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NASA formally sets July 8 for final space shuttle launch Spaceflight Now BY JUSTIN RAY Senior NASA officials held the final space shuttle flight readiness review at the Kennedy Space Center today and affirms plans to launch Atlantis next week as scheduled. "We set July 8 for the launch," said Bill Gerstenmaier, ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

Space Station's Brush with Space Junk Highlights Growing Threat Space.com by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer The near-miss yesterday (June 28) between the International Space Station and a piece of space junk highlights the growing threat posed by the huge cloud of debris whizzing around Earth. The piece of space debris ... See all stories on this topic »

White Space Start Up Secures £8 Million Wall Street Journal (blog) By Ben Rooney A Cambridge hi-tech start up founded to exploit the airwaves being freed up by the global switch over to digital TV, known as "white space", has today secured £8 million ($12.8 million) in VC funding. Neul, founded by executives from ... See all stories on this topic »

Eutelsat Joins Space Data Association: as Executive Member PR Newswire (press release) The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, today announced that Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) will join its board as an Executive Member. ... See all stories on this topic »

Tiny Cannibal Star Blasts Out Four-Hour Superflare Space.com The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory detected the outburst. The neutron star, known as IGR J18410-0535, is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide. It flared up after being swamped by a huge cloud of matter emitted by its blue supergiant ... See all stories on this topic »

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