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Graduation Of Europe's New AstronautsParis, France (ESA) Nov 23, 2010 ESA's six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially 'astronauts'. The new astronauts, smiling in their blue overalls, were in the spotlight at ESA's training centre. They were presented with their certificates signed by Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General, Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of Human Spaceflight, and Michel Togini, Head of the Astronaut Group. The graduation ceremony, held in ... read more |
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  45th Space Wing Launches NRO Satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV-Heavy Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 37 at 5:58 p.m. (EST), carrying a classified Natio ... more | .. |
  Aerojet's High-Power Hall System Propels USAF AEHF Satellite Aerojet has announced that its high-power Hall Thruster Propulsion System (HTPS) has successfully initiated operation on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle #1 (SV#1) that was ... more | .. |
  Development Of Humanoid Robot To Test Warfighter Protection Equipment Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). This JPEO-CBD, Joint Project Manager for Nucl ... more |
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 DARPA Concludes Review Of Falcon HTV-2 Flight Anomaly Following an extensive six-month review, the independent Engineering Review Board (ERB) chartered to examine data collected during the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle's (HTV-2) first flight has ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace STPSat-2 Satellite Launches Aboard STP-S26 Mission The STPSat-2 satellite, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies for the U.S. Air Force STP-S26 launch, lifted off successfully from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 4:25 p.m. local time (6:25 ... more | .. |
  China To Launch First Female Astronauts After the Opening Ceremony, Yang Liwei, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Flight Project, as well as the nation's first astronaut to travel into space, says a second crew of astronauts ... more | .. |
  Stanford Students Fly In Zero Gravity To Protect Satellites From Tiny Meteoroids Stanford researchers have completed the first successful tests in zero gravity of a canopy for CubeSats - the tiny satellites that hitch rides on rockets sending larger satellites into orbit. The go ... more |
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 Resourcesat-2 Satellite Launch In January India's premier space agency ISRO will launch Resourcesat-2 advanced remote sensing satellite on board home-made PSLV rocket in January. The Bangalore-headquartered space agency held a mission ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011 The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011. ... more | .. |
  Hayabusa's Harvest The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the tiny particles inside the Hayabusa spacecraft's sample return container are in fact from the asteroid Itokawa. Scientists e ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week. Opportunity drove pa ... more |
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  NASA argues for extra 2011 shuttle mission NASA should fly an extra shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 2011 as commercial spacecraft are likely to be delayed, the agency's head says. ... more | .. |
  500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered Astronomers have discovered the 500th exoplanet outside our solar system, a database maintained by a French astronomer says. ... more | .. |
 Development Of Meteosat Third Generation To Start Marking a significant milestone for Europe's next fleet of meteorological satellites, ESA has given the go-ahead to Thales Alenia Space in France to start work on developing the Meteosat Third Gener ... more | .. |
 Leicester Scientists Involved In Development Of New Breed Of Space Vehicle Scientists and engineers at the internationally acclaimed Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead ... more |
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 Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in ... more | .. |
 Ukraine Delivers Taurus II Launch Vehicle's First Stage To US Ukraine has delivered the first stage of the Taurus II launch vehicle to the United States, a step forward in a NASA- funded Taurus II program, the design company said Wednesday. "The assembly ... more | .. |
Discovery launch 'no earlier than' Dec 3 The final launch of the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed until at least December 3 so that repairs can be carried out on a hydrogen leak, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Administrator Bolden's Statement On International Space Summit NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement after participating in today's Head of Space Agencies Summit in Washington: "This year, the International Academy of Astronauti ... more |
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 KLM Announces Suborbital Flight Relationship With Space Experience Curacao KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced to the Netherlands press that they were embarking upon a new relationship with Space Experience Curacao (SXC). KLM will be supporting future suborbital f ... more | .. |
 FASTRAC Team Ready To Enjoy Launch After seven years of work by over 150 students on a shoestring budget, the FASTRAC team will experience the ultimate gratification of any aerospace engineer: seeing the fruits of their labor launch ... more | .. |
Inspectors find fourth crack in space shuttle Inspectors have found a fourth crack in support beams on the external fuel tanks of the space shuttle Discovery, whose final flight was delayed because of a hydrogen leak, NASA said late Monday. ... more | .. |
 Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more |
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