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January 27, 2011
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Russia Plans To Build Carrier Rocket For Mars Missions
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2011
Russia's Khrunichev research center plans to develop a new super-heavy carrier rocket that will be used to launch piloted spacecraft to Mars. "The super-heavy carrier rocket will be based on the design of the Angara rocket and its modifications - Amur and Yenisei," Anatoly Kuzin, deputy general director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, said. Angara rockets, designed to provide lifting capabilities between 2,000 and 40,500 kg into low earth orbit, are expected to ... read more

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MOON DAILY

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SATURN DAILY

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IRON AND ICE

Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely From Rocky Body
A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus. Data ... more
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MARSDAILY

The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close
During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astronomer discounts chances of alien life
A leading U.S. astronomer says there is no hope of finding alien life in space because all other planets discovered so far are to hostile for life. ... more
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TECH SPACE

LockMart To Enhance Space Systems Development With Opening Of New Virtual Laboratory
Lockheed Martin plans to increase the affordability and efficiency of space system development with the opening of a new advanced technology and virtual simulation facility, known as the Collaborati ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Solar Sail Stunner
In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet. ... more
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TECH SPACE

'Smartphone Satellite' Developed By Surrey Space Researchers
Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed 'STRaND-1', a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit a ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia's Spaceship Debris Slump Into Pacific Ocean
The Russian space cargo ship Progress M-08M left orbit and fell into the Pacific Monday after three month of work at the International Space Station (ISS), reported the Mission Control Center outsid ... more
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MARSDAILY

DLR Researchers Simulate The Martian Atmosphere
To support the European ExoMars Mission to explore the Red Planet, an international project is being launched on 20 January 2011 with the aim of simulating the entry of spacecraft into the martian a ... more
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MARSDAILY

New images of martian moon released
The European Space Agency has released close-up portraits of Mars's moon Phobos, taken as the ESA Mars Express spacecraft flew within 60 miles of it. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Virtual lab for space systems planned
A virtual laboratory to help engineers test products and processes before physical creation is being opened in Colorado by Lockheed Martin. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Looking Back At Uranus
As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more
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MOON DAILY

Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander
Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more
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STATION NEWS

Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, insta ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Launch Plus Five Years: A Ways Traveled, A Ways To Go
It's been five years since New Horizons roared into the Florida skies - speeding from Earth faster than any spacecraft before it - and began its journey to the unexplored regions of the planetary fr ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

First Delta IV Heavy Launches From Vandenberg
The first West Coast Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was launched from Space Launch Complex-6 here Jan. 20 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast of the United S ... more
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TECH SPACE

SDA Now Performs Conjunction Screening For More Than 300 Satellites
The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced that it now provides conjunction assessment (C ... more
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MARSDAILY

Chinese Astronaut Performs Well In Mars-500 Project
A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here. Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medi ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteorites May Answer Life's Chirality Question
A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Mumbai's washermen fear rise of the machines
At Mumbai's open-air Dhobi Ghat, Prem Shankar Kanojia picks up items from a pile of laundry stacked at the side of a concrete washing tank and submerges them in water murky with soap suds and grime. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Google looks to its next decade
Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month
Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Slow progress in U.S.-China space efforts
Analysts say mutual wariness is keeping cooperative efforts on space exploration between the United States and China in low gear. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian cosmonauts complete space walk
Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed their work during the first space walk by the crew of the International Space Station in 2011, officials said. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover Is Spending Several Weeks At Crater Rim
Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Ma ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed

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SPACE TRAVEL
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NASA's Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets A Silvery Blanket

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SPACE TRAVEL
Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June

Raytheon To Open GPS Collaboration Center In SoCal

Galileo Satellite Undergoes Launch Check-Up At ESTEC

SPACE TRAVEL
Slow progress in U.S.-China space efforts

China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

SPACE TRAVEL
Russian Astronomers Predict Apophis-Earth Collision In 2036

Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

SPACE TRAVEL
Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely From Rocky Body

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Japanese rocket puts cargo into orbit
A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit on Saturday, Japan's space agency said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Redfern Integrated Optics Awarded Contract For Development Of Laser For Space LIDAR
Redfern Integrated Optics has announced that it has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR contract for further development of its breakthrough single-frequency narrow-linewidth semiconductor laser, suitable f ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Intelligent Microscopy Uses Advanced AI Software
The sight of a researcher sitting at a microscope for hours, painstakingly searching for the right cells, may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new software created by scientists at the Europea ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe
A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Beaming Rockets Into Space
Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed b ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA sets final space shuttle mission for June 28
Despite budget uncertainties, NASA on Thursday announced plans to send the space shuttle Atlantis on the final mission of the US program June 28, after which the famed fleet will be retired. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Space Shuttle Program Baselines STS-135
On Thursday, the Space Shuttle Program baselined the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. It is NASA's intent to fly the mission with orbiter Atlantis carrying the Raffaello multipur ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. For the fourth t ... more
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