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December 07, 2010
ROCKET SCIENCE
Russia probes navigation system spending after crash
Moscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2010
Russia launched a probe Tuesday into whether the money assigned to create a satellite navigation rival to the US GPS system was being wisely spent, prosecutors said, after the latest launch ended in failure. The decision followed the failed launch Sunday of three Glonass satellites that were to have completed a satellite constellation whose development had been begun by the Soviet Union back in 1976. Space officials said the rocket carrying the payload had failed to reach its initial low-earth o ... read more

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US company could try spacecraft launch Wednesday
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Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing
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Kazakh Space Agency Seeks Extra Funding For New Baikonur Launch Pad
Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Ru ... more
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US company's spacecraft launch delayed to Thursday
American company SpaceX will attempt Thursday to launch its first space capsule into orbit and back, in a key test for the future of commercial space flight as NASA winds down its shuttle program. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Drilling For The Future Of Science
Students in Robert Palassou's fifth-grade class at Valley View School got an unusual treat last month when scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center visited their Pleasanton, California, classroom ... more
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EXO LIFE

New bacteria found living on Titanic wreck
A new bacteria has been found in the wreck of the Titanic, growing in "rusticles," icicle-like structures on the ship's rusting iron, Canadian researchers say. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase
The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program's Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ah ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected
A China-made-and-launched communications satellite has for two years helped develop education and communications in Venezuela, especially in this South American nation's remote regions. More t ... more
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EXO LIFE

Heat Helped Hasten Beginnings Of Life
There has been controversy about whether life originated in a hot or cold environment, and about whether enough time has elapsed for life to have evolved to its present complexity. But new res ... more
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TECH SPACE

Boeing Completes Intersegment Testing Of FAB-T Satellite Comms System
Boeing has announced that the company and the U.S. Air Force recently completed intersegment tests of communications between a Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) and an Advance ... more
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ULA Enters Fifth Year With 45 Launches In 48 Months of Operation
As 2010 nears its end, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is proud to celebrate its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company's 48 months of operation. ULA closed out 2010 in impressiv ... more
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Aerojet Propulsion Raises Japan's First Quasi-Zenith Satellite MICHIBIKI
Aerojet congratulates Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the successful launch of the MICHIBIKI satellite aboard the H-2A launch vehicle out of the ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

SwRI Researchers Continue Starfighters Suborbital Space Flight Training
As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight traini ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn On A Smooth And Steady Course
Dawn is maintaining its smooth and steady course through the solar system as it gradually closes in on Vesta. With the utmost patience and persistence, it continues thrusting with its ion propulsion ... more
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MOON DAILY

Robotic Excavations Could Help Get Helium 3 From Moon To Earth
Former ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair has outlined the possibility of getting Helium-3, found on the moon, through "robotic excavations" to earth, in an attempt to resolve the planet's future energy ne ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Completes First Flight
Boeing has announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The X-37B landed at 1:16 ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Programming error caused Russian satellite failure: report
A programming error may have caused a rocket carrying three Russian navigation satellites to fail to reach orbit, a Russian space agency source told the RIA Novosti news agency on Monday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Roscosmos And NASA To Seal Deal On Joint Projects
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA are to sign a protocol on joint projects in manned and unmanned space travel, the Russian agency's head, Alexei Perminov, said on Wednesday. "We are ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Super-Earth Has An Atmosphere, But Is It Steamy Or Gassy

First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed

Super Earth Could Be Steaming Hot Or Full Of Gas

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Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase

Boeing Completes Intersegment Testing Of FAB-T Satellite Comms System

Video games get kids to eat more veg, fruit: study

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Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss

GPS Not Working A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way

GPS Satellite Achieves 20 Years On-Orbit

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China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected

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Geminids Meteor Shower: 'Up All Night' With NASA

Evidence Of Ancient Impact Preserved In Modern Sand

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Dawn On A Smooth And Steady Course

NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby

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SPACE TRAVEL

Website Hosts Space Transcripts
Fred Haise first hailed Houston from Apollo 13, but it was Jim Lovell who spoke the now-iconic line. "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt," Lovel said on the second ... more
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ISRO Hands Two Contracts To Arianespace
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given an estimated Rs500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was annou ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Non-Profit Group Establishes Florida Fusion Center
As Brevard County, FL, home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, prepares for the end of the space shuttle program, the Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Institute, Inc. is fostering the growth ... more
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Russian satellites crash into Pacific: space official
Three Russian navigation satellites crashed into the Pacific off the US state of Hawaii Sunday after the rocket carrying them failed to reach orbit, officials from the Russian space agency said. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

US military space UAV back on ground after 7 month mission
An unmanned US Air Force spacecraft with a vaguely defined military mission landed early Friday in California after a seven-month mission, officials said. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Super-Earth Has An Atmosphere, But Is It Steamy Or Gassy
In December 2009, astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth known as GJ 1214b. At the time, they reported signs that the newfound world likely had a thick, gaseous atmosphere. Now, a team ... more
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EXO LIFE

US space agency finds new form of life... on Earth
Bacteria that thrive on arsenic have been scooped from a California lake, a discovery that redefines the building blocks of life and offers new hope in the search for other organisms on Earth and beyond. ... more
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EXO LIFE

From Toxicity To Life: Arsenic Proves To Be A Building Block
Arsenic - an element that triggers death for most Earthly life forms - is actually allowing for bacterium to thrive and reproduce. In a study that may prompt the rewriting of textbooks, a team of as ... more
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