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NASA Earth observation satellite fails to reach orbitWashington (AFP) March 4, 2011 A NASA satellite that aimed to study the impact of aerosols on climate plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, delivering a $424-million blow to the US space agency. The failure of the Glory satellite launch was the second bungle for NASA climate science efforts in two years, and closely resembled a botched carbon satellite launch involving the same company, Orbital Sciences Corp., in 2009. Glory could not reach orbit after its protective clamshell-like nose cone cover failed to detach after l ... read more |
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  NASA reels from climate science setbacks A pair of costly satellite crashes have dealt a major blow to NASA's earth science efforts just as the US space agency faces scrutiny from Congress over whether climate science should be part of its focus at all. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea jammed S. Korea GPS devices: report North Korea used jamming equipment to block South Korean military communication devices last week, a report said Sunday, amid high tension over the joint drills between Seoul and Washington. ... more | .. |
  Weather scrubs launch of robot space plane The Florida launch of the U.S. Air Force's secret X-37B space plane was canceled Friday due to weather with another attempt set for Saturday, officials said. ... more | .. |
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  China setting up new rocket production base China is setting up a new high-tech manufacturing base that will build the rockets for its ambitious space programme to put a man on the moon, state press said Friday. ... more | .. |
 New Day Dawns For Satellite To Study Earth's Ozone Layer After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS ... more | .. |
 EGNOS Navigation System Begins Serving Europe's Aircraft The EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal has been formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically ... more | .. |
 China's "Fantastic Four" Moon Plan Since 2010, this author has pursued the story that China was planning four missions to land on the Moon this decade. The idea was a big change from our earlier understanding of China's Moon plans, w ... more |
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  Britain clears way for News Corp/BSkyB deal The British government Thursday cleared the way to approve News Corp's bid to win control of broadcaster BSkyB after it agreed to spin off its Sky News operation to address competition concerns. ... more | .. |
  Is Radiation A Concern For Space Crops Radioactivity lingering in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident has not prevented life from creeping back at the Ukrainian site. Now researchers have discovered that ... more | .. |
 Committee Democrats Caution Against Start-Stop Approach To NASA's Funding And Goals Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held ahearing to discuss the Administration's FY 2012 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with Ch ... more | .. |
 China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Chang'e-5 In 2017 China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more |
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 China's Tiangong-1 To Be Launched By Modified Long March II-F Rocket The unmanned space module Tiangong-1 that China plans to launch this year will be sent into space by a modified Long March II-F carrier rocket, an expert told Xinhua Thursday. The 8.5-tonne Ti ... more | .. |
Beijing to trial mobile tracking system: report A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 SES Successfully Places 650 Million 10-year Euro Bond SES S.A. has successfully placed a euros 650 million 10-year Euro bond. The bond, issued by SES S.A. and guaranteed by SES Global Americas Holdings GP, was priced at 99.486 with a coupon of 4.750% ... more | .. |
 US must be 'unafraid' of private spaceflight: NASA NASA's chief said Wednesday that America must be "unafraid" of a new future in spaceflight and vowed full confidence that private business can come up with a solution to replace the space shuttle. ... more |
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How fishes of the deep sea have evolved into different shapes
Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
Halter Virtual Fencing revolutionizes cattle management across US | .. |
  iPad, other tablets hit PC demand: Gartner Apple's iPad and other Internet-connected media tablets are draining demand for laptops and notebook computers, research firm Gartner said Thursday, sharply lowering its worldwide PC forecast this year. ... more | .. |
 China Likely To Launch First Probe To Explore Mars' Surface In 2013 China is likely to launch its first probe to explore the surface of Mars in 2013, a chief scientist said here Wednesday. "Mars is the first choice for mankind's interplanetary explorations as ... more | .. |
 Russia Lacks Enough Carrier Rockets To Fulfill 2011 Launch Plans Russia lacks carrier rockets to carry out all space launches scheduled for 2011, the head of the Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday. "We have a number of spacecraft that should be launch ... more | .. |
 China To Establish Global Satellite Navigation System By 2020 A senior space technology expert in China said the country's global satellite navigation system, which is composed of more than 30 satellites, is expected to be in place by 2020. China would l ... more |
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  Ship to bolster Europe's missile defenses: US The US military will send a warship to the Mediterranean next week as a first step in a defense shield to protect Europe from a potential strike from Iran's missile arsenal, a defense official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Murdoch offers to sell Sky News channel: report Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has offered to sell its Sky News TV channel to clear the way for the media giant's proposed bid to gain full control of British pay-TV giant BSkyB, the BBC reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism Industry Space and satellite forum to highlight regional business opportunities for private and public sector investors - tourists will fly into space for $25,000 by 2030 The plethora of opportunities for p ... more | .. |
 Satellite Remote Sensing: Light Detection And Ranging The Next Big Thing The power of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is rising to new heights as a satellite remote sensing tool used to collect topographic data. LiDAR is emerging as the next big thing - allowing user ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene
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  'Telepresence' robot makes waves at tech fair Many visitors walking around CeBIT, the world's biggest high-tech fair, have found themselves bumping into "Jazz", a "telepresence" robot also ambling around the vast expo. ... more | .. |
 Gadgets galore at world's top tech fair A Shakespeare-reciting robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing visitors at the CeBIT high-tech fair on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Chinese plane maker buys US Cirrus A unit of China's biggest plane maker has agreed to buy US small aircraft builder Cirrus, in what state media said Wednesday was the country's first acquisition of a US or European competitor. ... more | .. |
 NASA Launches 2011 Nationwide Technology Space Competition A do-it-yourself technology space competition sponsored by NASA's Emerging Commercialization Space Office (ECSO) has kicked off. Make Magazine, a do-it-yourself publication for technology, is partne ... more |
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Hundreds of thousands of downloads for The Daily The Daily, the digital newspaper created for Apple's iPad by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has tallied hundreds of thousands of downloads since its launch a month ago, its publisher said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 India Space Budget Gets 35 Percent Hike The budget for India's space program has been increased by more than 30 pecent compared to last year's allocation with the human space flight and Chandrayaan-II gaining the lion's share. The H ... more | .. |
 SwRI Signs Up For 8 Reusable Suborbital Launches Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will send three scientists as payload specialists aboard eight suborbital flights - some to altitudes greater than 350,000 feet, above the internationally recogni ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic To Fly Scientists To Space Virgin Galactic has signed the first commercial contracts to fly scientists into space for the purpose of conducting research experiments. Virgin Galactic's signed contract with the Southwest Resear ... more |
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