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Experts select future REXUS/BEXUS experiments Following a workshop, held 3-5 February at the European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, 10 student teams from ESA Member States and Co-operating States have been selected to fly their experiments on future soundin...
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Title: The PAMELA Positron Excess from Annihilations into a Light Boson Authors: Ilias Cholis, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Neal Weiner Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high (~ 10 - 100 GeV) energies, c...
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first five-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on Thursday, May 29. At full power the engines generated almost half a million pounds of force, and consumed 1,750 lbs of fue...
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The Stardust probe
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The Stardust probe had a dramatic encounter with Comet Wild-2, passing just 240 km away from the mountainous ball of ice, rock and dust, two years ago.
The craft sent back startling images of the object and grabbed particles streaming away from its nucleus to return to Earth.
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New Military Communications Satellite Begins Final Round of Testing at Lockheed Martin The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force has entered final testing at the company's Sunnyvale, California, faci...
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Arirang 2 satellite
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South Korea will launch a satellite for geographical updates, natural resource searches and environmental observation from a Russian spaceport late this month, government officials said Wednesday.
The multipurpose Arirang 2 satellite is scheduled to lift off July 28 from a launch pad in t...
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John Sarkissian of Parkes Observatory, Australia has reported that the recordings of the first TV pictures of Apollo eleven's landing on the moon have gone missing.
700 boxes of high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes were kept at the U.S. National Archives. The good news is that they still have...
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PHARAO atomic clock
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PHARAO atomic clock agreement signed by ESA and CNES Today at the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that pav...
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NASA has assigned crews for the STS-127 space shuttle mission and the Expedition 19 International Space Station mission. The STS-127 mission will deliver the final components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory to the station. Expedition 19 will double the size of the re...
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Angara rocket
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Angara rocket test launches postponed due to fin problem The beginning of flight tests of the Angara rocket is postponed for a year because of the underfinancing of the launch complex construction at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Federal Space Agency's head Anatoly Perminov told reporters on Satu...
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Athena
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Athena: Europe plans huge X-ray space telescope Europe has initiated the process that should lead to the biggest X-ray space telescope ever built. Dubbed Athena, the satellite will be some 12m in length and weigh about five tonnes when launched in 2028. The European Space Agency's (Esa) Science Pr...
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NRO L-30 Launch
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (AV-009) in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage, is to launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral,...
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Science and Technology Satellite 2B
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A Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 with the Science and Technology Satellite 2B is scheduled to launch from the Naro Space Centre, South Korea, at 03:53 GMT, 9th June, 2010.
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The name and the logo for the Luca Parmitano mission have been identified The ISS 36/37 space mission finally has a logo and a name, and will be joined by the sixth Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano at the end of May 2013: it will be called "VOLARE" and will be represented by a Soyuz that surrou...
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The Kompas-2 satellite, designed to forecast earthquakes from space, will be launched into space in the second quarter of 2006.
The "Kompas" is Russian space program pilot project for creation of a constellation of satellites to monitor natural and man-made catastrophes.
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