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Europe delighted as new rocket notches up successKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Feb 13, 2012 Europe on Monday successfully launched a new lightweight rocket carrying a test payload, culminating a more than 12-year quest to master the entire range of space launchers. Cheers, tears of relief and even a soccer-style chant greeted the maiden flight of Vega, a billion-dollar bid for a stake in the market to launch small satellites. The 81-minute mission was a "qualification" flight carrying nine scientific satellites, aimed at proving a rocket incorporating several major innovations, enginee ... read more |
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  NASA kills Mars deal with Europe The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more | .. |
 Scientists say Obama Mars cuts to hit research The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more | .. |
 ESA's new Vega launcher scores success on maiden flight Vega, ESA's new launch vehicle, is ready to operate alongside the Ariane 5 and Soyuz launchers after a successful qualification flight this morning from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ... more | .. |
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 No future for Mars? The second half of February brings news on the proposed sum of NASA's budget for 2013 fiscal year. Even though President Obama hasn't made the request yet, it is already known that the planetary pro ... more | .. |
 Obama budget slashes Mars exploration The budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama for fiscal year 2013 would slash $226 million from the US space agency's Mars exploration program, likely axing a planned partnership with Europe. ... more | .. |
  Europe's ATV space ferry set for launch to Space Station Fuel, water, oxygen, air and most of the dry cargo have been loaded into ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, as the 9 March liftoff approaches. Since arrival at Europe's Sp ... more | .. |
 NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientists US President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europe on Mars exploration, scientists said Thursday. ... more |
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Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile'
China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
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 Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications ... more | .. |
 New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing the thr ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Energy Levels Decreasing As Winter Takes Hold Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more | .. |
 NASA Seeks Game Changing Technology Payloads for Suborbital Research Flights NASA is seeking proposals for small technology payloads that could fly on future NASA-sponsored suborbital flights. These future flights will travel to the edge of space and back, testing the innova ... more |
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  New Horizons on Approach: 22 AU Down, Just 10 to Go Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto, coming to within 10 AU of its main t ... more | .. |
  The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the 504 km-diameter moon are ... more | .. |
 Venezuela Mars mission after 2030 Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Friday his country would be able to send a mission to Mars after 2030. "Venezuela has stepped onto the road to space," Chavez said on national television. ... more | .. |
 April new date for SpaceX capsule launch Private space company SpaceX says late April is its new target for a launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. ... 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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  Europe stakes billion-dollar bet on new rocket A pencil-slim rocket is scheduled to lift into space from South America on Monday, carrying a billion-dollar bet that Europe can grab a juicy slice of the market to place satellites in low orbit. ... more | .. |
 Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Lab Computer Issue Resolved Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it. The fix involves changing how cert ... more | .. |
 Spectra Systems Products on Their Way to Mars Spectra Systems, a technology company that provides banknote security features to many of the world's central banks, has one of its products on the way to Mars as part of the NASA Curiosity rover mi ... more |
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  Astrogenetix and NASA Sign Agreement to Continue Developing Medicines in Space to Save Lives on Earth Astrogenetix has entered into a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA that commits to providing the critical resources needed to continue utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) and to further ... more | .. |
 Astronaut Don Pettit Shares Passion for Science from Space NASA and the American Physical Society (APS) have partnered to share unique videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans from around the world. NASA astronau ... more | .. |
  Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and ... more | .. |
  Space tours to the Moon - why not? The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced pla ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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  Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d ... more | .. |
 Sierra Nevada Delivers Flight Test Vehicle Structure One of NASA's industry partners, Sierra Nevada(SNC), recently delivered the primary structure of its first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company's facility in Louisville, Colo., where it w ... more | .. |
  Japan scientist makes 'Avatar' robot A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" one step closer to reality. ... more | .. |
 Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle is integrated on Ariane 5 The third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for launch by Arianespace was installed atop its Ariane 5 at the Spaceport, marking one of the final steps in preparations for a March 9 liftoff o ... more |
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  China publishes high-resolution full moon map China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma ... more | .. |
 Astronauts seen and heard Seeing ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on the International Space Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing fro ... more | .. |
 NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a c ... more | .. |
 SpaceX to Launch AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 in 2014 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in ... more |
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