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SmallSat Lab nurtures spaceport opportunities for NMSU students New Mexico State University has received $99,999 from the Air Force Research Laboratory to re-establish the SmallSat Laboratory in the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The SmallSat program was started by...
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New Indian Launch Site
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India to Have One More Satellite Launch Site Amid requests from various countries for launch of their satellites, India has decided to set up one more launch site to expand its capacity in this aspect. At a meeting held by the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary T K A Nair here to review performance o...
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India became the sixth member of the exclusive club to have developed a cryogenic stage in rocketry when it successfully tested a full-fledged cryogenic stage for 50 seconds at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu on Saturday evening.
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Taylor Planetarium
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Museum aims to make planetarium a star Not all the dinosaurs at the Museum of the Rockies are the "Jurassic Park" kind. The museum's Taylor Planetarium uses star-show technology that's so out of date, it was called a "dinosaur" at Thursday's annual meeting of museum members...
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Fuji Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 03:16:09 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, in the Fuji Region, 115-km SSW of Sigave, at a depth of 29.3 km.
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India Quake
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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the border region in India's northeast according to the country's meteorology department.
There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties from the quake, the epicentre was traced to the border between India's Arunachal Pradesh state and Bhutan.
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Washburn Observatory
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Historic Washburn Observatory prepares to reopen The Washburn Observatory, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's gate to the heavens, will open later this month following a careful two-year renovation that preserved its hilltop charm and historic significance. An open house to mark the priv...
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Aouda.X Mars suit
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Austrian Space Forum successfully tests Mars suit 'Aouda.X' in Spain - Maiden trip for ESA's Mars rover 'Eurobot' A team from the Austrian Space Forum (OEWF) will arrive back in Austria today following a week testing its analogue space suit "Aouda.X2 in the semi-desert of Rio Tinto in Spain. T...
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Reach for the Stars project
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Amateur astronomers take stargazing to Kabul A campaign is being launched to take astronomy to schools, orphanages and refugee camps throughout Afghanistan. Amateur astronomers, government officials and science communicators are behind the project, which will dole out star-gazing kits fi...
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VISTA: Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work A new telescope - VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) - has just started work at ESO's Paranal Observatory and has made its first release of pictures. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths and is t...
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Loanhead of Daviot
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The 10 stones and recumbent are set in a circle 19.5 m in diameter: the area had been levelled before the stones were erected. Around each standing stone are small stone settings, some of which contained cremation burials and fragments of deliberately smashed pottery. [url=http://www.aberdeens...
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Fellows of Royal Society
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Six scientists of Indian origin elected Fellows of Royal Society Bangalore-based biologist Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan and Professor Tejinder Singh Virdee of Imperial College, London, who was associated with the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider, are among six internati...
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Toyonian mass extinction event
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Half-a-billion years ago, as an explosion of life was starting to produce diverse new forms, the Antrim Plateau Volcanics of northern Australia began spewing massive amounts of lava.
Before it was over, lava floods had buried almost a fifth of Australia's area today.
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University of Alabama
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The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Alabama opened its doors to students on April 18, 1831, with the Reverend Alva Woods as President. Read more[video=http://www.youtube.co...
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
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CFHT's 30th Anniversary To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its first light, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope releases a 370 Megapixel deep sky image with half a million galaxies, an exclusive illustrated essay on its past and current achievements, and new wallpapers of the telescope. [url...
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