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Did a "forgotten" meteor have a deadly, icy double-punch?Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 26, 2012 When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago and fell into the southern Pacific Ocean it not only could have generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into the Ice Ages, a new study suggests. A team of Australian researchers says that because the Eltanin meteor - which was up to two kilometres across - crashed into deep water, most scientists have not adequately considered either its potential for immediate catastrophic impacts on coastlines around the P ... read more |
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  A windshield wiper for Mars dust A team of researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) has developed a device that works as a windshield wiper to eliminate Mars dust from the sensors on the NASA spacecrafts that travel t ... more | .. |
  China has no timetable for manned moon landing A senior scientist working on China's lunar orbiter project said Wednesday that China has not yet created a timetable for its manned moon landing program. "Putting a man on the moon involves a ... more | .. |
  Astrium - double prime contractor for Astra 2F satellite launch Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, is prime contractor for both the Ariane 5 launcher and the Astra 2F satellite scheduled for launch from the European Space Centre in Kourou, Frenc ... more | .. |
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  Ultra-distant galaxy spied amidst cosmic 'Dark Ages' With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Daniel Kelson, have spotted what could be ... more | .. |
  UK's Cubesat books a ride on Russian rocket UKube-1 - the UK's first cubesat mission - has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2 ... more | .. |
 Loral and MDA Receive Approval for SS/L Sale From the Committee on Foreign Investment in US Loral Space and Communications has announced that Loral and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) were notified recently by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) ... more | .. |
  Scientists Shed Light on Riddle of Sun's Explosive Events Four decades of active research and debate by the solar physics community have failed to bring consensus on what drives the sun's powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can have profound "space ... more |
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  First Two Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors Delivered to NASA Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Sep 26, 2012 The first two of the 18 primary mirrors to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The mi ... more | .. |
 Vietnam launches construction of national satellite center A groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the Vietnam Satellite Center was held at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Wednesday. The center, scheduled to be completed by ... more | .. |
 Senior scientist discusses China's lunar orbiter challenges Landing and enduring extreme temperatures will be the two biggest challenges facing Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe, the chief scientist of China's lunar orbiter project told academics on Wedne ... more | .. |
  Radar altimetry gains altitude in Venice Scientists have gathered in the 'floating city' this week to talk about radar altimetry - measuring the heights of the global sea surface, freshwater bodies, land and ice using spaceborne sensors. ... more |
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 NASA sees 'gateway' for space missions NASA has proposed a candidate for its next major mission, a "gateway" spacecraft on the far side of the moon as a staging base for moon and Mars missions. ... more | .. |
 Why Curiosity Matters Adam Steltzner doesn't sound much like an ordinary engineer. For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity-and explain why the Mars rover matters to ordinary people--the for ... more | .. |
  China Spacesat gets 18-million-USD gov't support China Spacesat Co., Ltd., the nation's key developer of small satellites, said on Saturday that it will obtain 116 million yuan (18.3 million U.S. dollars) in government financial support. Fou ... more | .. |
 Robotic Arm Tools Get to Work Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positione ... more |
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 NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway f ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman to Improve Performance of MEMS Inertial Sensors for DARPA Northrop Grumman has been awarded a subcontract from the University of California, Irvine to help address the long-term calibration of inertial sensors. Inertial sensors, which measure rotatio ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Propulsion Core for the First GPS III Satellite The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has delivered the first spacecraft's propulsion core module to the company's Denver- ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Achieves Key Software Milestone for Iridium NEXT Communications Satellite A "switchboard in the sky" for the Iridium NEXT constellation of global communication satellites is one step closer to becoming reality as Lockheed Martin completed a major software design milestone ... more |
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  Russia's First Private Satellite to Be Launched in 2013 Russia's first satellite manufactured and operated by a private firm will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK daily. The DX1-class 50-kg satellite will be de ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The est ... more | .. |
  A Clock that Will Last Forever Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the "wow" factor behind a device known as a "space-time crystal," a four-dimensional crystal t ... more | .. |
  Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University ... more |
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 Life in the extreme Life in extreme environments - hot acids and heavy metals, for example - can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Caro ... more | .. |
  Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer - a few hundred million years at least. ... more | .. |
 Drink, flirt, stumble home: there's a beer fest app for that Whether you want to know how long until you're sober, flirt with like-minded single revellers or where to stumble home after a few, help is only a click away at this year's Munich Oktoberfest. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity's Stars and Stripes This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 44th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Sept. ... more |
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  NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Development Proposals NASA has selected 26 proposals from academia and industry for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Proposals selected under this NA ... more | .. |
  California Governor Signs the Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act, AB 2243. This law provides the necessary liability protections for compliant companies in the st ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an Ancient Celestial City Undergoing Rapid Growth Using the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Masao Hayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan or NAOJ) ... more | .. |
 Processing is underway with the next Automated Transfer Vehicle to be orbited by Arianespace Initial checkout has begun at the Spaceport for Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which is to be launched from French Guiana by Arianespace on a servicing mission to the Internationa ... more |
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