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- 29 Apr 2013
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13:40 UTC
ESA Science & Techn...
Herschel:Observation gives way to examination as Herschel...
The liquid helium coolant that enabled instruments on board the Herschel space observatory to collect extraordinary images and spectra has finally run out. Launched in 2009, the ESA mission collected ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Preparing for SLS Core Stage Testing
Before NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at Stennis Space Center.
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13:40 UTC
ESA Science & Techn...
- 27 Apr 2013
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Winners Announced! 2013 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
NASA has declared the winners of the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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01:11 UTC
Science@NASA
Cassini Catches Meteors Hitting Saturn's Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids crashing into Saturn's rings and breaking into streams of rubble.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
- 26 Apr 2013
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16:36 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Satu...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
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16:08 UTC
ESA Top News
Vega poised for commercial launches
The second Vega launch marks the transition to commercial exploitation, showcasing a mature launcher with increased capabilities and flexibility to meet the different demands of the launchers market.
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10:33 UTC
ESA Human Spaceflig...
Stress to rest
On Sunday, ESA’s bedrest volunteers began lying down for their second three-week session with their heads angled below the horizontal to help research the effects of weightlessness on the human ...
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10:11 UTC
ESA Top News
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 22-26 April 2013
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA, Partners Solicit Creative Materials Manufacturing S...
NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations that could enable fabric systems to enhance ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Hubble’s View of a Changing Fan
PV Cep is a favorite target for amateur astronomers because the fan-shaped nebulosity, known as GM 1-29 or Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula, changes over a timescale of months.
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Dr. Paul Racette: Spirit in the Fire
Dr. Paul Racette raises consciousness by bridging how Native Americans and Western scientists view the world.
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00:00 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
Arianespace’s launcher cadence continues with four missio...
The Spaceport is operating to the rhythm of Arianespace’s launcher family, with four parallel mission campaigns now underway in French Guiana for the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight ...
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16:36 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
- 25 Apr 2013
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18:58 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
The Sun Sends Two CMEs Toward Mercury
On the night of April 24 and the morning of April 25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar phenomena that can send billions of tons ...
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18:55 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch this spring to observe the formation of electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
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18:48 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman Discusses the Hubble
Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for Hubble, discusses the history and the status of the pioneering space telescope.
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18:00 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
The Warped Fabric of Our Universe
Have you ever wondered why people on the other side of the world don't fall off? In the 17th Century, a man called Isaac Newton came up with an answer: ...
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18:00 UTC
ESO Top News
Einstein Was Right — So Far
Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, to find and study a bizarre stellar pair consisting of the most massive neutron star confirmed ...
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18:00 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
El tejido deformado de nuestro Universo
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué la gente del otro lado del planeta no se cae? En el siglo XVII, un señor llamado Isaac Newton encontró una respuesta: gravedad. ...
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17:54 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and...
NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.
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17:54 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy
The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
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16:46 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Extends Mission Operations Support Contract
NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of the Facilities ...
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15:53 UTC
ESA Top News
From space: incubation programme creates a thousand jobs
The creation of a thousand new high-tech jobs over the last nine years was celebrated at the Agency’s business incubator in southern Germany on Wednesday. The centre and its start-ups ...
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14:48 UTC
Royal Astronomical ...
Annual General Meeting 2013
The 193rd Annual General Meeting of the RAS will be held in the lecture theatre of the Geological Society, Burlington House, London, on 10th May 2013 at 16:00. It is ...
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14:08 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
Arianespace VV02 - Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1: Lau...
To carry out additional checks on the mobile gantry system used on the Vega launch complex (SLV), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to postpone the Vega ...
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13:00 UTC
Hubble Space Telesc...
Science Release: Entire galaxies feel the heat from newbo...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. ...
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10:30 UTC
ESA Top News
Global experts agree action needed on space debris
There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference announced today.
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09:49 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
Comet Makes a Splash on Jupiter
Jupiter is a gas giant and the largest planet in our Solar System, containing 70% of the mass of all the other planets combined! When scientists named Jupiter a gas ...
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09:49 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
Un cometa que causó sensación en Júpiter
Júpiter es un gigante gaseoso y el planeta mayor de nuestro Sistema Solar, conteniendo el 70% de la masa de todos los otros planetas juntos. Cuando los científicos llamaron a ...
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07:53 UTC
ESA Top News
Against-the-clock rehearsal for Station immunology test
Simply getting anything into space is tough, but doing so against a strict deadline can be really stressful. Researchers in an ESA’s laboratory nervously checked the clock as they extracted ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
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04:00 UTC
Japan Aerospace Exp...
[release] Japan-Italy Cooperation Event Japan and Italy: ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the "Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, Italian
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Ames Researc...
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
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02:08 UTC
Science@NASA
See Saturn at its Best and Brightest
Saturn and Earth are having a close encounter. See the ringed planet at its best and brightest on April 28th.
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00:00 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
The dawn of a new era in connectivity: O3b Networks’ firs...
The initial four O3b spacecraft to be launched by Arianespace on Soyuz have arrived in French Guiana, taking the global satellite operator one step closer to its goal of deploying ...
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18:58 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
- 24 Apr 2013
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23:09 UTC
NASA's Ames Researc...
NASA Prepares for International Space Biology Mission
NASA and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow are collaborating to understand better how life adapts to microgravity.
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20:48 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are on the verge of plunging into interstellar space -- the space between stars -- and two new Web tools let the public fly along.
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20:08 UTC
Carnegie Institutio...
Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
Washington, D.C.— Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth’s crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New ...
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19:30 UTC
Canadian Space Agen...
Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad...
Longueuil, Quebec, April 24, 2013 – As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions live ...
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19:04 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
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19:04 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
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18:54 UTC
Planetary Society P...
Planetary Society Testimony for Congressional NASA FY14 B...
The Planetary Society's official testimony to Congress on the FY14 NASA Budget proposal.
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18:00 UTC
Isaac Newton Group ...
Discovery of the First Isolated Compact Elliptical (cE) G...
Astronomers have used the ACAM instrument on the William Herschel Telescope in the discovery of a unique, isolated, compact elliptical galaxy.
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16:07 UTC
Science@NASA
Hubble Sees Comet ISON
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14:21 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
Success of the 1,803rd launch of Soyuz
The 1,803rd flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:12 Moscow time (12:12 Paris time).
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14:07 UTC
ESA Human Spaceflig...
Doctor needed for mission to white space
It is cold, dark, dangerous and lonely but the views and experience are unforgettable. ESA is looking for a medical doctor to run experiments at the Concordia research base in ...
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11:19 UTC
Royal Astronomical ...
Mysterious hot spots observed in a cool red supergiant
Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being ...
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11:02 UTC
Science and Technol...
UK scientists one step closer to finding the missing anti...
A subtle difference between matter and antimatter has been observed for the first time by the LHCb experiment at CERN. The observation has been made in the neutral Bs meson ...
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10:35 UTC
ESA Top News
Webcast
Watch the closing press conference live from the 6th European Conference on Space Debris, 25 April 12:45 CEST
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08:00 UTC
CERN
LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference
Geneva, 24 April 2013. The LHCb collaboration at CERN1 today submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters on the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle ...
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07:53 UTC
ESA Top News
Vega VV02
Fully assembled Vega VV02 on pad
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23:09 UTC
NASA's Ames Researc...



