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Aero/Space News: Combined news feeds from multiple Aero/Space news sources including MSNBC Space News, SpaceRef, SpaceDaily and other relevant news sources. |
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Dead star inside Crab Nebula still shines bright 28 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com The glowing Crab Nebula, a spectacular and colorful object famously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, represents the leftovers from a supernova explosion observed by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054 C.E. |
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Space station dodges controversial junk 28 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  For the first time in five years, the international space station changed course on Wednesday to avoid a piece of space junk — in this case, satellite debris that the Russians have insisted wasn't there. |
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Stuck pin delays shuttle's trek to launch pad 28 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA engineers successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday, but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad this week. |
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Dark matter detected in cosmic crash 28 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Astronomers say fresh imagery of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters supports the idea that dark matter is something totally separate from ordinary matter. |
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Changing The World, One Student At A Time 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
Can we put some of the world's biggest societal problems - like global warming, disaster management and public health - into the hands of students? For NASA's DEVELOP student internship program team the answer is a definitive 'Yes!' The DEVELOP program celebrates its tenth anniversary this summer.
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Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tokai, Japan (AFP) Aug 27, 2008 - As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level.
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Fresh From Mars: Scientist To Describe H20 Discovery 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
Water on Mars? Scientists suspected the presence of H2O on the surface of our planetary next-door neighbor, but it took a series of tests and University of Texas at Dallas Professor John Hoffman's instrument aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to prove it.
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Sony Expands US nav-u Personal Navigation System Product Line 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
Sony has announced four new feature-packed nav-u personal navigation devices (models NV-U94T, NV-U84, NV-U74T and NV-U44) which add more brand icons, search functionality and photo viewing features.
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Cornet Technology Awarded US Navy Maritime Embedded GPS Adapter Contract 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Springfield VA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
Cornet Technology has announced that its Communications division has won a contract to develop next generation Maritime Embedded Global Positioning System Adapters (MEGA) for the U.S. Navy, SPAWAR Systems Center in San Diego, California.
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NAVIGON Delivers Free Real-Time Traffic Updates For Life 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
NAVIGON has announced it is making Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life standard on a wide range of its new products this fall. Free traffic updates will be available on NAVIGON devices spanning high-end to entry-level price points starting at $229 MSRP.
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Rapideye Constellation Ready For Launch 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
The 5-satellite RapidEye constellation is ready for launch from Baikonur on August 29, 2008. All five satellites have been integrated with the Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in readiness for launch at 0715 UTC (0815 BST, 0915 CEST).
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UCI Scientists Discover Minimum Mass For Galaxies 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe - 10 million times the mass of the sun.
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Tracing Tiger Stripes 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
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Frontline View From Command Chiefs At Strategic Space And Defense 2008 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
The command chiefs will once again bring their unique perspectives to the Strategic Space and Defense conference in an important panel discussion about the on-the-ground reality in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other theaters around the globe.
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New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2008 - A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said.
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NPL To Create Encyclopedia For Space Nanomaterials 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  London, UK (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
The European Space Agency (ESA) has appointed the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to survey nanotechnology capabilities in Europe. NPL's Nanomaterials group will lead a consortium to identify the next generation of nano and smart materials that will be used in future space missions.
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A Clash Of Clusters Provides Another Clue To Dark Matter 28 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 -
A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. Like its famous cousin, the so-called Bullet Cluster, this clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties.
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Galaxy surprise sheds light on dark matter 27 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  A study of small galaxies circling around the Milky Way found that while they range dramatically in brightness, they all surprisingly pack about the same mass. |
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Computer virus strikes space station 27 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station. |
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Rocket racer remade 27 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Rocket Racing League's bigger, more powerful prototype plane gets its first flight tests. |
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Cosmic Log: Rocket racer remade 27 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Rocket Racing League's bigger, more powerful prototype plane gets its first flight tests. |
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First Light For The Fermi Space Telescope 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
NASA's newest space telescope, formerly known as GLAST, has passed its orbital checkout with flying colors, kicking off a mission to explore the violent and unpredictable gamma ray universe.
