Contract signed on Earth observer
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Europe orders up Sentinel 1, the first bespoke spacecraft for its new global monitoring programme.
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The Canadian Space Agency has awarded a $39 million contract to Com Dev International Ltd. to build two instruments for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a $400m contract to co-design the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) space probe - slated for a rendevouz with Jovian moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede some time after 2012.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) today announced that it has been  awarded a $27 million contract for two Minotaur IV launch vehicles by  the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems (SMC) Space Development  and Test Wing (SDTW).
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Launched in 1997, the Cassini Huygens mission is a cooperative US$3.27 billion venture between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italy&#39;s space agency.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NASA's Spitzer Telescope recently utilized technology developed by Goodrich Corporation  to capture enough light from planets outside our solar system to identify the molecular make-up of the planets' atmospheres.
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By Guillet, Jaime  The countdown is on as two teams compete for a nearly $1-billion contract to build NASA's new flagship spacecraft - the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle.  The teams submitted cost estimates in April and await NASA's decision in late August.
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The European Space Agency on Friday gave the official kickoff to a billion-dollar project with Japan to send two unmanned scouts to Mercury by signing a construction contract with satellite maker Astrium.
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS  Contact: Dewayne Washington of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040   GREENBELT, Md., June 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Laura Stiles, a student from St.
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By MICHAEL STROH The Baltimore Sun  Amateurs scan motes of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.   BALTIMORE -- By day, Martin Courtney pounds out reports for a government contractor.
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A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
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A helping hand for Venus Express The European Space Agency (ESA) has enlisted the help of several ground-based telescopes for a project to complement Venus Express' study of our twin planet.â¦
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - The Fregat upper stage has placed four Globalstar telecommunication satellites into their planned orbits, Interfax-AVN was told at the central information post of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Wednesday.
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.