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Microlensing Finds a Rocky PlanetMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2011 In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from? As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planets, it quickly became obvious that the formation theories that we'd built on our own solar system were only part of the story. They didn't predict the vast number of hot Jupiters astronomers found nearly everywhere. Astronomers went back to the drawing board to put more details into the theory, bre ... read more |
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  ESA high-thrust engine takes next step The new main engine to power Europe's successor to its Ariane 5 space launcher was brought a step closer when ESA signed a euros 60 million contract with a propulsion consortium at the Paris Air an ... more | .. |
  Alphabus ready to offer new opportunities Alphabus is ready to offer new opportunities for satellite operators worldwide. The platform was formally accepted for its first satellite, Alphasat I-XL on 16 June, marking an important milestone i ... more | .. |
  Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more | .. |
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 NRL Instrument Provides Key Space Weather Data Data products from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division were officially transitioned for use in operat ... more | .. |
  ATV-2: re-entry over the south Pacific Loaded with waste material, the second European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2), Johannes Kepler, entered Earth's atmosphere shortly after performing its second de-orbit engine firing at 22:04 CE ... more | .. |
 Saltwater ocean lurks beneath Saturn moon - study A strange moon of Saturn may have a salty ocean lurking beneath its iceball surface, according to a study appearing Wednesday in the British journal Nature. ... more | .. |
  Public Invited to Find Destination for New Horizons The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the IceHunters.org website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the ... more |
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 Express AM8, AT1 and AT2 programmes are now in full effect Thales Alenia Space has announced the official start of the Express AM8, AT1 and AT2 programs. The tri-partite contract was signed in September 2010 with RSCC (Russian Space Operator) and JSC "ISS - ... more | .. |
 Progress M-11M space freighter launched into orbit A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked from a Soyuz-U carrier rocket and was launched into orbit on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. It was sent to the International Space Sta ... more | .. |
  Radar for Mars Gets Flight Tests at NASA Dryden Southern California's high desert has been a stand-in for Mars for NASA technology testing many times over the years. And so it is again, in a series of flights by an F/A-18 aircraft to test the lan ... more | .. |
  ESA reentry vehicle on track for flight in 2013 ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italia have announced an agreement at the Paris Air and Space Show to begin building the IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle for its mission into space in 2013. E ... more |
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  Arianespace to launch Astra 5B satellite Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES has once again chosen Arianespace, this time to launch its new Astra 5B satellite. SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator, has confirmed that it h ... more | .. |
 The end for ATV Johannes Kepler Europe's unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth's atmosphere to end its mission as a spectacular shooting star over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lo ... more | .. |
  LRO Showing Us the Moon as Never Before NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has forever changed our view of the moon, literally bringing it into sharper focus and showing us the whole globe in unprecedented detail. This rich n ... more | .. |
 Space shuttle commander Kelly to retire from NASA Mark Kelly, the US astronaut who commanded the final flight by the shuttle Endeavour, announced Tuesday he is retiring to spend more time with his lawmaker wife as she recovers from a gunshot wound to the head. ... 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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 One-Hundred-Year Starship Study - Part 2 The May 9 Launchspace email release introduced the latest idea from the "Department of Mad Scientists," a study of a 100-year starship mission. This is a joint NASA/DARPA project to generate ideas f ... more | .. |
 Johannes Kepler has left the ISS Europe's Johannes Kepler ATV cargo ferry undocked from the International Space Station Monday at 14:46:30 GMT (16:46:30 CEST). The craft is now leaving the orbital outpost far behind and will end it ... more | .. |
 Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini f ... more | .. |
  STS-135 Crew Arrives in Florida for Countdown Rehearsal The four veteran astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission arrived Monday evening at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their prelaunch countdown rehearsal. "I speak on be ... more |
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 Rocketdyne J-2X Engine Ready for Test Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne completed assembly of the first J-2X upper-stage engine for NASA's next era of human spaceflight in preparation for demonstration testing expected to begin this month at ... more | .. |
 19-Mile Mark See Opportunity For A Solar Panel Clean Up Opportunity continues to make excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with under 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) to go before the first landfall on the rim. On Sols 2622, 2626, 2627 and 2628 ... more | .. |
  China to launch new communication satellite China will launch a new communication satellite, Zhongxing-10, in the next few days at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. Sources with the center said Sunday that a Long M ... more | .. |
 Looking for new vistas of space exploration With the ISS slated to go out of business in 2020 the world needs to decide exactly where manned cosmonautics is going from there. Speaking at a professional roundtable, held on the fringes of the I ... 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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  Genius of Einstein, Fourier key to new humanlike computer vision Two new techniques for computer-vision technology mimic how humans perceive three-dimensional shapes by instantly recognizing objects no matter how they are twisted or bent, an advance that could he ... more | .. |
 NASA Issues Announcement For Solar Electric Propulsion Studies NASA issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a solar electric propulsion system demonstration to test and validate key capabilities and technologies ... more | .. |
 ATV preparing for fiery destruction ATV Johannes Kepler has been an important part of the International Space Station since February. Next week, it will complete its mission by undocking and burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere hig ... more | .. |
 Phobos slips past Jupiter Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movi ... more |
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 NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts NASA is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online. The items represent significant human spaceflight technologie ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Endures Its First Hot Season Yesterday the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed the first of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit about Mercury. During these hot seasons, the ... more | .. |
  Coming Into Focus Minor Planet Vesta While NASA's space probe Dawn is continuing its approach towards Vesta, the camera system on board is beginning to show the giant asteroid in more and more detail. The newest pictures taken on ... more | .. |
 Commercial Spaceflight Federation Supports Use of Space Act Agreements For the next phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Development Program, following CCDev Rounds 1 and 2, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation strongly supports the use of Space Act Agreements (SAAs) under ... more |
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