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Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper BeltBoulder CO (SPX) May 10, 2012 New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. We will be 32.9 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is when we reach Pluto in three years, in the summer of 2015, so we're now about 70 percent of the way there. On April 30, New Horizons exited its most recent hibernation period, which lasted from late January through all of February, March and April. The spacecraft and our mission operations team are now beginning an intensive, two-month lo ... read more |
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  Shared space the safest way The US space shuttle is no longer in service, and it will likely be several years before the United States can resume independent human spaceflight. As a result, China's upcoming Shenzhou IX mission ... more | .. |
  Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more | .. |
  A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launch The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecr ... more | .. |
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  NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions. To date, Marshall ha ... more | .. |
 Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more | .. |
  Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) ... more | .. |
 Russia could join U.S. in Mars mission Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations. ... more |
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  Giant sunspots visible from Earth Giant sunspots have sent clouds of particles toward Earth that could bring northern auroras but aren't expected to disrupt communications, U.S. scientists said. ... more | .. |
  Massive black holes halt star birth in distant galaxies Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive bla ... more | .. |
  S. Korea to urge N. Korea to stop GPS jamming South Korea said Wednesday it would send formal complaints to North Korea and to UN agencies, urging Pyongyang to stop sending GPS jamming signals that have affected hundreds of civilian flights. ... more | .. |
 TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and decommissioning activities. TDRS-4's ... more |
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 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites for the U.S. military once again ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance IAMAW Employees Ratify New Contract United Launch Alliance has been notified that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) representing its workforce at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Decatur, ... more | .. |
  Flight Hardware Completed For Tower Supporting Space Telescope Mirrors, Science Instruments Northrop Grumman has completed the flight composite components for the structure that connects the Optical Telescope Element to the spacecraft on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman ... more | .. |
 KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline meta ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
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  NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the detection is a historic ste ... more | .. |
  Is a new form of life really so alien? The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life f ... more | .. |
  One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They're bright enough to see across large d ... more | .. |
 Subaru Telescope Discovers the Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Jun Toshikawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and ... more |
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 UW Professor Creates Large Infrared Camera to Study History of the Universe Michael Pierce plans to study the history of the cosmos - going back 10 billion years - with an infrared camera it took him seven years to create. The University of Wyoming physics and astronomy ass ... more | .. |
 Homing in on supernova origins Type Ia supernovae are important stellar phenomena, used to measure the expansion of the universe. But astronomers know embarrassingly little about the stars they come from and how the explosions ha ... more | .. |
 Rogue Stars Ejected from the Galaxy are Found in Intergalactic Space It's very difficult to knock a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the main mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes involves t ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster - one of the largest structures of the ... more |
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  Throwing pebbles to divert asteroid? A swarm of pebble-sized spacecraft could deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, if launched early enough, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Antarctic stay to mimic Mars mission European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Subaru-Led Team Discovers a Rare Stellar Disk of Quartz Dust A research team of Japanese astronomers led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara (Subaru Telescope) has discovered a main-sequence star that is surrounded by a rare disk of quartz dust. Collisions of planetesima ... more | .. |
 Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters In the search for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to look for clues and patterns that can help scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be disco ... more |
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 Climatic effects of a solar minimum An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Rese ... more | .. |
 Queen's scientists discover black hole ripping apart star Astronomers from Queen's University Belfast have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. The Queen's astronomers are part of the ... more | .. |
 Theskynet Set To Conquer More Of Our Universe In its ever-expanding quest to process astronomy data and discover much more of our universe, theSkyNet has joined forces with the Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC) to probe other galaxies beyo ... more | .. |
 Science Nugget: Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between t ... more |
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