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Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien WorldsHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 15, 2010 Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to planet hunters trying to track down alien worlds. "Planets in distant solar systems probably have similar dust tails," says Spitzer project scientist Mike Werner. "And in some circumstances these dust features may be easier to see than the planets themselves. So we need to know how to recognize them." ... read more |
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  Driving Through A Field Of Small Craters Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 2411 (Nov. 5, 2010), the rover performed an in-place 40-degree turn for communication. ... more | .. |
  Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approac ... more | .. |
 Light And Dark In The Phoenix Lake They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but with planets, first impressions do count. New images from the German Aerospace Center operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space A ... more |
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  Russia Launches Advanced US Telecom Satellite A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecommunications satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Sunday, a spokesman for Russian space agency Roskosmos said. ... more | .. |
  SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more | .. |
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  NASA Test Fires New Rocket Engine for Commercial Space Vehicle NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted a successful test firing Wednesday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Taurus II s ... more |
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 A Strategy To Search For Life On Mars The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t ... more | .. |
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 CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. But unlike an ordinary bulb, Sa ... more | .. |
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 Discovery ET Issues Increase With New Cracks Overnight, crews removed space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier assembly, or GUCA, which includes the flight seal, the 7-inch quick disconnect, or QD and the carrier plate, known as the ... more | .. |
 Rocketdyne To Perform Risk-Reduction Tests On 3GRB Engine The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne a $2.35 million contract to perform risk-reduction tests on key components of the Third Generation Reusable Booster ... more | .. |
 ULA Launches 350th Delta For the 350th time in its illustrious 50-year program history, a Delta rocket launched from U.S. soil, adding another chapter to one of the most successful rocket launch programs in American history ... more |
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 All Systems Nominal Aboard LM BSAT-3b Satellite All systems are nominal aboard the BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan. The satellite was launched Oc ... more | .. |
 EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems (EOS) on Wednesday welcomed the joint Australian-U.S. partnership to boost tracking of space debris. A leader in the field of space tracking, EOS has bee ... more | .. |
  Republicans could scale back US science budgets Budgets for scientific research in the United States could be scaled back with the return of a Republican-majority in Congress as conservatives aim to slash spending to reduce the ballooning deficit. ... more | .. |
Two cracks found on Discovery's fuel tank Engineers have found two cracks on the external tank of the space shuttle Discovery after delaying its launch until the end of this month following a hydrogen leak, NASA said Thursday. ... more |
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 ESA To Operate A Greenhouse In Space On ISS It's small, but it's a greenhouse for space voyagers - and for you. Paolo Nespoli will take a special greenhouse with him to the International Space Station and he's inviting young science enthusias ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Companies For Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle Studies NASA has selected 13 companies for negotiations leading to potential contract awards to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts, propulsio ... more | .. |
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 SAS Announces Inaugural Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum Special Aerospace Services will host its first Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum on January 12-14. The forum is being held in Boulder, Colorado, and will present a focused and conce ... more |
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