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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Crater 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
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NAVIGON Unveils New Premium GPS Device 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
NAVIGON has unveiled its new, high-end NAVIGON 7200T. A premium portable navigation device for those looking for both style and substance, the NAVIGON 7200T offers features no other GPS system has such as Reality View Pro, Lane Assistant Pro and Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life.
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Ice Cold Sunrise On Mars 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer.
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Software Upgrade Allows Farmers To Use Free RTK Networks 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Englewood CO (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 - Leica Geosystems has announced it will release a new software upgrade for the mojoRTK Auto-steer console allowing producers to take full advantage of the CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station) networks being built across the country - many of them providing free RTK signal access through state departments' of transportation efforts to develop state-wide networks.
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Astra Microwave Wins Order From Indian Meteorological Department 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Hyderabad, India (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
Astra Microwave Products has announced that it has received an INR 255 million order from the Indian Meteorological Department. The order is for the supply, installation, and commissioning of remote unmanned automatic remote weather stations in 550 locations across India.
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Dawn Advances Slowly 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
The Dawn spacecraft continues to make good progress on its adventure to unlock scientific secrets hidden deep in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Its path to that distant realm of the solar system is now bringing it closer to the Sun, and thanks in part to all the thrusting it has accomplished with its remarkable ion propulsion system, it has recently achieved its lowest speed so far in the mission. To understand this enigmatic behavior, read on!
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Carnegie Mellon System Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
The growth of shared Wi-Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering have devised a low-cost system that can thwart these 'Man-in-the-Middle' (MitM) attacks.
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Satyam Launches Mobile Healthcare Program For Rural Indians 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Hyderabad, India (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
Satyam Computer Services has announced that it has embarked on a revolutionary program to deliver world-class healthcare to remote villages in India.
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Assembling The Most Massive Galaxies In The Universe 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
Astronomers have caught multiple massive galaxies in the act of merging about 4 billion years ago. This discovery, made possible by combining the power of the best ground- and space-based telescopes, uniquely supports the favoured theory of how galaxies form.
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SiRF And ITC Staff File Appeals Of ITC Initial Ruling 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  San Jose CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
SiRF Technology Holdings has announced that SiRF and the ITC staff have independently filed appeals with the International Trade Commission (ITC) for review of the ITC Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) initial ruling that certain SiRF products infringed upon patents held by Global Locate, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom.
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Satellite shooting unneeded says scientist 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Boston (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 - The U.S. Navy's February missile shoot down of a spy satellite was unnecessary, a Harvard scientist and former NASA employee said.
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Seeing Mars In A Particle Of Dust 27 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
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Mars rover works its way out of crater 26 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA's Opportunity rover is slowly but surely hauling itself out of a vast Martian crater after nearly a year plumbing the interior for secrets of the Red Planet's ancient past. |
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Cosmic Log: Mars hoax lasts five years 26 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Does anyone still believe that Mars will look as big as the full moon this week? If so, this one's for you. |
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Gamma-ray probe gets new name and fame 26 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA's new gamma-ray telescope is up and running in orbit, and going by a brand new name: the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. |
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Phoenix Lander digs deeper into Mars 26 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  For its next trick, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will dig a trench in the Martian surface three times deeper than any it has dug so far, as it completes its original three month-mission and embarks upon its extended mission. |
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Moon as research outpost, training ground 26 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to the research stations that dot Antarctica. |
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Phoenix Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.
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Military Satellite Services Workshop To Be Held On September 22 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Seoul, Korea (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
Over the past decade, the APSCC Annual Satellite Conference and Exhibition, renowned as APSCC's flagship contribution to the satellite industry, has been providing a globally integrated platform that covers every sector of the satellite industry as well as a unique briefing and networking opportunity to the participants of the event.
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A Star's Death Cry; Revealing Its Secrets 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
A European-led team of international astronomers have discovered clues that suggest that a star that recently went supernova may have exploded more violently than previously thought and collapsed into a black hole. This brutal explosion produced a series of gamma-ray bursts that were only just able to be registered by the astronomers.
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Arianespace To Launch Koreasat 6 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
Korean Telecom has chosen Arianespace to launch its next communications satellite, Koreasat 6.
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Strange Clouds At The Edge Of Space 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
When in space, keep an eye on the window. You never know what you might see. Last month, astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) witnessed a beautiful display of noctilucent or 'night-shining' clouds.
