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Explained: Near-miss asteroidsBoston MA (SPX) Jul 04, 2012 On May 29, an asteroid the size of a bus came whizzing past Earth at 10 times the speed of a fired bullet. The near-miss asteroid, named 2012 KT42 - or "KT42" for short - streaked across the orbits of weather and television satellites, 22,000 miles above Earth's surface, making it the sixth-closest asteroid approach on record. While the object had little chance of colliding with Earth, its approach gave scientists an opportunity to run a rapid-response program - or as MIT's Richard Binzel calls it ... read more |
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  ESA extends its navigation lab in readiness for Galileo testing With the next Galileo launch approaching, ESA has extended its Radio Navigation Laboratory to meet the testing needs of Europe's own satellite navigation system. Located at ESA's ESTEC technical cen ... more | .. |
  Russia to Expand Commercial Space Services Russia will develop a special program to expand commercial space services and push the United States and EU out of that market, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. Russia need ... more | .. |
  Bottleneck off the Orkney Islands A mere 10 kilometres separate John O'Groats, at the northernmost tip of the Scottish mainland, and South Ronaldsay, in the Orkney Islands. What passengers on the ferries directly experience can also ... more | .. |
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  Orion's First Test Flight Offers SLS a First Look at Hardware Operation, Integration When NASA conducts its first test launch of the Orion spacecraft in 2014, the crew module's designers will record invaluable data about its performance - from launch and flight, to re-entry and land ... more | .. |
  Avanti Announces Launch Date for HYLAS 2 Satellite Avanti Communications Group has announced that HYLAS 2, its second satellite, will launch at approximately 9.50pm UK-time on 2 August 2012 upon an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. HYLAS 2, which has a ... more | .. |
  Gaia checks out of antenna testing Entombed by the distinctive foam pyramids typical of test chambers, the main antenna of the Gaia billion-star surveyor has been put through its paces ahead of launch next year. The antenna will send ... more | .. |
  Hi-C to Investigate Activity in Solar Atmosphere NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is leading an international effort to develop and launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on a sounding rocket from the White Sand ... 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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  ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers returns to Earth ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, together with his Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 08:14 GMT (10:14 CEST) in Soyuz TM ... more | .. |
 Mission accomplished for Galileo's pathfinder GIOVE-A With the initial satellites of the Galileo constellation working well in orbit, it has been decided to end the mission of ESA's pioneering GIOVE-A navigation satellite. Launched on 28 December 2005, ... more | .. |
  The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is part of the Orion complex, a turbulent star ... more | .. |
 X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star An international team of scientists has used the world's most powerful X-ray observatories - including ESA's XMM-Newton orbiter - to probe the dusty surroundings of a newborn star and discover some ... more |
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 In McNeil's Nebula, a Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse of the powerful ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees a Vapor of Stars Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous cl ... more | .. |
  Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe. The observatory, launched June 13, is the first space telescope ... more | .. |
 Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Magnetic Fields on the Sun On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe are ... more |
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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 70 in a week: officials
Over 500,000 Afghans displaced due to climate disasters in 2024: IOM
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 The Road to Space The road to space is a long and arduous path, a meandering trip that in many ways is more demanding than the Space Station mission itself. Training to fly into space is also the next best thing to a ... more | .. |
  Fireworks Over Mars: The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the country, America will carry its penchant for awe-inspiring aerial pyrotechnic displays to the skies o ... more | .. |
 NASA Unveils Orion During Ceremony The Orion capsule that will make the first flight test into space was celebrated Monday morning as the cornerstone of a new era of exploration for America's space program. The spacecraft's aluminum- ... more | .. |
 First Annual ISS Research and Development Conference in Review Roughly 400 scientists, engineers, students, industry leaders and business representatives gathered last week to participate in the 1st Annual International Space Station Research and Development Co ... more |
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 Prediction system to protect astronauts from solar storms With the impending solar maximum expected to bring heightened rates of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), putting at risk an ever-increasing human presence in space, Oh et al. designed and as ... more | .. |
  Making the shortest light bursts leads to better understanding of nature An attosecond is a ridiculously brief sliver of time - a scant billionth of a billionth of a second. This may seem too short to have any practical applications, but at the atomic level, where electr ... more | .. |
  Boeing to Begin Joint Manufacturing Research in Japan Boeing and its three major Japanese airframe partners - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries - have announced that they have signed a memorandum of unders ... more | .. |
  Looking at Density Differently in Microgravity We learn in elementary school about the three phases of matter - solids, liquids, gases - and how they behave. These forms of matter, particularly liquids and gases, have a tendency to act different ... more |
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 Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal" - an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unkno ... more | .. |
 New Taiwanese centre to probe origins of universe Taiwan opened a space research control centre Tuesday, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. ... more | .. |
 Tevatron offers Higgs boson data Scientists say data from the U.S. Energy Department's Tevatron collider offer the strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. ... more | .. |
 'Leap second' wreaks Internet havoc An adjustment of a mere second in the official global clock sent dozens of websites crashing in an incident reminiscent of the Y2K bug over a decade ago. ... more |
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 The B612 Foundation Announces The First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission - SEN ... more | .. |
  Titan's tides point to hidden ocean Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more | .. |
 Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell An international team of astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, a ... more | .. |
 Astrium contracts DLR for major parts of the EDRS ground network Astrium continues to drive the implementation of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). As prime contractor, Astrium Services has now contracted the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to implement and op ... more |
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