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![]() London, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 SSTL has commenced building a small satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan that will provide medium resolution multi-spectral earth observation capability to complement the high resolution satellite that is being provided by EADS Astrium as part of the contract awarded to the company in October 2009. The Republic of Kazakhstan is utilising the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite technologies from EADS Astrium and its subsidiary SSTL to create a national system which will support its governme ... read more |
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Russia Scoffs At NASA Plans To Send Astronauts To Asteroid And Mars By 2015![]() U.S. NASA does not have capacities to build an asteroid mission spacecraft by 2015, the head of Roscosmos' manned flights department, Alexei Krasnov, said in the wake of NASA's announcement to create the spacecraft for deep space missions. On July 15, NASA unveiled its plans to send astronauts to an asteroid and to Mars no later than 2015. Earlier in April, U.S. President Barack Obam ... more Brain cells 'trained' to tell time ![]() The brain's ability to tell time is key to how humans interact with the world, U.S. scientists say, so they're "training" brain cells to keep time in a laboratory. Researchers say timing is fundamental to many human abilities such as recognizing speech patterns and creating music, ScienceDaily.com reported last week. How the brain keeps time and recognizes patterns has been a mys ... more Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft To Provide Commercial Crew Transportation Services ![]() Boeing released artist's renderings of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft during a media briefing with Bigelow Aerospace at the Farnborough Airshow. Boeing is maturing the design of its CST-100 spacecraft under an $18 million Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Space Act Agreement with NASA. The CST-100 can carry a crew of seven and is designed to support the Internat ... more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2010 A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars. The Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, will start recording high-resolution video about two minutes before landing in August 2012. Initial frames will glimpse the heat shield falling away from beneath the rover, revealing a swath of Martian terrain below illuminated in afternoon sunlight. The first scenes will cover gro ... read more |
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