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Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launchMoscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2011 A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defence ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia's embattled space programme. The failure of the Soyuz-2.1B rocket - a member of the same family that Russia uses to send humans to space - comes after a supply ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) carried by a Soyuz crashed into Siberia in August. "The satellite failed to go into its orbit. A state commission ... read more |
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  Emirates 'close to French satellite buy' French hopes of selling 60 Dassault Rafale fighters to the United Arab Emirates may be dimming but France is reported to be close to another major military contract: a surveillance satellite built by Astrium. ... more | .. |
  Russia's space chief says industry in 'crisis' after latest failure Russia's space industry needs an influx of new faces to overcome its current crisis, the head of the Roscosmos agency said on Friday, hours after a satellite crashed in southern Siberia. "The ... more | .. |
  Mechanism Explains Why Universe Was Born with 3 Dimensions According to Big Bang cosmology, the universe originated in an explosion from an invisibly tiny point. This theory is strongly supported by observation of the cosmic microwave background [2] and the ... more | .. |
 New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment A Look below the Surface At Laguna Negra First Earth-sized planets found Raytheon's Navy Multiband Terminal Tests With On-Orbit AEHF Satellite GIS Degree A Safe Bet for Professionals in the Ever-Growing Oil Industry SwRI researchers discover new evidence for complex molecules on Pluto's surface NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System |
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  Astronomers discover deep-fried planets Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swel ... more | .. |
  Cassini Images Titan and Dione Above Saturn Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The no ... more | .. |
  Shadow of the Dark Rift One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy - or perhaps the gal ... more | .. |
  NASA Studies Vegetation Canopy Water Content, Soil Moisture Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA Airborne ... more |
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 10,000 US troops leave Afghanistan as planned Outside View: Abandoning U.S. allies Commentary: The world's wealthiest Daewoo wins Indonesian submarine deal Iraq mired in dispute after deadly bombings Britain adding armored vehicles WikiLeaks suspect awaits his fate Pakistan rejects US probe on strikes; Army chief rules out coup Finland says it has no German permit for missile shipment Iraq Christians fearful post-US pullout N. Korea raps S. Korean response to Kim's death North Korea to loom large in Japan-China summit Iran's spies score 'stunning achievements' Russia-led alliance limits foreign bases | .. |
 China launches high-resolution remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched Ziyuan I-02C Thursday, a high-resolution remote-sensing satellite, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. Launched at 11:26 a.m aboar ... more | .. |
  Astrium and Vizada become a world leader in satellite communications services Astrium, Europe's leading space company, completes the acquisition of Vizada after receiving the necessary regulatory approvals. Vizada is a leading independent provider of global satellite communic ... more | .. |
 Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA's Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, that are the smallest yet detected, and the closest in size to Earth. In a paper ... more | .. |
 USAF Hosted Payload On SES Satellite Completes Initial On Orbit Tests SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) reports that the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP), hosted on the SES-2 satellite launched in September, has successfully completed initial on-orbit test ... more |
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  SES Partners With Rustyice Solutions For Satellite Broadband Services In The UK SES has signed an agreement with the UK networks systems integrator Rustyice Solutions Ltd for the distribution of SES' satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect. The service will be marketed ... more | .. |
 Satellites can help to grow the perfect grape A little water is needed to make wine, but how do you know when enough is enough? ESA's GrapeLook service can give you the answer. GrapeLook uses satellites to help decide how much to water vineyard ... more | .. |
  GMV tracks the first Galileo IOV Satellite GMV has announced the tracking of both data and pilot channels of Galileo first satellite signal with its own line of GNSS receiver products. The first two Galileo satellites were launched fro ... more | .. |
 Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves Cosmic Mystery Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark ... more |
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 Christmas Eve aftershock rattles tense N. Zealanders Egyptians turn out for rival protests Indonesia girl reunited with family after 2004 tsunami More help arrives for Philippine flood victims Police fire tear gas at crowd in south China Dutch court turns down Trafigura appeal on toxic waste UN officials urge China to free rights lawyer Gao Nicaragua files proceedings against Costa Rica with UN court Tanzanian deluge kills 23 Room at the inn for Fukushima believers Vietnam's Falungong under pressure Season's greetings from the other extreme Southampton researchers help to outline world's land and water resources for food and agriculture Human skull study causes evolutionary headache | .. |
 "Space ball" drops on Namibia A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. ... more | .. |
 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more | .. |
  Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy s ... more | .. |
Exo planets that survived red giant stage found Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more |
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 Strangely slow pulsar discovered nestled in young supernova remnant Astronomers have discovered a very slowly rotating X-ray pulsar still embedded in the remnant of the supernova that created it. This unusual object was detected on the outskirts of the Small Magella ... more | .. |
  NASA 'Smart SPHERES' Tested on ISS In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller. ... more | .. |
  Stefan Gardefjord to lead SSC as new CEO Stefan Gardefjord has been appointed as the new CEO of SSC by the Board of Directors. He succeeds Lars Persson who is moving on after serving five years as CEO. At fifty-three years of age, St ... more | .. |
 Belarus Strongman Vows Nation Will Build World's Best Spacecraft Ever Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the former Soviet republc would build the best spaceship the world has ever seen. Lukashenko, once famoulsy dubbed "Europe's last dictator ... more |
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 Young star rebels against its parent cloud Despite the celestial colours of this picture, there is nothing peaceful about star forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. A devilish young star, named S106 IR, lies in it and ejects material a ... more | .. |
 The 'supernova of a generation' shows its stuff It was the brightest and closest stellar explosion seen from Earth in 25 years, dazzling professional and backyard astronomers alike. Now, thanks to this rare discovery-which some have called the "s ... more | .. |
 New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August - dubbed the supernova of a generation - was a "white dw ... more | .. |
 Russia sends multinational crew to ISS Russia on Wednesday sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more |
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  Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take th ... more | .. |
 A Brighter Future for Spaceflight Recent times have been troubling for the global spaceflight community. We have witnessed the end of the venerable Shuttle program, without an operational replacement vehicle for NASA. America's spac ... more | .. |
 Picking large pieces of supernova grit out of meteorites Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts and Sciences, has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Spac ... more | .. |
  Vega to fly ESA experimental reentry vehicle The launch of ESA's IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe's new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft's flight in 2014. Launched into a suborbital t ... more |
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