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1. The evolution of the Trappist-1 planetary system

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Gravity, Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Solar system, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2024 Planets are bodies that orbit a star and have sufficient gravitational mass that they form themselves into roughly spherical shapes that, in turn, [...]

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2024

2. Enceladus Spills Its Guts through Strike-Slip Motion

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Orbits, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2024 Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn's gravitational pull and deforms from a spherical shape [...]

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2024

3. Decaying orbits of exoplanets linked to stellar magnetic fields

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Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Jupiter (Planet), Magnetic fields, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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London, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2024 Researchers at Durham University have identified a new mechanism potentially explaining the orbital decay of exoplanets around sun-like stars, a phenomenon observed in systems [...]

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2024

4. Tiandu satellites enhance Earth-Moon communication with successful transmission tests

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Orbits, Space vehicles, Space ships, Outer space -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 16, 2024 China's Tiandu 1 and Tiandu 2 satellites have recently completed critical experiments focused on Earth-Moon transmission and routing. This development was reported by China's [...]

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2024

5. Queqiao-2 achieves lunar orbit, advancing China's growing moon program

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China. National Space Administration, Orbits, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2024 The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the successful entry of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite into its circumlunar orbit following a critical near-moon braking [...]

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2024

6. Firefly Aerospace to develop framework for DARPA's LunA-10 orbital spacecraft hubs

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Firefly Aerospace Inc., Orbits, Space vehicles, Space ships, Aerospace industry, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2023 Firefly Aerospace, Inc., a key player in space transportation, has announced its selection to develop a framework for integrated on-orbit spacecraft hubs. This [...]

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2023

7. Giant planets cast a deadly pall

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Gravity, Orbits, Planets, Jupiter (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2023 Giant gas planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth-like neighbors around other stars. New studies show, in some planetary [...]

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2023

8. Possible hints of life found on distant planet - how excited should we be?

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Orbits, Life on other planets, Extrasolar planets, Red dwarfs, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Nottingham UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2023 Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the [...]

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2023

9. Orion Exits the Lunar Sphere Of Influence

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Space vehicles -- Usage, Orbits, Space ships -- Usage, Moon -- Natural history, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry, Orion (Artificial satellite) -- Usage
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Houston TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 On the eighth day of its mission, Orion continues to travel farther away from the Moon as it prepares to enter a distant retrograde [...]

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2022

10. Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?

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Orbits, Solar system, Outer planets, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 New work led by Carnegie's Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces [...]

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2020

11. Gilmour Space to launch Space Machines Company on first Eris rocket

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Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 Australian rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has secured the first customer for its maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022. Space Machines Company has [...]

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2020

12. Rocket Lab Granted FAA Launch Operator License for Missions from Launch Complex 2

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United States. Federal Aviation Administration, Orbits, Artificial satellites -- Launching, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 Rocket Lab, a space systems company and global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has been granted a five-year Launch Operator License by [...]

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2020

13. Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Satellite for Capella Space on 14th Mission

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Orbits, Artificial satellites -- Launching, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has successfully launched its 14th Electron mission and [...]

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2020

14. Intelsat 901 Satellite Returns to Service Using Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle

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Intelsat Ltd., Northrop Grumman Corp., Satellite communications services industry, Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Aircraft industry, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2020, 2020 Intelsat announced Friday that Intelsat 901 has returned to service following the successful docking with the first Mission Extension Vehicle [...]

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2020

15. Cassini Mission Prepares for 'Grand Finale' at Saturn

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Orbits, Saturn (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2017, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. [...]

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2017

16. Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn

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Orbits, Saturn (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2016, 2016 After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of [...]

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2016

17. Robotically discovering Earth's nearest neighbors

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Orbits, Telescope, Extrasolar planets, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry, University of Hawai'i, Tennessee State University
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Byline: Staff Writers Manoa HI (SPX) Apr 29, 2015, 2015 A team of astronomers using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby [...]

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2015

18. NASA Spacecraft Nears Historic Dwarf Planet Arrival

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United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2015, 2015 NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres. [...]

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2015

19. MAVEN Completes First Deep Dip Campaign

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Orbits, Atmosphere, Upper, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Nancy Neal Jones Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2015, 2015 NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer [...]

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2015

20. Smaller Gas Giants Could Support Life

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Orbits, Life on other planets, Hydrogen, Habitable extrasolar planets, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry, University of Washington
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Byline: Staff Writers Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2015, 2015 Two phenomena known to inhibit the potential habitability of planets -- tidal forces and vigorous stellar activity -- might instead [...]

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2015

21. Three nearly Earth-size planets found orbiting nearby star

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Orbits, Telescope, Extrasolar planets, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 20, 2015, 2015 NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, despite being hobbled by the loss of critical guidance systems, has discovered a star with three [...]

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2015

22. Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy

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Orbits, Scientists, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2015, 2015 Scientists have paired NASA's Cassini spacecraft with the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system to pinpoint [...]

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2015

23. 'Shooting the Moon' with Satellite Laser Ranging

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Orbits, Optical radar, Lasers, Laser, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Dec 23, 2014, 2014 Laser ranging from Earth to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was a milestone in the 50-year history of satellite laser [...]

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2014

24. Venus Express goes gently into the night

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Orbits, Venus (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Paris (SPX) Dec 18, 2014, 2014 ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a [...]

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2014

25. First Observations of the Surfaces of Objects from the Oort Cloud

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Orbits, Astronomy, Solar system, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Manoa HI (SPX) Nov 17, 2014, 2014 Astronomers are announcing the discovery of two unusual objects in comet-like orbits that originate in the Oort cloud but with [...]

