What is Biodiversity

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97% of Short-billed Dowitchers breed in the boreal forestCredit: Jeff Nadler When many of us think about the word ?biodiversity?, we often think of it to mean species diversity?the number of species present within a specific area. However, biodiversity[...]

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SPUTNIX is granted a license for space activity

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 May 2013 12:16:47 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Skolkovo, Russia (SPX) May 22, 2013
SPUTNIX has been granted has been granted a license by the Russian Federal Space Agency for engaging in space activity, namely: creating and modernizing small automatic space vehicles for scientific and commercial purposes. The open-ended license #1749K, issued to the Company by Order #197 of 18 April 2013 based on a decision by the Federal Space Agency, confirms that SPUTNIX conforms to t

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Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

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Baltimore MD (SPX) May 22, 2013
All exploration comes with both rewards and risks. Back in 2005 and 2006, when Pluto's second and third moons (Nix and Hydra) were discovered, searches by astronomers for still more moons didn't reveal any. So the accidental discovery of Pluto's fourth moon by the Hubble Space Telescope in mid-2011 (during a search for Plutonian rings) raised the possibility that the hazards in the Pluto system

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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in
Rock

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 May 2013 12:16:47 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 22, 2013
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water. The fractured rock, called "Esperance," provides evidence about a wet ancient environment possibly favorable for life. The mission's principal investigator, Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., said, "

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Electric Propulsion

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Bethesda MD (SPX) May 22, 2013
Electric propulsion has been around for several decades. In fact, the idea dates back to 1906, when Robert Goddard made an entry in his personal notebook. Five years later, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published the idea. The late 1950s and early 1960s saw a flurry of research on electric propulsion devices. By 1962, technical papers that addressed the use of these new gadgets for controlling th

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Desert Tests Pave Way for Human Exploration of
Small Bodies

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Mojave CA (SPX) May 22, 2013
A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics has successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From 13 to 15 April 2013, field experiments were

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Arianespace underscores strong partnership with
Japan during Tokyo meetings

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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 22, 2013
Arianespace's new Arianespace's new Chairman and CEO Stephane Israel has made his first major international customer calls, meeting with key Japanese partners during the company's annual Arianespace Japan Week activities in Tokyo. Israel spoke with leaders from Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and SKY Perfect JSAT during three

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ATK Hoping Tp Clean Up Rocketscience

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Arlington VA (SPX) May 22, 2013
ATK has completed the first U.S.-based testing of the High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) thruster technology for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The testing was conducted at ATK Defense Group's test facility in Elkton, Md., in April 2013. The ATK test facility is capable of assessing high-fidelity performance and operability features of the HPGP thruster technology, whic

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