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Singer Sarah Brightman to be next space touristMoscow (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 British soprano and crossover singer Sarah Brightman announced in Moscow on Wednesday that she will blast off as a space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS). The singer, 52, known for her roles in West End musicals such as "The Phantom of the Opera", would be the first tourist to go into space after a hiatus in the space tourism programme since 2009. "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a news conference in Moscow. The schedule for her flight "will be ... read more |
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  Candels Team Discovers Dusty Galaxies At Ancient Epoch With Hubble Space Telescope Dust is an annoyance in everyday life, but an important building block of stars and planets. As such, astronomers need to understand how cosmic dust forms over time - it's an integral step in figuri ... more | .. |
  Curiosity Update: Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrume ... more | .. |
  Assembled and poised for launch: Soyuz is ready with its two Galileo navigation satellites Arianespace's next medium-lift Soyuz is now fully assembled in the launch zone for its upcoming Spaceport mission, ready for the final steps leading to a Friday afternoon liftoff from French Guiana ... more | .. |
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 Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like s ... more | .. |
  ATK Awarded $50 Million Contract for NASA's Advanced Concept Booster Development for SLS ATK (ATK) has announced that NASA has awarded the company a $50 million contract to complete engineering development and risk reduction tests as part of the Advanced Concept Booster Development for ... more | .. |
 Interstellar Travelers of the Future May be Helped by MU Physicist's Calculations Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star system ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester have been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the feasibility of using dead stars to n ... more |
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Sharp rise in GPS jamming in aviation over Baltic Sea: Sweden
Putin vows to carry on fighting in Ukraine, if peace deal not reached
Israel vows to inflict biblical plagues on Yemen's Huthis | .. |
  Sea and space meet for business in Ireland A new ESA project led by Irish industry is putting satellite data to use for monitoring the quality of coastal water. The Irish minister for Research and Innovation is supporting this initiative, in ... more | .. |
 Electromagnetic Interference/Capability testing and structural dynamics testing completed for LDCM Orbital Sciences Corporation recently completed Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. ... more | .. |
 Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration An elevator to transport people to the moon, an inflatable habitat for living in space, a sleek new spacesuit for a stroll on Mars: These are some of the fascinating exhibits in Beyond Planet Earth: ... more | .. |
 Dead stars could be cosmic 'GPS' Dead stars could be the future of spacecraft navigation, replacing earth-based systems with a cosmic "global positioning system," British researchers say. ... more |
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 HorizonSat Taps ASC Signal for Antennas to Support New Teleports ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a contract by HorizonSat Teleports GmbH, a subsidiary of HorizonSat. HorizonSat is a major provider of satellite services located in the United Arab Emirates, ... more | .. |
  ChangE-2 Mission To Lagrange L2 Point Last week, the 63rd International Astronautical Congress was held in Naples, Italy. One of the more interesting papers addresses the recent Chinese Chang'e-2 mission to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange poi ... more | .. |
First Scoopful A Success On the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012),NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its soil scoop for the first time, collecting a scoopful of sand and powdery material at the "Rocknest" site ... more | .. |
Checking a Bright Object on the Ground Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright ... more |
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Pixxel expands Firefly fleet advancing global hyperspectral satellite imaging
Metop SGA1 begins delivering atmospheric data weeks after launch
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  Worldwide patent for a Spanish stroke rehabilitation robot Robotherapist 3D, a robot which aids stroke patients' recovery, is to be brought to market by its worldwide patent holder, a spin-off company from the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (Alicante, ... 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 | .. |
  NASA Celebrates Milestone Liftoff NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell celebrated the successful liftoff of a landmark cargo mission to the International Space Station tonight as a SpaceX Dragon spa ... more | .. |
 Austrian's edge-of-space jump aborted due to winds Strong winds forced Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner to abort his attempt Tuesday at a record-breaking leap to Earth from the edge of space. ... more |
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  Curious About Life: Interview with Pan Conrad The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
Austrian eyes record jump from edge of space in US An Austrian daredevil is hoping to make an unprecedented leap from the edge of space Tuesday, setting records as he breaks the speed of sound in freefall in the skies above the US state of New Mexico. ... more | .. |
 Strathclyde takes the lead in space research Academics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are set to investigate the removal of space debris and deflection of asteroids - leading the first research-based training network of its kind i ... more | .. |
Meeting of heads of ESA and China Manned Space Agency Wang Zhaoyao, Director General of the China Manned Space Agency, accompanied by the first Chinese female astronaut, Liu Yang, met ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain at the Agency's headquarte ... more |
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Beijing shows off drones, missiles and lasers in military parade
New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
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 NASA and International Partners Approve Year Long ISS Stay NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed ... more | .. |
 Year on ISS planned ahead of manned Mars mission NASA and the Russian space agency plan to send an international crew to the ISS for a year. The extended mission, if it succeeds, may bring scientists a step closer to manned flights to Mars and bey ... more | .. |
Mars rover finds 'bright object' NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered a "bright object" in the red soil of Mars that might be a part of the robotic explorer that broke off, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
  Asteroid fragments could hint at the origin of the solar system The tiny pieces of rock - at 50-100 micrometers smaller than a human hair - have been captured from asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese mission Hayabusa. They were carefully unpacked by experts at the ... more |
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Deep Impact Spacecraft Completes Rocket Burn NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a firing of its onboard rocket motors earlier today. The maneuver began at 1 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. EDT), lasted 71 seconds, and changed its velocity by 4.5 mph (2 ... more | .. |
 Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system Pristine material that matches comets in our own Solar System have been found in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Twelve-million-year-old Be ... more | .. |
 Ice-clad beauty on the 'Silver Island' of Mars On 8 June 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 | .. |
 The Hunt for Clay Minerals Continues Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned ... more |
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