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Record space junk cloud could threaten ISS: reportMoscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2012 The explosion of a failed Russian rocket upper stage has created a space junk cloud of 500 pieces which could threaten the International Space Station, a report said Thursday. In one of the biggest orbital debris incidents of recent years the Briz-M rocket stage exploded in mid-October, two months after causing a key launch of telecom satellites to fail in the latest embarrassing mishap for the embattled Russian space programme. "Right now there are about 500 pieces of debris that were creat ... read more |
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  New crew docks with ISS: Russia A new crew of two Russians and one American successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, Russian mission control said. ... more | .. |
  S. Korea readies third bid to join global space club South Korea hopes to launch a satellite into space on Friday in its third attempt to join an elite club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India. ... more | .. |
  Astrium presents results of its study into automatic landing near the Moon's south pole What technologies are needed to ensure a safe, accurate Moon landing and in-situ lunar research? Astrium is currently investigating this question in Lunar Lander studies for the European Space Agenc ... more | .. |
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 ISS Crew Gets Ready for New Expedition 33 Trio The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 33 crew members, Flight Engineers Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, is poised for a docking to the Poisk module at 8:35 a.m. ... more | .. |
  China makes progress in spaceflight research China has made breakthroughs in researching spaceflight dynamics, a top scientist said Wednesday. Progress has been made in spaceflight trajectory computation and analysis, orbital tracking, t ... more | .. |
 China to launch 11 meteorological satellites by 2020 China will launch 11 meteorological satellites before 2020 to boost the country's weather monitoring network, according to the country's meteorological satellite development plan (2011-2020) release ... more | .. |
 Orbital Awarded Contract by USAF For EAGLE Spacecraft Platform Orbital Sciences, one of the world's leading space technology companies, has announced that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has awarded the company a $32 mil ... 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 | .. |
  Space daredevil Baumgartner is 'officially retired' Felix Baumgartner, the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, says he is giving up being a daredevil but now aims to help others in trouble. ... more | .. |
 European mission to search for moon water A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches three astronauts to ISS A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 New ISS Crew Confirmed The crew for the next mission to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday has been confirmed. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, as well as NASA astronaut Kevi ... more |
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 Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian count ... more | .. |
S. Korea plans third rocket launch bid Friday South Korea plans to make its third attempt to join the exclusive club of countries capable of placing a satellite in space on Friday with a rocket launch from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. ... more | .. |
  Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and launch ... more | .. |
 Patience for Tiangong We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably several months away from the next exped ... 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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  Valles Marineris - the largest canyon in the Solar System Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions - at over 21 kilometres in height, ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. The rove ... more | .. |
  Training Your Robot the PaR-PaR Way Teaching a robot a new trick is a challenge. You can't reward it with treats and it doesn't respond to approval or disappointment in your voice. For researchers in the biological sciences, however, ... 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 |
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 How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind the Seven Minutes of Terror, just imagi ... more | .. |
  New small satellite will study super-Earths for ESA Studying planets around other stars will be the focus of the new small Science Programme mission, Cheops, ESA announced Friday. Its launch is expected in 2017. Cheops - for CHaracterising ExOP ... more | .. |
 Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mine ... more | .. |
 Rover eyes 'man-made' objects in Martian dirt NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday. ... 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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 Kennedy Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities With satellites playing increasingly important roles in everyday life, NASA is developing the technology to build Earth-orbiting, roving "service stations" capable of extending the life of these spa ... more | .. |
  Preventing infection on long flights The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that micr ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Remotec to Begin Delivering Titus Robot in December Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) subsidiary Remotec Inc. will begin deliveries in December of Titus TM, the newest and smallest member of its Andros TM line of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV ... more | .. |
  Curious About Life: Interview with Jen Eigenbrode 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 |
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 J-2X Engine Offers A Powerful Line Up Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as work continues on the Space Launch System. ... more | .. |
  At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, Ne ... more | .. |
 ISS Orbit to be Adjusted for Next Spacecraft Specialists of the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center will on Wednesday carry out a maneuver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station, a spokesman for the center said. ... more | .. |
 Most Planetary Systems are 'Flatter than Pancakes' Our solar system looks like many others, "flatter than pancakes," report UCLA astronomers who were able to statistically determine the properties of planetary systems using the latest data from NASA ... more |
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