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North Korean rocket launch fails, draws condemnationPyongyang (AFP) April 13, 2012 North Korea's heralded long-range rocket test ended in failure Friday, disintegrating in mid-air soon after blastoff and plunging into the sea in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state. The defiant launch drew condemnation from world leaders who described it as a "provocative" act that threatened regional security, despite Pyongyang insisting it was intended to put a satellite into orbit for peaceful purposes. Some four hours after the rocket exploded over the Yellow Sea, the North admitt ... read more |
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  Commentary: Innovate or evaporate He was voted one of the "50 Great Americans," holds 28 honorary degrees, received, not once, but five times, the U.S. Defense Department's highest civilian decoration - the Distinguished Service Medal. ... more | .. |
  Envisat services interrupted After 10 years of service, Envisat has stopped sending data to Earth. ESA's mission control is working to re-establish contact with the satellite. Although this landmark mission has been in orbit tw ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Delivers Two Commercial Communications Satellites For Upcoming Historic Launch Lockheed Martin has delivered its 100th and 101st commercial geostationary communications satellites in preparation for the first dual launch of satellites built by Lockheed Martin aboard an Ariane ... more | .. |
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  NASA Goddard Engineers Testing Webb Telescope's OSIM and BIA Instruments Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. ... more | .. |
  ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System span class="NL"> a href="http://www.nrao.edu/" class="highlight">National Radio Astronomy Observatory /a> br> /span> by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2012 A new observatory still u ... more | .. |
  Putin Calls for Space Launch Development Strategy Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday a national strategy was needed for the development of the country's space launch centers. "I believe we need to develop a long-term national de ... more | .. |
 UF-led team uses new observatory to characterize low-mass planets orbiting nearby star Astronomers have found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from Earth. Twice as massive as the sun and 20 times brighter, Fomalhaut i ... more |
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  Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ... more | .. |
  Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at ISS Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of the International Space Station (ISS). NanoRacks will develop a ... more | .. |
  Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS Observe a Solar Storm On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interact ... more | .. |
  N. Korea blasts rocket, Japan says launch failed North Korea on Friday launched a long-range rocket which appeared to have failed and fallen into the ocean, South Korean and Japanese authorities said. ... more |
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 NASA's Human Spaceflight Programs: From Space Shuttle To The Future The space shuttle helped the United States expand its leadership in space exploration during the program's 30 years of flight and laid the groundwork for the next 30 years of space exploration. The ... more | .. |
 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission ... more | .. |
  Boeing, US Navy Conduct Networked Distributed Targeting Capability Flight Test on Super Hornet Boeing and the U.S. Navy have successfully completed a flight test of the prototype Distributed Targeting System-Networked (DTS-N) on a Super Hornet. The system is designed to enhance the F/A-18E/F ... more | .. |
  Russia waiting for S-500 air defense system The S-500, a new generation surface-to-air missile system, is to enter the Russian Air Defense arsenal in 2015. At present, the Russian Air Forces are outfitted with the S-400 and S-300V4 complexes, ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Deliver Unattended Ground Systems The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems to protect soldiers with a remote persistent unattended surveillance ... more | .. |
 Boeing to Upgrade B-1 Navigation System for USAF Boeing has received a $55.3 million production contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the B-1 Lancer navigation system. The upgrade will replace the original navigation hardware with a new ring ... more | .. |
  Pirates, Beware: US Navy Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said. Calle ... more | .. |
 Learn to dock ATV the astronaut way Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? ESA is making actual astronaut training available on your computer and tablet, so you can see for yourself. ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle ... more |
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  Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day. Foma ... more | .. |
  Dragon Expected to Set Historic Course The upcoming launch of a SpaceX spacecraft and rocket on a demonstration flight to the International Space Station is expected to cross a key milestone on the path to operational, commercial mission ... more | .. |
 Russia sets space science priorities: Astrophysics, plasma research and planetary missions On Cosmonautics Day Eve Russian scientists revealed their plans for the next years. While planetary exploration program is currently under discussion, there are other missions to be launched in near ... more | .. |
  Could "advanced" dinosaurs rule other planets New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs - monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans - may be the life forms that evo ... more |
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 United Launch Alliance Announces New Human Launch Services Organization United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the formation of a new organization that will focus exclusively on NASA's human spaceflight programs. ULA's Human Launch Services organization will b ... more | .. |
  Russia postpones Luna-Glob moon mission Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. "We ... more | .. |
 Study On Extrasolar Planet Orbits Suggests That Solar System Structure Is The Norm Recently, the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite made a census of the planetary population around stars like our own, revealing a bounty of planetary systems. A follow-up study lead by memb ... more | .. |
 A Spiral Galaxy in Hydra This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra. The shape of NGC 4980 appears slightly deformed, something which is often ... more |
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 Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) is the first onboard mechanically cooled superconducting mixer and high-resolution system for measuring atmospheric minor consti ... more | .. |
  Venus Invades the Pleiades This week the second planet from the sun will pass directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. It's a rare sunset conjunction that's easy to find with the unaided eye, but best seen through bino ... more | .. |
  Watching space weather through the MAGIC of CubeSat CINEMA A trio of CubeSats that will study the effects of space weather on the Earth's radiation belts and magnetic field are being prepared for launch. TRIO-CINEMA is a collaboration between UC Berkeley, K ... more | .. |
 N. Korea missile tech a 'concern': US commander North Korea's increasingly sophisticated missile technology is a concern to Asia and the United States, the new US Pacific commander said Wednesday ahead of Pyongyang's planned rocket launch. ... more |
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