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It's PSR B1257+12. I'd probably say it as well, especially considering it's got a planetary system that somehow survived the supernova.

I've seen Iodine vapour, and it seems much pinker than Eve's atmosphere, if that makes sense.

Not really. What you need for life is the water and the right original building blocks, at this point thought to mostly be RNA nucleotides. They're actually pretty common, in cometary material-but that material has to actually get to the water (which isn't going to happen if there's several KM of ice in the way), and it has to be able to stay in highly concentrated solution for long periods of time, which isn't going to happen in a large below-surface ocean.

That's not a problem they could e.g. fix by changing the docking method, it's simply inherent to the system; it's designed for docking objects that are much larger than both Shenzhou and Tiangong. That's also partly why this is the last mission to Tiangong-it's only rated for ten dockings, due to how hard they have to hit to get it to engage. Part of ESA's proposed co-operation with the modular station is providing a better-suited port design.

Not in the western media, but if you know where to look there's a heck of a lot. There's less of it now because of the lack of 'firsts', but with previous ones it's essentially filled the entire chinese media for a good few days.

Because that'd require plane changes to anything launched to it, as neither the US or Russia operates equtorial launch centres. From Russia in particular (main launch site is at nearly 50°), it'd reduce useful payload to nearly nothing.

Pre-flight news conference, good overview of the mission;

Shenzhou 10, the last flight to Tiangoing 1, is set for launch tomorrow; the rocket and spacecraft are on the pad, and crew at at the launch site. The launch will be broadcast on CCTV (including over the internet, though their streaming system is a bit unwieldy), though with rather less coverage than previous missions. Trailer; Yes, China does do trailers for actual launches The mission is planned to demonstrate successful operations (e.g. experimentation) by the astronauts within Tiangong, unlike the engineering-orientated earlier flights, causing the lack of 'firsts' for the flight, and hence the lower coverage.

Persona was launched successfully. Shenzhou-10 is now confirmed for the 11th.

This is the same Russian space program that gave China a piggyback payload slot to Mars orbit, sold them flight-ready spacesuits, gave the APAS docking system design to, trained their first batch of astronauts.... I could go on like that for a while. The only race they have with China is racing for their cash, and there's no real indication of changes to that.

The corners underwent more initial cooling, simply due to having more nearby surface area. At least I think; that's what it looks like from the way the corners (and to a lesser extent the edges) rapidly stop being incandescent.

Right. Suuuure. If you want to pay $42 to the scumsucking exploiters of academia that are Elsevier to access (21) in order to baselessly accuse those researchers of scientific misconduct as well, be my guest. But otherwise I don't see much point in continuing, if all you have left is to directly accuse people of fabricating data and methods.

That only makes sense if they just fudged the extra parameters until the result fit the dataset, rather than setting them to match the actual data on aerosol levels.

Next launch is a Russian 'Persona' optical reconnaissance sat tomorrow, but we've a fat chance of seeing anything of that. After that is the next chinese crewed launch, Shenzhou 10. It's planned for either the 9th or the 11th (probably depending on weather), and will be last launch to Tiangong-1. Rocket is already on the pad.

Read a little further. They did exactly that.

Well there you go; Growth in sulfur (and soot) production due to economic factors causes temporary drop in temperature in the relevant period, a factor not taken into account by previous models. There, there's your answer.

Can you present proof of this supposed lack of warming first?

Thank you for your fully-cited peer-reviewed metanalysis. Seriously, you're going to say 'all other forecasts fail badly', and we're just supposed to accept it? Just how much of the actual literature have you read? The only actual 'evidence' I see here is a single diagram from a flipping newspaper article.

SapceShipOne is suborbital, and even then only just.

Pretty high. X-33 failed on the fuel tankage, for example.

A small part of the engine has undergone a few tests. They're still a long way from proving the plan is technically feasible, and a lot further from showing it to be economically feasible.

If you just want 'first SSTO', ARCA plan to do it with their first orbital flight, within a couple of years...

Rryy; That can't be it, because the 'left brain logical, right brain artistic' thing is mostly nonsense. Temstar; That also can't be it, the ratio is roughly the same (70-90%) throughout the entire planet, regardless of whether the people traditionally wrote left to right, right to left, or indeed at all.

And ATV sep. Now to see if it actually works...

It's not over yet-second upper-stage ignition confirmed.