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Flying to rendezvous with Tiangong-1Jiuquan, China (XNA) Nov 02, 2011 About 1.5 km from a launch pad in the deserts of northwest China, crowds of people observed a rocket with reverence, waiting hours through the dark for the moment when the spacecraft departed for the heavens in a brilliant burst of light and sound. At the vast Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft was comfortably seated atop a modified Long March CZ-2F rocket, illuminated by hundreds of lights at the launch pad. Crowds of spectators waited early Tuesday morning ... read more |
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  Arianespace's no. 2 Soyuz begins taking shape for launch from the Spaceport in French Guiana Preparations for Arianespace's second Soyuz mission from French Guiana are moving forward as assembly and checkout of the vehicle continue at the Spaceport. Its basic three-stage launcher is now tak ... more | .. |
  Virgin Galactic selects second pilot Space tourism company Virgin Galactic says it has selected a U.S. Air Force test pilot to helm its passenger-carrying space planes into suborbital space. ... more | .. |
  Israel test fires rocket-propulsion system: ministry Israel on Wednesday successfully tested a rocket-propulsion system from a military base in the centre of the country, a defence ministry official said. ... more | .. |
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  Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars. ... more | .. |
 For Chinese orbiter, the chase is on For the first time, an orbiter China sends into space has a completely new mission: to rendezvous and dock with another one. At 5:58 a.m. Tuesday, a 58.3-meter-long upgraded Long March-2F rocket, ca ... more | .. |
 NASA Signs Agreement with Space Florida to Reuse Kennedy Facilities In an innovative agreement that will create new jobs, NASA has announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3, the Space Sh ... more | .. |
 What Goes Up Must Come Down As Orion Crew Vehicle Development Continues NASA's Langley Research Center completed another successful test of the Orion spacecraft's landing capabilities in their Hydro Impact Basin. While workers prepared the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) ... more |
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AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE
Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom | .. |
 NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality Read the 'CuttingEdge' newsletter for more about technology developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Tractor beams - the ability to trap and move objects using laser light - are the stuff of ... more | .. |
  Battered asteroid may have warm core On July 10, 2010, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe flew by the asteroid 21 Lutetia, which at the time was the largest asteroid ever to have been visited by a spacecraft. The fly-by oc ... more | .. |
 Mars Express observations temporarily suspended Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated that w ... more | .. |
  Japan's Toyota unveils nursing robots Car giant Toyota on Tuesday unveiled nursing and healthcare robots aimed at helping the frail and the elderly, as the company seeks to capitalise on Japan's ageing society. ... more |
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 China mulls over sending female "taikonauts" into space China is considering sending female astronauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday. Two female astronauts have been s ... more | .. |
 Heads "up" for Chinese approach to key space maneuver Docking may be a decades-old space technology in the eyes of veteran aerospace watchers and fans, but seeing how China is going to do it will be a new experience. China launched Shenzhou-8 Tue ... more | .. |
 Aerospace officials confident in space docking despite degree of difficulty Aerospace officials are confident of a successful space rendezvous and docking between orbiters, despite the inherent challenges and risks, a spokeswoman for China's manned space program said at a p ... more | .. |
China's first manual space docking hopefully 2012 China plans to fulfill its first ever manual space docking by 2012, probably with women astronauts. Between the two spacecraft launches, which are scheduled both in 2012 for space docking attempts, ... 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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 China to conduct another manned space mission by 2012 A China manned space program spokeswoman said here Monday that China is going to conduct another manned space mission by 2012. Spokeswoman Wu Ping said at a press briefing Monday morning that ... more | .. |
 China's satellite launch base upgraded ahead of Shenzhou-8 mission China upgraded its satellite launch center in the northwest Gobi desert to ensure that the launch of the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, went smoothly, a senior engineer said Sunday. Beijing Special En ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Lutetia Revealed In Stunning Detail ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta's fleeting flyby also suggest that this ... more | .. |
 A global discussion: directions for space science research Understanding osteoporosis, perfecting vaccines and developing new alloys all share one thing: they are just some of the many scientific fields that have advanced significantly through research perf ... more |
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 China launches unmanned Shenzhou 8 for first space docking China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
  Russian Progress space freighter undocks from ISS Russia's unmanned Progress M-10M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday for its return to Earth. The freighter detached from the platform at about 13:04 Mos ... more | .. |
Look, no hands -- robot uses gecko power to climb walls Inspired by the gecko, scientists have developed a tank-like robot that can scale vertical walls and crawl over ledges without using suction cups, glue or other liquid bonds to adhere to the surface. ... more | .. |
German-Chinese SIMBOX ready for launch A very special space breakthrough is approaching; on 31 October at 23:00 CET (1 November at 06:00 local time) the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 will be launched on board a Long March rocket from the ... 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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 Vega getting ready for exploitation The Flight Readiness Review (FFR) for the Vega launcher was held in Frascati, Italy on October 13 and 14. Based on this review, the Director-General of the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to sta ... more | .. |
Sweet Dreams for Tiangong At some point in 2012, astronauts will board China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1. This will probably mark the longest Chinese human spaceflight so far, with astronauts expected to live on boa ... more | .. |
 Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch The 520 days of isolation for the Mars500 crew will end on 4 November, when the hatch of their 'spacecraft' is opened for the first time since June last year. Scientists eagerly await the final samp ... more | .. |
 The Lutetia asteroid - a prehistoric relic New information has been published about the Lutetia asteroid that was observed in 2010 and its properties. The analysis of the data collected during the spacecraft fly-by indicates that Lutetia is ... more |
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 China to launch spacecraft on Tuesday: Xinhua China said Monday it will launch an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
 NASA in Final Preparations for Nov 8 Asteroid Flyby NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's o ... more | .. |
 MSU satellite orbits the Earth after early morning launch Montana State University now has a satellite in space, and it's already talking. Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m. Mountain time, a student-built satellite called Explorer-1 [Prime] roared ... more |
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