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March 14, 2011
LAUNCH PAD
Falcon 9 To Launch SES-8 To GTO In 2013
Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 14, 2011
As the Satellite 2011 conference kicked off in Washington, D.C., Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and SES today announced an agreement to launch an SES satellite using the Falcon 9 rocket. SES is one of the largest satellite operators in the world, and the deal marks what will be the first geostationary satellite launch using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The firm launch agreement with SpaceX also includes an option for a second SES launch. It supplements SES' existing multi-launch agreements w ... read more

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MOON DAILY

LRO Images Lunar Farside In Stunning Detail
Because the moon is tidally locked (meaning the same side always faces Earth), it was not until 1959 that the farside was first imaged by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft (hence the Russian names for pr ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia delays ISS launch for 'technical reasons'
Russia is delaying the planned launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station on March 30 due to a technical problem with the spacecraft, space agency Roskosmos said Monday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Arianespace Moves To New Launcher Designation For Ariane, Soyuz And Vega
The launcher components for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 arrived this week in French Guiana, marking the first step in preparations for a heavy-lift flight with the ST-2 and GSAT-8 t ... more
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MARSDAILY

Color View From Orbit Shows Mars Rover Beside Crater
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has nearly completed its three-month examination of a crater informally named "Santa Maria," but before the rover resumes its overland trek, an orbiting cam ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Vesta - An Asteroid In 3D
What might asteroid Vesta look like? In a new animation, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have recreated the asteroid in 3D. In the animati ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Houston To Name Avenue After Soviet Cosmonaut Gagarin
The Russkiy Mir foundation will next week name a park avenue in the U.S. city of Houston after the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. To mark the 50th anniversary of the histor ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle Endeavour At Launch Pad Liftoff Practice Set
After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 11, space shuttle Endeavour now awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming flight to the International S ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Fourth NRO Mission In Six Months
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 here at 6:38 p.m. local time EST Friday (Mar 11). Designate ... more
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ROBO SPACE

How Do People Respond To Being Touched By A Robot
For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shot US lawmaker expected at shuttle launch
US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is expected to attend next month's space shuttle launch commanded by her astronaut husband, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Testing Mars Missions In Morocco
"This site is called Moon 2," says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, "I don't remember the re ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

The Future For Space Missions
A new report from the National Research Council recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries abo ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs On Asteroid Apophis
On January 31 University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Daylight saving has downside
While people groan and mumble about lost sleep with the "spring forward" of daylight saving time, there can be even harsher effects, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice
There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice! The same applies to N ... more
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
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SATURN DAILY

Moon of Saturn a 'hot' research subject
Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, is a veritable heat factory, pumping out heat energy equivalent to 20 coal-fueled power stations, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planetary Society Statement On Planetary Science Decadal Survey For 2013-2022
The Planetary Science Decadal Survey committee faced a nearly impossible task: to set priorities for NASA's robotic exploration within a tight budget. They did a great job in laying out a plan for s ... more
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ROBO SPACE

How Can Robots Get Our Attention
Getting someone's attention can be easy with a loud noise or a shout, but what if the situation calls for a little more tact? How can a robot use subtle cues to attract a human's notice and tell whe ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA green lights Discovery launch for Thursday
NASA gave the green light for the space shuttle Discovery to blast off Thursday, saying the countdown to the aging shuttle's final mission before retirement was going "beautifully." ... more
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IRON AND ICE

A New Dawn Coming To Vesta
Deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn continues thrusting with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is making excellent progress in reshaping its orbit around the sun to match that of its destination ... more
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Indian Space Agency To Now Launch Three Satellites In April
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) proposes to launch the latest remote sensing satellite and two others in the second week of April, seeking to replace a crucial component in its fully-a ... more
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MARSDAILY

Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark
NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover Snaps Close-Up of 'Ruiz Garcia'
Opportunity is completing the last in-situ (contact) study at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover bumped 5.35 meters (18 feet) forward to approach the target "Ruiz Garci ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager Seeks The Answer Blowin' In The Wind
In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting NAS ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Poised For Mercury Orbit Insertion
After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft--carrying seven science instrum ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

US shuttle Discovery on track for final landing
The US space program's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, was on track to make its final Earth landing Wednesday after a near-perfect last mission at the International Space Station. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Finds Enceladus Is A Powerhouse
Heat output from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus is much greater than was previously thought possible, according to a new analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. T ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Abundant Ammonia In Ancient Asteroid
An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State Univ ... more
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MOON DAILY

Astrobotic's Mission To The Moon Releases Guide For Payload Developers
Astrobotic Technology has released a new guide for researchers on preparation of their instruments for the company's robotic expedition to the surface of the Moon. The expedition, based on tec ... more
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MARSDAILY

The Scars Of Impacts On Mars
ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of proj ... more
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