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Europe in Space too?
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Yesterday August the 6th, NASA was celebrating its first ever rover landing to Mars. The "Curiosity" rover made a perfect landing, after a nearly 9-month voyage from Earth. That is the first major development in space for NASA and humanity, aft...
Hungary Launches Its First Satellite Into Orbit
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Hungary's first satellite, MaSat-1,was launched into space and started circulating in the orbit Monday.
Forget about the crisis: The EU wants to put a man on the moon (well, at least a robot)
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We'll resist the rather too obvious "EU officials are on another planet" jokes. You might think that all available resources are going into saving the EU countries that stand on the verge of financial collapse. Well, there's always some cash left for...
Devrait-on demander la Lune à l’Europe ?
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Rien ne proclame Domination technologique, ambition et prestige mieux que d’aller dans l’espace, ce n’est d’ailleurs pas pour rien que l’Inde et la Chine ont leur programme spatial. L’Europe n’est pas mal pl...
Cablegate reveals what Turks want: an Astronaut
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Turkey Pushed for Its Own Astronaut on Space Shuttle from Yahoo news In exchange for buying Boeing jets, Turkey wanted a Turkish astronaut to fly on a NASA space shuttle, according to a classified state department message recently released by Wikilea...
European space exploration
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Space exploration is an important issue for mankind’s future, and the collaboration between countries is the best way to progress in this field and confront the challenges we are faced with at present. Here is an illustrating video.
Controlling The Uncontrollable: Spain’s National Addiction To The Use Of “Dinero B”
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Well, before we go any further, I would like to make clear that what I am going to talk about in this post is not anything illegal, or even irregular (things like this must be going on in almost all Euro Area countries even as I write). Bending of th...
‘Brussels, we have a problem’ - MEP calls for European Centre to study UFO activity
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Frankly I have no idea how I managed to miss this gem earlier in the week but an MEP has submitted a written declaration to the European Parliament which calls on it to push for the creation of a European centre to study UFOs.Italian MEP Mario Borghe...
Earth observation satellites: green light for EU funding
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EU Satellites that observe the Earth's surface for environmental and security purposes came a step closer when Industry Committee MEPs unanimously approved a draft regulation providing a legal basis for them, plus €107 million for initial operati...
Brussels calms Hawking’s fear of aliens
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In his recent Discovery Channel documentary, the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking expressed his fears that aliens could turn out to be belligerent plunderers of the earth’s resources: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how...
The Russians are taking it seriously, should we?
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Image via Wikipedia Bryan highlighted this story on the BBC News website to me. The Russians seem to be taking the issue that the asteroid “Apophis” could hit the Earth. The asteroid is 2.7 × 1010 kg in mass and is 450 metres in le...
Europe officially launches EGNOS as open and free service
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SOURCE: GSA EGNOS is ready to use as an open and free satellite-based navigation service, the European Commission announced today. The improved accuracy of Europe’s first satellite navigation system ushers in a new era for location-based services o...
EU Law: European space policy
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Earlier we noted that the Lisbon Treaty added ’space’ to the Title on research and technological development. Now we turn to the new provision on European space policy.***TECThe current Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC) has no sepa...
'Jules Verne' ESA ATV launch
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Old news.Something I would love to see. A night launch from the jungles of South America.
