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October 08, 2010
STATION NEWS
Russian rocket blasts off carrying three astronauts to ISS
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 8, 2010
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station blasted off Friday from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket took off into the night sky on schedule at 3:11 am Moscow time (23:11 GMT Thursday), creating a spectacular yellow light. Russian space officials said the launch had gone according to plan. Their Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft is a modernised version of the ship used by Russia to put humans into the space. It is the first such craft to be full ... read more

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SPACE WORLD 2010: Successful Premiere at the Exhibition Centre Frankfurt/Main
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Catches Saturn Moons In Paintball Fight
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ROCKET SCIENCE

DLR Launches 'STERN' Rocket Programme For Students
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STATION NEWS

Europe's Second ATV Is Prepared For Its 2011 Launch
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.

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DRAGON SPACE

Lunar Probe And Space Exploration Is China's Duty To Mankind
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SATURN DAILY

Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid With Wobble
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TECH SPACE

European satellite 'blinded' by radio interference
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STATION NEWS

ISS Crew Hard At Work As New Crew Members Prepare For Launch
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Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review
IRON AND ICE

Japan space probe may have brought home space dust: reports
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DRAGON SPACE

Four Chinese Lunar Landers Mooted
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OUTER PLANETS

Nitrogen Methane Dominate Icy Surface Of Eris
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STATION NEWS

Soyuz Moved To Pad For Thursday Launch To Station
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MARSDAILY

Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft Will Be Next Orbiter At Mars
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MARSDAILY
Opportunity For Close-Up View Of Meteorite Oilean Ruaidh
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2010
This is an image of the meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. Opportunity's cameras first revealed the meteorite in images taken on Sol 2363 (Sept. 16, 2010), the 2,363rd Martian day of the rover's mission on Mars. This view was taken with the panoramic camera on Sol 2371 (Sept. 24, 2010). The science team used two tools on Opportuni ... more

IRON AND ICE
Orbital Environment For Dawn Spacecraft At Vesta
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2010
A detailed study of the dynamics of the Dawn spacecraft as it orbits the large Arizona-sized, non-spherical asteroid Vesta next summer in 2011 reveals one of the most complex operational environments for a NASA mission to date. This work has implications for future mission planning to other large asteroids. A paper on the research titled "The Dynamical Environment of Dawn at Vesta" by Pasq ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
Space Experience Curacao Announces Wet Lease of XCOR Lynx Suborbital
Mojave CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2010
Space Experience Curacao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the wet lease of a production version of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft, pending United States government approvals to station the vehicle on the island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles. With a planned start date in January 2014, SXC will market, and XCOR w ... more

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MARSDAILY

US to go back to Mars in probe of 'lost atmosphere' mystery

LAUNCH PAD

ILS Proton Launch To Launch AsiaSat 7 In 2011


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EARTH OBSERVATION
Backward Orbit In A Binary System

First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found

This Planet Smells Funny

EARTH OBSERVATION
New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope

European satellite 'blinded' by radio interference

Logitech unveils Google TV boxes

EARTH OBSERVATION
EU's Galileo satnav system over budget, late: report

Broadcom Announces Support For New QZSS Satellites Launched By Japan

Canadian drives into a marsh using GPS

EARTH OBSERVATION
Lunar Probe And Space Exploration Is China's Duty To Mankind

Four Chinese Lunar Landers Mooted

China launches second lunar probe

EARTH OBSERVATION
No Evidence Found Of Catastrophic Impact In Pleistocene

No Evidence For Clovis Comet Catastrophe

Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite

EARTH OBSERVATION
Japan space probe may have brought home space dust: reports

WISE Captures Key Images Of Comet Mission Destination

Hubble Probes Comet 103P Hartley 2 In Preparation For DIXI flyby

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ROBO SPACE
Japan tech fair offers glimpse of future lifestyles
Chiba, Japan (AFP) Oct 6, 2010
Hundreds of technology firms came together in Japan Tuesday to showcase the latest in high-end gadgetry, including wafer-thin speakers and a ring that can monitor your heart rate. The five-day Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (Ceatec) technology fair in Chiba near Tokyo features more than 600 companies from 15 countries and regions showing new gadgets. Musical instrument maker Yamaha had on show its prototype TLF speaker that can be displayed as a thin, light and flexible poster wi ... read more

ROBO SPACE
ILS Proton Launch To Launch AsiaSat 7 In 2011

Eutelsat's W3B Telecommunications Satellite Arrives For Launch

Russia's Rokot Carrier Rockets To Launch Two ESA Satellites

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ROBO SPACE
Opportunity For Close-Up View Of Meteorite Oilean Ruaidh

Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft Will Be Next Orbiter At Mars

US to go back to Mars in probe of 'lost atmosphere' mystery

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ROBO SPACE
NASA official: Moon still matters

China Scouts Moon Landing Sites

Magnetic Anomalies Shield The Moon

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ROBO SPACE
Nitrogen Methane Dominate Icy Surface Of Eris

The Longest Space Mission

Uranus may have been cosmic 'pinball'

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ROBO SPACE
Backward Orbit In A Binary System

First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found

This Planet Smells Funny

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