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ESA's Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environmentParis, France (ESA) Jul 11, 2012 Next year's Hollywood film Gravity features George Clooney stranded in orbit by cascading space junk. The threat is genuine, with debris levels rising steadily. ESA's new Clean Space initiative is developing methods of preserving near-Earth space - and the terrestrial environment, too. Responding to public environmental concerns, Clean Space aims to reduce the environmental effect of Europe's space activities, cutting waste and pollution on Earth and in orbit. Industry is contributing to ESA's dra ... read more |
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  The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's l ... more | .. |
  ILS Proton Launches SES-5 For SES International Launch Services has successfully carried the SES-5 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton for SES of Luxembourg. This was the 21th SES satellite launched on ILS P ... more | .. |
 Satellite for SES Beginning Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that the SES-5 satellite, designed and built for SES was Monday and is now performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its solar arr ... more | .. |
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 Eutelsat and Arianespace pursue their longstanding collaboration with the signature of a new launch contract Consolidating a relationship now entering into its 30th year, Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the conclusion of a new launch services contract for a future Eutelsat satellite. ... more | .. |
 Cassini Flies High to View Saturn's Rings Again It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like those it is now enjoying of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angl ... more | .. |
 The Day Information Went Global Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed the world's first transatlantic telev ... more | .. |
  Space for dessert? All chefs know that preparing the perfect chocolate mousse is one part science and one part art. ESA's microgravity research is helping the food industry understand the science behind the foams foun ... 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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  New Horizons Doing Science in Its Sleep NASA's New Horizons, now almost 24 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, is back in hibernation, a slumbering state in which it will remain until January 2013. But hibernation aboard the spacec ... more | .. |
  Spaceflight may extend the lifespan of microscopic worm The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss ... more | .. |
  XCOR Aerospace And Midland Development Corp Announce New Commercial Spaceflight Research Center The Midland Development Corporation and XCOR Aerospace have jointly announced the establishment of XCOR's new Commercial Space Research and Development Center Headquarters that will be created over ... more | .. |
  The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust Imagine if the rings of Saturn suddenly disappeared. Astronomers have witnessed the equivalent around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652. Enormous amounts of dust known to circle the star ar ... more |
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  NASA Workshop Discusses How On-Orbit Robotic Satellite-Servicing Becomes Reality Envision a space with more options and increased capacity: a place where aging and ailing satellites could place a service call for a helpful boost to the right orbit, a quick repair, or a fuel top- ... more | .. |
 HI-C Sounding Rocket Mission Has Finest Mirrors Ever Made On July 11, NASA scientists will launch into space the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona, the million degree outer solar atmosphere. The instrument, called HI-C for ... more | .. |
 SMOS satellite measurements improve as ground radars switch off Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA's SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA's Aquarius mission, which measures ... more | .. |
  Scientists say NASA's 'new form of life' was untrue Two new scientific papers have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic. ... 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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  Opportunity Celebratres 3,000 Martian Days of Operation on the Surface of Mars! Opportunity has now exceeded 3,000 sols, or Martian days, of operation on the surface of Mars! The rover is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 29 ... more | .. |
 Final Six-Member Crew Selected for Mars Food Mission After receiving more than 700 applications, a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Cornell University have selected six individuals to make up the crew of a simulated Mars ... more | .. |
 Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be found, a new study suggests. That's with ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars images 'next best thing to being there' The US space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best thing to being" on the Red Planet. ... more |
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 Researchers Develop an Artificial Cerebellum than Enables Robotic Human-like Object Handling University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like precision. The cerebellum is the ... 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 | .. |
 Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be found, a new study suggests. That's with ... more | .. |
 China Beats Russia on Space Launches For the first time in the history of space exploration, China beat Russia on the number of space launches in a given period of time, a rocket engine manufacturer said on Wednesday. China condu ... 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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 Shenzhou mission sparks 'science fever' The launch and safe return of the Shenzhou IX spacecraft has ignited an outbreak of "popular science fever" in China, which provides an excellent opportunity to boost science awareness, according to ... more | .. |
 New Instrument Sifts Through Starlight to Reveal New Worlds An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of high ... more | .. |
 Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like "Men in Black 3" or ... more | .. |
 Planet-Forming Disk Turns Off Lights, Locks Doors That surprise you feel when your favorite store turns off its lights, locks up its doors, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, goes out of business? That's just how astronomers felt recently when a ... more |
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 Opportunity Uses Robotic Arm Tools on Rock Opportunity continues to explore the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, specifically the transition layer between Cape York and Meridiani Planum. Mars Odyssey has returned ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 ECA orbits EchoStar XVII and MSG-3 On Thursday, July 5, Arianespace successfully launched two satellites: the dedicated Internet satellite EchoStar XVII for the American operator Hughes Network Systems, and the MSG-3 weather satellit ... more | .. |
 Recognizing Telstar and the Birth of Global Communications Telstar, the satellite that made the world's first transmissions of live television possible in 1962, will be the subject of a program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum July 12. The ... more | .. |
 Butterfly ejecta and wrinkle ridges in Melas Dorsa On 17 April 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired im ... more |
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