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Orbital Wins ICESat-2 Earth Science Satellite Program ContractDulles VA (SPX) Sep 02, 2011 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has selected Orbital Sciences to design, build and test the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Earth science satellite. Scheduled for launch in 2016, ICESat-2 is the next-generation successor to the original ICESat satellite, which operated from 2003 to 2010. The contract award is valued at $135 million, including the spacecraft and associated options. Orbital will base the ICESat-2 satellite on its LEOStar-3 platform, the same technology ... read more |
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  Last-ditch efforts to save dying Iran lake turn political Efforts to stem the rapid drying up of Iran's largest lake took a political turn this week after arrests were made in a local protest against the governments inaction on the ecological disaster. ... more | .. |
 Aquarius Makes First Ocean Salt Measurements NASA's Aquarius instrument has successfully completed its commissioning phase and is now "tasting" the saltiness of Earth's ocean surface, making measurements from its perch in near-polar orbit. ... more | .. |
  Storm Lee strengthens as it inches toward Louisiana Tropical Storm Lee strengthened Saturday as it inched toward Louisiana, threatening to dump heavy rains and trigger dangerous flash floods along the Gulf of Mexico coast of the United States. ... more | .. |
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  Famine likely to spread in southern Somalia: UN Famine-hit areas of southern Somalia will likely spread in coming days, with the situation continuing to worsen despite massive international aid efforts, the United Nations has warned. ... more | .. |
  Nigerian soldiers kill two in reprisal attack on town Nigerian soldiers killed at least two people and wounded several others in a reprisal attack on a northeastern town where a woman was killed last month, emergency and residents said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 US readies flood aid to N. Korea The $900,000 in US aid for flood-hit North Korea that Washington announced last month will be delivered in the coming days, the US State Department said Friday. ... more | .. |
  China censors Ai Weiwei's Newsweek essay Chinese censors have removed an essay by Ai Weiwei in which the dissident artist strongly criticises the country's government and justice system from the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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 UN dismisses fears of Tripoli water crisis Water shortages in Tripoli are "serious" but not "critical", the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator in Libya said Friday, dismissing fears of a looming disaster. ... more | .. |
  Reconstruction from quake top priority: Japan PM Noda Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Friday said that reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the resolution of the nuclear crisis were top priorities for his government. ... more | .. |
 Tropical storm Lee threatens Gulf of Mexico A tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to dump heavy rains and dangerous flash floods across a large swath of the southern United States, the National Weather Service warned Friday. ... more | .. |
  Sri Lankan survey finds 'healthy' elephant numbers Sri Lanka's elephant population remains healthy despite decades of fighting between government and rebel forces, the first survey since the end of the nation's bloody civil war showed Friday. ... more |
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  China tycoon makes Iceland environment pledge A Chinese property tycoon who is trying to buy a huge swathe of Iceland for a luxury resort said Friday he had been attracted by the country's wilderness and pledged to respect the local environment. ... more | .. |
 Malaysia seizes 1,000 elephant tusks: reports Malaysia has seized more than 1,000 African elephant tusks in two separate shipments in the past two months, reports said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  New Japanese PM unveils youthful cabinet Japan's new prime minister Yoshihiko Noda on Friday named a youthful cabinet lacking the usual political heavyweights, as he attempts to unite a divided party and safeguard a fragile post-quake recovery. ... more | .. |
  Obama dismays backers with air pollution U-turn US President Barack Obama on Friday shelved new anti-smog standards, dismaying supporters with his latest concession to the Republican agenda enforced by the jobs crisis and sickly economy. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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 Natural Cycle Driving Cold Winter Extremes But Not Warm Winter Extremes During the last two winters, some regions of the northern hemisphere experienced extreme cold not seen in recent decades. But at the same time, the winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 were also marked by ... more | .. |
 Chemists modify sea bacteria byproduct for use as potential cancer drug University of Florida researchers have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer. Writing in ACS Medicin ... more | .. |
 Cutting soot emissions fastest and cheapest to slow global warming A new study of dust-like particles of soot in the air - now emerging as the second most important - but previously overlooked - factor in global warming provides fresh evidence that reducing soot em ... more | .. |
 A new birth control vaccine helps reduce urban deer damage A new birth control vaccine for white-tailed deer - a growing nuisance in urban areas for gardens and landscaping - eliminates the dangerous reproductive behavior behind the annual autumn surge in a ... more |
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 Uruguay shanty towns get partial reprieve About half of the 200,000 residents of Montevideo's shanty towns are set to win a reprieve in a government plan to regularize substandard housing seen as an embarrassment to a country hailed abroad as a buoyant emerging economy with prospects of further growth. ... more | .. |
 Global protests against Japan dolphin hunt Demonstrators protested outside of Japan's embassies around the world on Thursday to urge an end to its killing of dolphins, criticizing the bloody annual hunt as wantonly cruel. ... more | .. |
 Iceland receives Chinese request for land purchase: ministry Iceland's interior ministry said Thursday it had received a request from a Chinese investor and property developer for permission to buy a tract of Icelandic land for a tourist resort. ... more | .. |
 Woolly rhino fossil hints at origins of Ice Age giants A 3.6-million-year-old woolly rhinoceros fossil discovered in Tibet indicates that some giant mammoths, sloths and saber-tooth cats may have evolved in highlands before the Ice Age, experts say. ... more |
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky
Solein protein tech moves toward ISS zero-gravity pilot project | .. |
 Nigerian flooding claims 102 lives: Red Cross At least 102 people were killed when a dam burst in torrential rain and flooding in southwest Nigeria, a local Red Cross official told AFP Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Experts recommend nets after Seychelles shark attacks Authorities in the Seychelles will erect special anti-shark sea nets around a popular beach where two tourists were killed in separate attacks last month, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 La Nina risks increase, to detriment of E. Africa: UN There is a 50 percent chance the climatic condition known as La Nina - which is associated with droughts in East Africa - will return this year, the UN weather agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 China cancels Estonian minister's visit over Dalai Lama China has cancelled the visit of Estonia's agriculture minister in the wake of a trip by the Dalai Lama to the Baltic country last month, an Estonian farms ministry spokesman said Thursday. ... more |
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 Huge migration impedes Somali children education: UNICEF Famine and drought have impaired education chances for more than 60 percent of Somali children as families flee their homes to seek assistance, a UNICEF official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Starving Somalis make new life in war-torn Mogadishu Exhausted and hungry in Somalia's famine-struck capital after fleeing drought and conflict, Fadumo Shamon is determined not to leave until she gets food for her starving children. ... more | .. |
 Rush to provide relief after Nigerian flood kills 102 Flooding that killed more than 100 people in the southwestern corner of Nigeria led to a scramble on Thursday to provide badly needed relief supplies, with homes and bridges collapsed. ... more | .. |
 Japan in first national quake drill since tsunami Japan on Thursday conducted its first national earthquake drill since the March 11 disasters that left 20,000 dead or missing and triggered a nuclear crisis. ... more |
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