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ESA's Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environmentParis, France (ESA) Jul 11, 2012 Next year's Hollywood film Gravity features George Clooney stranded in orbit by cascading space junk. The threat is genuine, with debris levels rising steadily. ESA's new Clean Space initiative is developing methods of preserving near-Earth space - and the terrestrial environment, too. Responding to public environmental concerns, Clean Space aims to reduce the environmental effect of Europe's space activities, cutting waste and pollution on Earth and in orbit. Industry is contributing to ESA's dra ... read more |
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  The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's l ... more | .. |
  UK Space Agency publishes its Civil Space Strategy The 'Civil Space Strategy' setting out the direction for the UK space sector over the next four years was launched, Tuesday 10th July, at the Farnborough International Airshow. The Strategy sets out ... more | .. |
 SXC and Anton Kreil - "The First Trade in Space" Dutch Space Tourism company, Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) and world-renowned financial markets trader Anton Kreil are about to make a giant financial leap and go one step beyond. In an intervi ... more | .. |
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  ILS Proton Launches SES-5 For SES International Launch Services has successfully carried the SES-5 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton for SES of Luxembourg. This was the 21th SES satellite launched on ILS P ... more | .. |
 Satellite for SES Beginning Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that the SES-5 satellite, designed and built for SES was Monday and is now performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its solar arr ... more | .. |
 Eutelsat and Arianespace pursue their longstanding collaboration with the signature of a new launch contract Consolidating a relationship now entering into its 30th year, Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the conclusion of a new launch services contract for a future Eutelsat satellite. ... more | .. |
 Cassini Flies High to View Saturn's Rings Again It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like those it is now enjoying of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angl ... 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
Maxar Space Systems Ships First Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Spacecraft to L3Harris | .. |
  New eyes in the sky Until now, scientists who study air pollution using satellite imagery have been limited by weather. Clouds, in particular, provide much less information than a sunny day. University of Iowa scientis ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin-Built JCSAT-13 Satellite Begins Service for Sky Perfect JSAT of Japan The JCSAT-13 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for SKY Perfect JSAT of Japan, is now ready for service following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all ... more | .. |
 IGARSS 2012 - 'Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth' One of the most important conferences on geoscience and remote sensing will take place at the International Congress Centre in Munich from 22 to 27 July 2012. The International Geoscience and Remote ... more | .. |
 The Day Information Went Global Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed the world's first transatlantic telev ... more |
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  Phone app will navigate indoors A smartphone app using magnetic fluctuations to map indoor locations can guide users where global positioning systems can't penetrate, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Space for dessert? All chefs know that preparing the perfect chocolate mousse is one part science and one part art. ESA's microgravity research is helping the food industry understand the science behind the foams foun ... more | .. |
  New Horizons Doing Science in Its Sleep NASA's New Horizons, now almost 24 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, is back in hibernation, a slumbering state in which it will remain until January 2013. But hibernation aboard the spacec ... more | .. |
  Spaceflight may extend the lifespan of microscopic worm The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss ... 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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 Images in an Instant: Suomi NPP Begins Direct Broadcast Real-time data that will be used in everything from weather forecasts to disaster response is now being beamed down to Earth from a cone-shaped appendage aboard the nation's newest Earth-observing s ... more | .. |
  XCOR Aerospace And Midland Development Corp Announce New Commercial Spaceflight Research Center The Midland Development Corporation and XCOR Aerospace have jointly announced the establishment of XCOR's new Commercial Space Research and Development Center Headquarters that will be created over ... more | .. |
  Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believed to reside. The discovery, led by a U ... more | .. |
  Europe clears the air Satellite measurements show that nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere over parts of Europe and the US has fallen over the past decade. More than 15 years of atmospheric observations have reveale ... more |
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  Belching black hole proves a biggie Outbursts of super-hot gas observed with a CSIRO radio telescope have clinched the identity of the first known "middleweight" black hole, Science Express reports online. Called HLX-1 ("hyper-luminou ... more | .. |
 Space Systems/Loral-Built Broadband Satellite for Hughes Launched, Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the EchoStar XVII satellite, designed and built for Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar, was launched yesterday ... more | .. |
  The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust Imagine if the rings of Saturn suddenly disappeared. Astronomers have witnessed the equivalent around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652. Enormous amounts of dust known to circle the star ar ... more | .. |
 MSG-3 set to ensure quality of Europe's weather service from geostationary orbit The latest weather satellite in Europe's highly successful Meteosat second-generation series is on its way after lifting off on an Ariane 5 at 21:36 GMT (23:36 CEST) on Thursday, 5 July from Europe' ... more |
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  NASA Workshop Discusses How On-Orbit Robotic Satellite-Servicing Becomes Reality Envision a space with more options and increased capacity: a place where aging and ailing satellites could place a service call for a helpful boost to the right orbit, a quick repair, or a fuel top- ... more | .. |
 HI-C Sounding Rocket Mission Has Finest Mirrors Ever Made On July 11, NASA scientists will launch into space the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona, the million degree outer solar atmosphere. The instrument, called HI-C for ... more | .. |
 UKIRT discovers 'impossible' binary stars A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such ... more | .. |
  Two Cameras Offer View of JWST in Clean Room Members of the public can track the progress of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope inside a NASA clean room, where the recently delivered Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) will be integrated into ... more |
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 SMOS satellite measurements improve as ground radars switch off Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA's SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA's Aquarius mission, which measures ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: If it's the Higgs, now what? With the July 4th announcement of the possible - wait, make that probable - no, actually, make that the almost certain confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," physicists find themselves facing a fundamental question. ... more | .. |
 Physicists find chink in the Batsuit Batman would need a parachute to land safely in real life, say physicists who recommend a cape redesign if the masked superhero is to pursue his exploits outside the pages of comic books or celluloid. ... more | .. |
  Scientists say NASA's 'new form of life' was untrue Two new scientific papers have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic. ... more |
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