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![]() Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Mar 24, 2011 ILS International Launch Services (ILS), citing the recurring subsidies provided to its primary competitor, Arianespace, is waging an aggressive protest and intends to pursue "all avenues of recourse to stop such inordinate and direct subsidization of Ariane's commercial operations," said ILS President Frank McKenna. This followed the most recent decision by the 18-nation European Space Agency (ESA) on March 17 to grant an additional infusion of funds totaling 250 million euros ($318 million) to s ... read more |
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![]() Are You A Martian Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If t ... more | .. |
![]() Two Ariane 5 And One Soyuz Flights Are Now Being Prepared Arianespace is maintaining the mission pace with its heavy-lift and medium-weight vehicles as two Ariane 5 flights are being readied at the Spaceport in French Guiana, with a Soyuz campaign also und ... more | .. |
![]() WTA Releases New Satellite Operator Benchmarks Report The World Teleport Association has published a new report, Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2011, in which teleport operators worldwide rate the commercial and operational performance of the top satell ... more | .. | ||
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![]() NASA's Successful 'Can Crush' Will Aid Heavy-Lift Rocket Design On March 23, NASA put the squeeze on a large rocket test section. Results from this structural strength test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will help future heavy-lift l ... more | .. |
![]() XCOR And ULA Demonstrate Revolutionary Rocket Engine Nozzle Technology United Launch Alliance (ULA) and XCOR Aerospace have announced their successful hot-fire demonstrations of a lighter-weight, lower-cost approach to liquid-fueled rocket-engine vacuum nozzles. The ne ... more | .. |
![]() Life Lessons In The UAE Whether or not you remember the winter of 2011 as unusually cold or snowy, an adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in th ... more | .. |
![]() ASTRA Increases Reach Over All Platforms SES ASTRA has announced that it has extended its technical reach across Europe, and now serves 135 million TV homes in Europe and North Africa via its satellite fleet. This is more than half of all ... more |
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![]() Learn About Future Space Missions At Town Hall Meeting The University of Central Florida is hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday, March 31, about NASA's planetary missions in the next decade. The public meeting is sponsored by the National Rese ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Finds Saturn Sends Mixed Signals Like a petulant adolescent, Saturn is sending out mixed signals. Recent data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the variation in radio waves controlled by the planet's rotation is different in ... more | .. |
![]() Johns Hopkins Sends MESSENGER Into Mercury Orbit At about 9 p.m. EDT on Saint Patrick's Day, engineers at the Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of Johns Hopkins University, received confirmation that the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Envi ... more | .. |
![]() Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments ... more |
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![]() New 'space glue' developed Researchers at Kansas State University say they've developed a new kind of adhesive that may someday be a staple item in every astronaut's toolbox. ... more | .. |
![]() Roscosmos Sets April 5 For Soyuz TMA-21 Launch Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has approved the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 5. The launch was originally scheduled ... more | .. |
![]() LockMart Makes Strides In Human Space Exploration Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-ar ... more | .. |
![]() Later, Uranus: New Horizons Passes Another Planetary Milestone New Horizons is ready to put another planet - or at least the planet's orbit - in its rearview mirror. The Pluto-bound spacecraft crosses the path of Uranus around 6 p.m. EDT on March 18, more than ... more |
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![]() Primordial Soup Gets Spicier Stanley Miller gained fame with his 1953 experiment showing the synthesis of organic compounds thought to be important in setting the origin of life in motion. Five years later, he produced samples ... more | .. |
![]() Commercial Rocket Engine Testing Continues At NASA Center NASA's Stennis Space Center is moving ahead in supporting Orbital Sciences Corporation testing of Aerojet's AJ26 engines for commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station. Orbita ... more | .. |
![]() 84 Teams To Compete In NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Opens Its Eyes, Checks Its Instruments After a hibernation of about six months, the framing cameras on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft have again ventured a look into the stars. The spacecraft also powered up its visible and infrared mappin ... more |
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![]() KinetX Provides Key Navigation Support for NASA Mission to Orbit Mercury On the evening of March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft fired its main engine for 15 minutes to perform a Mercury capture maneuver and became the first spacecraft in history to orbit the inner ... more | .. |
![]() Astronaut Cady Coleman Shares Her Love of the Flute from Space Astronaut Cady Coleman took time during an interview with reporters to play her flute onboard the International Space Station. "I play the flute on the ground and it's one of the things I love ... more | .. |
![]() A New View Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. ... more | .. |
![]() From Outer Sol To The Inner Rock Human Space Is Growing It's easy for a space enthusiast to feel depressed right now. The end of the Shuttle program is nigh. NASA seems neglected and directionless. Budgetary issues threaten spaceflight globally. Bu ... more |
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![]() Large Hadron Collider Could Be World'S First Time Machine If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year - could be the first machine capabl ... more | .. |
![]() When A Bus Becomes A Satellite Alphabus has met Alphasat. Europe's largest telecom satellite is taking shape with final assembly and testing ready to begin in Toulouse, France. Planned for launch in late 2012 on Ariane 5, Alphasa ... more | .. |
![]() Next Mars Rover Gets A Test Taste Of Mars Conditions A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year. Tests inside the 25-f ... more | .. |
![]() Mercury In 3D Coming Soon Early on 18 March 2011, a spacecraft swung into orbit around Mercury for the first time: NASA's MESSENGER began orbiting the planet at 01:45 CET. The mission carries scientific instruments designed ... more |
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![]() New Study Finds Apex Fossils Aren't Life Structures thought of as the oldest known fossils of microbes might actually be microscopic mineral formations not associated with life, suggesting that astrobiologists have to be careful calling al ... more | .. |
![]() Alternatives Have Begun In Bid To Hear From Spirit Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year. The rover team ha ... more | .. |
![]() MESSENGER On Autopilot For Orbit Insertion MESSENGER is now on autopilot, faithfully executing a detailed set of instructions required to achieve its historic rendezvous with Mercury tomorrow night. At 8 a.m. Tuesday, all attitude re-o ... more | .. |
![]() Physicists Move Closer To Efficient Single-Photon Sources A team of physicists in the United Kingdom has taken a giant step toward realizing efficient single-photon sources, which are expected to enable much-coveted completely secure optical communications ... more |
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