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March 21, 2011
MARSDAILY
Alternatives Have Begun In Bid To Hear From Spirit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2011
Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year. The rover team has tried to contact Spirit for months with strategies based on the possibility that increasing energy availability might wake the rover from hibernation. The team has now switched to communication strategies designed to address more than one problem on the rover. If no signal is heard from Spirit in the ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

From Outer Sol To The Inner Rock Human Space Is Growing
It's easy for a space enthusiast to feel depressed right now. The end of the Shuttle program is nigh. NASA seems neglected and directionless. Budgetary issues threaten spaceflight globally. Bu ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Large Hadron Collider Could Be World'S First Time Machine
If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year - could be the first machine capabl ... more
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MERCURY RISING

Mercury In 3D Coming Soon
Early on 18 March 2011, a spacecraft swung into orbit around Mercury for the first time: NASA's MESSENGER began orbiting the planet at 01:45 CET. The mission carries scientific instruments designed ... more
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EXO LIFE

New Study Finds Apex Fossils Aren't Life
Structures thought of as the oldest known fossils of microbes might actually be microscopic mineral formations not associated with life, suggesting that astrobiologists have to be careful calling al ... more
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MARSDAILY

Next Mars Rover Gets A Test Taste Of Mars Conditions
A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year. Tests inside the 25-f ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Completes Study Of Ruiz Garcia Rock
Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact) investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover used the robotic arm (Instrument Deplo ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Planetary Exploration Suit Will Be Tested In Antarctica
University of North Dakota aerospace engineer and researcher Pablo de Leon is part of a unique mission to test a UND planetary exploration suit - the NDX-1 - at a remote military base in Antarctica. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia says delayed space flight on for April 5
Russia said Friday it had solved the problem that caused it to delay the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station and would proceed with the mission on April 5. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Astronaut Cady Coleman Shares Her Love of the Flute from Space
Astronaut Cady Coleman took time during an interview with reporters to play her flute onboard the International Space Station. "I play the flute on the ground and it's one of the things I love ... more
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MOON DAILY

A New View Of Moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

NASA spacecraft is first to orbit Mercury
A NASA spacecraft began orbiting Mercury Thursday, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet, the space agency said. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER probe has become the first spacecraft to enter orbit about Mercury. At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Ph ... more
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STATION NEWS

Europe agrees to space station extension
Europe has formally endorsed the extension of operations at the International Space Station until 2020 and put the required financing in place, officials said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

When A Bus Becomes A Satellite
Alphabus has met Alphasat. Europe's largest telecom satellite is taking shape with final assembly and testing ready to begin in Toulouse, France. Planned for launch in late 2012 on Ariane 5, Alphasa ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER On Autopilot For Orbit Insertion
MESSENGER is now on autopilot, faithfully executing a detailed set of instructions required to achieve its historic rendezvous with Mercury tomorrow night. At 8 a.m. Tuesday, all attitude re-o ... more
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power
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LAUNCH PAD

SES And ILS Announce Launch Of SES-6 On ILS Proton In 2013
International Launch Services (ILS) and SES have announced the launch of SES-6 in 2013 on ILS Proton. SES-6 is the sixth mission under the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) signed in June 2007 betwee ... more
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STATION NEWS

Launch Of New ISS mission Slated For April 5
The launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying members of a new crew to the International Space Station has been tentatively scheduled for April 5, a source at the Baikonur Space Center said on ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sees Seasonal Rains Transform Titan's Surface
As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spac ... more
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TECH SPACE

ASC Signal to Demonstrate Next Gen Controller
ASC Signal will demonstrate the enhanced capabilities of its Next Generation Controller (NGC) for satellite antenna systems at SATELLITE 2011 in Washington, D.C., March 15-17. The technical enhancem ... more
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MERCURY RISING

First Messenger Image From Orbit Planned For March 29
This first planned image is scheduled to be taken on March 29, 2011, 7:40 UTC, or 3:40 am EDT. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER will acquire 364 images in total before beginning to downlink ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

X-37B - This Is Only A Test
We are regularly warned on emergency speakers that an upcoming alarm signal is only a test. It's a necessary precaution to prevent panic. Some members of community need a similar heads-up about anot ... more
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MERCURY RISING

NASA spacecraft prepares to enter Mercury's orbit
A NASA spacecraft is poised to enter the orbit of Mercury later Thursday, and it will circle for one Earth year in an unprecedented study of the tiny, hot planet that is closest to the Sun. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

CU-Boulder Space Scientists Ready For Orbital Insertion Of Mercury Spacecraft
NASA's MESSENGER mission, launched in 2004, is slated to slide into Mercury's orbit March 17 after a harrowing 4.7 billion mile journey that involved 15 loops around the sun and will bring relief an ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

LockMary To Launch DigitalGlobe WorldView-3 Earth Imaging Satellite
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin, has announced that it has been chosen by DigitalGlobe to launch that company's next-generation, high-res ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Physicists Move Closer To Efficient Single-Photon Sources
A team of physicists in the United Kingdom has taken a giant step toward realizing efficient single-photon sources, which are expected to enable much-coveted completely secure optical communications ... 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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MERCURY RISING

First Spacecraft To Orbit Mercury Carries U-Michigan Device
On March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) vehicle will begin to orbit the planet Mercury, and continue to orbit the environmentally hostile ... more
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MOON DAILY

Super Full Moon
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace's Success Is Built On Transparency
At this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace addressed an important "hot button" issue for the global launch services sector - and underscored its continued leadership a ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ORBCOMM And SpaceX Set Plans To Launch Satellites On Next Falcon 9
ORBCOMM and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have announced plans to carry the first two ORBCOMM next-generation OG2 satellites to orbit on the next Falcon 9 launch this year. Falcon 9 ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace To launch Argentina's Arsat-2 Satellite
ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2. Participating in this week's S ... more
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