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XMM-Newton's Massive Discovery 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (ESA) Aug 26, 2008 -
ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of dark energy.
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Rosetta Spacecraft Meets Asteroid Steins 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (ESA) Aug 26, 2008 -
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, will be open to the media as of 18:00 on 5 September to follow the fly-by events.
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ISS Program Facing Hard Choices 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2008 - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said.
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Ares Progress Report For August 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
The Ares Projects continues to achieve major milestones and successes as NASA develops the next generation of launch systems -- the Ares I rocket and Ares V heavy lifter -- which will take us to the moon and beyond. Read the monthly Ares Update to stay informed about the Ares launch vehicle fleet.
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Utah Steps Into The Heavens 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
In its latest step to develop an astronomy program, the University of Utah is joining a major international effort to map the heavens as a way to search for giant planets in other solar systems, study expansion of the universe and probe the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up most of the universe.
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Trulia Redefines Real Estate Search Experience 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
Trulia.com has announced the launch of innovative new features that will provide users with a personalized real-time local news feed, allow for house hunting on the go and give agents, home owners and house hunters an opportunity to blog about their real estate experiences to 5 million monthly users.
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GPS Tracking Plays Key Role In Arrest Of Armed Robbery Suspect 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Cary IL (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
A GPS Tracking Key placed in the vehicle of an armed robbery suspect last February in Colusa County, CA, ultimately led to an arrest and conviction.
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Marvell Enters Licensing Agreement With Trimble For GPS Software 26 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Santa Clara CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2008 -
Marvell and Trimble have announced that they have entered into a Global Positioning System (GPS) software technology licensing agreement. With this agreement, Marvell gains direct access to Trimble's full GPS Digital Signal Processor (DSP) software as well as tools for development support and testing, all of which are backed by Trimble's historical leadership and its strong GPS intellectual property portfolio.
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Melting glaciers likely made Mars gullies 25 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Some of the gullies that cut the sides of Martian craters were likely formed by meltwater from glaciers that existed a few million years ago, when Mars was wetter than it is now, a new study suggests. |
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Giant galaxy cluster seen in early universe 25 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Astronomers have glimpsed the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant, early universe. The discovery offers further proof of the existence of the enigmatic force called dark energy. |
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Tiny nation of Niue gets laptop for every child 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Niue (AFP) Aug 21, 2008 - The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue Thursday became the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all its children, officials said.
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'Phoney' queues used to spur Polish iPhone launch 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Warsaw (AFP) Aug 22, 2008 - Poland's biggest telecoms operator, Telekomunikacja Polska, acknowledged Friday that it had paid young, hip-looking film extras to stand in queues for the national launch of Apple's iPhone.
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Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton To Launch S-Band Satellite For Europe 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Reston VA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
International Launch Services (ILS) has announced a contract with Inmarsat for the launch of an S-band satellite to provide mobile broadcast and two-way telecommunications services throughout Europe.
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US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2008 - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said.
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Liquid Water in the Martian North 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
Perchlorate. Never heard of it? Join the club. But NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has found it in the soil in the icy northern plains of Mars. And now that it's been found, scientists are scrambling to explain how it got there, and what, if anything, its presence means about the habitability of the martian north.
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Meteorite Fast Track 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet.
Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain, but a team from MIT and other institutions has now found what it believes is the answer to the puzzle.
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Test rocket destroyed by NASA after launch 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Virginia Beach, Va. (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 - U.S. space officials said a suborbital rocket was destroyed by safety officials shortly after liftoff Friday morning from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
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Stellar Still Births 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
The systematics of celestial bodies apparently needs to be revised. Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn have discovered that brown dwarfs need to be treated as a separate class in addition to stars and planets.
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Generations Of Stars Pose For Family Portrait 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. The striking infrared picture shows a colorful cosmic cloud, called W5, studded with multiple generations of blazing stars.
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Going Looney In Space 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights.
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Mid-Depth Soil Collected For Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 25, 2008 -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft.
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GOCE To Look At The Earth Surface And Core 25 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (ESA) Aug 25, 2008 -
The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet - the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.
