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The Mars Express spacecraft has deployed the first of three booms that comprise its Marsis radar, which is to look for water within the Red Planet. At 1430 GMT on 4th May, a command was sent to release the boom, which forms one half of Marsis' primary antenna. The primary antenna's second boom is now due...
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Chinese space station
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Buoyed by the success of its first spacewalk, China on Sunday set its sights on launching a space lab in 2011 and establishing a space station in 2020. China aims to set up a space station in 2020 and before that it will launch a "simple" space lab in 2011, Wang Zhaoyao, a spokesman of the count...
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Stornoway Spaceport
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HIAL not pursuing Stornoway Spaceport The Board of Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd, who own and operate Stornoway Airport, are not pursuing establishment of a UK Spaceport in the Western Isles. Read more
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Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
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In 2012, Vega will carry ESAs Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. A new video with computer generated animations of the vehicle and its mission is now available. Part of...
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NASA has quietly released photos and video of a 31 July parachute test for its future Orion astronaut capsule that didn't go so well: the mockup capsule hit the ground pretty hard. Unsurprisingly, some have jumped on this, claiming that NASA is trying to cover up a failure. The full story is a bit more...
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NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Observatory-1 measured the `cosmic low-energy background` in the late 1970s. The X-rays and gamma ray radiation is thought to come from very distant, supermassive black holes.
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Jem-Euso Mission
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Title: The Jem-Euso Mission Authors: Yoshiyuki Takahashi, the JEM-EUSO Collaboration JEM-EUSO is a space science mission to explore extreme energies and physics of the Universe. Its instrument will watch the dark-side of the earth and will detect UV photons emitted from the extensive air showe...
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Solar Dynamics Observatory
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NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. on July 9. The spacecraft left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., on July 7, where it was built and te...
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WISE Satellite
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WISE is a NASA-funded scientific research project that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies.
NASA SAYS: 'BUILD I...
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The Swift satellite
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The Swift satellite, is pinpointing the location of distant enigmatic flashes, called gamma-ray bursts, that appear to signal the births of black holes.
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Title: Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A Probe of Extragalactic Background Light from Reionisation Authors: Asantha Cooray, James J. Bock, Mitsunobu Kawada, Brian Keating, Andrew Lange, Dae-Hee Lee, Louis Levenson, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, Tom Renbarger, , Ian Sul...
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Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will now launch on 2 November 2009. The new November launch date follows a rescheduling of th...
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Aircraft designer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne rocket plane made history in 2004 when it made three flights into space, two of them five days apart, to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first privately financed, privately built spacecraft.
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Laser orbital debris removal
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Title: Removing Orbital Debris with Lasers Authors: Claude R. Phipps, Kevin L. Baker, Brian Bradford, E. Victor George, Stephen B. Libby, Duane A. Liedahl, Bogdan Marcovici, Scot S. Olivier, Lyn D. Pleasance, James P. Reilly, Alexander Rubenchik, David N. Strafford, Michael T. Valley Orbital d...
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Arsat-1 satellite
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Arianespace to launch Argentine satellite Arsat-1 Following an international call for tenders, Argentine satellite operator ARSAT has chosen Arianespace to launch its Arsat-1 satellite. Arianespace announced today that it has signed the launch Service & Solutions contract with Argent...
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