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SST US collaborates with Virgin Galactic to offer radically cheaper options for small satellitesEnglewood CO (SPX) Jul 12, 2012 Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Virgin Galactic optimizing Surrey's innovative satellites for Virgin's new launch vehicle, radically lowering the cost of building and launching small satellites. This MOU comes on the heels of Virgin Galactic's announcement of its new "LauncherOne" program, an unmanned rocket that will be air-launched by SpaceShipTwo's carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, and that will be capable of delivering as much as ... read more |
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  Private Foundations Fund New Astronomy Tool The W. M. Keck Observatory has been awarded two major grants to help build a $4 million laser system as the next leap forward in a technology which already enables ground-based telescopes to exceed ... more | .. |
  Planetary Resources Announces Agreement with Virgin Galactic for Payload Services Planetary Resources has announced an agreement with Virgin Galactic, LLC that will enable multiple launch opportunities for its series of spacecraft, including the Arkyd-100 low-Earth orbit (LEO) sp ... more | .. |
  Saturn's Rings are Back It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like these of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angle at which it orbit ... more | .. |
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  Russian Space Firm Suspected of $17 Million Fraud Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of 565 million rubles ($17 million) of state funds set aside for the country's satellite navigation system. The Inte ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Dragon Utilizes Cooper Interconnect Non-Explosive Actuators Cooper Interconnect has announced that Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) utilized Cooper Interconnect non-explosive actuators on the Dragon Spacecraft to support the mission to become the firs ... more | .. |
  A roll of the dice Many of the predictions we make in everyday life are vague, and we often get them wrong because we have incomplete information, such as when we predict the weather. But in quantum mechanics, even if ... more | .. |
  Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 m ... 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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  BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Mass Properties Measurements The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Composite Spacecraft have been measured. This is the first time that the spacecraft structural and thermal model has been fully integrated, producing t ... more | .. |
  NASA 3-D App Gives Public Ability to Experience Robotic Space Travel A NASA-created application that brings some of the agency's robotic spacecraft to life in 3-D now is available for free on the iPhone and iPad. Called Spacecraft 3D, the app uses animation to show h ... more | .. |
  Nose Landing Gear Tested for Dream Chaser Spacecraft NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed a successful test of the nose landing gear for its full-scale Dream Chaser engineering flight test vehicle. The completed test and an upcom ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic Reveals Privately Funded Satellite Launcher and Confirms SpaceShipTwo Poised for Powered Flight During the Farnborough International Air Show 2012, Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, announced "LauncherOne", a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small ... more |
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  SSTL signs contract with OHB for second batch of Galileo payloads Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) Director of Telecommunications and Navigation, Dr John Paffett, has signed a contract with Dr. Ingo Engeln, Member of the Executive Board of OHB System AG at t ... more | .. |
 Hubble telescope spots fifth moon near Pluto US astronomers have found a fifth moon orbiting far-away Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Branson to take kids on first space tourist trip British tycoon Richard Branson said Wednesday his children would join him on the first of his Virgin Galactic space flights, as he unveiled a new satellite launching service. ... more | .. |
  ESA's Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment 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 d ... 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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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