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"Big Splat" May Explain The Moon's Mountainous Far SideSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2011 The mountainous region on the far side of the Moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The striking differences between the near and far sides of the Moon have been a longstanding puzzle. The near side is relatively low and flat, while the topography of the far side is high and mountainous, with a much thicker crust. The new s ... read more |
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  Opportunity Past 20-Mile Mark As it Nears Large Crater Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more | .. |
  64 satellites launched by ISRO so far The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has so far launched 64 satellites and of these seven failed, Lok Sabha was informed Wednesday. Minister of state in the ministry of personnel, pub ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Marks Seventh Anniversary of Launch Seven years ago, on August 3, 2004, MESSENGER left Earth aboard a three-stage Boeing Delta II rocket to begin a journey that would take it more than 15 laps through the solar system, through six pla ... more | .. |
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 LADEE Completes Mission Critical Design Review NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This means the LADEE observatory ... more | .. |
  Welsh tech firm starting U.S. company A Welsh technology firm has launched a U.S. company to provide ground mobility and aircraft landing solutions to the U.S. military and government. ... more | .. |
 Moon's mountains made by slo-mo crash: study The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by a slow-motion collision with a smaller companion moon knocked off its orbit, says a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Kodak Imaging Technology Used To Explore Jupiter When NASA's Juno spacecraft is launched this week to begin its five-year voyage to the planet Jupiter, image sensor technology from Eastman Kodak will be on board to help capture images of the gas g ... more |
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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 NPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing The NPP satellite sits surrounded by 144 rock concert speakers. They're stacked in a circle 16 feet high in a testing room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. As engineers set up for the e ... more | .. |
  Another step closer to Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft is another step closer to Vesta; only 5200 kilometres now separate the asteroid and its new 'neighbour', Dawn. The Framing Camera on board the spacecraft is imaging Vesta's su ... more | .. |
 Invisibility cloak closer to reality Scientists have devised an "invisibility cloak" material that can hide objects from detection using light that is visible to humans, a U.S. journal reports. ... more | .. |
  Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water Scientists are reporting development of a new aquatic microrobot that mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider - the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds ... more |
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  US shuttle debris surfaces amid Texas drought A piece of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia has surfaced in eastern Texas, where a severe drought has dried up a lake and exposed debris from the 2003 accident, NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 SES selects Gilat for the delivery of Consumer Ka-band equipment for ASTRA2Connect SES S.A. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. have announced that they have signed an agreement for the delivery of network equipment and Ka-band end user terminals for SES's satellite-based Internet s ... more | .. |
 Reinventing Space We have been using the space environment for the last 50+ years. Satellites have been placed in orbits that take advantage of natural perturbations while offering convenient geometries for various m ... more | .. |
  The Orbital Perspective of Astronaut Ron Garan "Hello from space!" greets astronaut Ron Garan as an opening to his recently published video blog. Garan's goal is to show how this orbital research facility can help improve life on Earth, while al ... 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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 Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton For Inmarsat-5 Inmarsat reports that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, schedu ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begi ... more | .. |
 SwRI suborbital astronaut payload specialists move to flight planning phase, release mission patch Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the devel ... more | .. |
 India eyes manned space missions India's space agency has plans to launch a manned space mission in the future, but a lot of work needs to be done before that to ensure such missions are failure-proof, a top scientist has said. ... more |
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 Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more | .. |
 Atlantis Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment Atlantis carried many science and research experiments in its middeck during NASA's last shuttle flight, STS-135, in July. Among these was a plant experiment developed at Kennedy Space Center's Spac ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic Appoints Its First Chief Financial Officer In this newly created role, Sunshine will be responsible for managing the company's financial strategy, driving growth and overseeing all finance and accounting functions as Virgin Galactic transiti ... more | .. |
 New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health h ... 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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 Taiwan's Foxconn to use one million robots by 2014 Taiwan IT giant Foxconn - hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants - plans to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the next three years, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  Are cancers newly evolved species Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of Californ ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Saves Money with First Combined Atlas and Delta Shipments on Mariner United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed Friday the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Ala., to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on t ... more | .. |
  China to launch experimental satellite in coming days China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday said it will launch an experimental orbiter in the coming days. The orbiter, SJ-11-02, will be carried into space by China's indigenous Long ... more |
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 Voyage to Vaccine Discovery Continues with Space Station Salmonella Study Any scientist can tell you that research is a time-consuming pursuit. In fact, it can take decades to show results, as the knowledge compounds and inspires additional studies. This building of ... more | .. |
 Dawn Views Dark Side of Vesta Dawn took this image over Vesta's northern hemisphere after the spacecraft completed its first passage over the dark side of the giant asteroid. It is northern hemisphere winter on Vesta now, so its ... more | .. |
 Vietnam Selecting Belgium For Second EO Satellite The government of Vietnam decided to go ahead with a second microsatellite for earth observations, through its VNREDSAT (Vietnam Natural Resources Environment and Disaster monitoring small Satellite ... more | .. |
 'Trojan' asteroid shares Earth's orbit Earth is not alone in its orbit around the Sun - a small 'Trojan' asteroid sits in front of our planet and leads it, according to British science revue Nature, which published the discovery Thursday. ... more |
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