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Russia beefs up Plesetsk space center fundingMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2011 Russia will spend over 5 billion rubles ($170 mln) on the development and expansion of the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia this year, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on Wednesday. The money will be spent on "the construction and reconstruction of facilities at the Plesetsk space center," he added. This includes the reconstruction of a local motorway, the construction of a new barracks and a cafeteria. The center's energy supply system will also be modernized ... read more |
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  GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon As early as Sept. 8th, NASA's GRAIL mission will blast off to uncover some of the mysteries beneath the surface of the Moon. That cratered gray exterior hides some ... more | .. |
  Honeywell Wins Ground Systems and Mission Operations At Goddard Honeywell has won a five-year, $450 million contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO) services for the agency's fleet of scienti ... more | .. |
  NASA Needs to Preserve Skilled Astronaut Corps In Post-Shuttle Era NASA should take steps to ensure that it maintains a highly trained astronaut corps to meet International Space Station (ISS) crew requirements while accounting for unexpected attrition or demands o ... more | .. |
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  MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity tools to map its inner core for the first time. Scientists ... more | .. |
 Weather threatens moon mission launch NASA says clouds and thunderstorms in Florida could disrupt the launch of twin satellites on a mission to study the moon's gravitation field. ... more | .. |
 Attempt to revive silent satellite planned British scientists say they will try to revive a satellite launched almost 40 years ago that has been silent since 1996. ... 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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 US astronaut shortage poses risks: study The United States does not have enough astronauts to meet the changing needs of human spaceflight in the coming years, warned a report Wednesday by a non-profit group that advises on science policy. ... more | .. |
  Malfunction at devices connection blamed for orbiter launch failure China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said Monday that malfunction at connection between devices of rocket led to the orbiter launch failure last month. Investigation result showe ... more | .. |
 ViaSat Wins Contracts from Boeing for Ground Based Beam Forming System for Mexican Satellite System ViaSat has been awarded contracts valued at approximately $40 million by Boeing to develop a ground based beam forming (GBBF) system for the Mexican Satellite System (MEXSAT). The beam forming ... more | .. |
  Tiangong 1 might be launched in late September Due to the launch failure of the experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, the Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1, the prototype of the Chinese space experiment station, which was scheduled to launch in ... more |
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 NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the as ... more | .. |
Moon Mission Ready to Fly At the prelaunch news conference Tuesday, the twin moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will send them on their mission were reported ready to fly, with th ... more | .. |
  NASA mulls 'what-ifs' of unmanned space station NASA is mulling the worst-case scenarios of leaving the $100 billion International Space Station unstaffed for a period of time following the crash of a Russian rocket, US astronauts said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA orbiter shows moon surface in stunning clarity A NASA spacecraft has snapped the clearest views ever of the surface of the moon, down to the tire tracks and footprints left by visiting astronauts decades ago in the lunar soil. ... 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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 Louisiana Tech and NASA partner to conduct zero-gravity experiments Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data that was flown on NASA's STS-134 space shuttle End ... more | .. |
 Inmarsat GX Selects Rockwell Collins as Aeronautical Technology Partner Inmarsat has reached agreement in principle with Rockwell Collins whereby which Rockwell Collins will take the leading role in development, production and distribution of User Terminals (UTs) for fu ... more | .. |
  Finishing Work at Tinsdale 2 Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi ... more |
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 Mercury Planetary Orbiter wraps up for hot work The installation of high-temperature thermal blankets on the Structural and Thermal Model of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter has been completed. The spacecraft has been mounted on its Ther ... more | .. |
 Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian Dirt Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But ... more | .. |
  Robotic Loader System Achieves Composite Material Testing Milestone The Naval Research Laboratory robotic materials testing system, NRL66.3, has achieved, to date, the highest industrial rates of fully-automated production mode functionality known to NRL researchers ... more | .. |
  Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New Horizons At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight long ... 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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 Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express ESA's Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. I ... more | .. |
 Kazakhstan won't ban Russian rocket launches from Baikonur Kazakhstan does not plan to ban launches of Russian rockets from its space center in Baikonur after accident with Progress M-12M space freighter, Talgat Musabayev, the head of the Kazakh space agenc ... more | .. |
 Space Agencies Meet To Discuss A Global Exploration Roadmap Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the ... more | .. |
  A Fish that Leaps to Land One of the world's strangest animals - a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs - has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd ... more |
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 Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. ... more | .. |
 NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more | .. |
 Third ATV begins its preparations for launch on Ariane 5 The preparation campaign for Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has begun in French Guiana as this large cargo resupply spacecraft is readied for a spring 2012 Ariane 5 launch by Ariane ... more | .. |
 Russian Firm Unveils Plan for Space Tourism A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for ... more |
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