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February 10, 2011
ROCKET SCIENCE
Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight Marketplace
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2011
The Competitive Space Task Force, a coalition of fiscal conservatives and free-market leaders, has unveiled its strategy for creating a free and competitive market for spaceflight and space services enabling the country to recapture the imagination and innovation of America's space program and foster a new entrepreneurial spirit in the emerging Space Economy. The Task Force unveiled its core strategy and principles today at a press conference in the hearing room of the Committee on Science, Space, and T ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Rocket Team Hot Fire AJ26 Flight Engine For Taurus II
Aerojet, a GenCorp company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital's Tau ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

'Astonishing' Chinese patent growth marks world recovery
Asia led a recovery in international patent applications last year, as "astonishing" growth in filings by innovative Chinese companies left US firms by the wayside, the UN patent agency said Wednesday. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday
A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

U.S. wary of China space weapons
Senior Pentagon officials are sounding concern over China's development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites or jam communication signals. ... more
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MOON DAILY

LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View
Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more
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MOON DAILY

Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9
Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more
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STATION NEWS

Azorean Station To Track Ariane Launch
When ATV Johannes Kepler is lofted into space on 15 February, an ESA tracking station on Portugal's Santa Maria island will watch closely, gathering crucial data as Ariane 5 streaks overhead. ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
Comtech modem earns first sovereign certification for SES O3b mPOWER network
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Euro-US partners eye 'low-cost' space launcher: report
European technology firm Astrium is teaming up with US company Alliant to make a "low-cost" space rocket launcher that could one day take tourists into orbit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Tool Makes Search For Martian Life Easier
Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Opening Up The X-37B
The US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has generated a lot of attention and suspicion, even before the vehicle blasted off on its maiden voyage in April 2010. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Express Puts Craters On A Pedestal
ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra. Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary geological feature. So much so that early pla ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian Cosmonauts To Conduct Spacewalk Feb 16
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are preparing to conduct a spacewalk on February 16, mission control said on Monday. Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka, both ... more
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TECH SPACE

Iran Unveils Homemade Satellites And Carrier
Iran unveiled four domestically- manufactured satellites on Monday, two years after it launched the first self-developed satellite into orbit, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four natio ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Dropped tool halts shuttle repair
NASA said Wednesday it was checking the space shuttle Discovery for possible damage from a metal tool dropped during repair work at the Florida launch pad. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid Busting
Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so inten ... more
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
Trump signs memorandum to deploy U.S. National Guard troops to Memphis
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ROBO SPACE

NASA And Worcester Polytechnic Institute Are Challenge Partners
NASA has signed an agreement with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of Worcester, Mass., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize comp ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit"
It's a long way from the segregated south to low Earth orbit. But I am fortunate to have made the journey and to have had many opportunities to serve my nation in a 34-year career with the U.S. Mari ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

No Major Flaw In Failed GSLV-F06
There was no major design flaw in the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation - GSLV-F06 - which crashed seconds after take-off on December 25 last year, sai ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly Resumes Training For STS-134 Mission
NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will resume training as commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission on Monday, Feb. 7. With the exception of some proficiency training, Kelly has been on personal leave ... more
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MARSDAILY

Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing
Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These du ... more
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TECH SPACE

US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris
US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more
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STATION NEWS

International Partners Discuss ISS Operations
The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want t ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Vandenberg Launches Minotaur One
A Minotaur I rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. The rocket carried a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Col. R ... more
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
Framatome to upgrade Kozloduy nuclear plant electrical systems
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STATION NEWS

Europe's ATV Space Ferry Ready For Launch
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 spa ... 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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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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SPACE TRAVEL

Shot US lawmaker's husband to return to space
The astronaut husband of wounded US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said Friday he will lead the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour in April and plans to resume training next week. ... more
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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

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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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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