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Soyuz is put through its paces for Thursday's launchKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 19, 2011 A full dress rehearsal for Arianespace's first Soyuz flight from French Guiana was performed today, validating the mission from countdown to spacecraft separation in preparation for this Russian-built launcher's historic liftoff on October 20 with two Galileo satellites. Today's dress rehearsal provided one of the final verifications for this milestone flight - designated VS01 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering sequence - offering a realistic representation of the mission, including flight ... read more |
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  Branson opens Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space at Spaceport America Looking skyward, more than 800 guests marveled at Virgin Galactic's commercial space vehicles as they soared through the skies of southern New Mexico during the dedication ceremonies of Virgin Galac ... more | .. |
  Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., Oct. 19. As the hot, bright s ... more | .. |
  UK Space Agency announces seed funding for Mars exploration The UK Space Agency is making 1.6M pounds available in support of projects to further explore our neighbouring planet Mars and keep the UK at the forefront of ESA's Aurora Programme - a European lon ... more | .. |
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  Dead German satellite to fall on earth An abandoned German satellite was expected to fall on Earth this week, but the exactly time and location remained unknown, according to media reports. The German space agency has offered a landfall ... more | .. |
 Mars Landing-Site Specialist Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out of the ... more | .. |
 NASA Veteran Alan Stern to Lead Florida Space Institute A former NASA leader whose career has touched nearly every aspect of manned and unmanned space flight has been named director of the Florida Space Institute. S. Alan Stern will help the instit ... more | .. |
 Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes Russia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country's underpaid rocket scientists. ... more |
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 Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in New Mexico British billionaire Richard Branson on Monday opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the new home for his company, Virgin Galactic. ... more | .. |
  Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more | .. |
  Gravitational biology and space life sciences and implications for the Indian space program This paper is an introduction to gravitational and space life sciences and a summary of key achievements in the field. Current global research is focused on understanding the effects of gravity/micr ... more | .. |
 Astrotech Subsidiary Awarded Task Order for NASA Mission Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) has won a fully-funded task order under the previously announced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for payload processing support at the Easte ... more |
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 New Mystery on Mars's Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... more | .. |
  Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Van ... more | .. |
  Ultrasound 2: Taking Space Imaging to the Next Level Every year there are strides made in medical technology that improve research capabilities and the quality of care for patients. The decade-old ultrasound on the International Space Station, for ins ... more | .. |
 ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings Arizona State University is no stranger to space exploration missions. Whether to Mars or other solar system targets, its involvement with NASA planetary exploration began in the 1970s and at presen ... 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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 Russian scientists want to join Europe's ExoMars mission Russian scientists want to join European Space Agency's ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) mission to study the Red Planet, a leading Russian space researcher said. "From the scientific point of vie ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Keeps Rolling With an Eye on Future Havens for Next Winter Opportunity is moving generally north across Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater with an eye ahead to the next winter. With her solar arrays dustier and atmospheric opacity higher than in ... more | .. |
 First Soyuz ready for liftoff from French Guiana The first Soyuz to take off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now at its launch pad. The rocket that will carry the first two Galileo navigation s ... more | .. |
 While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) seems to have gotten tired of waiting for NASA to commit to its share of the joint 2016/2018 Mars missions that were planned to lay the groundwork for an eventual del ... more |
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 New entrant certification strategy announced The U.S. Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and NASA announced Oct. 14 their strategy for certifying commercial launch vehicles that could compete for future contracts for space launch m ... more | .. |
 Space Exploration Technologies Ready to Compete for Upcoming DoD Launches Today the U.S. Air Force issued a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the NRO and NASA that serves as a joint agreement on the process they will use to allow new companies to compete to provide l ... more | .. |
  UChicago launches search for distant worlds Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of th ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder to play key role in global student space experiment competition A University of Colorado Boulder space center will play a key role in a new international contest being sponsored by YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures and several space agencies that challenges 14- ... 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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  Dwarf planet may not be bigger than Pluto The dwarf planet Eris, responsible for Pluto's demotion from planet status in 2006, is not bigger than Pluto and may even be smaller, French scientists say. ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM Announces Launch of AIS-Enabled Satellite ORBCOMM has announced the successful launch of VesselSat1, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG. VesselS ... more | .. |
 Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Van ... more | .. |
 Huge stakes riding on maiden Soyuz launch from Kourou Prestige and a multi-billion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soyuz rocket next Thursday when the Soviet-era workhorse launches from Europe's space base in South America. ... more |
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UChicago launches search for distant worlds Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of th ... more | .. |
  Temporal cloaks adjust light's throttle to hide an event in time Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating what has been described as a "history editor. ... more | .. |
 Messages from Mercury MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings were present ... more | .. |
  Caltech Event Marks 75th Anniversary of JPL Rocket Tests The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be celebrated with a special free, public screening of the new ... more |
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