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Spacesuit makers will try again for contract 22 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  A business venture that lost out on its bid for NASA’s next-generation spacesuit says it will submit a new proposal. |
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Cosmic Log: Family portrait of the stars 22 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates its fifth birthday with a glittering, multigenerational picture of a star-forming region. |
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Family portrait of the stars 22 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates its fifth birthday with a glittering, multigenerational picture of a star-forming region. |
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Don't miss the trio of planets at sunset 22 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  The planet Venus passed conjunction with the sun on June 9 and is now emerging into view in the western evening sky. But it will be a long and tedious process. Even by the end of September this planet will still very low at dusk. |
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NASA destroys rocket after failed launch 22 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com NASA says it destroyed an unmanned suborbital rocket shortly after a failed launch early this morning from an island off the Virginia coast. |
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Astrobiology Rap (Video) 22 Aug 2008 - The Astrobiology Network - Copyright 2008 Tune in for the all new 'Astrobiology Rap', written by Jonathan Chase for the latest Astrobiology Magazine European Edition (AMEE) -- the Nordic Invasion. Jon is an early career researcher in science communication. Multi-talented, Jon has undergraduate degrees in both Aerospace Engineering, and Science and Science Fiction. As a post-graduate practitioner in communicating science, Jon is actively involved in a number of science communication activities. |
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First Of 300 GE China Mainline Locomotives To Arrive In China 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
GE Transportation has announced that the first China Mainline Locomotive (CML) will be delivered around Aug. 30, 2008, to the Tianjin Port in Tianjin, China. After being transferred to the Tanggu Depot for inspection, the locomotive will make its way to China's capital Beijing.
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EU quizzes Eutelsat on failure to transmit private Chinese TV 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Brussels (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - The European Commission has sought an explanation from a European satellite operator as to why a private Chinese channel's signal has not been broadcast for two months, an EU spokesman said Thursday.
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Business Benefits Drive Fleet Management Systems Growth 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  New York NY (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
The first GPS-based fleet management systems focused primarily on asset location and tracking. The basic application was adopted initially by large companies hauling high-value cargo in industrialized countries.
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How Stars Form Very Close To Black Holes 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  St Andrews, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The team, partly funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant clouds of gas being sucked into black holes.
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Kennedy Space Center reopening delayed 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Aug 21, 2008 -
The U.S. space agency's planned partial reopening of the Kennedy Space Center was delayed Thursday because of slow-moving Tropical Storm Fay.
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Dress Rehearsal For Mars 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
Before testing for life on other planets, it's useful to practice on barren areas of the Earth. One such place is Rio Tinto in Spain, where conditions are analogous to Mars. The water of that Spanish river is very acidic, similar to water scientists think may have once flowed on the martian surface.
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Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site By Trenching 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
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Tropical Storm Fay's Center Now Moving Inland 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
At 2:00 p.m. EDT, Thurs. Aug. 21, Tropical Storm Fay is finally making landfall again after meandering in the Atlantic Ocean over the last day. She was crossing Florida east coast near Flagler Beach at that time. Her center was near 28.4 degrees north latitude and 81.0 degrees west longitude.
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Oceaneering Will Resubmit Constellation Space Suit Proposal 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Houston TX (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
Oceaneering International has announced that it intends to submit a revised proposal to NASA for development and production of the Constellation Space Suit System (CSSS). NASA's initial contract award to Oceaneering was terminated for the convenience of the government.
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Miniaturized Jupiter 32 xLP GPS Modules From Navman Wireless OEM Solutions 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Foothill Ranch CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
Navman Wireless OEM Solutions has announced that its latest low power, small form factor Jupiter 32 xLP GPS module is now available in production quantities.
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Orbital Awarded Contract For IS-18 Commercial CommSat By Intelsat 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Dulles VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
Orbital Sciences has announced that it has been selected by Intelsat to design, build and deliver the Intelsat-18 (IS-18) commercial communications satellite.
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Wireless GPS And Satellite Weather For Electronic Flight Bags 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  IRVINE CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 -
Flight Deck Resources (FDR) is proud to announce the release of the SkyFi 2000 wireless serial adapter for Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). The SkyFi 2000 is a serial (RS-422,232,485) to wireless (802.11) adapter that enables a wireless connection between a GPS receiver and/or satellite weather receiver and any EFB equipped with 802.11 wireless connectivity.
