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India to launch Mars mission: PMNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 15, 2012 India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year. The project would mark another step in the country's ambitious space programme, which placed a probe on the moon three years ago and envisages its first manned mission in 2016. "Our spaceship will go near Mars and collect important scientific information," Singh said in his annual Independence Day address, heral ... read more |
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 Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate. Operator ... more | .. |
  Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, ... more | .. |
  Heliophysics Nugget: Seeing Sprites High above the clouds during thunderstorms, some 50 miles above Earth a different kind of lightning dances. Bursts of red and blue light, known as "sprites," flash for a scant one thousandth of a se ... more | .. |
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  NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2013 and 2016. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payloads on previo ... more | .. |
  Contact established with wayward Russian satellite Contact had been established with one of two off-course telecom satellites but it would not be possible to direct it to the designated orbit, its manufacturer said Monday. Telemetric data show ... more | .. |
  NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more | .. |
  Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel - part of a system that helps the spacecraft point precisely - after onboard software powered it off on Aug. ... 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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  Gamma rays from galactic center could be evidence of dark matter Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating each other in space, according to ... more | .. |
 LHC experiments bring new insight Experiments using heavy ions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the k ... more | .. |
  Pre launch verifications are underway for next Soyuz mission Europe's Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) satellite is undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in preparation for launch along with its "sister" FM4 co-passenger on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from F ... more | .. |
  ISS crew to embark on two spacewalks in August Four International Space Station crew members will embark on two spacewalks to install new equipment and replace defective installations, the US space agency NASA said Tuesday. ... more |
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  US military to test hypersonic vehicle over Pacific The US military plans to launch a hypersonic unmanned vehicle in a test flight Tuesday over the Pacific, with the X-51A due to reach mind-boggling speeds of Mach 6, a spokesman said. ... more | .. |
 Evidence further suggests extra-terrestrial origin of quasicrystals Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. ... more | .. |
  Sparse microwave imaging: A new concept in microwave imaging technology Sparse microwave imaging is a novel concept in microwave imaging that is intended to deal with the problems of increasing microwave imaging system complexity caused by the requirements of the system ... more | .. |
  New NASA Mission Ready To Brave Earth Radiation Belts NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will send two spacecraft into the harsh environment of our planet's radiation belts. Final preparations have begun for launch on Thursday, Aug. 23, ... 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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 GSAT-10 "spreads its wings" in preparation for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite - which is one of two passengers for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission in September - has been put through its paces during pre-flight preparations ... more | .. |
 NASA's New Way to Track Formaldehyde NASA scientist Tom Hanisco is helping to fill a big gap in scientists' understanding of how much urban pollution - and more precisely formaldehyde - ultimately winds up in Earth's upper atmosphere w ... more | .. |
 NASA Finalizes Contracts for NOAA's JPSS-1 Mission NASA has completed negotiations and finalized the contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Satellite, NOAA's second next generation oper ... more | .. |
 Hubble's Close Encounter with the Tarantula Turning its eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken this close-up of the outskirts of the main cloud of the Nebula. The bright wispy structures are the signature o ... more |
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  Florida Spaceport Stakes Claim to Commercial Missions The three American companies building next-generation spacecraft that NASA could call on to carry astronauts into orbit in the future will perform much of their work along Florida's Space Coast, hom ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Space Biology Research Proposals NASA selected 15 experiments to be funded through its most recent research announcement for opportunities in space biology research. Ten of these experiments will be conducted aboard the Internation ... more | .. |
 Obama to NASA experts: 'Let me know if you find Martians' US President Barack Obama on Monday ribbed scientists behind NASA's roving robot Curiosity, instructing them to let him know right away if they found life on Mars. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon With Curiosity on the Surface Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon - August 02-07, 2012 - sols 3030-3035. Activity has been constrained for the period around the arrival of Curiosity. The proj ... more |
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 ChemCam sends digital 'thumbs up' Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late ... more | .. |
 UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the ... more | .. |
 NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The 130 low-resolution thumbnails, which wer ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. The rover's "brain transpl ... more |
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 New Way of Turning Station Offers Fuel Savings on Orbit The launch of the 48th Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space Station marked two technical firsts for station operations: it was the first same-day rendezvous and docking of a spacecra ... more | .. |
 Plenty of dark matter near the Sun Astronomers at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich, together with other international researchers, have found large amounts of invisible "dark matter" near the Sun. Their results are consist ... more | .. |
 Fuel Pipe to Blame for Proton Launch Failure Monday's failed satellite launch was caused by a fault in a fuel pipe, Kommersant daily reported on Thursday, citing a source in the government inquiry. The source said telemetry showed that p ... more | .. |
 Medvedev to Name and Shame Failed Satellite Launch Officials Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he will name officials responsible for Monday's failed satellite launch next week. "I would like to hold a meeting on this next week. It will ... more |
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