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Auction May Hold Piece Of Final Frontier For Space BuffsAmherst NH (SPX) Jan 04, 2011 Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial sector prepares to offer passage to orbit. Until space travel becomes easier, it's still possible to hold a piece of the final frontier in our hands. RR Auction, an Amherst, NH-based company, is making it happen-by offering bidders approximately 500 unique objects in a space artifacts sale in January 2011. ... read more |
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  Cyclone Tasha Adds To Severe Flooding Over Eastern Australia Cyclone Tasha recently made landfall just south of Cairns along the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia during the early morning hours on Christmas Day. The storm, which had formed just o ... more | .. |
  Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more | .. |
 Tidal Flats And Channels, Long Island, Bahamas The islands of the Bahamas are situated on large depositional platforms-the Great and Little Bahama Banks-composed mainly of carbonate sediments ringed by reefs. The islands are the only parts of th ... more | .. |
  India Plans To Launch 30 Satellites In Next Decade India is mulling to launch at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next one decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said. "We expect not less than 30 satellites," Di ... more |
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 Officials Award Production Contract For Fourth Advanced Frequency Satellite The Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate announced Dec. 17 the award of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion to Lockheed Martin Space ... more | .. |
 Semisopochnoi Island It is the "Island of the Seven Mountains, " or more precisely in Russian: "having seven hills." This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pac ... more | .. |
  Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more | .. |
 President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more |
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  ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8 International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more | .. |
  Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system. ... more | .. |
 NASA mulls merging operational divisions NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals. ... more | .. |
 Orbiting junk seen as major space threat Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more |
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 Mixed Bag For Indian Space Agency In 2010 It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2010 with the positive developments overshadowing two failed rocket missions. On the positive side the spac ... more | .. |
 HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more | .. |
 Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satellites into orbit An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites. ... more | .. |
 'Zombie satellite' finally reboots itself A "zombie satellite" adrift in orbit has come back to life, resetting itself after an unexplained breakdown in space this year, its European controllers say. ... more |
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 Astronaut sues over use of historic photo Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing a trading card company for using a photograph of him on his historic moonwalk as part of a recent card series. ... more | .. |
 Apple a no-show but iPad looms over CES The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off here on Thursday but the hottest device around, and the trailblazing company that makes it, won't be on the sprawling show floor. ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5's Sixth Launch Of 2010 This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight ... more | .. |
 NASA's Terra Satellite Sees A Snow-Covered Ireland The Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. are not the only areas dealing with holiday snowfall. Ireland was recently swathed in white on December 22, 2010. When NASA's Terra satellite passed over ... more |
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 Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly Research As the weather gets colder in Maryland, Bob Benson tells tales of winters he used to know in Minnesota, the South Pole, and Alaska. A five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere - the part of Ear ... more | .. |
  Taiwan will not deploy advanced rockets near China: report Taiwan has decided not to deploy a new powerful rocket system on outlying islands near China, deeming it unnecessary in the context of fast warming ties with Beijing, local media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  US to deploy new intelligence drone in Afghanistan: report The US military plans to to deploy a new intelligence drone in Afghanistan, which military experts say will allow US troops to monitor much larger operational theaters than before, The Washington Post reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
 US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officials Three US missile attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Saturday killed at least 15 militants and destroyed a Taliban compound, local officials said. ... more |
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