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June 25, 2010
MOON DAILY
The Earth From The Moon
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 25, 2010
All cameras are susceptible to scattered light. You may have seen scattered light in pictures you have taken looking towards the Sun. Sunlight reflects off the optics and sometimes off the structure of the lens, and often appears as a gradient of brightness across the image. Attaching a baffle to your camera, like we did with the LROC Wide and Narrow Angle Cameras, can minimize this effect. More subtle effects are often present but usually you simply just don't notice artifacts because of strong c ... read more

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MARSDAILY

New Clues Suggest Wet Era On Early Mars Was Global
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MARSDAILY

Brown Team Finds Widespread Glacial Meltwater Valleys On Mars
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TECH SPACE

Harris Corporation Will Modernize Ground Segment For NASA TDRSS
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Completes Three Drives This Week
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IRON AND ICE

Japan lab finds trace of gas in deep space asteroid pod
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EXO LIFE

Astro Anthracene
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA may revise last shuttle flight dates
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EXO WORLDS

Plentiful And Potential Planets
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Astrium Selected To Develop Key Technologies For Future Space Missions
EXO WORLDS

Earth-Like Planets May Be Ready For Their Close-Up
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EXO WORLDS

VLT Detects First Superstorm On Exoplanet
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers glimpse distant planet's lethal moods
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MARSDAILY

Teen project one-ups NASA, finds hole in Mars cave
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TECH SPACE

SES-1 Satellite Of SES WORLD SKIES Now Operational
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ROBO SPACE
Intelligent 3D Simulation Robots To Compete In Robocup 2010
Coral Gables FL (SPX) Jun 22, 2010
A University of Miami (UM) researcher will be presenting his work on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 14th annual RoboCup World Championship and Symposium, an international robotic event whose goal is to advance AI and intelligent robotics research. Ubbo Visser, research associate professor of computer science at UM College of Arts and Sciences and team leader for the UM ro ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
President Obama Proposes Additional Financing For Growth And Jobs
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2010
The president submitted to Congress on Friday, June 18, a fiscal year 2011 budget amendment that targets up to $100 million toward spurring regional economic growth and job creation in the aerospace industry. The amendment would provide up to $40 million in aid for Florida's Space Coast and a maximum of about $60 million for other affected regions. These funds specifically would be made av ... more

LAUNCH PAD
Ariane 5 Has Arabsat-5A and COMS In The Launch Zone
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 23, 2010
The 51st Ariane 5 has rolled out to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport, clearing the way for tomorrow evening's (June 23) liftoff with a dual-passenger payload of the Arabsat-5A and COMS satellites. Emerging under cloudy French Guiana skies at 10:30 a.m. local time Tuesday, the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA was transferred during a one-hour process from the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building ... more

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SPACE MEDICINE

Report Describes The Physics Of The Bends

LAUNCH PAD

Next Ariane 5 Mission Cleared For Liftoff


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NUKEWARS
F-35 Navy Jet Confirms Carrier-Landing Strength Predictions

Successful Demonstration Of Naval S-Band Radar Testbed

France Hands Over Night Vision And Comms Technology To Russia

NUKEWARS
Interoperability Key To Success In Missile Defense

LM And Alaska Aerospace Partner For GMD Contract

Romania, US start talks on missile shield: official

NUKEWARS
First Firing Of MBDA's SCALP Naval Missile

SSBN Launches Multiple Ballistic Missiles

Raytheon To Develop New Airborne TOW Launcher

NUKEWARS
U.S. bid for new GCV on track

Luxembourg chooses Saab anti-tank weapon

Chinese military buys traditional medicine

NUKEWARS
Intelligent 3D Simulation Robots To Compete In Robocup 2010

Robot cat Doraemon's gadgets come to life in Japan show

NASA Expanding Tests Of Star Wars-Inspired "Droids"

NUKEWARS
Council of Europe calls for WHO flu handling probe

New Vaccine Strategies Could Safely Control Rift Valley Fever

HIV: Nurse-monitored treatment gets OK in S.African trial

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STATION NEWS
Russian, US astronauts dock with ISS: official
Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2010
A Russian space ship carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts on Friday docked successfully with the International Space Station, mission control officials said. The Soyuz-FG rocket, which blasted off Wednesday for the ISS, carried Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock who opened the airlocks some two hours after docking. The Vesti-24 television channel showed the new arrivals heartily hugging the station's current crew and smiling. ... read more

STATION NEWS
Astrium Selected To Develop Key Technologies For Future Space Missions

S.Korea, Russia probe rocket failure

South Korean Rocket Explodes Shortly After Take-Off

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STATION NEWS
Ariane 5 Has Arabsat-5A and COMS In The Launch Zone

Next Ariane 5 Mission Cleared For Liftoff

Mission Preparations Move Forward For Next Ariane 5 Mission

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STATION NEWS
NASA may revise last shuttle flight dates

Space Center Houston Targets Acquisition Of Retired Space Shuttle

Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles

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STATION NEWS
Russian, US astronauts dock with ISS: official

Russian, US astronauts dock with ISS: official

Three New Expedition 24 Crew Members Dock With ISS

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STATION NEWS
President Obama Proposes Additional Financing For Growth And Jobs

NASA Deputy Administrator Stresses Importance Of International Cooperation

Orion Spacecraft Takes Shape

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