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Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourismMoscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Apr 11, 2012 Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land a robot on its surface able to travel 500 meters and send back to Earth video, images and data. A rover has to reach the Moon before the end of 2015. Astrobotic Technology is one of a handful of teams competing for $20 million offered by Google to the first private company that would ma ... read more |
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  When Stellar Metallicity Sparks Planet Formation In new research, scientists have attempted to determine the precise conditions necessary for planets to form in a star system. Jarrett Johnson and Hui Li of Los Alamos National Laboratory assert tha ... more | .. |
  Pentagon considers nuclear-powered drones American scientists are working on new-generation nuclear-powered unmanned aircraft capable of staying in the air for up to several months. While being able to tackle a wider range of more complicat ... more | .. |
  Israeli leaders play macabre numbers game Amid Israel's scramble to develop weapons to counter the threat of a massive missile bombardment by Iran, Syria and their proxies, top officials are playing a macabre numbers game about how many fatalities the Jewish state might suffer. ... more | .. |
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  N.Korea rocket launch could prompt UN talks: US The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Monday that if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, the UN Security Council will likely convene to discuss the issue. ... more | .. |
  Big boost for UK space technology industry The Government is to grant nearly 6 million pound to co-fund major new British research that will develop commercial products and services using space technology and data from space-based systems. ... more | .. |
  SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does - look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Sola ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Loral Platform to Help Enable Next Era of Space Communications Space Systems/Loral is teaming with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to host a laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) on a commercial satellite to be launched in 2016. NASA 's Space Techn ... more |
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  New 'rocket' can go to moon on 100 cc fuel A lightweight satellite thruster can go to the Moon on just 100 ml of fuel, slashing cost of space missions. The mini motor uses electricity to expel ions and generate thrust, built to manoeuvre spa ... more | .. |
  NASA Sees New Salt in an Ancient Sea The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. ... more | .. |
 NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents were captured in this scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There is also a 20-minute lo ... more | .. |
 ITT Exelis delivers imaging system for next-generation, high-resolution GeoEye-2 satellite ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems has delivered GeoEye's next-generation commercial imaging system for the GeoEye-2 satellite to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif. When operation ... more |
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  First Spacecraft Flight Recorder for NASA's JWST Delivered to Northrop Grumman The solid-state electronics unit that will capture the James Webb Space Telescope's science and engineering data has been completed and delivered to Northrop Grumman by its teammate SEAKR Engineerin ... more | .. |
  NASA to Fly Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve Navigation Technology When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of spacef ... more | .. |
  Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision Infrared and X-ray observations from two space telescopes have been combined to create a unique look at violent events within the giant galaxy Centaurus A. The observations strengthen the view that ... more | .. |
 First Light Of Powerful New Infrared Instrument Engineers and astronomers are celebrating the much anticipated first light of the MOSFIRE instrument, now installed on the Keck I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory. MOSFIRE (Multi-Object Spectrome ... more |
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Tree planting remains the most effective carbon removal strategy despite climate and economic uncertainties
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
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 Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. This is why the astrono ... more | .. |
 South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy - the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for ... more | .. |
  Russia to shift space launches to Plesetsk, Vostochny The number of space launches from Russia-based space ports Plesetsk and Vostochny must rise from 25% to 90% by 2020. This ambitious goal was laid down in the state space development project pr ... more | .. |
  Jupiter helps Halley's Comet give us more spectacular meteor displays The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influences of Jupiter on the comet and the d ... more |
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 'Ordinary' black hole discovered 12 million light years away An international team of scientists have discovered an 'ordinary' black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black hole has been de ... more | .. |
 To boldly go where no glass has gone before QUT's first foray into space is bound to be a giant step for mankind. Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineering Faculty, and researcher for the univ ... more | .. |
  Mars Express - Pit chains on the Tharsis volcanic bulge In the Tharsis volcanic region, almost the size of Europe, the Martian highlands have arched up into a shield several thousand metres in height as a consequence of volcanic processes. Quite a few un ... more | .. |
 Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding? Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser that will zap trash right out of space. ... more |
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 e-MERLIN's deep radio survey of the Hubble Deep Field: first results A team of astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have begun the deepest ever high-resolution radio imaging of the region around the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), the images originally captured by the Hu ... more | .. |
  Galileo satellites intensify competition on the market of navigation Two satellites of the European Galileo global navigation satellite system have successfully passed flight tests. Full satellite group will consist of 30 devices, and there are plans of its expansion ... more | .. |
 Multi-Object Spectroscopy on the Subaru Telescope Moves to Construction The PrimeFocusSpectrograph (PFS), a proposed multi-object spectrograph for a major astronomical observation program on the Subaru Telescope to address nature of dark energy, formation and evolution ... more | .. |
  Scientists refine Earth's clock New research has revealed that some events in Earth's history happened more recently than previously thought. Scientists from the British Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ... more |
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  Growing nitrous oxide levels explained Published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, the record is drawn from atmospheric sampling at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Tasmania, and air extracted from the Antarctic ic ... more | .. |
  NASA Awards Launch Contract For Goes-R And Goes-S Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R and S, or GOES-R and GOES-S. The spacecraft will launch in Octob ... more | .. |
  A magnetic surprise for Venus Express Venus is a rarity among planets - a world that does not internally generate a magnetic field. Despite the absence of a large protective magnetosphere, the near-Venus environment does exhibit a numbe ... more | .. |
 Black Holes Grow Big by Eating Stars Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole at their center weighing millions to billions of suns. But how do those black holes grow so hefty? Some theories suggest they w ... more |
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