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February 04, 2011
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Europe's ATV Space Ferry Ready For Launch
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 04, 2011
ESA's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle is ready for launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, 15 February at 22:08 GMT from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The unmanned spaceship will deliver essential supplies and reboost the Station during its mission lasting three and half months. The launch will be covered live from Kourou for broadcasters and on the Web, and celebrated at a launch event in Bremen, Germany. Europe's second ATV Johannes Kepler is the first opera ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

Lifting To Space
NASA began flight-testing experimental lifting bodies at Edwards in the 1960s, following evolution of the concept earlier in the 1950s. A lifting body is a fuselage that generates lift at the expens ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role In New Planetry System Discovery
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. UC Santa Ba ... more
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MARSDAILY

Martian Sand Dunes Re-Sculpted Regularly
The avalanche faces of huge Martian sand dunes, long thought to be frozen in time on the distant planet, are being re-sculpted on a seasonal basis, according to results of an investigation led by a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone
Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. " ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover Staying Busy While Mars Is Behind The Sun
Opportunity has entered the solar conjunction period. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two planets. ... more
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TECH SPACE

ISRO To Launch Remote Sensing Resourcesat In February
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Resourcesat 2, a remote sensing earth observation satellite, by the end of February, officials said Monday. Remote sens ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds
Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Propellant System Tests Scheduled For Discovery
During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Stev ... more
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24/7 Energy News Coverage
Collaborative Agreement to Advance Solar Arrays for Satellite Power Systems
Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers
FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena
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EXO WORLDS

A Six-Planet System
A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA's Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University o ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers discover six planets
Astronomers said on Thursday they had found six planets orbiting a distant star in the most exciting but also most challenging find since exploration of other solar systems began 15 years ago. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Virtual Mars mission approaching 'landing'
The first full-duration simulation of a manned voyage to Mars has reached virtual Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight, Russian officials said. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Meteorites yield Mars water clues
Rare fragments of martian meteorites have revealed evidence of how water once flowed near the surface of that planet, U.K. researchers say. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found In Habitable Zone
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Report warns of wireless radiation risks
A report in a U.S. journal says there are possible biological hazards and risks of genetic damage from unchecked proliferation of wireless technologies. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars500 Arrives In Orbit Around Mars
The first full-duration simulation of a manned voyage to Mars has reached a major milestone: the 'spacecraft' yesterday 'arrived' at Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight. Three crewm ... more
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MARSDAILY

Fleet Of INL-Designed Mars Hoppers Could Swiftly Explore Other Worlds
Mars is our next frontier. We'd like to know whether the Red Planet ever hosted its own life forms - and where it might be able to host human explorers. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity h ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions
US-China tensions weigh on Lisbon's Web Summit
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MARSDAILY

Rare Meteorites Reveal Mars Collision Caused Water Flow
Rare fragments of Martian meteorites have been investigated at the University of Leicester revealing one of the ways water flowed near the surface of Mars. Scientists at the University's renow ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sends Back Postcards Of Saturn Moons
On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way. Cassini passed within about 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) of Enceladus a ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Watch Out For Solar Sail Flares
It's a calm and peaceful night. Stars twinkle in the velvety darkness overhead as a distant plane blinks silently on the horizon. You could almost hear a pin drop. That is, until the flare. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia Loses New Military Satellite
Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth. The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designe ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets
NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,00 ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Soyeon's Odyssey
In April 2008, South Korean mechanical engineer Soyeon Yi became the first Korean in space. Her liftoff on board the Soyuz TMA-12 mission to the International Space Station was the start of a busy 1 ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

The Brotherhood Of Speed
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TECH SPACE

'Space net' for orbiting debris proposed
Japan's space agency says it is teaming up with a maker of fishing nets to create a "space net" for safely collecting orbiting space debris. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

US to regulate rocket fuel chemical in water
The US government said Wednesday it plans to limit the amount of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, explosives and bleach, that is present in the drinking water of millions of Americans. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

US space shuttle Discovery reaches launch pad
The US space shuttle Discovery was rolled out to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its planned liftoff on February 24, NASA said Tuesday. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space Agency Investigates Novel Analogue Self-Steered Antennas
Bulky present generation satellite dishes and ground terminals could become relics of the past thanks to research currently being conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA) by Queen's University ... more
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MARSDAILY

ASU Mars Camera Keeps A Watchful Eye For Dust
Summertime is coming to the south of Mars, and days are growing longer and warmer. This is not good news, however - and the reason why can be given in a single word: dust. Scientists at Arizon ... more
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TECH SPACE

Report: Space 'junk' threatens services
The amount of junk orbiting Earth in space is nearing a "tipping point" that may threaten the $250 billion space services industry, a U.S. report says. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robonaut 2 Set To Launch In February
NASA's Robonaut 2 is primed and ready for launch aboard space shuttle Discovery in February. R2 is so ready, in fact, that it's going up ahead of its legs, which will follow on a later launch. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

BrahMos Aerospace To Make Cryogenic Engines For Indian Rockets
Missile makers BrahMos Aerospace will manufacture the cryogenic engine once the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) perfects the technology, said a senior official Sunday. The company is ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Removal From US Entity List Not Enough
The US action in removing space and defence-related Indian entities from the export control list was "good", but much would depend on its licensing policy as many items required by these organisatio ... more
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