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June 20, 2012
DRAGON SPACE
Backup Plans for Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 20, 2012
So far, so good. The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has been highly successful, with three astronauts travelling to the module and beginning work. In just a few days, a lot has been achieved. China has achieved another flawless flight for the Long March 2F rocket, which now sports even more improvements than its predecessors. The production- model Shenzhou spacecraft, which made an uncrewed test flight on the Shenzhou 8 mission, has supported its first crew. We have ... read more

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SOLAR SCIENCE

UK Space Agency makes stellar investment in mission to the Sun
The UK Space Agency has announced a planned 11.5M pound investment for the scientific payloads for Solar Orbiter - the first medium (M-class) mission in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cosmic Visi ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Why Won't the Supernova Explode?
Somewhere in the Milky Way, a massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, the star begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. Crushing pressure trigg ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed
The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more
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GPS NEWS

Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch
The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch. The fourth satellite completed 20 da ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

A milestone in launcher preparations for Arianespace's fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2012
Initial assembly of the fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in preparations for a mission to loft a dual-p ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

First astronauts enter orbiting China space module
Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network and a key step towards the nation's first space station. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Boeing Completes Fifth GPS IIF Satellite for USAF
Boeing has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft was built at the Satellite Development Center in El ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Pentagon orders Russian cyber offensive 'stand down'
European leaders back Zelensky in London summit after heated Trump meeting
German govt hopefuls planning billions for defence spending: report
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PHYSICS NEWS

New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity
NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X
Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Black Holes as Particle Detectors
Finding new particles usually requires high energies - that is why huge accelerators have been built, which can accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But there are other creative ways o ... more
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STATION NEWS

Did You Say 1.2 Billion Particles Per Month?
If you want to understand the origin of the universe, you need a lot of power. That's exactly why the International Space Station is the perfect research platform for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ... more
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MARSDAILY

ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert
ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Neutrons escaping to a parallel world?
In a paper recently published in EPJ C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror mat ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot 'finger' more sensitive than human's
Researchers in California say a robot equipped with a sensor to mimic the human fingertip has a touch more sensitive than a human's. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin ATC Delivers Flight Hardware For Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
Engineers and scientists at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have completed delivery of key hardware subsystems for NASA's Magnetosphereic Multiscale mission (MMS). ... more
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Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
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TECH SPACE

Boeing Completes CDR of MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite System
Boeing and its supplier partners have completed the Critical Design Review of the MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite Communications System with their customer, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Embedded Educators: Teacher Research Experience in Greenland with Operation IceBridge
In mid-April, scientists working in a remote corner of Greenland on NASA's Operation IceBridge gave five teachers a taste of what airborne polar science is like and in the process provided the educa ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody
Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Gilat's Wavestream Amplifiers Selected by Harris CapRock for Cruise Ship VSAT Antenna Systems
Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Harris CapRock Communications, a premier global provider of managed solutions for remote and harsh environments, to supply Ku-band solid state power amp ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

ESO To Build World's Biggest Eye On The Sky
ESO is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At its meeting in Garching the ESO Council approved the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Programme, pending confirmatio ... more
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TECH SPACE

Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device
An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields i ... more
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TECH SPACE

All the colors of a high-energy rainbow, in a tightly focused beam
For the first time, researchers have produced a coherent, laser-like, directed beam of light that simultaneously streams ultraviolet light, X-rays, and all wavelengths in between. One of the few lig ... more
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TECH SPACE

Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft
The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom ... more
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VSAT NEWS

New Intelsat EpicNG Platform Suited to High-bandwidth Government Requirements
The new Intelsat EpicNG platform announced this week will provide our government and commercial customers a foundation for a range of high-powered mobile solutions, including airborne, manned and un ... more
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TECH SPACE

US regains top spot for fastest supercomputer
An IBM supercomputer developed for US government nuclear simulations and to study climate change and the human genome has been recognized as the world's fastest. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China astronauts enter space module for first time
Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

West must cut appetite for cars and TVs, says UN official
Rich countries will have to stop the consumer high life as part of any deal to heal the world's social and environmental stresses, a top UN official said ahead of a key development summit this week. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russians design blockbuster video games in Siberia woods
In a decrepit building in the wild woodlands of Siberia, young designers work on an online video game that will soon hit the global market. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Grand Finish For X-37B
After a marathon 15-month mission in orbit, the second X-37B spaceplane has finally landed. Launched by the US Air Force on a semi-secret mission, the mission has apparently flown a successful missi ... more
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UAV NEWS

U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete X-47B Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Move Second Unmanned Aircraft to East Coast
The first major phase of flight testing the X-47 B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft came to a successful conclusion on May 15 when Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy wrapped u ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Russia resorts to small satellites
These satellites can effectively solve tasks set before them in space, but it will be a lot cheaper to put them into orbit using light rockets. The geo-centric satellites need powerful data re ... more
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