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China's Space Program AcceleratesSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 29, 2012 The success of the first crewed expedition to China's first space laboratory represents a major step forward for China's space program. China has made steady advances in spaceflight since its first astronaut was launched in 2003, but its space program has often been downplayed by international observers. It was easy to point out the gap of several decades between China's first astronaut launch and those of Russia and the USA. Gaps of years between successive human space missions further added to t ... read more |
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  ATK Signs Teaming Agreement for Liberty Transportation Service ATK (ATK) and Astrium North America have signed a teaming agreement with NanoRacks, LLC, for NanoRacks to market opportunities for both astronaut explorers and the experiments they plan to carry int ... more | .. |
  Exhumed rocks reveal Mars water ran deep By studying rocks blasted out of impact craters, ESA's Mars Express has found evidence that underground water persisted at depth for prolonged periods during the first billion years of the Red Plane ... more | .. |
  Reaching, Researching Between Stars From Earth, observers use telescopes to look and learn about the distant luminous spheres. But the telescope often isn't the only instrument used. Karl Gebhardt, professor of astrophysics at The Uni ... more | .. |
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  One Step Closer to Robotic Refueling Demonstrations on Space Station NASA completed another successful round of Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools, leaving the RRM module poised f ... more | .. |
 Getting a Feel for the Terrain It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would like to give robots that kind of visu ... more | .. |
 Experiments on SHEFEX II successful Following the flight of the SHEFEX II spacecraft on 22 June 2012, researchers at the German Aerospace Center have performed an initial assessment. "The flight of Shefex II followed the precomputed t ... more | .. |
  First Space-Bound Orion on Its Way to Kennedy A major milestone has been achieved for NASA's Orion program with the first Orion destined for space being shipped to the Kennedy Space Center. Construction on the spacecraft was finished at NASA's ... more |
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A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts
EU, India eye defence and security deal; France wants defense excluded from EU budget rules
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 Orbital's Antares Medium-Class Launch Vehicle On-Ramped to NASA's NLS-II Program Orbital Sciences has successfully completed contract negotiations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to "on-ramp" its Antares medium-class launch vehicle onto the NASA Lau ... more | .. |
 Three Chinese astronauts return to Earth Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after achieving China's most complex and longest operations in orbit, major steps forward in the country's effort to build a space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
 ATK Completes Software TIM for Liberty under NASA's Commercial Crew Program ATK (ATK) completed its Liberty software technical interface meeting (TIM), which was held to support further development of the Liberty space transportation system under the company's Space Act Agr ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman's Modular Space Vehicle Completes CDR Process Northrop Grumman has just finished conducting a two-day Spacecraft Baseline Interim Design Review, successfully completing the Spacecraft Bus Critical Design Review (CDR) process for the Modular Spa ... more |
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 Boeing Validates Performance of CST Vehicle's Attitude Control Engine Boeing recently demonstrated the dual-role propulsion features and performance of the Orbital Maneuvering Attitude Control (OMAC) engine on the service module for the company's Crew Space Transporta ... more | .. |
  Loral to Sell Space Systems/Loral to MDA Loral Space and Communications has announced its entry into a definitive agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates related to the sale of Loral's wholly-owned subsidiary, Space Systems/Lora ... more | .. |
  Youris: A Black Hole's Dinner A giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real ti ... more | .. |
 NASA Adds Orbital's Antares To Launch Services II Contract NASA has modified its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to add the Antares launch vehicle, formerly known as Taurus II, for future missions. ... more |
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Over 500,000 Afghans displaced due to climate disasters in 2024: IOM
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  Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still s ... more | .. |
 Haigh-Farr Supports SpaceX in First Docking of the Dragon Capsule to ISS Haigh-Farr congratulates Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) on its third successful launch of the Falcon 9 Rocket, the second flight of the Dragon spacecraft and the first docking of Dragon to ... more | .. |
 MSG-3 Now Installed In Ariane 5 The final payload integration phase has begun for Arianespace's heavy-lift mission on July 5, with Europe's MSG-3 meteorological satellite now installed on its workhorse Ariane 5 launcher at the Spa ... more | .. |
 Liberty second stage one step closer to production Astrium, the number one company in Europe for space technologies and systems, has successfully completed a set of tests on tank structures proving that key design and manufacturing processes used fo ... more |
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  Ex-NASA astronauts aim to launch asteroid tracker A private company made up of former NASA astronauts and US scientists said Thursday it is planning to build and launch its own space telescope to track dangerous asteroids and protect the Earth. ... more | .. |
  ISS Resupply Important to Kennedy's Past and Future Humans are by nature consumers, regardless of where they might live and work. Supply runs to the International Space Station began as soon as assembly got under way. The first supplies were delivere ... more | .. |
 US NRC Presents Long Term Priorities For US Nuclear Physics Program Nuclear physics is a discovery-driven enterprise aimed at understanding the fundamental nature of visible matter in the universe. For the past hundred years, new knowledge of the nuclear world has a ... more | .. |
 University of Florida astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical. Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at such a distance - with a gravity f ... more |
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  Rocketdyne Completes CCDev 2 Hot Fire Testing on Thruster for NASA Commercial Crew Program Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests on a service module thruster for Boeing's Commercial Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The CST-100 spacecraft, designed ... more | .. |
 Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more | .. |
 Thruster Tests Completed for Boeing's CST-100 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a series of tests on a thruster destined for Boeing's Commercial Space Transportation spacecraft, designated CST-100. Boeing is one of s ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. The car-size, one-ton ro ... more |
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 Andre wraps up six months of work on ISS ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is scheduled to leave the International Space Station and land on 1 July. Andre is finishing experiments and packing his bags ready for departure. One of the last experim ... more | .. |
 A Fleeting Flyby Of A Battered World Called Asteroid 21 Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid Lutetia was revealed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it raced past this large, ancient asteroid. This spectacular movie shows a sequence of images snapped ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies re ... more | .. |
 VLT Takes a Close Look at NGC 6357 ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and ... more |
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