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N. Korea begins fuelling rocket: reportTokyo (AFP) March 29, 2012 North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch that the West considers a missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, citing a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. "The launch is coming closer. The possibility is high that the launch date will be set for April 12 or 13," the source said according to the Tokyo Shimbun in a report from Seoul. It cited the source as saying that North Korea had begun injecting liquid fuel into the rocket. The paper also said a diplomatic ... read more |
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  European cargo vessel docks with space station An unmanned European craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday 2233 GMT, laden with tonnes of fuel, water, oxygen and other supplies, France's CNES space agency said. ... more | .. |
  Billions of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets Could be Orbiting Red Dwarf Stars A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates ... more | .. |
  Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more | .. |
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  Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced by the space industry for the last 10 y ... more | .. |
  'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more | .. |
  UNL offers new degree in space, cyber and telecommunications law Six people on board the International Space Station hopped into emergency escape pods early Saturday morning in case of a possible collision with a chunk of a wrecked Russian satellite, according to ... more | .. |
  West Antarctic Ice Shelves Tearing Apart at the Seams A new study examining nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, p ... more |
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  ATREX Mission Launched from Wallops NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched ... more | .. |
  Happy Birthday Titan! On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more | .. |
 Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking with the International Space Station (IS ... more |
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 Signs of thawing permafrost revealed from space Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse gases into parts of the Arctic, exacerbating the effects o ... more | .. |
 Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The close ... more | .. |
  NASA Extends Cooperative Agreement With NSBRI NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded a five-year, $120 million extension of its cooperative agreement with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston. Under the extens ... more | .. |
  Obama asks Russia for 'space' on missile defence US President Barack Obama on Monday told President Dmitry Medvedev that he had little flexibility to address Russia's objections to a US missile defence shield before his November reelection bid. ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
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  Lockheed Martin Receives THAAD Follow-On Development Contract Lockheed Martin received a $66 million follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency to continue development of the highly successful Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System. ... more | .. |
 First New-production Patriot System Debuts in Flight Test Raytheon has successfully completed a system-level guided flight test of the new-production Patriot at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The modernized Patriot provides an affordable, low-risk and rap ... more | .. |
  NASA Flight Tests New ADS-B Device on Ikhana UAS NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center flew its Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft with an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, device, for the first time on March 15. It was the fir ... more | .. |
 Pentagon backs expanding Israel's anti-rocket defenses The Pentagon said Tuesday it will request funding to expand Israel's "Iron Dome" short-range air defense system, which helped thwart rocket attacks out of Gaza earlier this month. ... more |
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 'Israel needs double Iron Dome defenses' Amid fears Israel faces a massive missile bombardment from Iran and its allies, former Defense Minister Amir Peretz says the country needs double the number of Iron Dome counter-rocket batteries it plans to buy to protect the home front. ... more | .. |
 Obama hits back in Russia 'hot mike' row US President Barack Obama Tuesday hit back at Republicans who pounced after he was overheard telling Russia's leader he could be more flexible over a missile defence row following November's election. ... more | .. |
  Far-Out Photosynthesis 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 ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 Russia plans to build nuclear space engine Russian space officials say the country is dedicated to the successful building of a nuclear engine for spacecraft by 2017. ... more | .. |
 ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions NASA Software Patent Portfolios The Innovative Partnership Program Office of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will hold a March 29 auction with ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC of Chicago to sell three NASA-developed techn ... more | .. |
  Intelsat Global Broadband Maritime and Aeronautical Infrastructure Continues To Advance Intelsat and International Launch Services (ILS) have announced that an ILS Proton M vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 22 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees Glittering Jewels of Messier 9 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to se ... more |
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 Mountaintop blasting to mine the sky with the Giant Magellan Telescope Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for what will be the world's largest telescope when completed near the end of the de ... more | .. |
  Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to ... more | .. |
  Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive - claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more ... more | .. |
 Beaming Success for ISS Fans Did you ever use a flashlight to send a Morse code message to your neighbor at night as a kid? People like to say hello using lights and it's no different for space aficionados who want to twinkle a ... more |
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