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Opportunity Energy Levels Decreasing As Winter Takes Hold
www.marsdaily.com | 4 hours 34 minutes ago
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for

Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space
www.space-travel.com | 4 hours 34 minutes ago
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2012 - New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications

Massive air-launch system unveiled
www.flightglobal.com | 9 hours 13 minutes ago
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan and ex-NASA administrator Michael Griffin today unveiled a privately-funded...

Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit
www.spacemart.com | Feb 10, 2012
Tehran, Iran (FNA) Feb 10, 2012 - Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d

Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip
www.spacedaily.com | Feb 10, 2012
Nanjing, China (XNA) Feb 10, 2012 - China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and

LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory
www.newscientist.com | Feb 8, 2012
A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins will launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on a new European Space Agency

ORS-1, ground system gain final ops acceptance
www.spacewar.com | Feb 7, 2012
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 - When Gen. William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, declared the Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite had achieved final operational capability in early January, the announcement

Galileo GPS Project Faces More Certain Future
www.defenseindustrydaily.com | Feb 6, 2012
2nd large contract series; EC: We want another EUR 7 billion; New build site opened; 1st operational launch; Article updates. (Feb (Last update: 2012-02-07 06:01:44 GMT)

Eight more Galileo navsats agreed
www.gpsdaily.com | Feb 3, 2012
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 03, 2012 - ESA has signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe's Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time. The signin

defence.professionals | defpro.com
www.defpro.com | Feb 2, 2012
The early 2007 anti-satellite test carried out by China, besides sending shock waves across the world, seriously jolted the Indian defence establishment into thinking about strategies required to...