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Private US capsule not to dock with ISSMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 19, 2011 The U.S. private space capsule Dragon will conduct a flight near the International Space Station (ISS), but docking between them is not planned, Vladimir Solovyov, head of the Russian segment of the ISS mission control center said on Friday. The California-based Space Exploration Technologies company, better known as SpaceX, has earlier announced plans to launch its Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab on November 30, with a historic docking slated for nine days later. "Over the last sever ... read more |
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  Tiangong: Better Late Than Lost It seems that our long wait for the launch of China's space laboratory is almost over. Most discussions of the flight of Tiangong 1 suggest that it will certainly launch this month. We can now measu ... more | .. |
  Vesta an asteroid full of surprises Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deu ... more | .. |
  Build-up is underway for the no. 1 Soyuz to be launched from French Guiana The first Soyuz to be operated from French Guiana has begun the integration process, marking a major step toward Arianespace's introduction of the workhorse medium-lift vehicle into its launcher fam ... more | .. |
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  Monster Rocket Will Eat American Space Program The Space Frontier Foundation called Wednesday's announcement by NASA that it will attempt to build Congress's giant monster rocket a disaster that will devour our dreams for moving humanity into sp ... more | .. |
  Opportunity on verge of new discovery Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock type. Much older than the sedimentary ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Chester Lake Rock Outcrop Opportunity is in position at a target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2710 (Sept. 8, 2011), the rover pumped forward just over a meter (3 feet) to pu ... more | .. |
  Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars A world with multiple suns is a common trope in science fiction, as in the iconic double sunset in Star Wars. Scientific reality has now caught up, with a report from NASA's Kepler mission of the fi ... more |
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
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 Latest Tumbling Satellite Fails to Warrant Space Intercept An out-of-control satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the next couple of weeks, but U.S. officials say they have determined that the risk to humans does not warrant a pre-emp ... more | .. |
  Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the planet's rings. From left to right are Janus, Pandora, ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch BepiColombo spacecraft The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace has announced the signature of a contract for the launch of the BepiColombo spacecraft, designed to explore the planet Mercury. The launch is schedule ... more | .. |
 Space Systems/Loral Delivers ViaSat-1 Broadband Satellite to Launch Base Space Systems/Loral has announced that the high throughput broadband satellite that it built for ViaSat arrived today at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched aboard an ... more |
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 US satellite may crash back to Earth Sept 23: NASA A 20-year-old satellite that measured the ozone layer is expected to crash back to Earth late next week, but NASA said Friday it still does not know where it will fall. ... more | .. |
 Crew safely returns to Earth after crash Three spacemen made a safe delayed return from the International Space Station on Friday as Russia again pushed back the launch of their replacement crew because of a recent rocket crash. ... more | .. |
 Russia postpones next manned launch to ISS Russia on Friday said the next manned launch taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) would take place two days later than previously announced, on November 14. ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Design For New Deep Space Exploration System NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornersto ... more |
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
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 Arianespace to launch up to four satellites for DIRECTV Arianespace will launch two satellites for DIRECTV and has the option of launching another two satellites for one of the world's leading providers of television entertainment services. All fou ... more | .. |
  Virgin aims for first space launch within 12 months British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel. ... more | .. |
  Ariane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace. ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Before OSIRIS-REx Launch Every six years, asteroid 1999 RQ36 nears the Earth - by cosmic standards - and researchers are launching a global observation campaign to learn as much as possible in preparation for the OSIRIS-REx ... more |
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 Statement on Importance of Supporting Planetary Exploration The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planeta ... more | .. |
NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System - an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyo ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake." This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr ... more | .. |
 NASA unveils new launcher design for Mars missions NASA unveiled its plans Wednesday for a massive new launcher capable of powering manned space flights well beyond low-Earth orbit and ultimately to Mars. ... more |
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New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations
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  Mastering the fine structuring of ultrashort light fields An expedition through the fast-paced microscopic world of atoms reveals electrons that spin at enormous speeds and the gigantic forces that act on them. Monitoring the ultrafast motion of these elec ... more | .. |
Opportunity Continues Early Exploration Of Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2703 (Sept. 1, 2011), the rover made the first o ... more | .. |
 NASA Offers Shuttle Tiles And Space Food To Schools And Universities NASA is offering space shuttle heat shield tiles and dehydrated astronaut food to eligible schools and universities. The initiative is part of the agency's efforts to preserve the Space Shuttle Prog ... more | .. |
The Sky is Falling As UARS Drops In UARS, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, is about to fall from the sky. This is the most exciting event that NASA has been able to stage in years. But, it is actually Mother Nature who is doing th ... more |
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 Russia announces launch of 2 spacecraft in Oct-Nov Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it has tentatively set the nearest launch of a Progress space freighter on October 30 and a Soyuz manned spacecraft on November 12. Another Soyuz ... more | .. |
 Latest Exoplanet Haul Includes Super Earth At Habitat Zone Edge The HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile is the world's most successful planet finder. The HARPS team, led by Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Swit ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever des ... more | .. |
 First Galileo satellite touches down in French Guiana The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned c ... more |
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