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Forecast International Projects 50 Billion Dollar ELV Market 22 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Newtown CT (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
Forecast International is projecting that over the next decade, launch vehicle providers worldwide will produce 636 expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) worth approximately $48 billion. The expendable launch vehicles to be produced will range in size from the smaller European Vega to the Heavy-Lift U.S. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles.
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Mars lander just keeps digging 21 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has spent the last few weeks digging new trenches in its landing area, looking for new materials to analyze in its instruments and examining the soil and subsurface layer of water ice. |
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How stars form amid black hole chaos 21 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Deep in the center of our galaxy, circling suspiciously close to the giant black hole lurking there, is a group of massive stars. Now scientists have designed a model that shows for the first time how these stars might have formed in such an extreme environment. |
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Astrobiology Science News 21 August 2008 21 Aug 2008 - The Astrobiology Network - Copyright 2008 |
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Iran says it will send man to space 21 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a dummy satellite into orbit. |
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Space Espionage: A High Priority 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2008 -
Replacements are expected to take place soon in the 'space spy community'. Yet another American GPS (Global Positioning System) Navstar satellite will be launched into the low earth orbit in autumn.
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Chris Smith Named Director Of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
Dr. R. Chris Smith has been selected as the next director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Smith will succeed Dr. Alistair Walker in November. Walker will return to the scientific staff of CTIO after five years as director.
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Iran To Send First Astronaut Into Space Within 10 Years 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tehran, Iran (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2008 -
Iran plans to send its first astronaut into space within the next decade, the head of the Iran Aerospace Organization said on Wednesday.
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Most Black Holes Might Come In Only Small And Large 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? A new study suggests that, for the most part, the answer is no.
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Tom Hill's TEMPO 3 Microsatellite Winner Of Mars Project Challenge 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
After receiving the highest number of votes cast by members of the Mars Society and the endorsement of the Steering Committee, Hill's concept to launch a microsatellite that will test artificial gravity generation techniques - which will be of immense value to the crew of a six-month flight to Mars - was named the winner of the MPC Saturday evening at the 11th Annual International Mars Society Convention.
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Robot-assisted surgery repairs fistulas 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Winston-Salem, N.C. (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 -
U.S. urologic surgeons say they have successfully used robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina.
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Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster In Erupting Galaxy 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Cambridge, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long- standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of these immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers.
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Chandrayaan-I Set For Launch Later This Year: Kasturirangan 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  New Delhi, China (PTI) Aug 21, 2008 -
India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, noted space scientist and former ISRO chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan said.
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NASA to use shock-absorbers to fix shaking in new Ares rocket 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington (AFP) Aug 20, 2008 - NASA say they will use shock-absorbers similar to those used in cars to fix a problem with heavy vibrations in the new Ares rocket, to give stronauts inside the Orion crew capsule a smoother ride.
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Garmin And uLocate - Location Based Social Networking 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
uLocate Communications announces an agreement with Garmin to add friend-finding capabilities to select current and future Garmin GPS devices. The partnership leverages APIs on uLocate's WHERE platform to enable Garmin users to easily find and connect with friends nearby through the leading friend finding network, Buddy Beacon.
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GTX To Expand Sales Into Military And Law Enforcement Market Sectors 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
GTX has announced that it has entered into a Sales Representation Agreement with Talon Companies, Fountain Valley, CA, having subsidiaries Talon Executive Services and Talon Cyber Tec. Under the terms of the agreement, the Talon Companies will act as GTX Corp's sales representative to the multinational military and law enforcement market spaces.
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Add Spacecraft To Basket On New Clyde Space Website 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Glasgow, Scotland (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 -
Clyde Space is pleased to announce that our new website and online shop is now live. The site has all sorts of nice features that are new to Clyde Space, and perhaps new for most other space companies, such as signing up for newsletters, blogs, case studies of previous missions, etc.
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Redeploying The French Military Industrial Complex For Another Century 21 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moscow (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new white paper on national defense lists five basic functions that the national armed forces and government agencies must fulfill.
