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Opening Up The X-37BSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2011 The US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has generated a lot of attention and suspicion, even before the vehicle blasted off on its maiden voyage in April 2010. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe that the vehicle is an orbiting weapon, designed to attack other satellites or ground targets. This is highly implausible, for a variety of reasons, but it hints at the lack of certain facts about the spaceplane and its tasks. More sober guesses about the X-37B's purpose include space reconnaissance an ... read more |
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  Asteroid Busting Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so inten ... more | .. |
  Mars Express Puts Craters On A Pedestal ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra. Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary geological feature. So much so that early pla ... more | .. |
  Iran Unveils Homemade Satellites And Carrier Iran unveiled four domestically- manufactured satellites on Monday, two years after it launched the first self-developed satellite into orbit, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four natio ... more | .. |
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  NASA And Worcester Polytechnic Institute Are Challenge Partners NASA has signed an agreement with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of Worcester, Mass., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize comp ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts To Conduct Spacewalk Feb 16 Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are preparing to conduct a spacewalk on February 16, mission control said on Monday. Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka, both ... more | .. |
  Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit" It's a long way from the segregated south to low Earth orbit. But I am fortunate to have made the journey and to have had many opportunities to serve my nation in a 34-year career with the U.S. Mari ... more | .. |
 No Major Flaw In Failed GSLV-F06 There was no major design flaw in the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation - GSLV-F06 - which crashed seconds after take-off on December 25 last year, sai ... more |
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North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
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 Europe's ATV Space Ferry Ready For Launch ESA's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle is ready for launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, 15 February at 22:08 GMT from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The unmanned spa ... more | .. |
 Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These du ... more | .. |
  Propellant System Tests Scheduled For Discovery During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Stev ... more | .. |
 NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly Resumes Training For STS-134 Mission NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will resume training as commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission on Monday, Feb. 7. With the exception of some proficiency training, Kelly has been on personal leave ... more |
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  Vandenberg Launches Minotaur One A Minotaur I rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. The rocket carried a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Col. R ... more | .. |
 International Partners Discuss ISS Operations The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want t ... more | .. |
 ISRO To Launch Remote Sensing Resourcesat In February The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Resourcesat 2, a remote sensing earth observation satellite, by the end of February, officials said Monday. Remote sens ... more | .. |
  Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more |
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
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 US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more | .. |
 Shot US lawmaker's husband to return to space The astronaut husband of wounded US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said Friday he will lead the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour in April and plans to resume training next week. ... more | .. |
  A Six-Planet System A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA's Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University o ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. " ... more |
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Martian Sand Dunes Re-Sculpted Regularly The avalanche faces of huge Martian sand dunes, long thought to be frozen in time on the distant planet, are being re-sculpted on a seasonal basis, according to results of an investigation led by a ... more | .. |
 Rover Staying Busy While Mars Is Behind The Sun Opportunity has entered the solar conjunction period. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two planets. ... more | .. |
 Lifting To Space NASA began flight-testing experimental lifting bodies at Edwards in the 1960s, following evolution of the concept earlier in the 1950s. A lifting body is a fuselage that generates lift at the expens ... more | .. |
  Luxury watchmakers follow the money to Asia A measure of any Asian businessman is the time he keeps and, far more importantly, the watch he wears to mark it. ... more |
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
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Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role In New Planetry System Discovery NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. UC Santa Ba ... more | .. |
 Mars500 Arrives In Orbit Around Mars The first full-duration simulation of a manned voyage to Mars has reached a major milestone: the 'spacecraft' yesterday 'arrived' at Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight. Three crewm ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sends Back Postcards Of Saturn Moons On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way. Cassini passed within about 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) of Enceladus a ... more | .. |
 Watch Out For Solar Sail Flares It's a calm and peaceful night. Stars twinkle in the velvety darkness overhead as a distant plane blinks silently on the horizon. You could almost hear a pin drop. That is, until the flare. ... more |
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 Russia Loses New Military Satellite Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth. The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designe ... more | .. |
 NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,00 ... more | .. |
Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found In Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the ... more | .. |
 Fleet Of INL-Designed Mars Hoppers Could Swiftly Explore Other Worlds Mars is our next frontier. We'd like to know whether the Red Planet ever hosted its own life forms - and where it might be able to host human explorers. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity h ... more |
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