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SpaceX delays first private launch to space stationWashington (AFP) April 24, 2012 SpaceX has postponed by a week its bid to become the first private company to attempt to launch an unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station. "After reviewing our recent progress, it was clear that we needed more time to finish hardware-in-the-loop testing and properly review and follow up on all data," SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham said late Monday. "While it is still possible that we could launch on May 3rd, it would be wise to add a few more days of margin in case t ... read more |
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  The 'Missile Woman' behind Indian test launch Hailed as a trail blazer in male-dominated India, Tessy Thomas juggles domestic duties with her day job - as the country's top ballistic missile expert. ... more | .. |
 Crash of hypersonic test craft analyzed A U.S. military drone that hit 13,000 mph before crashing in the Pacific was damaged by the excessive heat of hypersonic flight, military officials say. ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Successfully Launches Y1B Satellite For Yahsat International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the Y1B satellite into geostationary transfer orbit today o ... more | .. |
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  WSU astrobiologist proposes fleet of probes to seek life on Mars A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with "a strong and comprehensive life detection component." At the heart of their pr ... more | .. |
 Intelsat 19 Satellite Arrives at Sea Launch Home Port Site The spacecraft for the Intelsat-19 mission contracted for launch by Sea Launch AG has been delivered on April 17th to the "Home Port" launch complex in Long Beach, California. The Intelsat 19 ... more | .. |
  Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails b ... more | .. |
 Asteroid sites hint at 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 US whe ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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 People to Land on Mars in Next 40 Years The world may see a manned spaceflight to Mars in the first half of this century, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "I think [a manned trip to Mars] will take place in the first hal ... more | .. |
  Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Probably Do Not From Gamma-Ray Bursts 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 | .. |
  Mechanical tests for SHEFEX The SHEFEX II (SHarp Edge Flight EXperiment) spacecraft successfully withstood vibration on a shaker and spinning at two rotations per second. These tests represented the final simulation of the con ... more | .. |
  CarbonSat - On the trail of greenhouse gases Astrium, Europe's leading space company, will be pushing ahead with the preparation of CarbonSat, a new climate satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), over the next 22 months. In early April ... more |
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  Commentary: $63 million Russian taxi rides The space shuttle Discovery flying piggyback on a Boeing 747 for its last hurrah flight around the Washington Monument and the White House was a grim reminder of misplaced and misspent priorities. ... more | .. |
 DigitalGlobe Unveils New Details of WorldView-3 Satellite DigitalGlobe has unveiled unique capabilities of its WorldView-3 satellite, slated for launch in mid-2014. The announcement was made at the 28th Annual National Space Symposium, the premier gatherin ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Make Case for Science on Capitol Hill Fifteen members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are traveling to Washington, DC, to thank Congress for recent appropriations in the fiscal year 2013 spending bill and to express the need ... more | .. |
 Assembly begins for the third Ariane 5 to be launched in 2012 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third heavy-lift mission of 2012 is now taking shape at the Spaceport, using procedures that have become routine with this workhorse vehicle's operations from French G ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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  United Arab Emirates' second communications satellite ready to launch Y1B, the second satellite of the United Arab Emirates' space communications programme is ready to be launched on a Proton launcher from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Comprising two satellites and a ... more | .. |
  N. Korea to launch satellites 'one after another' North Korea has vowed to launch satellites "one after another", vigorously rejecting international condemnation of an April 13 launch that was seen overseas as a disguised ballistic missile test. ... more | .. |
 Indian missile pride hides strategic flaws: analysts India's pride at the successful test of a long-range, nuclear-capable missile hides weaknesses in strategic military planning that undermine its global power aspirations, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Human health on Mars mission discussed Future astronauts spending time on the surface of Mars may face radiation exposure levels that could increase the risk of DNA damage, Russian scientists say. ... more |
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  Russian cargo ship docks at International Space Station The Russian cargo ship Progress M-15M successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday, the mission control centre said. ... more | .. |
 UK watchdog probes email hacking by Murdoch's Sky News Britain's media watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into two cases of email hacking by Sky News, the satellite broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch. ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Delivers 50th Flight-Ready Solid Rocket Booster to ULA Aerojet reports that it has delivered the 50th Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) to United Launch Alliance (ULA) in support of the Atlas V launch vehicle. The 50th-delivered SRB, along with two addit ... more | .. |
  Boom heard over Northern California: report A loud boom similar to the sound of an explosion was heard over much of northern California early Sunday apparently as a result of an ongoing meteor shower, The Los Angeles Times reported. ... more |
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 Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on Earth. A group led by Thomas Corn ... more | .. |
  Telespazio VEGA UK to Distribute Thuraya Solutions Globally To further meet the requirements of global vertical markets, Thuraya, the leading international mobile satellite services operator has recently signed a Service Partner agreement with Telespazio VEG ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Science Instrument Upgrade For Flying Observatory NASA has selected a science instrument upgrade to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne observatory. The instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera (HAW ... more | .. |
 JWST Spinoff Technologies Already Seen in Some Industries A critical component of the James Webb Space Telescope is its new technology. Much of the technology for the Webb had to be conceived, designed and built specifically to enable it to see farther bac ... more |
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  MESSENGER Settles into Eight-Hour Orbit Around Mercury, Poised for New Discoveries MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., conducted the second of two maneuvers required to reduce the spacecraft's orbital perio ... more | .. |
 Bringing Mars Back to Earth The search for life should be an essential component of a sample return mission from Mars, according to a recent report examining the science behind such a venture. A team of scientists, inclu ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Benefits From Brighter Skies and Small Dust Cleaning of Solar Panels 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 | .. |
  SSTL delivers payload for first Galileo FOC satellite Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered the first of fourteen full operational capability (FOC) payloads for Galileo, the European GNSS system, to prime contractor OHB System AG. ... more |
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