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Singer Sarah Brightman to be next space touristMoscow (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 British soprano and crossover singer Sarah Brightman announced in Moscow on Wednesday that she will blast off as a space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS). The singer, 52, known for her roles in West End musicals such as "The Phantom of the Opera", would be the first tourist to go into space after a hiatus in the space tourism programme since 2009. "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a news conference in Moscow. The schedule for her flight "will be ... read more |
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  Galileo satellites moved to pad for Friday launch The two Galileo satellites and their upper stage have been enclosed within their protective fairing, and moved to join the Soyuz rocket on the launch pad. The halves of the fairing were sealed ... more | .. |
  SES Contracts Boeing To Manufacture SES-9 Satellite For Asia SES S.A. and Boeing announced today that SES has selected Boeing to build a new communication satellite, SES-9, to serve the fast growing markets in Asia. The new satellite - ordered through S ... more | .. |
  Candels Team Discovers Dusty Galaxies At Ancient Epoch With Hubble Space Telescope Dust is an annoyance in everyday life, but an important building block of stars and planets. As such, astronomers need to understand how cosmic dust forms over time - it's an integral step in figuri ... more | .. |
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  Curiosity Update: Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrume ... more | .. |
  Assembled and poised for launch: Soyuz is ready with its two Galileo navigation satellites Arianespace's next medium-lift Soyuz is now fully assembled in the launch zone for its upcoming Spaceport mission, ready for the final steps leading to a Friday afternoon liftoff from French Guiana ... more | .. |
 Avanti's Hylas 2 Satellite Service Live Avanti Communications reports that its Ka-band satellite HYLAS 2 is now fully operational with all beams fully functioning and - for the first time - providing coverage to hundreds of millions of pe ... more | .. |
 Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like s ... more |
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Ukraine, US agree to terms of minerals, reconstruction deal
China says defence spending 'entirely necessary' after Putin backs mutual cuts
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  UK Contributes 24 Robotic Arms In Giant Leap Forward In Near-Infrared Astronomy A new high-tech instrument with 24 robotic arms has crossed the Atlantic from Edinburgh to a mountain top in Chile to address in more detail than ever before, some of the key questions surrounding t ... more | .. |
  ATK Awarded $50 Million Contract for NASA's Advanced Concept Booster Development for SLS ATK (ATK) has announced that NASA has awarded the company a $50 million contract to complete engineering development and risk reduction tests as part of the Advanced Concept Booster Development for ... more | .. |
  Southampton researchers explain how pulsars slow down with age Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetised rotating neutron ... more | .. |
 Interstellar Travelers of the Future May be Helped by MU Physicist's Calculations Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star system ... more |
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  Boeing High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator Advances to High-power Testing Under a follow-on contractual effort from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), Boeing will continue developing a truck-mounted directed energy system that improves warfighters' ab ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Completes SBIRS HEO-3 Payload Integration and Ambient Functional Test Northrop Grumman has successfully completed payload integration and the ambient functional test of the U.S. Air Force's Space Based Infrared System's (SBIRS) third highly elliptical orbit (HEO-3) pa ... more | .. |
  Two Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Fly in Close Formation, Move AHR Program Closer to Autonomous Aerial Refueling Northrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center have successfully completed a series of flight demonstrations, moving DARPA's Autonomou ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin-Led Team to Begin Work on $4.6 Billion Defense Information Systems Agency Contract Lockheed Martin will begin managing the transformation of the Department of Defense's global data network, known as the Global Information Grid. The determination on this Defense Information S ... more |
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'All eyes on Arctic': Canada boosts its northern force
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  Russian space science: microsatellites, distant planets, space plasma and cosmic ray studies The Russian Space Agency's head, Vladimir Popovkin, has announced Russia's plans for space in the coming decade. Among the priorities, to be implemented before 2020, is sending a spacecraft to the M ... more | .. |
  North Korea says missiles can strike continental US North Korea said Tuesday it possessed rockets capable of striking the US mainland, as it slammed a new US-South Korean deal to extend the range of the South's missile systems as a provocation for war. ... more | .. |
 S.Africa eyes $2.5 bln for super telescope South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday gave his political backing to negotiations with foreign partners to help fund the construction of the world's next generation radio telescope. ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester have been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the feasibility of using dead stars to n ... more |
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 Expansion of space measurement improved A team of astronomers, led by Wendy Freedman, director of the Carnegie Observatories, have used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to make the most accurate and precise measurement yet of the Hubble con ... more | .. |
  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Particle control in a quantum world Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways th ... more | .. |
  Getting NASA's SDO into Focus From Sept. 6 to Sept. 29, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) moved into its semi-annual eclipse season, a time when Earth blocks the telescope's view of the sun for a period of time each d ... more | .. |
 The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in this combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NAS ... more |
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 Sun Spits Out A Coronal Mass Ejection At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME). Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiation, CMEs are a phenomenon that c ... more | .. |
  Sea and space meet for business in Ireland A new ESA project led by Irish industry is putting satellite data to use for monitoring the quality of coastal water. The Irish minister for Research and Innovation is supporting this initiative, in ... more | .. |
 Terrain System Will Help Tactical Low-Level Flight For Transport Planes An innovative Terrain Following and Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA) system under development at Elbit Systems, in cooperation with Northrop Grumman, will enable pilots to fly and maneuver more safely in T ... more | .. |
 Electromagnetic Interference/Capability testing and structural dynamics testing completed for LDCM Orbital Sciences Corporation recently completed Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. ... more |
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  ISS Set to Launch Microsatellites Five international microsatellites CubeSat are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) following a week-long delay of technical errors, a spokesman for the Ru ... more | .. |
 Giant black holes lurking in survey data Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. ... more | .. |
 Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration An elevator to transport people to the moon, an inflatable habitat for living in space, a sleek new spacesuit for a stroll on Mars: These are some of the fascinating exhibits in Beyond Planet Earth: ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be cosmic 'GPS' Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation, replacing earth-based systems with a cosmic "global positioning system," British researchers say. ... more |
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