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January 04, 2011
MARSDAILY
China to explore Mars with Russia this year
Beijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2011
China's first Mars probe is expected to be launched in October this year in a joint operation with Russia after a two-year delay, state media reported Sunday. The probe, Yinghuo-1, was due to blast off in October 2009 with Russia's "Phobos Explorer" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan but the launch was postponed, the official Xinhua news agency said. Quoting an unnamed expert at the China Academy of Space Technology, the report said the blast-off had been pushed back to October this year ... read more

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ICPMSE-10J: Protection of Materials and Structures from Space Environment Conference The effects of differing space environments on materials and structures.
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SHUTTLE NEWS

New Shuttle Repairs And Additional Imaging Begin
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SPACE TRAVEL

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Canada says it could build launch rockets
Canada, which now relies on other countries to launch its satellites into orbit, has the technological ability to build its own rockets, space experts say. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test
The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more
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EXO WORLDS

The Final Frontier
Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more
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MARSDAILY

Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars
The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter
Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more
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EXO LIFE

Did Life Fall from the Skies? Lessons from Titan
In sci-fi movies, the first stirrings of life happen in a gooey pool of primordial ooze. But new research suggests the action started instead in the stormy skies above. The idea sprang from re ... more
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ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8
International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA mulls merging operational divisions
NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals. ... more
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TECH SPACE

HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers
Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more
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Ariane 5's Sixth Launch Of 2010
This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight ... more
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Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satellites into orbit
An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites. ... more
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TECH SPACE

'Zombie satellite' finally reboots itself
A "zombie satellite" adrift in orbit has come back to life, resetting itself after an unexplained breakdown in space this year, its European controllers say. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Global party, Argentine quake mark 2011 start
About a million people crammed Saturday into New York's Times Square to greet 2011, drawing to a close a global New Year's party, but the mood was marred by bloodshed in Africa. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Astronaut sues over use of historic photo
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing a trading card company for using a photograph of him on his historic moonwalk as part of a recent card series. ... more
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GPS NEWS
First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed

The Final Frontier

Citizen Scientists Join Search For Earth-Like Planets

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'Zombie satellite' finally reboots itself

Apple a no-show but iPad looms over CES

Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test

GPS NEWS
Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector

President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss

Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit

GPS NEWS
China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected

GPS NEWS
Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show

GPS NEWS
Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return

Astrobiology Top 10: Close Encounter With Comet Hartley 2

SOHO Spots 2000th Comet

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STATION NEWS

Extension of space station support fails
The European Space Agency says it was unable to win approval of NASA's proposed five-year extension of operations of the International Space Station. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA finds more cracks on Discovery fuel tank
NASA said Thursday it has found four more small cracks on the metal supports of the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, as the shuttle and external tank undergo further X-ray testing before its final space mission next year. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Orbiting junk seen as major space threat
Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly Research
As the weather gets colder in Maryland, Bob Benson tells tales of winters he used to know in Minnesota, the South Pole, and Alaska. A five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere - the part of Ear ... more
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ROBO SPACE

A Robot With Finger-Tip Sensitivity
Two arms, three cameras, finger-tip sensitivity and a variety of facial expressions - these are the distinguishing features of the pi4-workerbot. Similar in size to a human being, it can be employed ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace Flight 199: Launch Postponed 24 Hours
The launch of Arianespace Flight 199 has been postponed for 24 hours due to the unfavourable weather conditions over the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Flight 199 will place into geostat ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astrobiology Top 10: Viking Results Revisited
Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of l ... more
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Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore
An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more
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