Space Research News
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The U.K. named a former Apache helicopter pilot to be the first astronaut it will put into space in more than 20 years following an increase in government investment in space research.
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Deforestation rates in the Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than doubled in May as Brazilian farmers become more confident they’ll be granted amnesty for illegal logging.
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Brazil would lose about $100 billion in agricultural output if the senate rejects legislation that forgives farmers for illegally clearing protected rainforest, said Senator Katia Abreu.
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Dark, cold outer space is the new wine and spirits frontier.
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Titan Industries Ltd., an Indian company that got 96 percent of sales from watches and jewelry, plans to boost its aircraft parts unit revenue six-fold in five years as it taps rising local output of aerospace hardware.
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars, after a 352 million-mile journey and harrowing plunge through the planet’s atmosphere dubbed “7 Minutes of Terror.”
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INSAT-4B, an Indian communications satellite launched in 2007 by Arianespace, suffered a power glitch on July 7 forcing a shutdown of half of its transponder capacity, the national space agency said today.
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumped almost sixfold in the March-April period, led by the destruction of trees in Mato Grosso, the country’s biggest soybean-producing state.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on India to play a greater role in the Group of 20 nations and pledged to support its bid for a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council.
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A surge of fires in protected tropical forests is endangering efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a study in the journal Science said.
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