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China needs own space laws: OfficialBeijing (IANS) Mar 13, 2012 China needs its own law to protect its rights in outer space as well as regulate its domestic space activities, a top official has said. "China is among the very few countries that are active in space exercises but lack a space law," said Hu Hao, deputy commander-in-chief of the lunar exploration centre under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry of National Defence. Hu, also a deputy to parliament, the National People's Congress, said this during the ongoing annual legislative ... read more |
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  Space travel impacts eyes, brain A study of astronauts' eyes and brains shows that they are affected after a long space stint. This includes flattening of the rear of the eyeball, bulging of the optic nerve and changes in the ... more | .. |
  Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more | .. |
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 Most experienced US spacewalker retires A NASA astronaut who spent more hours walking in space than any other American and also set a record for the longest spaceflight mission has retired to join the private sector, the US space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
  New "pendulum" for the ytterbium clock The faster a clock ticks, the more precise it can be. Due to the fact that lightwaves vibrate faster than microwaves, optical clocks can be more precise than the caesium atomic clocks which presentl ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: Rembering a space 'Pioneer' Space probes and planetary orbiters have become so commonplace, launch of a new one, whether into our solar system or beyond, hardly causes a ripple in the public consciousness. ... more | .. |
  ILS Announces A New Contract For The ILS Proton Launch Of The Mexsat-1 Satellite International Launch Services (ILS) announces a new contract for launch of the MEXSAT-1 satellite on an ILS Proton for the Mexican government's Ministry of Communications and Transportation, the Sec ... more |
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  NASA exploring ways to clean up space debris Faced with increasing threats of space debris, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is actively exploring ways to clean up the outer space. Donald Kessler, an astrophysi ... more | .. |
 DARPA chief leaving for Google job Google on Monday confirmed that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chief Regina Dugan is taking a yet-to-be-revealed role at the Internet powerhouse. ... more | .. |
  Rep. Schiff Applauds Decision to Reject NASA Request to Divert Mars Funds Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, applauded the decision of Subcommittee Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) to reject a fiscal 2012 repr ... more | .. |
 Eye problems common in astronauts: study Brain and eye problems have surfaced in astronauts who spent more than a month in space, marking a potential setback to plans for longer deep space missions, a US study said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich - you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... more | .. |
 Andrews Space Contracted to Deliver 100 Series Command and Data Handling System for GEO Application Andrews Space (Andrews) has been contracted to deliver three integrated avionics suites based on its 100-Series avionics architecture for a Geosynchronous spacecraft application. The contract ... more | .. |
 Hot Meets Cold at New Deep-Sea Ecosystem: "Hydrothermal Seep" Decades ago, marine scientists made a startling discovery in the deep sea. They found environments known as hydrothermal vents, where hot water surges from the seafloor and life thrives without sunl ... more | .. |
 Astrium wins Helios through life support contract extension Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, has signed a through life support contract with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA Delegation generale de l'armement) to continue to be re ... 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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  Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely Rare Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. ... more | .. |
 Proposed nuclear clock may keep time with the Universe A proposed new time-keeping system tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 billion ... more | .. |
 Garafolo tests spacecraft seal to verify computer models An Akron researcher is designing computer prediction models to test potential new docking seals that will better preserve breathable cabin air for astronauts living aboard the International Space St ... more | .. |
 Winter Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue 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 |
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  What Next for X-37B On March 5, the X-37B robot spaceplane celebrated a birthday in orbit. This mysterious, semi-classified spacecraft is still up there, and it's not clear when it ... more | .. |
  Three for Tiangong The closer we get to the launch of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, the more confused space observers have become. We should have a firmer picture of the whole missi ... more | .. |
 Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more | .. |
 Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
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 Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five" Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. ... more | .. |
 Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Debris disks consist of fields of planetesimals and dust encircling stars. A few hundr ... more | .. |
 Magnetic moon In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more | .. |
 Star Comb joins quest for Earth-like planets If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it. Such a comb-a tool for precisely measuring frequenc ... more |
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 Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own' This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more | .. |
  ISS Plays Role in Vaccine Development Have you ever been afflicted with a case of food poisoning so awful it made you stop to wonder why no one's found a cure or sure-fire preventative for it yet? And chances are you or someone you know ... more | .. |
 Though Shuttle Retired, ISS Still Open For Business, Research Going Strong The pace of research aboard the International Space Station is accelerating, even though the space shuttles used to build it have been retired. The shuttles' huge cargo carrying capacity was needed ... more | .. |
 Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more |
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