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![]() Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 06, 2012 On Thursday, July 5, Arianespace successfully launched two satellites: the dedicated Internet satellite EchoStar XVII for the American operator Hughes Network Systems, and the MSG-3 weather satellite for Eumetsat, the European Meteorological Satellite organization. The successful Ariane 5 launch once again proves the launcher's operational capabilities. Ariane 5 handles a complete range of missions, from commercial launches into geostationary orbit to launches into special orbits. This was the 63r ... read more |
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![]() Opportunity Uses Robotic Arm Tools on Rock Opportunity continues to explore the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, specifically the transition layer between Cape York and Meridiani Planum. Mars Odyssey has returned ... more | .. |
![]() Planet-Forming Disk Turns Off Lights, Locks Doors That surprise you feel when your favorite store turns off its lights, locks up its doors, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, goes out of business? That's just how astronomers felt recently when a ... more | .. |
![]() Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like "Men in Black 3" or ... more | .. | ||
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![]() New Instrument Sifts Through Starlight to Reveal New Worlds An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of high ... more | .. |
![]() Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be found, a new study suggests. That's with ... more | .. |
![]() Study in Nature sheds new light on planet formation A study published in the July 5 edition of the journal Nature is challenging scientists' understanding of planet formation, suggesting that planets might form much faster than previously thought or, ... more | .. |
![]() Another M-class Flare from Sunspot 1515 Active Region 1515 has now spit out 12 M-class flares since July 3. Early in the morning of July 5, 2012 there was an M6.1 flare. It peaked at 7:44 AM EDT. This caused a moderate - classified as R2 ... more |
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![]() Recognizing Telstar and the Birth of Global Communications Telstar, the satellite that made the world's first transmissions of live television possible in 1962, will be the subject of a program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum July 12. The ... more | .. |
![]() Butterfly ejecta and wrinkle ridges in Melas Dorsa On 17 April 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired im ... more | .. |
![]() Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terr ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Receives DARPA ALASA Contract Award Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to receive a Phase I Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program study contract valued at about $6. ... more |
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![]() Rising plasma offers clues to sun storms Doppler measurements that help track storms on Earth may also be useful for understanding storms on the sun. A Rice University astrophysicist is part of an international team that combined Doppler t ... more | .. |
![]() ATK Unveils Unique Liberty Capability ATK is pleased to announce an expanded crew and cargo capability. The extended cargo configuration will allow the Liberty spacecraft to take full advantage of the launch vehicle lift capacity to tra ... more | .. |
![]() Running on empty When you consider the cost of launching a satellite, it's small wonder that ESA is looking to keep them working as long as possible. For satellites offering communications services that are bought a ... more | .. |
![]() ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti set for ISS in 2014 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014 for a long-duration mission aboard the International Space ... more |
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![]() A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn Summer is a good time to relax, sleep late, enjoy a break from school or work. Waking before sunrise is just not done. This summer is a little different. To find out why, set your alarm for dawn. Ev ... more | .. |
![]() Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. Although ... more | .. |
![]() ESA-China collaboration takes Earth observation to new heights ESA and China have been cooperating through the Dragon Programme since 2004 to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the past years, the programme is taking on ... more | .. |
![]() CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson At a seminar held at CERN1 as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in th ... more |
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![]() Higgs hunters declare victory - as significant as DNA discovery Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics (IOP), has asserted that the discovery of the Higgs is as significant to physics as the discovery of DNA was to biology. He sa ... more | .. |
![]() A new particle has been discovered - chances are, it is the Higgs boson The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal. This was reported by LHC particle accelerator s ... 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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