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Russia launches astronauts after 5-month breakBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) May 15, 2012 Two Russians and an American on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz rocket in Russia's first manned space launch for almost five months. Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American Joseph Acaba started their journey on top of the Russian Soyuz FG rocket under crystal-clear skies from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an AFP correspondent said. Their Soyuz TMA-04M capsule was successfully delivered into orbit, with the rocket stages detach ... read more |
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  Transneft to use GLONAS for monitoring The "Transneft" company and the Navigational Information Systems company have begun to create a system of transport monitoring with the help of GLONAS. The Russian GLONAS and the American GPS ... more | .. |
  Building a Heavenly Palace in outer space China's permanent space station, the Heavenly Palace, is to be launched into orbit within a decade. According to Chinese media reports, the 60-ton craft will include a central module and two laborat ... more | .. |
  Refurbishment on Grand Scale for Iconic VAB The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been a landmark to the technological advancements of sending men to the moon and astronauts into space for more than 45 ye ... more | .. |
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  Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA's Space Situatio ... more | .. |
  Marshall Completes Wind Tunnel Testing For Dream Chaser Space System NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., successfully completed wind tunnel testing for Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo. The test will provide aerodynamic ... more | .. |
  Oslo-physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the Un ... more | .. |
 North Korea stops jamming South's GPS: official North Korea has stopped sending GPS jamming signals that affected hundreds of civilian flights in South Korea over a two-week period, officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Solar Eclipse to Sweep North America on Sunday, May 20th People with clear skies across most of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will experience a partial eclipse of the Sun late this Sunday afternoon (May 20, 2012). Only those near the Eastern Seaboard will ... more | .. |
  Popovkin replaces Perminov at Russian space agency Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed former First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday, replacing Anatoly Perminov. Popo ... more | .. |
 Three astronauts blast off for ISS on Russian rocket Two Russians and an American on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz FG rocket from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more | .. |
  Visiting Snowball Earth Ancient glacial deposits in Norway (snowball Earth-aged Smalfjord and the younger Mortensnes formations) are superbly documented and illustrated in this comprehensive eight-day field guide. Th ... more |
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  Earth history and evolution In classical mythology, the cypress tree is associated with death, the underworld and eternity. Indeed, the family to which cypresses belong, is an ancient lineage of conifers, and a new study of th ... more | .. |
  In search of new 'Earths' beyond our Solar System Light coming from an exoplanet only eight times larger than the Earth was observed with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. With the advent of new space and Earth-based devices, the st ... more | .. |
  Wireless firm Lightsquared seeks bankruptcy Lightsquared, a firm whose an ambitious high-speed wireless broadband venture was thwarted by US regulators, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, documents showed. ... more | .. |
 Nigeria to commercialize satellite services: official The newly-launched earth observation satellite, NigeriaSat-2, is now set for commercial activities, a top government official has said. Director-general of the National Space Research and Deve ... more |
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  How massive stars sculpt a cosmic crib ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has captured a new, stunning image of Cygnus X, one of the richest star-forming regions in our cosmic neighbourhood. The image reveals in unprecedented detail the in ... more | .. |
 How Nature Shapes the Birth of Stars Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth enviro ... more | .. |
  NASA Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus June 14-17 Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in Worcester, M ... more | .. |
 The Heliosphere Bow Shock Does Not Exist New results from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reveal that the bow shock, widely accepted by researchers to precede the heliosphere as it plows through tenuous gas and dust from the g ... more |
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  Meteorite Discovery Spurs Hunt For More Pieces Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter's Mill in California, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the Gold Rush in 1848. Scientists believe the me ... more | .. |
  Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula The starry mist streaking across this image obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the central part of the dwarf galaxy known as NGC 2366. The most obvious feature in this galaxy is a la ... more | .. |
  VPT Adds 15 Amp Point of Load DC-DC Converter to Space Family of Power Conversion Products VPT, Inc., a HEICO company, has announced availability of a new point of load power converter designed and manufactured for use in the extreme environment of space. The new SVGA0515 Series point of ... more | .. |
 Vietnam's 2nd satellite to be launched Vietnam will send its second satellite into orbit on May 16, the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), on Thursday. VNPT said that after the first one, VINASAT-1, was launched in 2 ... more |
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 Long March-2F rocket delivered to launch center A Long March-2F carrier rocket was recently delivered to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, a spokesman with the country's manned space program said on Thursday. The Long ... more | .. |
 Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Cygnus-X i ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper In England it is known as the "Plough," in Germany the "Great Cart," and in Malaysia the "Seven Ploughs." Since humanity first turned its eyes skyward, the seven northern hemisphere stars that compo ... more | .. |
 NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10, marking another step in development of the next-generatio ... more |
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  Cubesats "Land" at National Science Foundation on Thursday, May 24th Imagine a fully instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Small low-cost satellite payloads, built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on Air Force and NASA la ... more | .. |
  Mars Opportunity Rover Is A Go For More Travel After being stationary for 130 sols during the winter, Opportunity has resumed driving again. On Sol 2947 (May 8, 2012), the rover performed a 12-foot (3.7-meter) drive down from her winter pe ... more | .. |
 India conducting new round of cryogenic engine testing The Indian space agency will Saturday conduct a crucial test on an indigenously built cryogenic engine for launching its heavier rockets from its spaceport, a top official said Friday. "The cryogen ... more | .. |
 Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi ... more |
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