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Russia, India in hypersonic missile talksNew Delhi (UPI) Mar 30, 2012 Russia and India are in discussions to develop a hypersonic cruise missile and are near agreement on a preliminary design, Indian officials said. "In the near future, we will set up a joint working group which will work out the parameters of the missile in cooperation with developers, and also decide how much each side will contribute to the project," Praveen Pathak, the head of the BrahMos Indian-Russian cruise missile program, told RIA Novosti. The weapon will be capable of speeds of M ... read more |
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  N. Korea rocket launch plan well advanced: website New satellite imagery shows advanced preparations by North Korea for its rocket launch, including a mobile radar trailer and apparently empty fuel tanks, a US website reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  Russia launches military satellite Russia has confirmed the launch Friday of a Cosmos class military satellite atop a Space Forces Proton-M carrier rocket. ... more | .. |
  The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter. Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of the sound of other ... more | .. |
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  Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the Univ ... more | .. |
  SLS Avionics Test Paves Way for Full-Scale Booster Firing NASA has successfully tested the solid rocket booster avionics for the first two test flights of the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. This avionics system include ... more | .. |
  Orbital Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Company's Founding Orbital Sciences has celebrated the company's first three decades in the space business as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise's founding on April 2, 1982. At anniversary events ... more | .. |
  Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS Some six billion light years ago, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction of all th ... more |
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China says to hike defence spending by 7.2% this year
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 Mars missions race, India takes lead India aims at sending an orbiter to Mars in 2013. The race for the Red planet unwinds with NASA planning a launch for the same 2013 fiscal year and China somewhat lagging behind. Earlier this month ... more | .. |
  New Study Calls For Recognition of Private Property Claims in Space 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Home ... more | .. |
  Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system. ... more | .. |
  Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars a ... more |
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 Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta, he could hardly have imagined that th ... more | .. |
  Europe's ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts ISS Orbit Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station's orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control said. Two main engines of ATV-3 we ... more | .. |
  China launches French-made communication satellite China successfully sent a French-made communication satellite, "APSTAR-7," into orbit Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch C ... more | .. |
  ISS Keeps Watch on World's Sea Traffic As the International Space Station circles Earth, it has been tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An investigation hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its Columbus module h ... more |
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  Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to ... more | .. |
  Solar Climate Change Could Cause Rougher Space Weather Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand solar max ... more | .. |
  KVH Industries Opens New Testing Facility to House a One-of-a-kind Motion Simulator Committed to providing global high speed Internet, television, and voice services to mobile users at sea, on land, and in the air, KVH Industries recently opened a new testing facility that houses a ... more | .. |
 Many US police use cell phones to track: study Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday. ... more |
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 How interstellar beacons could help future astronauts find their way across the universe The use of stars, planets and stellar constellations for navigation was of fundamental importance for mankind for thousands of years. Now a group of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Extrat ... more | .. |
 Sofia Captures Images Of The Planetary Nebula M2-9 Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying Sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, ... more | .. |
 ORS SpaceLoft-6 launch to test reliability, durability of payloads in suborbital voyage The SpaceLoft-6 sounding rocket will launch April 5, 2012, at Spaceport America, in Upham, N.M., with seven payloads, crucial for future Operationally Responsive Space missions, demonstrating its de ... more | .. |
 Russian Proton-M Puts Military Satellite into Orbit Russia's Space Forces launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite on board on Friday, spokesman Lt. Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. "The rocket put the Cosmos-series ... more |
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 Space Launch System Program Completes Step One of Combined Milestone Reviews America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle - the Space Launch System - is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of miles ... more | .. |
 Getting to the moon on drops of fuel The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of ... more | .. |
  How Deep Must Life Hide to be Safe on Europa? Considered one of the best potential sources for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, Europa may hide life in the ocean deep beneath the moon's icy crust. Some organisms could even travel to t ... more | .. |
 A Star Explodes, Turns Inside-Out A new X-ray study of the remains of an exploded star indicates that the supernova that disrupted the massive star may have turned it inside out in the process. Using very long observations of Cassio ... more |
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  How the Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Formed Saturn's moon Iapetus is one of the most unusual moons in our solar system. Perhaps the most bizarre feature of Iapetus is its equatorial ridge, a 20-km (12.4-mi) high, 200-km (124-mi) wide mountain ... more | .. |
  The MIRI Has Two Faces: Go 'Behind the Webb' (Telescope) in a New Vide A short new video takes viewers behind the scenes with the MIRI or the Mid-Infrared Instrument that will fly on-board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI is a state-of-the-art infrared instrumen ... more | .. |
  Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fantasies. ... more | .. |
Spinning stars could guide spacecraft Spacecraft may one day navigate in space by using X-ray signals from rotating pulsars as a sort of cosmic GPS, German researchers say. ... more |
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