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November 22, 2012

Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASA rows back on findings
Washington (AFP) Nov 21, 2012
NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet. Excitement is building over soon-to-be-released results from NASA's Curiosity rover, which is three months into a two-year mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life. Its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments have been sending back information as it hunts for compounds ... read more

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S. Korea rocket launch set for Nov 29 South Korea plans to go ahead with a delayed rocket launch on Thursday next week in its third bid in four years to put a satellite into orbit, officials said. ... more		France, Germany compromise on Ariane launcher: minister France and Germany have overcome differences on building a successor to the Ariane 5 rocket, French Science Minister Genevieve Fioraso said at a European space meeting here Wednesday. ... more		UK Secures Billion Pound Package For Space Investment The UK Space Agency is set to invest 1.2 pounds in some of Europe's biggest and most lucrative space projects, providing the UK with increased leadership in a rapidly growing global sector and build ... more
				Dwarf planet Makemake lacks atmosphere Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2012 Dwarf planet Makemake [1] is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of Pluto but closer to the ... more		Curiosity Team May Reveal Major Discovery Soon The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive discovery, experts said, but NASA scientists are keeping it under wraps to double-check the spacecraft's calculations. Chief mission s ... more

Pleiades 1B is ready for integration in the payload "stack" for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission The Pleiades 1B satellite passenger for Arianespace's fourth Soyuz flight from French Guiana is ready for integration into the medium-lift launcher's payload "stack" at the Spaceport. This dua ... more		Mexsat Bicentenario is delivered to French Guiana for its December launch on Ariane 5 The second passenger for Arianespace's next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission - Mexsat Bicentenario - has arrived in French Guiana. Built by satellite manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corporation, this telec ... more		'Israel wants to keep Assad in power' Syria's jihadists have edge, control oil Commentary: Israel: Crises 360 degrees Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists Unspent billions of Chilean defense fund remain a mystery N. Korea 'special envoy' in China meeting Iran expanding nuclear activities: IAEA		Survey At 'Matijevic Hill' Wrapping Up Opportunity is nearing the completion of the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour ... more
				Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook location. Last week, Cur ... more		Meteorite samples provide definitive evidence of water and rock types on Mars Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on geochemical studies that help towards settlin ... more

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Ban 'killer robots,' rights group urges Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, campaigners warned Monday. ... more		ILS Launches the EchoStar XVI Satellite International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully delivered the EchoStar XVI satellite into orbit today on an ILS Pro ... more		New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards LLNL scientist finds topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity Storm shelters few in 'Tornado Alley'		S. Korea readies for delayed rocket launch South Korea is set to go ahead next week with a delayed rocket launch as it aims to join the elite club of nations capable of putting a satellite into orbit, an official said Tuesday. ... more
				Lifting The Ceiling On Terran Lifeforms The parachuting thrill-seeker Felix Baumgartner is not the only living thing to plunge through the jet stream. Recent studies have confirmed that microbes exist in the stratosphere, the atmosp ... more		NASA Innovator of Year Hunts for Extraterrestrial Amino Acids The hunt for the organic molecules that create proteins and enzymes critical for life here on Earth has largely happened in sophisticated terrestrial laboratories equipped with high-tech gadgetry ne ... more

Pleiades 1B is ready for integration in the payload "stack" for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission

ILS Launches the EchoStar XVI Satellite

France, Germany compromise on Ariane launcher: minister

Martian And Terran History Finding a common denominator

Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities

Curiosity Team May Reveal Major Discovery Soon

China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year

Moon crater yields impact clues

Study: Moon basin formed by giant impact

Dwarf planet Makemake lacks atmosphere

Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus

At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby

	MESSENGER Finds Unusual Groups of Ridges and Troughs on Mercury MESSENGER has discovered assemblages of tectonic landforms unlike any previously found on Mercury or elsewhere in the Solar System. The surface of Mercury is covered with deformational landfor ... more		NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mi ... more		Supersonic Decelerator Project 'On Track' for Success NASA has completed three key milestones in its development of new atmospheric deceleration technologies to support exploration missions across the solar system. The Low-Density Supersonic Dece ... more		Europe, U.S. talk space program link European plans to join the United States in building a manned spaceship could see a British astronaut in space before the end of the decade, officials said. ... more

Australia's resources boom over?

Israeli gas finds secure its self sufficiency

EU leaders face up to shale challenge

Chinese PM pledges stronger partnership with Pakistan

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BaBar Experiment Confirms Time Asymmetry		Martian And Terran History Finding a common denominator		South Korea's rocket launch likely to take place Nov. 29		Three ISS crew return to Earth in Russian capsule		Station Crew Off Duty After Undocking
Rare image of Super-Jupiter sheds light on planet formation		Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'		Toshiba unveils dog-like robot for Fukushima plant		It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Space Station		France, Germany seek Ariane compromise at ESA space meet

Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars

SETI Institute Major Donation From Qualcomm Chief Scientist Franklin Antonio

New views of the Martian ionosphere

AVX Introduces SMD Tantalum Chip Capacitors For Aerospace Applications

Instrument Delivered for NASA's Upcoming Mars Mission

Melt water on Mars could sustain life

NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

NASA Selects Information Technology Flight Operations Support Contract

CU LASP package ready for MAVEN integration bound for Mars

Space station command changes

A Reborn Planetary Nebula

Mars radiation levels not lethal to humans

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Lowell astronomer, collaborators point the way for exoplanet search

Student Teams to Build and Fly Rockets With Onboard Payloads for NASA Rocketry Challenge

DARPA's Advanced Space Surveillance Telescope Could Be Looking Up From Down Under

NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

Raytheon submits Space Fence proposal to the USAF

Survey At 'Matijevic Hill' Wrapping Up

Russia restores space contact after cable rupture

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