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When Will Shenzhou 9 Be LaunchedLondon, UK (SPX) May 21, 2012 The answer is known only to the planners and leaders of China's space programme. However, with eight missions under the belt of China's piloted spacecraft, some clues have come to light from those earlier flights that point to what China takes into consideration when planning its launch dates and times. The controlling event is the landing at the end of the flight. In the run up to retro fire there are constraints relating to an acceptable direction and angle of solar illumination. They dictate wh ... read more |
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  Herschel Space Observatory study reveals galaxy-packed filament A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, ... more | .. |
  Friction Stir Welding Brings Together Reliability and Affordability For Space Launch System NASA's next heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, is moving further in development faster thanks to proven advanced technologies like friction stir welding. Friction stir welding ... more | .. |
  Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists ... more | .. |
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  Ammonites Found Mini Oases at Ancient Methane Seeps Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids-made homes in ... more | .. |
 SpaceX scrubs launch to ISS after engine problem Engineers aborted the launch of a privately built spacecraft on a landmark mission to the International Space Station at the last second Saturday due to a rocket engine problem. ... more | .. |
 Robotic Refueling Mission Results To Be Presented At NASA Satellite-Servicing Workshop NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Workshop, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, h ... more | .. |
  Three-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists To Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of mi ... more |
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  To the Highlands of Mars Landing on Mars is never easy, as a record of failed missions has demonstrated. The gravity is fairly strong, but the atmosphere is thin. This pulls spacecraft in rapidly as they approach, but offer ... more | .. |
 Celestial Tapestry Is Born Of Uncertain Parentage A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controversy over its "birth parents" the nebu ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Military Satellite Russia's Space Forces launched on Thursday a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a Cosmos-series military satellite, SF spokesman Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. The rocket was launched from the Plesetsk ... more | .. |
 Timely discovery: Physics research sheds new light on quantum dynamics Kansas State University physicists and an international team of collaborators have made a breakthrough that improves understanding of matter-light interactions. Their research allows double io ... more |
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  Hinode Mission to Capture Annular Solar Eclipse This Weekend On May 20-21, 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor along Earth's northern Hemisphere - beginning in eastern Asia, crossing the North Pacific Ocean, and en ... more | .. |
  Andre Kuipers: world ambassador Observing Earth from far above, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is acting as a world ambassador for the WWF, which issued its flagship publication the Living Planet Report. The Living Planet Report meas ... more | .. |
 Fuel for the black hole An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared. The ... more | .. |
  Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Spa ... more |
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UN rights chief alarmed by 'fundamental shift' in US direction
China says to impose fresh tariffs on US agricultural imports
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 Lockheed Martin Orbits 100th and 101st Commercial Geo Satellites The 100th and 101st Lockheed Martin commercial geostationary communication satellites have been successfully placed in orbit after a dual launch aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle. Both satellite ... more | .. |
  Loral-Built Nimiq 6 Satellite ly Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral reports that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed and built for Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to ... more | .. |
 Baby galaxies grew up quickly Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early hi ... more | .. |
 A deeper look at Centaurus A Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of C ... more |
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  Ariane 5's second launch of 2012 Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2, into their planned tra ... more | .. |
  ARL-led program enables new manufacturing processes for ballistic protection Researchers with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Weapons and Materials Research Directorate saw the product of their work toward a new generation of significantly improved materials for adva ... more | .. |
 XCOR Announces Lynx Suborbital Flight Winner XCOR Aerospace has announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made the announcement at the Spacecraft Tec ... more | .. |
 SpaceX scrubs launch to ISS over rocket engine problem SpaceX on Saturday scrubbed the highly anticipated launch of its Dragon capsule toward the Space Station due to a rocket engine problem. ... more |
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  NASA chooses rocket for Orion launches NASA says it will modify an existing and proven Delta IV rocket second stage to launch an Orion spacecraft on an unmanned test flight in 2017. ... more | .. |
 Japan in first commercial satellite launch Japan joined the commercial space race Friday after its workhorse rocket put a paid-for South Korean satellite into orbit, pitting the country against Russia and Europe in the competition for customers. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea denies jamming GPS of civilian aircraft North Korea on Friday denied it had jammed the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea, accusing the South of using problems with navigation equipment to smear the North. ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Launches Telesat's Nimiq 6 Satellite International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the Nimiq 6 satellite into the planned orbit t ... more |
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  Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robot Almost 15 years after being paralysed by a stroke, a 58-year-old US-American woman was once again able to serve herself a drink of coffee. This was possible thanks to a state-of-the-art DLR robot ar ... more | .. |
 China's space women wait for blast-off China will definitely launch a female air force pilot into space, onboard the ambitious Shenzhou 9 rendezvous and docking mission, likely to launch in mid-June, according to a senior space programme ... more | .. |
 Thousands of Young Adventurers Kept Safe with M2M Connectivity from Eseye More than 2,400 teenagers aged between 14 and 19 took part in Saturday's event, trekking 35, 45 or 55 miles over what the Ten Tors director Brigadier Piers Hankinson called the "forbidding Dartmoor ... more | .. |
  Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the ... more |
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