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- 18 Nov 2009
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07:37 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
ARIANE 5 CLEARS INITIAL BUILD-UP PHASE FOR FINAL FLIGHT O...
Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian
Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
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05:00 UTC
NASA's Ames Researc...
NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
NASA’s premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Space Shuttle Pilot Set to Talk With Tennessee Students f...
Congressman Bart Gordon and Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville will host a live conversation between more than 120 students and NASA astronaut Barry E. Wilmore on Sunday, Nov. 22.
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Japan Aerospace Exp...
Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide
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00:00 UTC
International Centr...
Early expansion and astronomical ambitions
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (or ICRAR) is only three months old but like the early Universe it’s already rapidly expanding.
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Arianespace Press R...
- 17 Nov 2009
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive
The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle ...
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA's Spitzer Sees The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Ey...
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.
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19:00 UTC
NAOJ Top News
Science Results - Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Gal...
A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253.
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12:26 UTC
Science and Technol...
Ticking stellar time bomb identified - astronomers find p...
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of an unusual shell of ...
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Jodrell Bank Centre...
Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of an unusual shell of ...
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11:00 UTC
ESO Top News
Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
ESO 43/09 - Science Release: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie ...
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky
NASA'S Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians
NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.
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00:00 UTC
NAOJ Top News
Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds
A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253. Their images of the ...
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
- 16 Nov 2009
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23:14 UTC
ESA Top News
ESA Bulletin 140 (November 2009)
This issue celebrates the anniversary of the beginning of Europe’s independent adventure into space, the first launch of Ariane 1 in 1979. Read the Bulletin and other publications online, with ...
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19:42 UTC
German Aerospace Ce...
Space Shuttle launched – Atlantis carrying 14-ton payload...
With the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on 16 November 2009 at 14:28 local time (20:28 Central European Time/CET), the orbiter has begun a ...
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17:00 UTC
National Radio Astr...
Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super...
Cambridge, MA - The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the ...
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National Radio Astr...
Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky wi...
Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of ...
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Harvard-Smithsonian...
Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super...
November 16, 2009: The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the ...
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08:52 UTC
ESA Top News
Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
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NASA Breaking News
Media Invited to International Earth Observation Briefing...
The United States is hosting the sixth plenary meeting of the Group on Earth Observations, or GEO, this week at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington.
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NASA Breaking News
NASA Hosts Native Peoples Workshop to Study Climate Chang...
NASA will hold a second national strategies workshop to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on native peoples and their homelands.
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NASA Breaking News
NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Headed for Delivery Stop at Space...
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...
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Surrey Satellite Te...
Sri Lanka signs agreement with SSTL for space capability
The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), signed a landmark agreement today. This agreement ...
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Arianespace Press R...
ARIANESPACE RECEIVES THE SEVENTH ARIANE 5 FOR LAUNCH IN 2...
The Ariane 5 GS version for Arianespace's upcoming flight is now in the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building following delivery by prime contractor EADS Astrium Space Transportation. This launcher will orbit ...
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ESA Top News
- 15 Nov 2009
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11:00 UTC
Herschel News
Herschel on air
Thumbnail: Key members of the SPIRE instrument team have contributed to a two-part documentary on Herschel for BBC Radio 4. The SPIRE Instrument Key members of the SPIRE team, including ...
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Herschel News
- 13 Nov 2009
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Rosetta Completes Final Earth Flyby
On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with JPL instruments on board, flew past Earth today to pick up energy.
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Ghostly "Spokes" Puff Out From Saturn's Rings
Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of ...
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good
NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.
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16:15 UTC
Science and Technol...
Final Earth Fly-by for Rosetta
This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth.
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14:00 UTC
ESA Top News
Rosetta sees a living planet
Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show shots taken as Rosetta was moving in, and the lights of North America in the ...
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07:48 UTC
ESA Space Science
Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth sw...
This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for ...
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07:44 UTC
ESA Top News
Rosetta darting across the night
During the night of 12/13 November, scientists working at ESA's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain, conducted observations to view Rosetta as the satellite approached Earth.
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ESA Top News
LIVE STREAM: Rosetta swingby eventESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, 08...
Watch live coverage of the Rosetta Earth swingby event from ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, 08:00-09:00 CET.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA's LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater
Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.
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NASA's Ames Researc...
NASA's LCROSS Confirms Water in Lunar Crater
Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter ...
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Planetary Society P...
News: LCROSS Lunar Impactor Mission: "Yes, We Found Water...
LCROSS Lunar Impactor Mission: "Yes, We Found Water!"
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NASA's Jet Propulsi...
- 12 Nov 2009
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NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover
NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
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20:11 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
El Nino Picking Up Steam
The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Nino.
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19:00 UTC
NAOJ Top News
Science Results - Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Til...
Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit.
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15:38 UTC
ESA Space Science
First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final ...
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12:45 UTC
ESA Top News
ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery
When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results ...
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09:29 UTC
ESA Top News
Estonia becomes fifth ESA European Cooperating State
ESA’s Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Juhan Parts, signed the Cooperation Agreement on 10 November in Tallinn.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover
NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Inventors to Compete for $400,000 in NASA Astronaut Glove...
Reporters and the public are invited to attend the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on Nov. 19 at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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05:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlanti...
An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.
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NASA's Ames Researc...
Ames to Host Live Broadcast of Space Shuttle Launch
News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the launch of STS-129, space shuttle Atlantis, on Monday, Nov. 16 in the Exploration Center at ...
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Planetary Society P...
News: Mars Exploration Rovers Breaking News: Spirit Begin...
Mars Exploration Rovers Breaking News: Spirit Begins Extrication
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Arianespace Press R...
SOYUZ' MOBILE LAUNCH GANTRY TAKES SHAPE AT THE SPACEPORT
Preparations for the introduction Arianespace's Soyuz missions from French Guiana have entered a new phase with assembly startup for the launcher's mobile service gantry at the Spaceport. The 52-meter-tall gantry ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsi...



