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SpaceX Secures Launch Contract In Major Asian MarketHawthorne, CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2011 telecommunications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) from its Cape Canaveral launch site in the second quarter of 2013. The contract brings another international launch to the United States to fly with SpaceX. Thaicom is the eighth non-U.S. customer manifested for upcoming flights aboard the Falcon 9. "This deal highlights the confidence that satellite operators have in SpaceX capabilities, and is the latest example of the effect SpaceX is having on the international comme ... read more |
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  Commercial Rocket Engine Test Firing Experiences Early Shutdown An Aerojet AJ26 flight engine for Orbital Sciences Corporations' Taurus II space launch vehicle experienced a premature shutdown during a test firing on June 9. The test was conducted on the E-1 Tes ... more | .. |
  Entry, descent and surface science for 2016 Mars mission ESA and NASA have announced the scientific investigations selected for their 2016 ExoMars lander demonstrator. They will probe the atmosphere during the descent, and return the first ever data on el ... more | .. |
  Satellite Takes 3-Billionth 'Photo' For a satellite that's only five years old, CALIPSO has accomplished a lot. The Earth-observing spacecraft took its three-billionth photo - actually a "lidar profile" - on June 2. June 7 marke ... more | .. |
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  Blood Red Moon Predicted Get set for an amazing adventure. The eclipse will be visible over more than half the globe, throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia. ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Space Program Completes Critical Review Northrop Grumman recently completed a systems requirement review (SRR), the first of several important steps to design, build and deliver a new spacecraft bus to reduce costs to space operations. ... more | .. |
 Up, Up and Away for Mars In April, NASA's Spaceward Bound project returned to Zzyzx, California, in the Mojave Desert. Spaceward Bound brings together primary-grade science teachers with scientists to conduct astrobiology r ... more | .. |
  Space station puts out welcome mat The International Space Station will see a lot of traffic, culminating with the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis on the shuttle's last mission, officials said. ... more |
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Soyuz docks at ISS carrying Russian, US, Japanese astronauts A Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian, a US and a Japanese astronaut aboard docked Thursday at the International Space Station, the Russian control centre said. ... more | .. |
 SES-3 Satellite Arrives At Baikonour Launch Base SES S.A. announces that the SES-3 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The SES-3 spacecraft, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corpor ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Heads Toward 'Spirit Point' When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reaches the rim of a large crater it is approaching, its arrival will come with an inspiring reminder. This crater, Endeavour, became the rover's ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER's Solar Arrays Probe to Operate in Extreme Temperatures Orbiting Mercury Key technologies and hardware developed by Northrop Grumman gave the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury a power system that works to its maximum even in the searing heat that surrounds the planet clo ... more |
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  Students Build Space Habitats at NASA's Johnson Space Center University students are helping NASA develop potential habitats for future space missions. Three teams from across the country will visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during June to show o ... more | .. |
 NASA Inspector General Report into the Management of MSL Project The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), part of the Science Mission Directorate's Mars Exploration Program (Mars Program), is the most technologically challenging interplanetary rover ever designed. ... more | .. |
  China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 goes to outer space China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 on Thursday set off from its moon orbit for outer space about 1.5 million km away from the earth, Chinese scientists said Thursday. The orbiter left its moon or ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients Some asteroids may have been like "molecular factories" cranking out life's ingredients and shipping them to Earth via meteorite impacts, according to scientists who've made discoveries of molecules ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 New Crew Members Arrive at ISS The Expedition 28 crew has expanded to six members with the arrival of Flight Engineers Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa. The new trio docked to the International Space Station in the ... more | .. |
 A Mariner 10 Perspective on MESSENGER: A First-person Account Forty years ago, in 1971, I became a member of the Mariner 10 imaging science team. This Mercury flyby mission was intended to gather atmospheric data at Venus and geological and geophysical data at ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases New Lunar Eclipse Video In anticipation of the upcoming lunar eclipse later this month, NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team will release anoth ... more | .. |
 Solar system edge 'bunches' in magnetic bubbles: NASA A pair of NASA probes wandering in deep space discovered that the outer edge of the solar system contains curious magnetic bubbles and is not smooth as previously thought, astronomers said Thursday. ... more |
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  Endeavour Lands, Atlantis at Launch Pad Space shuttle Endeavour completed its final flight by delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during the STS-134 mission. "I think we all should be really ... more | .. |
 Thales delivers First Cygnus PCM to Orbital Thales Alenia Space announced that it has delivered to Orbital Sciences its first Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) developed to transport cargo to the International Space Station. This first PCM will ... more | .. |
 Atlantis in place as Endeavour returns The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was wheeled to the launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Wednesday as the shuttle Endeavour completed its final mission. ... more | .. |
 Looking at the volatile side of the Moon Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to fin ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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 THAICOM 6 Satellite Project THAICOM Public Company has announced that the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has approved the THAICOM 6 satellite that was proposed by the Company and the Board of Directors of ... more | .. |
 The Shape of Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft, recently injected into orbit about the Solar Systems' inner-most planet is already yielding important new information about Mercury. This spacecraft carries a laser altimet ... more | .. |
 Camera Duo on Mars Rover Mast Will Shoot Color Views Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA's next Mars rover will complement each other in showing the surface of Mars in exquisite detail. They are the left and right eyes of the Mas ... more | .. |
 NC State Students Look To Support Manned Mission To Mars What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advan ... more |
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 TacSat-3 Reaches 2-year Anniversary Space professionals at Air Force Space Command recently marked the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Tactical Satellite 3 and its primary payload ARTEMIS, the Advanced Responsive Tactically ... more | .. |
 ISRO to begin flight testing of GSLV MkIII in next two years The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday said it will start flight testing of the GSLV Mk III for launching four-tonne class of satellites in the next two years. Addressing the ... more | .. |
Soyuz heads to ISS carrying Russian, US, Japanese astronauts A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off on Tuesday with a Russian, a US and a Japanese astronaut aboard headed for the International Space Station (ISS). ... more | .. |
 New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, w ... more |
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