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June 28, 2011
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Improving Slumber on the Space Station With Sleep-Long
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 28, 2011
It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home. Just imagine if you were approximately 210 miles from home and free floating in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, like the crew members aboard the International Space Station. Whether on Earth or in orbit, sleep is essential to human well-being. In space, getting enough rest is also vital for the safe completion of critical operations, as the crew may be one alarm bell away from a life-and-death situation. To develo ... read more

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EXO LIFE

Breathing Through the Eyes
Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us - and all the other animals on the planet - beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Moon Geyser Finding Significant, UCF Scientist Says
A team of international astronomers this week reported that a salt-water reservoir is the likely source of geyser plumes observed on Enceladus - one of Saturn's moons. Joshua Colwell, a Univer ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Parallel Ariane 5 launch campaigns keep up Arianespace's 2011 mission pace
Preparations for the next two Ariane 5 flights are underway at the Spaceport, once again demonstrating Arianespace's flexibility in meeting customer timing for the orbiting of their telecommunicatio ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Will Compete Space Launch System (SLS) Boosters
It should come as no surprise that NASA has selected a "shuttle-derived" vehicle with two existing LOX/LH2 stages as its reference design for the new heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) ordered by ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

The 'Eyes, Ears and Hands' of the Shuttle Test Team
When space shuttle astronauts are living and working in Earth orbit, their mission - and, ultimately, their lives - depend on all the shuttle orbiter's systems and controls working exactly as expect ... more
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ROBO SPACE

NASA and NSF Collaborate to Develop Advanced Robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with NASA and two other federal agencies to support the administration's National Robotics Initiative. The initiative complements the adminis ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Astronomers Reach For The Stars To Discover New Cancer Therapy
Astronomers' research on celestial bodies may have an impact on the human body. Ohio State University astronomers are working with medical physicists and radiation oncologists to develop a potential ... more
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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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SPACE TRAVEL

Sierra Nevada Space Systems Completes Milestones For Commercial Crew Program
Sierra Nevada Space Systems (SNC) has announced completion of two significant milestones as part of the Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program. SNC is building the Dream Chaser, a Spac ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Getting Closer to Endeavour Crater
Opportunity is making excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with only 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) to go before reaching the first landfall on the rim, a place called "Spirit Point." The r ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

You Can Hunt for Icy Worlds
A team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has developed a new website, IceHunters, to challenge the public to discover Kuiper Belt objects in the outer solar system. It is hoped that among ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ariane 5 payload integration underway; First Soyuz launchers arrive
Both satellite passengers for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011 are well advanced in their integration phase as preparations move forward for the July 1 launch from French Guiana. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Tasting the Ocean Spray of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Mars Rover Arrives in Florida After Cross-Country Flight
NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. The Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, arrived la ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

SOFIA Successfully Observes Challenging Pluto Occultation
On June 23, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star. This event, known as an "occultation," allowed sc ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Europe to build space re-entry vehicle
The European Space Agency says it is going ahead with its re-entry vehicle demonstrator, known as the IXV, which it expects to launch in 2013. ... 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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MOON DAILY

ARTEMIS Spacecraft Prepare for Lunar Orbit
They've almost arrived. It took one and a half years, over 90 orbit maneuvers, and - wonderfully - many gravitational boosts and only the barest bit of fuel to move two spacecraft from their orbit a ... more
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TECH SPACE

Resonator Gyro Achieves 18 Million Operating Hours in Space
Northrop Grumman's patented hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG) technology, which is used for various space and military applications, recently achieved a major milestone of 18 million hours of conti ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early Augus ... more
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TECH SPACE

Yahsat Y1A satellite delivered in orbit
After the successful completion of in-orbit testing the satellite Y1A, was officially handed over to Yahsat on 13 June 2011. Y1A is the first satellite built for Al Yah Satellite Communications Comp ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Microlensing Finds a Rocky Planet
In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from? As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar ... more
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TECH SPACE

Alphabus ready to offer new opportunities
Alphabus is ready to offer new opportunities for satellite operators worldwide. The platform was formally accepted for its first satellite, Alphasat I-XL on 16 June, marking an important milestone i ... more
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STATION NEWS

ATV-2: re-entry over the south Pacific
Loaded with waste material, the second European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2), Johannes Kepler, entered Earth's atmosphere shortly after performing its second de-orbit engine firing at 22:04 CE ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience
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ROCKET SCIENCE

ESA high-thrust engine takes next step
The new main engine to power Europe's successor to its Ariane 5 space launcher was brought a step closer when ESA signed a euros 60 million contract with a propulsion consortium at the Paris Air an ... more
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TECH SPACE

Aerojet, QinetiQ and EADS Astrium Crisa to Jointly Market XENITH Ion Propulsion System
Aerojet, QinetiQ, and EADS Astrium Crisa have announced that the companies have entered into a joint agreement to supply the XENITH (Xenon Ion Thruster) ion propulsion system to the worldwide commer ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet fo ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Unfasten your seatbelts aboard the ZERO-G
What child has not dreamed of breaking free from gravity's chains and floating, weightless, above Earth's surface? ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Japan's 'Sense-Roid' replicates human hug
Japanese inventors have pushed the frontiers of technology with the ultimate companion for lonely singles - a wired torso-shaped device that you can hug and that hugs you back. ... more
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TECH SPACE

NRL Instrument Provides Key Space Weather Data
Data products from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division were officially transitioned for use in operat ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Saltwater ocean lurks beneath Saturn moon - study
A strange moon of Saturn may have a salty ocean lurking beneath its iceball surface, according to a study appearing Wednesday in the British journal Nature. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Public Invited to Find Destination for New Horizons
The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the IceHunters.org website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the ... more
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