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November 24, 2010
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Should We Stay Or Should We Go
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Back in the late 1960s, the environmental movement was in a tizzy over predictions that overpopulation would soon cause mass human starvation and eventually kill the planet. But the Malthusian vision fell to the wayside once the Green Revolution made farming that much more productive and countries began enacting environmental reforms that lessened some of the worst abuses in pollution. These days you don't hear much concern over the size of Earth's ballooning human population, even as it reaches n ... read more

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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.
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MOON DAILY

Mission to far side of moon proposed
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SATURN DAILY

NASA ready to 'wake up' Cassini probe
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA argues for extra 2011 shuttle mission
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Alien civilizations may be far rarer than hoped study suggests
Mapping the Universe faster without sacrificing precision
Mysterious 'red dots' in early universe may be 'black hole star' atmospheres
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LAUNCH PAD

FAA issues private spacecraft permit
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued the first-ever license for a commercial spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, officials say. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Earth bacteria could survive on Mars
Common Earth bacteria could, in theory, survive in a dormant state in the harsh conditions on Mars for more than a million years, U.K. researchers say. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Russia To Start Work On Nuclear Space Engine Next Year
Russia's Energia space corporation said on Tuesday it is planning to start working on standardized space modules with nuclear-powered propulsion systems next year. Energia director Vitaly Lopo ... more
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EXO LIFE

NASA Satellite Reaches Orbit, Begins Astrobiology Experiments
The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska Aero ... more
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TECH SPACE

Issue Brief Details Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program
Sharing information on the location of space objects and debris is a prime example of addressing collective problems in space through cooperative solutions. As Earth orbit grows more congested ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Masten Space Systems And Space Florida Sign Letter Of Intent
Masten Space Systems and Space Florida have signed a Letter of Intent to explore performing demonstration launches of a Masten suborbital reusable launch vehicle from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canav ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Checks out Intrepid Crater
Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. Opportunity has has now exceeded 25 kilometers (15 miles) of odometry on the surface of Mars! ... more
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MOON DAILY

Neptec Wins Canadian Space Agency Contract To Develop A New Generation Of Lunar Rovers
Neptec Design Group has won a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the new Lunar Exploration Light Rover (LELR) - an exciting new generation of space exploration technology. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up
Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application
The chief designer of China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, said on Tuesday that the probe's "fate" would depend on its actual condition when it finishes its mission about six months later ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Putting The Squeeze On Fat Cells
From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they'll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at ho ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Aerojet's High-Power Hall System Propels USAF AEHF Satellite
Aerojet has announced that its high-power Hall Thruster Propulsion System (HTPS) has successfully initiated operation on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle #1 (SV#1) that was ... more
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MARSDAILY

Shallow Groundwater Reservoirs May Have Been Common On Mars
An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence for reservoirs of liquid water on Mars at shallow crustal depths of as little as tens of meters. J. Ale ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Tasks For Tiangong
China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will launch at some point in early 2011. This spacecraft will later host crews of Chinese astronauts launched aboard Shenzhou spacecraft. We have seen images of t ... more
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EXO WORLDS

500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered
Astronomers have discovered the 500th exoplanet outside our solar system, a database maintained by a French astronomer says. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Spindly new species found in ocean's crushing depths
Scientists unveiled on Wednesday a gossamer, ghostly creature discovered in the deepest reaches of the ocean between Indonesia and the Philippines. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered

Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered

First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy

EARTH OBSERVATION
Imaging Science Offers New Opportunities For Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up

Issue Brief Details Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program

EARTH OBSERVATION
New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS

Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013

SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver

EARTH OBSERVATION
Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application

Tasks For Tiangong

China To Launch First Female Astronauts

EARTH OBSERVATION
How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17

Purdue Unveils Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator

EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby

Hayabusa's Harvest

Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2

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TIME AND SPACE

Making The Passage Of Time Invisible And The Illusion Of A Star Trek Transporter
While a range of ingenious man-made materials bring us ever closer to realising the possibility of cloaking objects from visible light, research from Imperial College London is now taking invisibili ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Graduation Of Europe's New Astronauts
ESA's six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially 'astronauts'. The new astronauts, s ... more
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STATION NEWS

Departure Preps For ISS Crew Members
After some time off over the weekend, the Expedition 25 crew aboard the International Space Station began another work week Monday with a focus on the departure of three of its crew members. C ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011
The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

45th Space Wing Launches NRO Satellite
The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV-Heavy Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 37 at 5:58 p.m. (EST), carrying a classified Natio ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Development Of Humanoid Robot To Test Warfighter Protection Equipment
Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). This JPEO-CBD, Joint Project Manager for Nucl ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

DARPA Concludes Review Of Falcon HTV-2 Flight Anomaly
Following an extensive six-month review, the independent Engineering Review Board (ERB) chartered to examine data collected during the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle's (HTV-2) first flight has ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ball Aerospace STPSat-2 Satellite Launches Aboard STP-S26 Mission
The STPSat-2 satellite, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies for the U.S. Air Force STP-S26 launch, lifted off successfully from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 4:25 p.m. local time (6:25 ... more
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