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China's Tiangong 1 space station unveiled[url=http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-unveil...
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NASA has started detailed planning to obtain a sample of organic material from a small asteroid named 10195 (1999 RQ36) that regularly crosses Earth's orbit. "It's a treasure trove of organic material, so it holds clues to how Earth formed and life got started" - Joseph Nuth...
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The Cassini spacecraft
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The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday from the Madrid
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NASA Selects New Frontiers Mission Concept Study
NASA today announced a mission to fly to Jupiter will proceed to a preliminary design phase. The mission is called Juno, and it is the second in NASA's New Frontiers Program.
The mission will conduct a first-time, in-depth s...
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BepiColombo Mission
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BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' by the Agency’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in August 2013. BepiColombo is the next Eu...
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China sea launch platform
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China develops sea launches to boost space commerce China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official. Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science a...
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Gaia mission
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Chelmsford based e2v technologies is to build the world’s biggest digital camera as part of a space mission that will create the largest and most precise 3D map of the Milky Way to date.
The European Space Agency has contracted e2v to manufacture the 200 CCD (charge-coupled devices) ima...
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Long March V
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China plans to spend 7 - 8 years developing a new-generation large carrier rocket, called "Long March V", to be used for launching a space station. China's 120-ton class liquid oxygen/kerosene engine for the new-generation carrier rocket went through a whole-vehicle test in the m...
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Lunar colonies
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Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminium that...
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British space agency
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Britain 'needs its own space agency' Britain could send astronauts to the "final frontier" as the gulf between the dizzy expectations of further space exploration and the limited progress made since the first moon landing 40 years ago were highlighted by the Apollo 11 reunion yesterda...
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LISA mission
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Planetary scientists are all set to turn "noise" from the data obtained by NASA/ESA LISA satellites' mission into useful information about the mass of near-Earth asteroids. LISA is on a mission to detect gravitational waves - a warping of the space/time continuum that scientists hope...
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Chang'e-3 lunar orbiter
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China has completed creating a lunar rover, which will be sent to the moon by the Chang'e-3 lunar orbiter in 2013, the People's Daily Overseas Edition reported Tuesday. Read more
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Space Junk
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Parents all over the country just lost their street "cred" this week. We can never again utter the words "don't litter" to our offspring with the same authority. If the kids toss a used napkin out a window, drop a cup or piece of paper on the ground, or leave their remains from a pic...
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Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft
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NASA Selects Mission to Study Mars Atmosphere[url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/sep/HQ_08-2...
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Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
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China is likely to launch its first ever space telescope around 2011 as part of efforts to improve the country's capacity in astronomical sciences, it was revealed on Monday. The mission, highlighted with a Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, will be a milestone step in China's universe exploration...
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