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Dwindling US Space Budget Worries ScientistWashington DC (VOA) Apr 20, 2012 The landing of two Americans on the moon, in July 1969, was among the most inspiring scientific and technical achievements in human history. But today, both the political will and federal funding to sustain that level of achievement appear to have waned. It's a trend that troubles astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, an outspoken advocate for space research and exploration. The director of the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York, he's written a dozen boo ... read more |
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  Finding ET may require giant robotic leap Autonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn Sta ... more | .. |
  Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt. ... more | .. |
  The 3D Lyrid Meteor Shower This weekend, NASA scientists, amateur astronomers, and an astronaut on board the International Space Station will attempt the first-ever 3D photography of meteors from Earth and space. "The a ... more | .. |
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 NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroids with orbits that occasionally bring ... more | .. |
  Raytheon's Space Fence System Detects and Tracks Space Objects Raytheon's Space Fence recently completed a comprehensive Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating the S-band radar's technical maturity in its ability to detect and track the increasing amount ... more | .. |
  Winners of 19th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Announced America's space agency has crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The team from P ... more | .. |
  1000 Days Of Infrared Wonders For the last 1000 days the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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  SES grows its 23.5 degrees East reach in Benelux by 20 percent SES reports that the technical reach of its ASTRA Satellite System in the Benelux markets from the 23.5 degrees East orbital position has increased by more than 140,000 households to 870,000, an ann ... more | .. |
  With eye on China, India tests new long-range missile India on Thursday successfully test fired a new missile capable of delivering a one-tonne nuclear warhead anywhere in rival China, marking a major advance in its defence capabilities. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded $106 Million for Aegis Radar Work The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $106.4 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the production of Aegis-related equipment, including the AN/SPY-1(D)V radar transmitter and MK99 Mod ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries From The Dark Side Of A Galaxy A new multi-million pound camera is producing its first detailed pictures of our neighboring galaxies, revealing vast, dusty stellar nurseries where the next generation of stars is being created. "T ... more |
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 Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precise ... more | .. |
  GPS could aid in earthquake warnings Combining two data sources could bring better warning of earthquakes to millions of people in vulnerable areas of the western United States, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Parachutes for NASA crew capsule tested The parachute system for a space capsule intended carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before has successfully completed a drop test, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  US museum welcomes space shuttle Discovery Discovery on Thursday became the first spaceship from the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year manned spaceflight program. ... more |
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  Hubble's panoramic view of a turbulent star-making region Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. 30 ... more | .. |
 Australia-New Zealand Square Kilometre Array Site Is Already Producing World-Class Astrophysics CSIRO's Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar S ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Craters On Earth Give Clues In Search For Life On Mars Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests. Tiny organisms have been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the U.S. w ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Left-Front Wheel Stabilized Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The solar insolation ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Completes Key Milestone on GeoEye's New Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation Earth-imaging satellite successfully initiated power-on testing for the GeoEye-2 spacecraft bus. This program milestone continues the tea ... more | .. |
  Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space. The nomad worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact center of Messier 70, a globular cluster. Quarters are always tight in globular clusters, where the mutu ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew An international team of aquanauts will travel again to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEE ... more |
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  Robots guard S. Korea prison inmates South Korea has begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards by deploying them in an actual prison in Pohang, officials said. ... more | .. |
 US report urges easing rules on satellite exports Congress should ease restrictions on US satellite exports that are unnecessary and place US firms at a "disadvantage," the Pentagon and the State Department said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Mysterious 'dark matter' even weirder: astronomers Astronomers scanning the Milky Way said on Wednesday they were baffled when they failed to spot something invisible. ... more | .. |
Tim gets his feet wet ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will soon dive to the bottom of the sea to learn more about exploring space. A permanent underwater base almost 20 m below the waves off the coast of Florida will be Tim' ... more |
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 UK supports space innovation overseas Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts has announced a 6 million pounds co-funded grant for commercial products and services developments from space-based systems and technology. SSTL ... more | .. |
 Russia to Test Second Glonass-K Satellite in 2013 Russia plans to begin testing its second Glonass-K navigation satellite in 2013, Grigory Stupak, the deputy head of the Russian Space Systems company producing navigation and other equipment for the ... more | .. |
 UC Berkeley Passes Management Of Allen Telescope Array To SRI Berkeley-Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes - most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) - scanned the Milky Way and oth ... more | .. |
 Super-telescope: Split site now under consideration Plans to build the world's most powerful radio telescope are looking at whether the site can be split between rival bidders South Africa and Australia, organisers said on Thursday. ... more |
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