UAE, Russia agree to cooperate in space industry
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Dec 04, 2015 -
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Russia on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build a strategic partnership in the field of space exploration.
The MoU was inked by Chairman of the UAE Space Agency Khalifa Mohammed Al-Rumaithi and General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency ROSCOMOS Igor Komarov.
The deal allows for extensive cooperation in space policy, ...
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Shedding light on particle acceleration in solar flares
Newark NJ (SPX) Dec 04, 2015 -
For scientists studying the impacts of space weather, one of the central mysteries of solar flares - the colossal release of magnetic energy in the Sun's atmosphere that erupts with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs - is the means by which these explosions produce radiation and accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light within seconds. The most powerful blasts dispatch energized par ...
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Couture in Orbit: from spacewalk to catwalk
Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2015 -
ESA and the Science Museum in London are working with four leading fashion schools around Europe to design clothes for the space age with their 'Couture in Orbit' project.
Between 2014 and 2016, five ESA astronauts from the UK, France, Italy, Denmark and Germany are visiting the International Space Station. To mark the missions, European fashion schools from the astronauts' home countries ...
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Dawn spiraling in towards Ceres
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2015 -
An intrepid interplanetary explorer is now powering its way down through the gravity field of a distant alien world. Soaring on a blue-green beam of high-velocity xenon ions, Dawn is making excellent progress as it spirals closer and closer to Ceres, the first dwarf planet discovered. Meanwhile, scientists are progressing in analyzing the tremendous volume of pictures and other data the probe ha ...
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British astronaut Tim Peake to run marathon from space
London (UPI) Dec 4, 2015 -
On Friday, British astronaut Tim Peake announced his intention to compete in the London Marathon - from space.
Peake is scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, as part of Expedition 46. He will be joined on his trip to the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos.
On April 24, toward the end o ...
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Orbital to try space cargo launch Saturday after high winds
Miami (AFP) Dec 4, 2015 -
Orbital ATK will attempt to make it third time lucky Saturday in the launch of its Cygnus space cargo ship after high winds off Florida forced a second postponement in as many days.
The next opportunity for launch will be Saturday at 5:10 pm (2210 GMT), the US space agency NASA said, after Friday's attempt was scrapped.
"The winds were just a couple of knots too high," said Vern Thorp, m ...
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Pluto surface details revealed in best images yet
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 05, 2015 -
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first few of a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby - and this image sequence forms the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades.
Every week the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft transmits data stored on its digital recorders from its flight through the Pluto system on July 14.
These ...
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