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Space Fence Program Completes Critical MilestoneTewksbury MA (SPX) Nov 03, 2010 Raytheon Company has completed a successful system design review (SDR) for the Space Fence program. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to track and detect space objects. "As our nation's defense becomes increasingly more dependent on the space domain, a system like Space Fence will be a critical component in the Space Surveillance Network, tracking tens of thousands of objects daily," said David Gulla, vice president, National and Theater Security Pr ... read more |
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 Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more | .. |
  AMS Discoveries Will Surprise, Lead Scientist Predicts The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) destined for the International Space Station already is collecting cosmic ray signatures, even as it sits in a work stand at the Space Station Processing Faci ... more | .. |
 New Galaxy Clusters Revealed By Cosmic Shadows An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. The survey was conducte ... more | .. |
  e2v To Develop Image Sensors For PLATO Exoplanet Mission e2v has been awarded a contract to develop a new Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensor by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space scie ... more |
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 Galaxy Cluster, Quasar 3C 186 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an unusual galaxy cluster that contains a bright core of relatively cool gas surrounding a quasar called 3C 186. This is the most distant such object ye ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more | .. |
  Cassini Sees Saturn Rings Oscillate Like Mini-Galaxy Scientists believe they finally understand why one of the most dynamic regions in Saturn's rings has such an irregular and varying shape, thanks to images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. And ... more | .. |
  Energy Revolution Key To Complex Life The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new study by Dr Nick Lane, from the University College London ... more |
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  Space Radar Provides A Taste Of Comet Hartley 2 Exactly one week before the world gets a new look at comet Hartley 2 via NASA's EPOXI mission, observations of the comet by the Arecibo Planetary Radar in Puerto Rico have offered scientists a tanta ... more | .. |
 Dead Spacecraft Walking A pair of NASA spacecraft that were supposed to be dead last year are instead flying to the Moon for a breakthrough mission in lunar orbit. "Their real names are THEMIS P1 and P2, but I call t ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers For Juno Mission The magnetometers developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the Juno mission to Jupiter were delivered recently to Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colo. Designed and built by ... more | .. |
 Space Fence Design Moves Into Next Phase Electronic Systems Center officials released a request for proposal announcement Oct. 20, 2010, for the next phase of a program that will revamp the way space objects and debris are identified and t ... more |
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 NASA Spacecraft Preps For Comet Flyby In one of its final mission trajectory correction maneuvers, the EPOXI mission spacecraft has refined its orbit, preparing it for the flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. The time of closest approach ... more | .. |
  Interstellar Voyage Continues With New Project Manager As NASA's two Voyager spacecraft hurtle towards the edge of our solar system, a new project manager will shepherd the spacecraft into this unexplored territory: Suzanne Dodd, whose first job at NASA ... more | .. |
  Scientists Watch For A Hartley-2 Meteor Shower This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep Impact/EP ... more | .. |
 Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Common Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley astronomers Andrew Howard ... more |
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 NASA Survey Suggests Earth-Sized Planets are Common early one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California. The study is the most extensive and sen ... more | .. |
 Astronomer Greg Laughlin To Talk About Earth-Like Planets Greg Laughlin, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, will take the audience on a guided tour of the bizarre menagerie of planets that have been discovered outside our solar sys ... more | .. |
 Surviving Lunar Dangers Space takes its toll on humans and equipment. Go into deep space, and the environment becomes even more hostile. Land on the Moon, and you're facing the most dangerous place humans have explored bey ... more | .. |
  Hubble Data Used To Look 10000 Years Into The Future Astronomers are used to looking millions of years into the past. Now scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look thousands of years into the future. Looking at the heart of Omeg ... more |
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Galaxy Cluster, Quasar 3C 186 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an unusual galaxy cluster that contains a bright core of relatively cool gas surrounding a quasar called 3C 186. This is the most distant such object ye ... more | .. |
  Panel says particle search should continue A U.S. federal advisory panel is recommending the last U.S. atom smasher be kept in operation - but only if the funding can be found, it says. ... more | .. |
  Can Solar Shield Protect The North American Power Grid Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents cou ... more | .. |
 Countdown To Comet Flyby Down To Nine Days NASA's EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per second. On Nov. 4 at about 10:01 a.m. EDT (7:01 a.m. PDT) the spacecraft will ... more |
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