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Backup Plans for TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 20, 2012 So far, so good. The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has been highly successful, with three astronauts travelling to the module and beginning work. In just a few days, a lot has been achieved. China has achieved another flawless flight for the Long March 2F rocket, which now sports even more improvements than its predecessors. The production- model Shenzhou spacecraft, which made an uncrewed test flight on the Shenzhou 8 mission, has supported its first crew. We have ... read more |
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 Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more | .. |
  A milestone in launcher preparations for Arianespace's fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 Initial assembly of the fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in preparations for a mission to loft a dual-p ... more | .. |
 First astronauts enter orbiting China space module Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network and a key step towards the nation's first space station. ... more | .. |
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  Did You Say 1.2 Billion Particles Per Month? If you want to understand the origin of the universe, you need a lot of power. That's exactly why the International Space Station is the perfect research platform for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ... more | .. |
  ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more | .. |
  Robot 'finger' more sensitive than human's Researchers in California say a robot equipped with a sensor to mimic the human fingertip has a touch more sensitive than a human's. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin ATC Delivers Flight Hardware For Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Engineers and scientists at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have completed delivery of key hardware subsystems for NASA's Magnetosphereic Multiscale mission (MMS). ... more |
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Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Pacific Island leaders back 'ocean of peace' at fraught summit
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 Boeing Completes CDR of MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite System Boeing and its supplier partners have completed the Critical Design Review of the MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite Communications System with their customer, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes ... more | .. |
 Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom ... more | .. |
 China astronauts enter space module for first time Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. ... more | .. |
  West must cut appetite for cars and TVs, says UN official Rich countries will have to stop the consumer high life as part of any deal to heal the world's social and environmental stresses, a top UN official said ahead of a key development summit this week. ... more |
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 Grand Finish For X-37B After a marathon 15-month mission in orbit, the second X-37B spaceplane has finally landed. Launched by the US Air Force on a semi-secret mission, the mission has apparently flown a successful missi ... more | .. |
 Flying to space is also women's work: Russian cosmonaut There are no jobs specifically for men or women, so flying to space is also women's work, former Soviet female cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya told Xinhua in an interview. Savitskaya, 63, who fl ... more | .. |
  Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... more | .. |
  X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lands at Vandenberg The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral ... more |
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Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough study
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  NASA Releases Workshop Data and Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5 Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Current findings and analysis data were reported at a May 29 works ... more | .. |
 Dawn Easing into its Final Science Orbit After successfully completing nearly five months scrutinizing the giant asteroid Vesta at its lowest orbit altitude, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin its final major science data-gathering phase at ... more | .. |
 Contingency plans to address 700 space scenarios China has designed contingency plans to address more than 700 emergencies during the Shenzhou-9 space mission, which includes both automated and manual docking between the spaceship and the target o ... more | .. |
 China's manned space mission "hits target": Russian expert The successful launching of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday proves again China's grasp of essential space techniques and shows Chinese vision on how to develop the space program with steady st ... more |
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 2nd Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5 ... more | .. |
 Robots get a feel for the world at USC Viterbi What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. But with the right sensors, actuators and software, robots can be given the sense of feel - or at least the ability to ... more | .. |
 China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more | .. |
 China develops new rocket engine China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu ... more |
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China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Boeing says will hire replacements for striking US defense workers
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 Liu Yang: China's first female astronaut As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut. ... more | .. |
 Robot learns language through 'conversation' with people A robot analogous to a child between 6 and 14 months old can develop rudimentary linguistic skills through interaction with a human participant, as reported June 13 in the open access journal PLoS O ... more | .. |
 Data From Voyager 1 Points To Interstellar Future Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has mark ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication Issues Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, first by Mars Odyssey orbiter going ... more |
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 Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential use with two other reaction wheels in a ... more | .. |
 Time Shifts for Tiangong Three astronauts will soon board China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory after the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docks with it. The first Chinese crew to fly in space in roughly four years includes China's firs ... more | .. |
 Major Liu Yang - a Chinese heroine in waiting? For the last five days Major Liu Yang, a 33 year old Air Force pilot, has been living with five colleagues, and a team of doctors and technical specialists, in a quarantine facility at the Jiuquan S ... more | .. |
China to send its first woman into space on Saturday China said Friday a female astronaut will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft when it launches on Saturday ahead of the country's first manned space docking. ... more |
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