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2014

26. Galileo satellite set for new orbit

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Orbits, Artificial satellites, Van Allen radiation belts, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Paris (SPX) Nov 10, 2014, 2014 ESA's fifth Galileo navigation satellite, one of two left in the wrong orbit this summer, will make a series of manoeuvres [...]

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2014

27. Galileo duo handed over in excellent shape

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Orbits, Artificial satellites, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Paris (SPX) Oct 17, 2014, 2014 A pair of fully functioning Galileo navigation satellites was recently delivered to its operators, as preparations get underway for the next [...]

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2014

28. NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion

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Lockheed Martin Corp., Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Aerospace industry, Mars (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2014, 2014 NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing [...]

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2014

29. Chandra Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old

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Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2014, 2014 A planet may be causing the star it orbits to act much older than it actually is, according to new [...]

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2014

30. MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars

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Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Mars (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2014, 2014 On Sept. 21, 2014, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft will complete roughly 10 months of travel and enter [...]

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2014

31. New Horizons Crosses Neptune Orbit On Route To First Pluto Flyby

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Neptune (Planet), Orbits, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2014, 2014 NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to [...]

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2014

32. Rosetta Arrives At Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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Orbits, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Paris (SPX) Aug 06, 2014, 2014 After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA's Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening [...]

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2014

33. Young binary star system may form planets with weird and wild orbits

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Orbits, Planets, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2014, 2014 Unlike our solitary Sun, most stars form in binary pairs -- two stars that orbit a common center of mass. [...]

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2014

34. Brown Dwarfs May Wreak Havoc on Orbits of Nearby Planets

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Orbits, Habitable extrasolar planets, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Nola Taylor Redd for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2014, 2014 Planets that move around their stars in circular orbits are a better bet for life [...]

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2014

35. Friction from Tides Could Help Distant Earths Survive, and Thrive

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Orbits, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Elizabeth Zubritsky for Goddard Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2014, 2014 As anybody who has started a campfire by rubbing sticks knows, friction generates heat. Now, computer modeling by [...]

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2014

36. NASA Television Coverage Set for Orbital-2 Mission to Space Station

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Orbital Sciences Corp. -- Media coverage, Orbits, Aerospace industry, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014, 2014 NASA Television will provide live coverage of the upcoming Orbital Sciences Corp.'s mission to resupply the International Space Station. Orbital's [...]

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2014

37. Two planets orbit nearby ancient star

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Orbits, Planets, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 04, 2014, 2014 An international team of astronomers, including five Carnegie scientists, reports the discovery of two new planets orbiting a very old [...]

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2014

38. Sixth Boeing GPS IIF Spacecraft Reaches Orbit, Sends First Signals

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United States. Air Force, Boeing Co., Orbits, Space vehicles, Space ships, Aerospace industry, Global Positioning System, Global Positioning System, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers El Segundo, CA (SPX) May 20, 2011, 2014 The latest Boeing Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite sent initial signals from space shortly after launch May 16, [...]

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2014

39. Giant telescope tackles orbit and size of exoplanet

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Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Telescope, Solar system, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Anne M Stark for LLNL News Livermore CA (SPX) May 16, 2014, 2014 Using one of the world's largest telescopes, a Lawrence Livermore team and international collaborators have tracked [...]

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2014

40. Starshade Could Help Photograph Distant Planets

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Orbits, Telescope, Habitable extrasolar planets, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Nola Taylor Redd for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 12, 2014, 2014 As a planet orbits near its sun, the bright stellar light interferes with observations made [...]

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2014

41. NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon's Surface

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United States. Ames Research Center, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (Space probe), Orbits, Space vehicles, Space ships, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 18, 2014, 2014 Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment [...]

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2014

42. Orbital physics is child's play with 'Super Planet Crash'

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Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Solar system, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Tim Stephens for UCSC News Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2014, 2014 Super Planet Crash is a pretty simple game: players build their own planetary system, putting planets [...]

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2014

43. Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

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Orbits, Extrasolar planets, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2014, 2014 NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems [...]

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2014

44. NASA Moves Longest-Serving Mars Spacecraft for New Observations

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United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Corp., Space vehicles, Orbits, Space ships, Aerospace industry, Mars (Planet), Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2014, 2014 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, [...]

Published
2014

45. Mission to Mars moon could be a sample-return twofer

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Orbits, Moon -- Discovery and exploration, Mars (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Staff Writers Providence RI (SPX) Nov 13, 2013, 2013 The study helps to confirm the idea that the surface of Phobos contains tons of dust, soil, and rock blown [...]

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2013

46. Martian moon samples will have bits of Mars

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Orbits, Mars (Planet), Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Staff Writers Providence RI (SPX) Nov 13, 2013, 2013 A planned mission to return a sample from the Martian moon Phobos will likely be a twofer, according to a [...]

Published
2013

47. Earth orbit changes were key to Antarctic warming that ended last ice age

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Orbits, Glacial epoch, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Byline: Vince Stricherz Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 20, 2013, 2013 For more than a century scientists have known that Earth's ice ages are caused by the wobbling of the planet's [...]

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2013

48. Antarctic ice core sheds new light on how the last ice age ended

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United States. National Science Foundation, Orbits, Glacial epoch, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2013, 2013 Analysis of an ice core taken by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide drilling [...]

Published
2013

49. Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Supports Launch of Wideband Global SATCOM Spacecraft

Subjects
Space vehicles, Satellite communications services industry, Orbits, Space ships, Military maneuvers, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Staff Writers Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2013, 2013 Aerojet Rocketdyne has announced that its propulsion systems played a major role in successfully placing the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM [...]

Published
2013

50. NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign

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Orbits, Astronomy, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2013, 2013 In 1680, Kirch's comet lit up the nighttime skies, and was even briefly visible in broad daylight. With a remarkably [...]

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2013

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