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U.S. Bank Helps Fuel Future Space Flight as Bank behind SpaceXHawthorne CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 Bankers joined scientists on the edge of their seats in May as the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon was the first privately-owned spacecraft in history to deliver supplies to the Space Station astronauts. U.S. Bank was the first lender and bank partner of Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). With a senior credit facility that supports their day-to-day business, U.S. Bank will continue to support SpaceX as t ... read more |
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  Looking Forward to Shenzhou 10 Even as Shenzhou 9 undocked from Tiangong 1, and before it returned to Earth, the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre was starting preparations for the Shenzhou 10 mission. Within a few hours of depart ... more | .. |
  NASA Tests Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA's Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph. The Inf ... more | .. |
  GPS Can Now Measure Ice Melt, Change In Greenland Over Months Rather Than Years Researchers have found a way to use GPS to measure short-term changes in the rate of ice loss on Greenland - and reveal a surprising link between the ice and the atmosphere above it. The study, publ ... more | .. |
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 Initial build-up is underway for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 launch in 2012 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fifth heavy-lift mission of this year is beginning to take shape at the Spaceport as initial build-up procedures involving the workhorse vehicle are performed in Frenc ... more | .. |
  IGARSS begins in Munich World-class scientists, engineers and educators have gathered in Munich, Germany, this week to discuss the latest developments in remote sensing and exchange ideas with other members of the internat ... more | .. |
  White Stork Delivers New Research and Technology Investigations to ISS A "white stork" is soon to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. But it's not the typical stork you associate with baby deliveries. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kounotori3 ... more | .. |
 Digitalglobe And Geoeye Combine To Create A Global Leader DigitalGlobe, Inc. and GeoEye, Inc. have announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine in a ... 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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 United Technologies to sell Rocketdyne unit to GenCorp United Technologies has reached agreement to sell its Rocketdyne unit, currently part of Pratt and Whitney, to GenCorp Inc. for $550 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first half o ... more | .. |
 Another Progress Freighter Re-Docking Attempt Set for July 29 Another attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M space freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) will be made on Sunday, July 29, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center sai ... more | .. |
  Bolivian satellite operators to be trained in China Bolivian space scientists are going to be trained in China in preparation for operating a Chinese-built satellite to be delivered late next year, the head of the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) said Mon ... more | .. |
  A pulsar with a tremendous hiccup A gamma-ray pulsar is a compact neutron star that accelerates charged particles to relativistic speeds in its extremely strong magnetic field. This process produces gamma radiation (violet) far abov ... more |
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  XCOR Releases Payload Users Guide for Lynx Suborbital Vehicle XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx suborbital vehicle's Payload User's Guide (PUG) is now available online from XCOR's website. XCOR Program Manager Khaki Rodway noted that "publication of t ... more | .. |
 Headwall's Hyperspectral Sensors Set to Lift Off with NT Space Headwall Photonics has completed the design, manufacture, and test of the space-qualified hyperspectral sensor payload for NT Space, a leading technology supplier and integrator of satellites and sp ... more | .. |
  Mystery of missing Mars signals solved A spacecraft sending data from Mars to Earth had its signal repeatedly interrupted in 2005 and scientists say they've learned the culprit - the sun. ... more | .. |
 Argentina, China ink space cooperation deal China plans to build an antenna for deep space observation in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, Argentina's foreign ministry announced Wednesday. ... 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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 Dark energy and fate of the Universe Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are possible depending on the properties of ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Marks Landsat 40th Anniversary An unprecedented enterprise began 40 years ago when the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) - later renamed Landsat - was launched. Five more Landsat spacecraft would reach orbit during the ... more | .. |
 GMV Awarded Contract for MEASAT-3b Communications Satellite Control Center GMV USA has been selected for a contract with MEASAT Global Berhad ("MEASAT") to provide the satellite ground control and payload ground control systems for the MEASAT-3b satellite. The projec ... more | .. |
 HYLAS 2 and Intelsat 20 are prepared for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission Both satellite passengers for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission are being readied for the August 2 mission from French Guiana, undergoing key steps of their final preparations in th ... more |
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 XENON100 sets record limits for dark matter Scientists from the XENON collaboration announced a new result from their search for dark matter. The analysis of data taken with the XENON100 detector during 13 months of operation at the Gran Sass ... more | .. |
  NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun's Corona A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of the images c ... more | .. |
  Hubble Has an Audience of Stellar Flashbulbs The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audience's cameras. Yet the many stars of ... more | .. |
 A Taste of Solar Maximum Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auro ... more |
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 Aurora Australis over Concordia station 18 July A stunning image showing Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 July 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored ... more | .. |
  How to build a middleweight black hole A new model shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their supermassive counterparts. In research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ... more | .. |
 Degradation Free Spectrometers Sounding Rocket The July 24, 2012 Degradation Free Spectrometers (DFS) sounding rocket mission's ultimate objective is to significantly advance the state of the art in short wavelength observing solar spectrometers ... more | .. |
  New Clues To The Early Solar System From Ancient Meteorites In order to understand Earth's earliest history - its formation from solar system material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust - scientists look to meteorites. Ne ... more |
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 Slow-Going at Cape York for Opportunity Opportunity is roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. However, her progress has been impacted by the recent safe mode entry by the relay orbiter, Mars Odyssey. On Sol 3 ... more | .. |
 Russian cargo ship fails to dock at ISS during tests The Russian cargo ship Progress has failed to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS) during tests designed to facilitate future link-ups, the US and Russian space agencies said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Sally Ride, first US woman in space dead at 61 Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was 61. ... more | .. |
 Russian cargo ship fails to dock at ISS: NASA The Russian cargo ship Progress has failed to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS) during tests designed to facilitate future linkups, the US and Russian space agencies said Tuesday. ... more |
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