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Chemcam Laser First Analyzes Yield Beautiful ResultsLos Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 24, 2012 Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-sized rock that was placed in the laser's crosshairs last weekend. Much to the delight of the scientific team, the laser instrument has fired nearly 500 shots so far that have produced strong, clear data about the composition of the Martian surface. "The spectrum we have received back from Curiosity is as g ... read more |
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  Europe's ATV-3 Space Freighter Raises ISS Orbit to 420 km Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft raised the International Space Station (ISS) orbit to about 420 kilometers, a mission control spokesman said on Wednesday. ATV-3 engines were fired ... more | .. |
 Russia's ISS Crew Members Complete Spacewalk Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko completed a six-hour spacewalk having carried out all planned maintenance tasks on the International Space Station (ISS). It was the fir ... more | .. |
  Landsat Data Continuity Mission Environmental Testing is Underway Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Observatory Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) testing is underway at Orbital Science Corporation's Gilbert, Ariz., location. ... more | .. |
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  Fourth Galileo satellite reaches French Guiana launch site The next two Galileo satellites are now in place at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, being prepared for their shared launch this autumn. The fourth Galileo satellite flight model arrived at Caye ... more | .. |
  It's Always Sunny in Caltech Lab In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television and radio feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they ... more | .. |
  Russia to Build New Space Plant A space satellite manufacturing plant will be built in the town of Shchyolkovo, just outside the Russian capital, Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday. "It will be a new prod ... more | .. |
  Sarah Brightman In Talks Over Space Trip British singer Sarah Brightman is in talks with the space tourism firm Space Adventures to become the world's eighth space tourist, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday. "I think that i ... more |
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EU, India eye defence and security deal; France wants defense excluded from EU budget rules
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  Astronomy project hunts for Chinese helpers The online astronomy project - Galaxy Zoo - is searching for Chinese people to help categorize galaxies in the universe. The Zoo, which has no animals but more than one million galaxies, was set up ... more | .. |
 Sierra Nevada Supports Communications Experiment on ISS Over a month ago, Japan's HTV3 cargo carrier launched atop a Japanese H-II rocket delivering an innovative software-defined radio experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). This new ISS fa ... more | .. |
  ReAgent Supports Space Balloon Project Josh hit the headlines in October last year when he launched his home-made space balloon into the atmosphere and posted the video on YouTube. The astonishing results became an overnight sensation ge ... more | .. |
 Expert Analysis of Energy Infrastructure Using HiRes Satellite Imagery Genscape and DigitalGlobe have announced the launch of their new jointly produced Energy Infrastructure Development Report. Published monthly, each report features high-resolution imagery of key ene ... more |
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 NASA's Mars rover makes first test drive NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Wednesday made its first test drive, leaving wheel tracks near its landing spot - now dubbed "Bradbury Landing" in honor of late science fiction author Ray Bradbury. ... more | .. |
 NASA selects DLR experiment for InSight mission to Mars After the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, NASA has selected one more lander mission to Mars. The InSight mission will reach Mars in September 2016, after a six-mon ... more | .. |
 First Words of Safe Landing on Mars - Tango Delta Nominal 10:32 p.m. on the evening of Aug. 5 was turning out to be one long minute for Steve Sell. Of course, the previous six had been significantly protracted as well. When added together, the entry, desce ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, that scientists have named for the late author Ray Bradbury. Making its first movement on the Martian surface, Curiosity's drive ... 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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  WiggleZ confirms the Big Picture of the Universe We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russia ... more | .. |
  China unveils ambitious space projects China will launch several space projects, including a hard X-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, according to a senior Chinese astronomer. Su Dingqiang, an academic at the C ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin to Build Spacecraft for Insight Mars Lander An exciting and novel mission to Mars has been selected as NASA's next Discovery mission. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission, led by ... more | .. |
 Student Commands Mars Rover Children are often mystified by remote control cars and how they can control them with a device while standing several feet away from them. This past week, Chris Tate was mystified by the same power ... more |
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 UI instruments aboard twin NASA spacecraft set for launch August 24 On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists im ... more | .. |
 New Mars mission to take first look at what's going on deep inside the Red Planet A UK Space Agency-funded instrument, designed to investigate the interior structure and processes of Mars, has been selected to travel to the Red Planet on NASA's newly announced InSight mission. Th ... more | .. |
  ASTRA 2F touches down in French Guiana for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 dual-passenger mission The second passenger for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission has arrived in French Guiana with today's delivery of the Astrium-built ASTRA 2F satellite, which will be operated by Luxembourg-base ... more | .. |
 Space station orbit successfully adjusted Europe's ATV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft has raised the International Space Station's orbit to about 261 miles, a mission control spokesman said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Singer Sarah Brightman could be next space tourist: report British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space tourist to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS), a senior official at the Russian space agency hinted Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Big Bang theory challenged by big chill The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. ... more | .. |
  Fabrication of JWST Moves Forward With Design Completion of Key Communications Structure The spacecraft that will carry NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to its orbit nearly a million miles from Earth has completed a Critical Design Review for the structure that supports Webb's data lin ... more | .. |
 Researchers gear up for NASA radiation belt space mission The University of Colorado Boulder will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth's two giant radiation belts known to be hazardous to satellites ... more |
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 AUI and NRAO Comment On NSF's Astronomy Portfolio Review Committee Associated Universities (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made a preliminary examination of the report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy Portfolio Rev ... more | .. |
 Satellite preparations move into full swing for the next Arianespace Soyuz mission from French Guiana Both Galileo navigation satellites for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from the Spaceport are now in French Guiana, marking a new milestone for this mission scheduled in the second half of 2012. ... more | .. |
  UCSB researchers demonstrate that 15=3x5 about half of the time Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and impossi ... more | .. |
 Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind New research led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Kareem Osman has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the ragi ... more |
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