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SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 07, 2012 Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. This follows a launch dress rehearsal April 30 by the SpaceX launch team that concluded with a brief engine firing to verify the company's Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch. The practice countdown also tested some of the systems on the Dragon spacecraft that will fly to the space station. "Woohoo, rocket hold down ... read more |
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  India yet to arrive on military satellite scene The launch of the Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) is a major step forward for India but it must increase its capacity and launch many more satellites to be considered a serious player in making mi ... more | .. |
 Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. A ... more | .. |
 A trio of Ariane 5 launchers are now at the Spaceport Arianespace's ability to support the sustained launch pace for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 is being demonstrated once again as vehicles for the next three missions are now together in French Guiana. ... more | .. |
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  Greenland glaciers may melt slower than thought: study A decade-long study of Greenland's glaciers suggests they may not be melting as quickly as thought, leading to a slower sea-level rise than worst-case predictions, said a study on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft on May 2 at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. The test demonstrated the pe ... more | .. |
  Aerojet's AJ26 Flight Engine Successfully Hot-Fire Tested for Orbital's Antares Rocket Aerojet, reports that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitored the fu ... more | .. |
  Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of Water on Early Mars The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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 Opportunity Getting Ready To Leave Her Winter Perch Opportunity is still positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt, but not for much longer. With the improvement in sola ... more | .. |
  Russia warns it may target US missile shield Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a "dead end" and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. ... more | .. |
 ATK Announces Retirement of TacSat-3 Satellite ATK (ATK) announces the conclusion of the Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3) mission. The Air Force announced on April 30th, 2012, that the satellite deorbited into and burned up in the Earth's atmosph ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Urges IAM Members to Vote in Favor of New Contract United Launch Alliance (ULA) has urged its employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to vote this Sunday, May 6, in favor of a new three-year c ... more |
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 Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket Engine Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the ma ... more | .. |
 ULA Launches Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 Satellite to Orbit for the U.S. Air Force A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 2:42 ... more | .. |
  Jurassic pain: Giant 'flea-like' insects plagued dinosaurs 165 million years ago It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in - but giant "flea-like" animals, ... more | .. |
  GeoEye Proposes Acquisition Of DigitalGlobe GeoEye, Inc. said Friday that it is proposing to acquire DigitalGlobe, Inc. The combined company would create the world's largest fleet of high resolution commercial imagery satellites. The new comp ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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 Mars Rover Opportunity Hits Paydirt At Endeavour A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics con ... more | .. |
  Dawn Completes 800 Orbits Of Vesta Dawn is wrapping up a spectacularly rewarding phase of its mission of exploration. Since descending to its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) in December, the stalwart probe has circled Vesta about 8 ... more | .. |
 Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in Acidalia Planitia The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), ... more | .. |
 SpaceX boss admits sleep elusive before ISS launch Elon Musk, the Internet entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, which aims to be the first private firm to send a cargo craft to the International Space Station, admits he has a case of pre-launch jitters. ... more |
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  3-D pod like something from Star Trek A Canadian scientist says he has created a Star Trek-like 3-D pod to allow people in different locations to talk as if they are standing in front of each other. ... more | .. |
  Migratory locusts in a wind tunnel Insects are capable of masterful feats of flying; whenever they witness locusts flying long distances or moths hovering over flowers, aerodynamicists can only marvel. This is why researchers at the ... more | .. |
  JUICE is Europe's next large science mission Jupiter's icy moons are the focus of Europe's next large science mission. The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer - JUICE - was selected over two other candidates: NGO, the New Gravitational wave Observatory ... more | .. |
  Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than ... more |
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  Catch a Glimpse of Halley's Comet Debris - Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere and result in the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This year the peak ... more | .. |
  Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6 The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. If a moonbeam wakes ... more | .. |
 Sifting through dust near Orion's Belt Dust may sound boring and uninteresting - the surface grime that hides the beauty of an object. But this new image of Messier 78 and surroundings, which reveals the submillimetre-wavelength radiatio ... more | .. |
 How will the US biotechnology industry benefit from new patent laws? Passage of the America Invents Act into law led to the most dramatic changes in the U.S. patent system in 60 years. These reforms will have a significant impact on technology innovators such as biot ... more |
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  Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys were the last close encounters of these i ... more | .. |
  Intelsat Teams with PCCW Global to Expand IntelsatONESM Terrestrial Network Intelsat and PCCW Global have agreed to interconnect their MPLS networks. Intelsat and PCCW Global will be able to offer networking solutions and access to the world's premier video neighborhoods to ... more | .. |
 SES unveils IP-based in-home distribution of satellite TV signals SES, together with leading industry partners, announced the introduction of SAT-IP, a new IP-based satellite reception technology that demodulates and converts satellite signals to IP for further in ... more | .. |
  Goddard Collaborates With International Partners on MMS Instrument At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., a team of scientists and engineers are working on a crucial element of the MMS instrument suite: the Fast Plasma Instrument (FPI). Some ... more |
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