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January 06, 2011
MOON DAILY
NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 06, 2011
NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integration into a more sophisticated free-flying autonomous robotic lander prototype. The project is partnered with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers to achieve scientific and exploration goals on the ... 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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Arianespace Will Have A Record Year Of Launch Activity In 2011
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IRON AND ICE

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ISRO To Launch Two Communication Satellites This Year
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SATURN DAILY

New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity On Rhea
Newly released images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, revealing a history o ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle's Stringer Work Begins Today
Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will begin modifications to 34 support beams, called stringers, on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank today. Crews will fit piec ... more
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ISRO To Launch Singapore's First Satellite In Orbit In February
The launch of the satellite, dubbed X-Sat, has been delayed since 2007. Experts estimated that the delay has raised the cost of satellite four-fold to more than 40 million Singaporean dollar from ea ... more
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TECH SPACE

Turkey To Launch First Home-Made Communications Test Satellite
Turkey plans to send its first home-made communications test satellite into orbit in September next year, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday. The satellite, 3USAT, will pr ... more
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2011: The Arianespace Family Takes Shape
After reaffirming its world leadership in 2010, Arianespace is now actively preparing for the maiden launches of Soyuz and Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. Since being found ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Checking On Rover Spirit During Martian Spring
Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March. Spirit landed o ... more
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MOON DAILY

Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware
Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover Will Spend Seventh Birthday At Stadium-Size Crater
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a Dec. 31, 2010, view of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the southwestern rim ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

New Shuttle Repairs And Additional Imaging Begin
Space shuttle Discovery remains inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians are starting repairs on three support beams, called stringers, on th ... more
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Arianespace says it plans 12 launches in 2011
Arianespace said on Tuesday that it planned 10 launches in 2011, including six of its Ariane 5 rockets and the first Russian Soyuz rockets from the European space base in French Guiana beginning in August. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Auction May Hold Piece Of Final Frontier For Space Buffs
Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial secto ... more
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GSLV Broke Up When Connectors Snapped
India's heavy rocket broke up midair on Christmas day when onboard connectors that transmit signals snapped inadvertently, the space agency said Friday. "The inadvertent snapping of 10 connect ... 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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MARSDAILY

China to explore Mars with Russia this year
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. ... more
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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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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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ISRO To Implement Regional Navigation Satellite System

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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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Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show

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Dawn Has A Consistent 2010

Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return

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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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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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LAUNCH PAD

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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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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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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