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NASA's Space Launch System Passes Major Agency Review, Moves to Preliminary DesignHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 27, 2012 The rocket that will launch humans farther into space than ever before passed a major NASA review Wednesday. The Space Launch System (SLS) Program completed a combined System Requirements Review and System Definition Review, which set requirements of the overall launch vehicle system. SLS now moves ahead to its preliminary design phase. The SLS will launch NASA's Orion spacecraft and other payloads, and provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. These NA ... read more |
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 A Summer of Records for Engine Testing As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also setting records while testing the J-2X powerpack at the Stennis Space Center. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Picks up the Pace With Several Drives This Week Opportunity is roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Progress was again impacted by a second safe mode entry by the Mars Odyssey orbiter. With normal Ultra-High ... more | .. |
 Taking the Heat Lockheed Martin Aeroshell Will Protect Mars Science Lab Descent After a journey of 245 days across 352 million miles, the moment of truth for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) begins late in the evening of August 5 when the spacecraft roars into the Martian atmo ... more | .. |
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  RIT Leads Development of Next-generation Infrared Detectors Cheaper, larger and better infrared detectors grown on silicon wafers could give more scientists access to infrared astronomy and further spur the hunt for exoplanets and the study of the universe's ... more | .. |
  exactView-1 satellite operational in orbit Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite, which w ... more | .. |
  The Intelsat 20 integrated on to Ariane 5 for upcoming flight The Intelsat 20 communications satellite has joined its HYLAS 2 co-passenger on Ariane 5, marking a new milestone in preparations for Arianespace's heavy-lift mission next week from the Spaceport in ... more | .. |
 Arianespace's Ariane 5 receives its HYLAS 2 payload Final payload integration has begun for Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission set for August 2 from the Spaceport in French Guiana, with its HYLAS 2 satellite passenger now integrated onto the ... more |
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  Boeing Ships 3rd GPS IIF Satellite to Cape Canaveral for Launch Boeing on July 9 shipped the third of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites for the U.S. Air Force from the company's Satellite Development Center in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air For ... more | .. |
  China launches 3rd satellite in its global data relay network China successfully launched the Tianlian I-03 satellite on Wednesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, completing the country's first data relay satellite network system. ... more | .. |
  Two Solar System Puzzles Solved Comets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed ... more | .. |
 Mars Orbiter Repositioned to Phone Home Mars Landing NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity rover. NASA's Mar ... more |
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 Mission accomplished, GIOVE-B heads into deserved retirement ESA's GIOVE-B experimental navigation satellite is gradually raising its orbit as it prepares for well-earned retirement at the end of its four-year mission paving the way for Europe's Galileo const ... more | .. |
 ESA's Mars Express supports dramatic landing on Mars On 6 August, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will make a spectacular landing to deliver the Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. ESA's Mars Express will track the mission's progress, recording crucial ... more | .. |
  Pay-TV giant BSkyB posts rising annual profits British pay-TV giant BSkyB on Thursday posted rising annual net profits on solid demand for its television, Internet and telephone services despite a poor economic climate. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 U.S. Bank Helps Fuel Future Space Flight as Bank behind SpaceX 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 sp ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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