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Cosmic Log: The FAA's vision for spaceflight 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Fifty years after the founding of the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency's top official for spaceflight lays out a vision for the next 50 years. |
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Missile deal brings Russia rebuke 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski have signed a deal that will put an American missile defense base in Poland, a move that has angered Russia. |
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Mars' ice clouds eat up ozone 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Clouds of water ice drifting above the Martian surface eat up some of the ozone in Mars' atmosphere, a new study suggests, giving scientists new clues about the chemical environment and climate of Earth's nearest neighbor. |
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Space 'ropes' hang together by threads 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Scientists have discovered the forces that bind together a strange network of 100-million-year-old, rope-like gas filaments that extend from an enormous elliptical galaxy. |
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Astrobiology Science News 20 August 2008 20 Aug 2008 - The Astrobiology Network - Copyright 2008
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U.S. and Poland sign missile defense deal 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski have signed a deal that will put an American missile defense base in Poland, a move that has angered Russia. |
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Ten ancient observatories spied from space 20 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Flying 423 miles above Earth, the Ikonos satellite offers a space-age peek at ten ancient observatories built by cultures from long ago. |
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NASA Engineers Complete Engine Test Series For Ares I Rocket 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. The J-2X powers the upper stage of the Ares I rocket, which will launch human explorers to the International Space Station and to the moon.
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The M2-F1 - An Aircraft Without Wings 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Edwards CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the Antelope Valley nearly a half century ago.
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Successful Launch For Third Inmarsat-4 Satellite 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
Inmarsat (has confirmed the successful launch and acquisition of the third Inmarsat-4 satellite. The satellite was launched on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:43pm BST on 18 August (4:43am 19th August, local time).
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NASA Seeks Input For Commercial Lunar Communications And Navigation 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over the next 25 years.
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Key Advance Toward Micro-Spacecraft 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of 'micro-spacecraft' weighing barely 50 pounds and 10-pound 'nano-spacecraft' closer to reality.
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Ohio A Cornerstone Of Space Exploration 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Houston TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
The Coalition for Space Exploration, the leading collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, announced today the release of a statement by Guion 'Guy' Bluford, a board member of the Coalition.
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Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Astronomer Takes Astronomy Picture Of The Day 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
A stunning new astronomical image of the 'Witch's Broom' Nebula taken by Adam Block of The University of Arizona Mount Lemmon SkyCenter is today's 'Astronomy Picture of the Day.'
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Living With A Star 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? Get out of bed, look out the window. Auroras are dancing along the horizon. Dark sunspots crackle overhead-each little 'pop' more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
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Andrews Awarded Aerojet Contract To Build Hardware For Sundancer 20 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 -
Andrews Space has announced that it has signed a contract with Aerojet of Sacramento, CA to develop aft propulsion system controllers for Bigelow's Sundancer spacecraft.
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New rocket gets shock absorbers 19 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA engineers have come up with a dual shock absorber solution to the problem of excessive vibrations with the new Ares I rocket that will launch the agency's Orion space shuttle replacement. |
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Sources: Iran tried but failed to launch satellite 19 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Iranian officials say a rocket launch last weekend was merely a test, but U.S. military intelligence officials now see it as a failed attempt to put a satellite in orbit. |
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Razor-thin skin protects tiny spacecraft 19 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  To bring this sci-fi vision of 50-pound 'micro-spacecraft' and 10-pound 'nano-spacecraft' to reality, scientists have now invented a razor-thin skin that can protect craft against the extreme heat and intense cold found in outer space and withstand micrometeoroids hurtling at thousands of miles per hour. |
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Astrobiology Science News 19 August 2008 19 Aug 2008 - The Astrobiology Network - Copyright 2008 |
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Columbus In Discussion With Mercedes 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
Columbus Geographic Systems (GIS) has announced that it has completed a successful round of meetings with German auto manufacture Mercedes Benz, at Mercedes offices in Stuttgart Germany, in response to Mercedes Benz's interest in the Ranger, Columbus' off-road navigation system.
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Raytheon Eyes India's Global Navigation System For ISRO, AAI 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  New Delhi, India (PTI) Aug 19, 2008 -
A US defence major Raytheon would make a bid for a satellite-based navigation system for the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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u-blox GPS Powers Peugeot 107 Navigator By AvMap 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Thalwil, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
AvMap has announced that its Geosat 6 Drive Safe satellite navigation system, originally developed for the Peugeot 107 Sweet Years, is now available as a stand-alone navigator for the mass market.
