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Wanted: Habitable MoonsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2012 As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satellites that could hold water on their surface, if the parent planet circles close enough to its sun. When the Kepler science team announced the discovery of 1235 planetary candidates in February 2010, the candidates included 37 Neptune-sized planets and 10 Jupiter-sized planets within their star's habitabl ... read more |
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  Ariane 5, Soyuz, Vega: Three world-changing launch vehicles After confirming its world leadership in 2011, Arianespace is now ramping up for operations in 2012. It aims to carry out seven Ariane 5 launches, five Soyuz launches and the first Vega launch. ... more | .. |
  'Mini moons' may surround Earth Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
  China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more | .. |
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  Opportunity Well Positioned For Another Winter On Mars Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op ... more | .. |
  Successful Compatibility Testing of UHF Hosted Payload on Intelsat-22 It's pretty cool to think about the power of satellite communications (SATCOM), and the advantages it provides for our military customers. What's definitely not cool is the fact that interoperabilit ... more | .. |
  Dawn Wraps Up A Stunning Year Of Asteroid Exploration Dawn concludes 2011 more than 40 thousand times nearer to Vesta than it began the year. Now at its lowest altitude of the mission, the bold adventurer is conducting its most detailed exploration of ... more | .. |
 Satellites: Europe's Arianespace sets 13 launches for 2012 European satellite launch operator Arianespace said on Thursday it had scheduled 13 missions for 2012, the first year in which it would deploy rockets in all three categories of payload. ... more |
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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 | .. |
  2011 in Polish astronautics The year 2011 was very important for the space industry development in Poland. This article contains a short summary of most important Polish space-related events. b>Poland to join ESA br> /b ... more | .. |
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New computer model explains lakes and storms on Titan Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more | .. |
 Smoke Particles Are Not All the 'SAME' Where there's smoke, you need a functioning smoke detector that can tell the difference between, say, smoke particles and dust. Yet in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station ... more |
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 Magnetically-levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. ... more | .. |
 Ecliptic Shoots for Moon at End of a Record Year The year 2011 was a record year of launch activity for Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation and its RocketCam product family, with a total of 17 RocketCam systems successfully launched-12 onboard variou ... more | .. |
 Through hardship to the stars "Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January. Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus ... more | .. |
 Reality Check for Indian Astronauts India's decision to stretch out its plans for an indigenous astronaut launch to 2020 or beyond will probably disappoint some. It's a long way in the future, but the decision is an unavoidable realit ... 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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  Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. ... more | .. |
 Stranded Mars probe could fall to Earth in 11 days: report Fragments of Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt could fall to Earth on January 15, the spokesman of Russia's military space forces told Russian news agencies on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Leaping lizards tip tails for soft landing Jumping lizards adjust the position of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dinosaurs probably did likewise. ... more | .. |
 Navy Researchers Investigate Small-Scale Autonomous Planetary Explorers Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers ... more |
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 Subaru's Sharp Eye Confirms Signs of Unseen Planets in the Dust Ring of HR 4796 A The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National ... more | .. |
 India lags China in research, complains PM India's prime minister on Tuesday said the country was not spending enough on scientific research, meaning it lagged badly behind regional rival China. ... more | .. |
 Aristarchus Spectacular! The Aristarchus plateau is one of the most geologically diverse places on the Moon: a mysterious raised flat plateau, a giant rille carved by enormous outpourings of lava, fields of explosive volcan ... more | .. |
 Moon mission on the horizon Preliminary research on a "giant leap" to the moon has been included in the government's plans for the next five years, according to a white paper issued on Thursday. The white paper, China's Space ... 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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 China sets up state-level aerospace research institute A research institute focusing on the development of the country's aerospace engineering technologies was jointly founded by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Aerospace Science and Tec ... more | .. |
 Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. But no one expected a 13-mile high mountain, two ... more | .. |
 SSC supports simultaneous launch of Elisa, Pleiades 1A and SSOT SSC has successfully finalized its launch support to the European space industry leader Astrium and the French space agency CNES for the six satellites that were simultaneously launched 17 December ... more | .. |
 Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found ... more |
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 Voyager Goes Where No Human-Made Vehicle Has Gone Before No human-made object is further out in space than NASA's Voyager I, which is currently near the edge of our Solar System, more than 33 lighthours - the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Helps Nasa Place Two Spacecraft Into Lunar Orbit Both of NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft were successfully inserted into orbit around the Earth's moon. The mission will analyze the internal structure and gr ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Positioned at Candidate Site for Winter Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north ... more | .. |
Two NASA probes both in lunar orbit The second of two NASA lunar probes on a mission to study the Moon's inner core so scientists can better understand the origins of planets went into orbit Sunday as planned, the US space agency said. ... more |
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