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NASA Earth observation satellite fails to reach orbitWashington (AFP) March 4, 2011 A NASA satellite that aimed to study the impact of aerosols on climate plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, delivering a $424-million blow to the US space agency. The failure of the Glory satellite launch was the second bungle for NASA climate science efforts in two years, and closely resembled a botched carbon satellite launch involving the same company, Orbital Sciences Corp., in 2009. Glory could not reach orbit after its protective clamshell-like nose cone cover failed to detach after l ... read more |
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  Weather scrubs launch of robot space plane The Florida launch of the U.S. Air Force's secret X-37B space plane was canceled Friday due to weather with another attempt set for Saturday, officials said. ... more | .. |
  China setting up new rocket production base China is setting up a new high-tech manufacturing base that will build the rockets for its ambitious space programme to put a man on the moon, state press said Friday. ... more | .. |
  NASA extends Discovery shuttle mission again The US space agency on Friday extended the shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station by another day, adding a total of two days to the shuttle's final mission before retirement. ... more | .. |
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Obama calls to say 'proud' of astronauts US President Barack Obama made a phone call to the 12 astronauts at the orbiting International Space Station on Thursday to tell them he was proud of them. ... more | .. |
  'Oddly' shaped Mars crater is studied European scientists say an image of an odd, elongated crater on Mars suggests it was carved out by a train of objects hitting the surface at a shallow angle. ... more | .. |
 China's "Fantastic Four" Moon Plan Since 2010, this author has pursued the story that China was planning four missions to land on the Moon this decade. The idea was a big change from our earlier understanding of China's Moon plans, w ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Tells Of How Planets Are Born In A Swirl Of Dust Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing t ... more |
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Iran says enriched nuclear material 'under rubble' of facilities hit during Israel war
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  Is Radiation A Concern For Space Crops Radioactivity lingering in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident has not prevented life from creeping back at the Ukrainian site. Now researchers have discovered that ... more | .. |
 Committee Democrats Caution Against Start-Stop Approach To NASA's Funding And Goals Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held ahearing to discuss the Administration's FY 2012 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with Ch ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Hits The Road Again Opportunity is completing the exploration of Santa Maria crater before resuming the trek towards Endeavour crater. One objective is to position the rover further counter-clockwise around the s ... more | .. |
 China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Chang'e-5 In 2017 China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more |
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 China's Tiangong-1 To Be Launched By Modified Long March II-F Rocket The unmanned space module Tiangong-1 that China plans to launch this year will be sent into space by a modified Long March II-F carrier rocket, an expert told Xinhua Thursday. The 8.5-tonne Ti ... more | .. |
 US must be 'unafraid' of private spaceflight: NASA NASA's chief said Wednesday that America must be "unafraid" of a new future in spaceflight and vowed full confidence that private business can come up with a solution to replace the space shuttle. ... more | .. |
  Abundant Ammonia Aids Life's Origins An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State Univ ... more | .. |
  China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Change-5 In 2017 China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more |
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Ozone layer 'healing', on track to recover by mid-century: UN
How mowing less lets flowers bloom along Austria's 'Green Belt'
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 China Likely To Launch First Probe To Explore Mars' Surface In 2013 China is likely to launch its first probe to explore the surface of Mars in 2013, a chief scientist said here Wednesday. "Mars is the first choice for mankind's interplanetary explorations as ... more | .. |
 Russia Lacks Enough Carrier Rockets To Fulfill 2011 Launch Plans Russia lacks carrier rockets to carry out all space launches scheduled for 2011, the head of the Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday. "We have a number of spacecraft that should be launch ... more | .. |
  Spacewalkers Continue To Complete Tasks Spacewalker Alvin Drew installed a light on the Crew Equipment Translation Aid cart and affixed insulation to a valve module fluid line on a left hand truss segment radiator beam. Spacewalker ... more | .. |
 Time To Fly: SAGE III - ISS Prepped For ISS After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III ... more |
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US Discovery astronauts step out on last spacewalk Two US astronauts on Wednesday stepped out on the second and final spacewalk of the Discovery shuttle mission at the International Space Station to work on repairs at the orbiting lab. ... more | .. |
 Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism Industry Space and satellite forum to highlight regional business opportunities for private and public sector investors - tourists will fly into space for $25,000 by 2030 The plethora of opportunities for p ... more | .. |
 Gadgets galore at world's top tech fair A Shakespeare-reciting robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing visitors at the CeBIT high-tech fair on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  'Telepresence' robot makes waves at tech fair Many visitors walking around CeBIT, the world's biggest high-tech fair, have found themselves bumping into "Jazz", a "telepresence" robot also ambling around the vast expo. ... more |
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Hollywood giants sue Chinese AI firm over copyright infringement
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 X-37B Set For Launch The 45th Space Wing is set to launch an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 on March 4, 2011. The rocket will carry an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic To Fly Scientists To Space Virgin Galactic has signed the first commercial contracts to fly scientists into space for the purpose of conducting research experiments. Virgin Galactic's signed contract with the Southwest Resear ... more | .. |
 India Space Budget Gets 35 Percent Hike The budget for India's space program has been increased by more than 30 pecent compared to last year's allocation with the human space flight and Chandrayaan-II gaining the lion's share. The H ... more | .. |
 SwRI Signs Up For 8 Reusable Suborbital Launches Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will send three scientists as payload specialists aboard eight suborbital flights - some to altitudes greater than 350,000 feet, above the internationally recogni ... more |
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 NASA Launches 2011 Nationwide Technology Space Competition A do-it-yourself technology space competition sponsored by NASA's Emerging Commercialization Space Office (ECSO) has kicked off. Make Magazine, a do-it-yourself publication for technology, is partne ... more | .. |
 Leonardo Attached To Space Station After a flawless launch last Thursday and a textbook docking on Saturday, the Space Shuttle has delivered the European-built Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module to the International Space Station ... more | .. |
 New Frozen Smoke May Improve Robotic Surgery, Energy Storage A spongy substance that could be mistaken for packing material has the nanotechnology world buzzing. University of Central Florida Associate Professor Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianh ... more | .. |
Window-shopping in the future at giant tech fair Always window-shopping but never stopping to buy? In the future you can do both with new technology allowing you to point through the window at items and buy them with a swish of your hand. ... more |
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