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Iran says rocket can carry low-orbit satellite 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tehran (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - Iran said on Monday that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.
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Iran To Launch Its First Satellite By Next Weekend 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Tehran, Iran (RIA Novosti) Aug 19, 2008 - Iran will launch its first satellite in the nearest few days, the country's president said on Saturday.
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Cracking The Question Of Alien Life 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's moon Europa is about as alien as they come.
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China to launch Venezuela's first satellite: Chavez 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Caracas (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - China is to launch Venezuela's first satellite in November which will serve to relay telecommunications data and television signals over Latin America, President Hugo Chavez said.
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China's First Lunar Probe Satellite Normal After Eclipse 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Beijing (XNA) Aug 19, 2008 -
China's solar-powered lunar probe satellite Chang'e 1 stood the test of a partial eclipse on Sunday as scientists altered its orbit and temporarily turning off some facilities.
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Ball Aerospace Begins Final Prep For NPOESS OMPS Instrument 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
Ball Aerospace and Technologies's Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Protoflight Model (PFM) that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has entered final integration and acceptance testing.
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Venezuela To Launch Simon Bolivar Satellite In November 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Caracas, Venezuela (XNA) Aug 19, 2008 -
The Simon Bolivar satellite will be launched into the space on Nov. 2, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday.
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Perfect Sight: Rosetta Cameras Track Asteroid Target 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com Paris, France (ESA) Aug 19, 2008 -
On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images from the spacecraft's cameras were used to calculate the asteroid's location and optimise its trajectory for fly-by next month.
Rosetta's first major correction manoeuvre in the approach phase took place while the spacecraft was just less than 17 million km from Steins. The spacecraft's thrusters burned continuously for approximately 2 minutes, starting at 13:42 CEST (Central European Summer Time). This achieved a change in Rosetta's speed with respect to Steins of 12.8 cm/sec.
This tiny change in speed, though, will be enough to correct the spacecraft's 5 September Steins fly-by distance by 250 km.
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Saharan Dry, Dusty Air Lessened Intensity Of 2007 Hurricane Season 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
A new analysis of environmental conditions over the Atlantic Ocean shows that hot, dry air associated with dust outbreaks from the Sahara desert was a likely contributor to the quieter-than-expected 2007 hurricane season.
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Absolute's Computrace LoJack For Laptops Now Available At Future Shop 19 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 -
Absolute Software has announced that its Computrace LoJack for Laptops Premium is now available at Future Shop's 133 retail outlets and online at futureshop.ca.
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NASA delays robotic moon mission 18 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts. |
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Earth's magnetic field is changing 18 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  Something beneath the surface is changing Earth's protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy radiation. |
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Icy rock offers clue to origin of comets 18 Aug 2008 - MSNBC.com: Space - Copyright 2008 msnbc.com  A huge comet-like object has been spotted inside the orbit of Neptune. The object, at least 30 miles wide, is on the return leg of a 22,500-year journey around the sun, astronomers said. |
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Astrobiology Science News 18 August 2008 18 Aug 2008 - The Astrobiology Network - Copyright 2008 |
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Iran sparks US concern with satellite rocket launch 18 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com Tehran (AFP) Aug 17, 2008 - Iran said it had sent a rocket carrying a dummy satellite into space on Sunday, triggering fresh concern in Washington that the technology could be diverted to ballistic missiles.
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NASA Keeps Atlantis Target Launch Date 18 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 -
After thoroughly reviewing an option to accelerate the upcoming launch dates of space shuttle Atlantis and Endeavour by a few days, shuttle program managers decided Thursday to keep the current target launch dates.
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ESA Ground Team In Simulation Training For GOCE Launch 18 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Paris, France (ESA) Aug 18, 2008 -
The Mission Control Team at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are now in intense training for the scheduled 10 September launch of GOCE, the Agency's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer.
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Giant Astronomical Survey Completes Its Mission 18 Aug 2008 - Space News From SpaceDaily.Com  Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 -
After a decade of construction and eight years of operation (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) completed its observations in mid-July and will release its final data set to the public in October. SDSS-III, a six-year program composed of f |