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Japanese Asteroid Probe Presumably Back on Earth
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Written by Marcia Smith
Sunday, 13 June 2010 10:40
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) asteroid sample return spacecraft, Hayabusa, presumably has landed in Australia as planned. The BBC reports that the reentry spacecraft hit the top of the atmosphere at 13:50 GMT (9:50 am EDT), but it would take recovery teams several hours to pinpoint the landing site and determine if it landed intact. No information about the actual landing has yet appeared on JAXA's website. A video of the reentry is on UStream. The fireball begins to emerge at 2:58 into the video. Beautiful!
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Obama Administration to Create Single Export Control Agency
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Written by Marcia Smith
Thursday, 01 July 2010 08:46
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National Security Adviser James Jones yesterday announced plans to create a new single independent agency to handle export controls at a luncheon on Capitol Hill for the Senate Aerospace Caucus. The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) praised the decision in a press release that summarized the talk, which was also reported by news organizations. This "Single Licensing Agency" will be governed by a board of directors composed of cabinet officials from agencies with export control responsibilities according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and The HIll.
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U.N. Report of June 2009 COPUOS Meeting Now Available
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Written by Marcia Smith
Monday, 28 September 2009 17:25
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The report of the 64th session of the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) is now available from the U.N. Office of Outer Space Affairs. The meeting was held June 3-12, 2009 in Vienna, Austria. The report is available in all the official languages of the United Nations.
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Exoplanet News Expected Thursday
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Written by Marcia Smith
Monday, 23 August 2010 22:52
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NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, August 26, 2010, to reveal new findings from the Kepler space observatory. Using Kepler data, scientists have discovered an "intriguing planetary system" according to the announcement. The teleconference is at 1:00 pm EDT. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.
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Make GPS Nuclear Detonation Detection Data Public: Dan Baker
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Written by Marcia Smith
Friday, 28 May 2010 08:06
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Dan Baker, Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has an interesting op-ed in the New York Times this morning. He wants the government to make public data collected by the Global Positioning System (GPS) as it monitors the Earth looking for signs of nuclear detonations. He says the "mounds of environmental data" collected by GPS' Nuclear Detonation Detection System could help in our understanding of global warming, but it is not made available to scientists because of a bureaucracy that assumes that "because some of the data might be sensitive, all of it must be protected."
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