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Internet entrepreneur hits paydirt in space, autosSan Francisco (AFP) May 22, 2012 It was a landmark day for Elon Musk. The onetime Internet entrepreneur's firm SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to launch its own spacecraft toward the International Space Station. To top it off, his Tesla Motors venture announced it would start delivery of its new "premium" electric sedan next month, ahead of schedule. The 40-year-old South African native has channeled a dot.com fortune into a series of ambitious ventures. Besides SpaceX and Tesla, Musk heads up SolarCity, a company ... read more |
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  SpaceX blasts off to space station in historic first Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
  Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International Space ... more | .. |
  June Theatrical Release For War Of The Worlds: The True Story Pendragon Pictures announces the US theatrical release of WAR OF THE WORLDS THE TRUE STORY in limited engagement showings in theaters beginning June 14 in Seattle at Landmark Theatres' Harvard Exit, ... more | .. |
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  Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other - such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Caroli ... more | .. |
 Iran to launch three satellites soon Iran is planning to launch three satellites in the near future, the Iranian embassy in Moscow said Wednesday. According to a statement posed on the embassy's website, the first launch of a sat ... more | .. |
  Beidou navigation system installed on more Chinese fishing boats China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System has grown in popularity among fishermen, with nearly 70,000 people using its short message service (SMS), said an official from the system's mana ... more | .. |
  Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty Visible in the constellation of Andromeda, NGC 891 is located approximately 30 million light-years away from Earth. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful wide field Advanced Camera ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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  Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier's Edge Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Encela ... more | .. |
  Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars 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, along with a third cluster, will ... more | .. |
  Glitch mars opening of world's tallest tower Strong winds forced the operators of the Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower, to shut down its lifts on its opening day Tuesday, leaving some visitors stranded on a 450-metre-high observation deck. ... more | .. |
 Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest. ... more |
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  Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history ESA's Venus Express has been used to study the geology in a region near Venus' equator. Using near-infrared observations collected by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC), scientists have found evidenc ... more | .. |
 Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in ... more | .. |
  Gilat's Spacenet Introduces Connect Series of Managed Network Services Gilat's wholly owned subsidiary Spacenet has introduced the Connect Series of network services. Spacenet's Connect Series is a tiered set of managed services that helps clarify and simplify network ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for NASA's Next Mission to Mars Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the Uni ... 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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  Proba-2 catches solar eclipse Europe missed Sunday's solar eclipse on the other side of the planet but ESA's space weather microsatellite Proba-2 passed repeatedly through the Moon's shadow. As a result, four partial eclip ... more | .. |
 China to see 14 solar eclipses this century People in eastern Chinese regions saw an annular eclipse of the sun Monday morning, the longest eclipse in terms of duration for the next 1,000 years, according to astronomers' predictions. Th ... more | .. |
  Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyb ... more | .. |
 SES-5 Satellite Delivered To Baikonur Launch Base SES has announced that the SES-5 satellite has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where it will now be processed for launch aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle provided by Internati ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  When Will Shenzhou 9 Be Launched 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 e ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 NASA Team to Test New Vehicle-Descent Technologies NASA technologists will get a chance next summer to relive the good old days when Agency engineers would affix space-age gizmos to rockets just to see if the contraptions worked. In what will ... 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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 The 2012 Transit of Venus On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again. Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by mor ... more |
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