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China's spacecraft comes back to EarthBeijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2011 China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII returned to Earth on Thursday, state media reported, after completing two space dockings that have pushed forward the nation's ambitious space programme. The vessel's re-entry module landed in the northern region of Inner Mongolia after it separated from its orbital and propelling modules just before entering Earth's atmosphere, the official Xinhua news agency said. Shenzhou VIII, which means "divine vessel" in Chinese, took off from northwest China on N ... read more |
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  Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap "Excited," "nervous," "terrified" - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally. ... more | .. |
  Mobile Launcher Moves to Launch Pad The mobile launcher is making the longest trip of its young life to begin a two-week series of structural tests at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In anticipation of ... more | .. |
  New Trio Welcomed Aboard Station, Gets to Work Expedition 29 has expanded to six crew members. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin docked the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft to the Poisk mini-research ... more | .. |
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 Maintaining Crew Health One Step at a Time While many of us may not like to exercise, imagine having to do it two hours every day. Astronauts on the International Space Station must exercise at least that much to stay fit. A new space statio ... more | .. |
  Orbital-Built Intelsat 18 Communications Satellite Completes In-Orbit Testing Orbital Sciences reports that the Intelsat 18 satellite has completed its in-orbit testing and has been handed over to the customer, Intelsat S.A. Intelsat 18 is to be operated at 180 degrees East l ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou-8 departs from in-orbit lab, ready for return China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 departed from the prototype space lab Tiangong-1 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, preparing for return to earth, a spokesperson for China's manned space program said. ... more | .. |
 Allianz and International Space Transport Association partner in space tourism industry Allianz Global Assistance and the International Space Transport Association (ISTA) have signed a unique partnership agreement in anticipation of the inevitable growth in space tourism and commercial ... more |
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  Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
 Yinghuo Was Worth It The loss of Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission has shocked the spaceflight community. There's been plenty of attention placed on this high-profile mission, but relatively little coverage of its piggyback ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch satellite for DIRECTV Latin America Arianespace and DIRECTV have announced a new launch contract for a satellite providing services for DIRECTV Latin America. The launch will take place in 2014 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ... more | .. |
 US honors astronauts for pioneering space flights The US Congress on Wednesday bestowed its highest civilian honor on four American space pioneers of the 1960s, marking the first time the Congressional Gold Medal has been awarded to astronauts. ... more |
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 Russian spacecraft delivers new crew to ISS A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked Wednesday with the International Space Station in the first Russian manned mission for five months after a spate of technical failures. ... more | .. |
  NASA Extends Messenger Mission NASA has announced that it will extend the Messenger mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The Messenger pr ... more | .. |
 Why China in space is a blessing to the world Mastery of know-how is not always solid until proven by repeated experiments. With a string of sophisticated maneuvers, docking, de-linking and re-docking, as part of its current Shenzhou-8 space mi ... more | .. |
 Raytheon and Petrofac Partner to Provide Water Survival Training at NASA Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC) and Petrofac Training Services, a member of the Petrofac group, have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver water survival training to the glo ... 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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 First Vega launch campaign aims for January liftoff The first Vega launch campaign began on Monday at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with the installation of the first stage on the pad. Europe's new small launcher is on track for its maiden flig ... more | .. |
  Spinning blood device set to safeguard astronaut health ESA has begun developing a new blood-testing device for astronauts on the International Space Station. A wide range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease should be diagnosable in moments from a ... more | .. |
  'Frustration' in Europe over joint Mars probe: NASA The United States has failed to commit to plans for an unmanned joint Mars mission with the European space agency, causing frustration abroad, top NASA officials told lawmakers on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Romanian accused of hacking NASA servers arrested A 26-year-old Romanian accused of hacking several servers of the US space agency NASA costing it some 500,000 dollars has been arrested, prosecutors said Tuesday. ... more |
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 New Crew Launches to Join Expedition 29 Expedition 29 crew members Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Dan Burbank are on their way to the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying the new trio launched from Ba ... more | .. |
  Lutetia: a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers have combined data from ESA's Rosetta s ... more | .. |
 Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the cha ... more | .. |
 Soyuz TMA-22 manned transportation spacecraft launched towards ISS In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS) and Russian commitments under this international project, a manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-22 was launched fr ... 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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Soyuz Docks At ISS, Hatch Opened A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked Wednesday at the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian space agency spokesman told AFP. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Modular Space Vehicle Completes Preliminary Design Review Northrop Grumman has completed on schedule the preliminary design review (PDR) for its modular space vehicle (MSV), allowing the program to proceed to its critical design review and closer to manufa ... more | .. |
China sets up management body for orbiting space lab China has established an operation committee for management of the country's first space lab module, Tiangong-1, during its two-year orbit of earth. The committee will deal with operations pla ... more | .. |
 China completes second space docking China completed its second space docking on Monday, state media reported, as it moves closer towards fulfilling its ambition to set up a manned space station. ... more |
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  Robot speeds up glass development Model by model, the electronics in a car are being moved closer to the engine block. This is why the materials used for the electronics must resist increasing heat - so the glass solder being used a ... more | .. |
 NASA readies launch of 'dream machine' to Mars The US space agency is getting ready to launch later this month the biggest, most expensive robotic vehicle ever built to explore Mars for signs of previous life there, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Rover Continues Studies While Heading North The seasonal plan for Opportunity is to winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater where northerly tilts are favorable for solar array energy production. As such, ... more | .. |
 Russia Mars probe considered lost: report Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday. ... more |
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