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Russia May Sink Satellite Salvage Plan For Antarctic Internet ConnectionJindabyne, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2012 A modern, state of the art communications satellite stranded last August in a useless orbit will constitute a double failure if Russian officials de-orbit the spacecraft as planned, according to an expert from the team hoping to salvage the spacecraft. The Russian Express-AM4 satellite, built by Astrium, was designed for geosynchronous orbit, but stranded in a six hour elliptical orbit at an inclination of 51 deg by a Proton Briz-M upper stage failure last August. Underwriters later declared ... read more |
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  Mars on a Shoestring It's no secret that Mars exploration is in trouble at NASA. Budgetary axes have swung, creating a potentially bleak future for missions and results. After the Curiosity rover mission (currently in f ... more | .. |
  Near-miss asteroid will return next year When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet - but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer than many satellites, highlighting the g ... more | .. |
  Ecliptic RocketCams Capture Action on ISS During Initial Phase of Robotic Refueling Mission Demo Six rugged RocketCam color video cameras captured close-up views of the first phase of NASA's teleoperated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) demonstration, conducted March 7-9 on the exterior of the I ... more | .. |
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  Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Hot-Fires Launch Abort Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, which is supporting The Boeing Company during the development of its CST-100 spacecraft in NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2), completed mission-durati ... more | .. |
  Russia to launch new ISS module in 2013 as scheduled Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos denied reports Friday of a delay to the launch of the new multi-purpose Nauka lab for the International Space Station (ISS). "The launch has been planne ... more | .. |
  China's Lunar Docking Manufacturing has begun on China's first lunar lander, Chang'e 3, which is expected to launch in 2013. This spacecraft will release a rover onto the surface. If all goes well, we can expect the Ch ... more | .. |
  China to get lunar soil Preparations are on in China to launch a moon mission and bring about two kilogram of lunar soil samples to Earth, People's Daily reported Friday. The mission is part of the third phase of the ... more |
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 India's Mars mission gets Rs.125 crore India's mission to Mars got Rs.125 crore (over $24 million) in the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday. The allocation was a part of the total plan outla ... more | .. |
 NASA and CSA Robotic Operations Advance Satellite Servicing NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tas ... more | .. |
  NASA Viz App Will Now Take Users Across the Universe NASA's Science Mission Directorate is organized into four disciplines: Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics and Earth science. This structure has put NASA scientists at the forefront of discovery a ... more | .. |
  Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather ... more |
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 Prolonged Space Travel Causes Brain and Eye Abnormalities in Astronauts Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space revealed optical abnormalities similar to those that can occur in intracran ... more | .. |
 NASA Sub-Scale Solid-Rocket Motor Tests Material for Space Launch System A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ... more | .. |
 Two New NASA LRO Videos: See Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new videos. One video takes viewers thro ... more | .. |
  North Korea to invite observers to satellite launch North Korea said Saturday it would invite foreign experts and journalists to observe a satellite launch which has sparked widespread condemnation and US threats that it could jeopardise food aid. ... 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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 Skydiver in 4-minute free-fall jump An Austrian who made a free-fall jump from 71,581 feet into New Mexico that lasted nearly 4 minutes plans to make a 120,000-foot "space jump," officials said. ... more | .. |
 Robots in record-distance ocean swim Four wave-powered robots have set a record by swimming more than 3,200 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, their U.S.-based developer said. ... more | .. |
 Europe hopes to save Mars mission Member state delegations to the European Space Agency said Thursday the agency will press ahead with its 2016 and 2018 Mars missions despite funding problems. ... more | .. |
 Russia Drafts New Space Exploration Strategy Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft of a space exploration strategy until 2030, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday. The ambitious program ... more |
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 The Arianespace "Power of Three" strategy is spotlighted at Washington's Satellite 2012 event Arianespace's new "Power of Three" theme is making its industry debut at this week's Satellite 2012 event in Washington, D.C., where the company is underscoring the synergy, availability, reliabilit ... more | .. |
 China's second moon orbiter outperforms design China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has performed outstandingly, a Chinese lawmaker close to the lunar exploration project said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 has more than achieved the goals set ... more | .. |
 Why do We See the Man in the Moon? There's something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the "Man in the Moon" who faithfully accompanies us through life. The synchronous rotation of the Moon - it tak ... more | .. |
 Space Systems Loral Provides on Time Delivery of NASA Propulsion System Space Systems/Loral has completed on time delivery of a new propulsion system to NASA. The propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft was delivered to NA ... 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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 DARPA Makes Room On ISS For Programmers Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. The absence of gravity presents a significant challenge for precision robotic maneuvering and operati ... more | .. |
 China starts manufacturing third lunar probe China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe project. As a key part of the se ... more | .. |
  Herschel's new view on giant planet formation Astronomers have used ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to observe 2M1207, a peculiar brown dwarf with its own circumstellar disc and a planetary companion five times more massive than Jupiter. These ... more | .. |
 Sea Launch to Launch the Intelsat 27 Spacecraft Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilizing the highly-p ... more |
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 Sea Launch Selected to Launch Eutelsat's W5A Spacecraft Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its EUTELSAT 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. The launch will occur from Sea Launch's laun ... more | .. |
 Sea Launch Signs Two Satellite Launch Contracts The Sea Launch consortium said on Monday it has signed contracts on the launch of a European and a U.S. telecoms satellites. The company is expected to launch the Eutelsat 70B communications s ... more | .. |
 Roboticists Gear Up For Horizon 2020 THE European Robotics Forum, the largest Robot industry and academia gathering in the EU, was held this year at Odense, Denmark. Delegates heard a renewed commitment to Robotic R and D from the Euro ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes PDR of Commercial Crew Space Transportation Vehicle Boeing successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the company's integrated Commercial Crew Space Transportation system, which includes the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacec ... more |
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