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Stars help to track space junkBarcelona, Spain (SPX) May 31, 2011 A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cadiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary objects using the position of the stars, which could help to monitor space debris. The technique can be used with small telescopes and in places that are not very dark. Objects or satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) can always be found above the same point on the Equator, meaning that they appear immobile when observed from Earth. By ni ... read more |
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  New synchrotron technique could see hidden building blocks of life Scientists from Finland and France have developed a new synchrotron X-ray technique that may revolutionize the chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples or fossils. The results ... more | .. |
  Juno Solar Panels Complete Testing The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA's Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light until they are deployed in space after launch. ... more | .. |
  ASU to build mineral survey instrument A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). ... more | .. |
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 CU-Boulder to participate in NASA mission to land on an asteroid A University of Colorado Boulder team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation ... more | .. |
  NASA Scientists on the Trail of Mystery Molecules Space scientists working to solve one cosmic mystery at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., now have the capability to better understand unidentified matter in deep space. Using a ne ... more | .. |
  Scientist instils new hope of detecting gravitational waves Direct evidence of the existence of gravitational waves is something that has long eluded researchers, however new research has suggested that adding just one of the proposed detectors in Japan, Aus ... more | .. |
  Second Rocky World Makes Kepler-10 a Multi-Planet System The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet, one they describe as a "scorched, molten Earth." The planet is about 2 times the size of Earth, and is very close to the Sun-like star K ... more |
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  Parts of moon interior as wet as Earth's upper mantle Parts of the moon's interior contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth - 100 times more of the precious liquid than measured before - research from Case Western Reserve University, Car ... more | .. |
 NASA-Funded Scientists Make Watershed Lunar Discovery A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. D ... more | .. |
 Explosion Helps Researcher Spot Universe's Most Distant Object An international team of UK and US astronomers have spotted the most distant explosion, and possibly the most distant object, ever seen in the Universe. University of Warwick astronomer Dr. Andrew L ... more | .. |
NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as Next New Frontiers Mission NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx team is led by Dr. Michael Drake, Director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planeta ... more |
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 Moon may have more water than believed: study The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on Earth in some parts, a study said Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed. ... more | .. |
  Electron is surprisingly round, say Imperial scientists following 10 year study Scientists at Imperial College London have made the most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the humble electron, finding that it is almost a perfect sphere, in a study published in the journal ... more | .. |
 NASA aims to grab asteroid time capsule NASA on Wednesday said it plans to launch the first unmanned US spacecraft to a deep space asteroid in 2016 to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more | .. |
NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016 NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spe ... more |
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 President Kennedy's Speech and America's Next Moonshot Moment NASA is once again charting a new course to extend humanity's presence into the solar system, developing a new heavy lift rocket and crew capsule to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Thi ... more | .. |
  Altimetry Is Defining Mercury's Shape MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) in its first 2 months of operation has already built up a grid of ground tracks that span most of Mercury's surface north of the equator. These data will pr ... more | .. |
 Listening with One Atom Weizmann Institute scientists set a new record for measuring magnetic vibrations using the spin of a single atom: 100 times more accurate than the previous record The lab, though it may seem q ... more | .. |
 Nearby Supernova Factory Ramps Up A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better un ... more |
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 Monash student finds Universe's missing mass A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe's 'missing mass'. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team a ... more | .. |
 Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over ... more | .. |
NASA to sample an asteroid with new space mission The US space agency on Wednesday announced plans to send the first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more | .. |
 How to Learn a Star's True Age For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a ... more |
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  NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga. Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor seen by their network in almost three years of operation. On May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter ... more | .. |
  Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the ... more | .. |
 Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent a ... more | .. |
 Black Holes Spin Faster And Faster Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the ... more |
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 Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in prepa ... more | .. |
 Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems Just Keeps Growing NASA's Kepler spacecraft is proving itself to be a prolific planet hunter. Within just the first four months of data, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of tho ... more | .. |
  NASA Hopes It's Time To Explore Titan The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence that implies the possible existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. In fact, Titan has been characterized as ... more | .. |
 Climate scientists reveal new candidate for first habitable exoplanet The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exop ... more |
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