. This new picture of an unremarkable patch of sky comes from the UltraVISTA survey and reveals more t ... more | .. |
 NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Development Solutions NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for advanced development proposals to support the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space La ... more | .. |
  Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National Univer ... more | .. |
 China hands over NigComSat 1-R to Nigeria China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) handed the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to its Nigeria counterpart on Monday at the Obasanjo Space Center in Abuja. NigComSat 1-R, which was la ... more |
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 Astrium's satellites reap first fruits in Canada Astrium Services' PixAgri satellite imaging service for crop management has just successfully completed its first agricultural campaign for "La Coop federee", the largest agrifood business in Quebec ... more | .. |
  Japan Shares ISS SMILES via Atmospheric Data Distribution Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth's atmosphere? The coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, typically produced by solar flares might ... more | .. |
 ESA Cargo Ship Carries Research and Technology Investigations to ISS When the European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with more than seven tons of supplies, includin ... more | .. |
  O OREOS Nanosatellite Success in Orbit NASA's Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) nanosatellite has successfully carried microorganisms to a high-inclination, low-Earth orbit and monitored the effects of the space env ... more |
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 US ramping up private sector's role in spaceflight The first flight of a commercial vessel to the International Space Station in late April will signal a bigger role for the private sector and open up space tourism opportunities, industry experts and lawmakers say. ... more | .. |
 Mountaintop leveled for giant telescope Scientists say 3 million cubic feet of rock will be blasted from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for what will be the world's largest telescope. ... more | .. |
 Patent requests in Europe reach record in 2011 Patent requests in the Europe reached a record high in 2011, in a telling sign that companies are determined to stay on the cutting edge despite a debt crisis and an uncertain economy. ... more | .. |
 Debate still raging on site for super-telescope An international consortium planning to build the world's most powerful radiotelescope is still debating whether South Africa or Australia should host the $2 billion project, an official said Friday. ... more |
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