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June 30, 2011
ROBO SPACE
Driving a robot from the Space Station
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 30, 2011
Meet Justin, an android who will soon be controlled remotely by the astronauts in ESA's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. With this and other intriguing experiments like the Eurobot rover, ESA is paving the way for exploring the Moon and planets with tele-operated robots. In two to three years, the experimental robot on Earth will faithfully mimic the movements of an astronaut on the Space Station. By wearing an exoskeleton - a combination of arm and glove with electron ... read more

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SHUTTLE NEWS

Canada's contribution to final shuttle flight
The final flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for July 8, 2011, at 11:26 a.m. EDT. This will be the last mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis will carry equipment for a ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Minotaur Rocket Launch from NASA Wallops Re-Scheduled
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia has rescheduled the launch of an United States Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite for the Department of Defense's Operationally Respo ... more
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TECH SPACE

Track24 Defence releases SCC Titan
Track24 Defence, the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist, has unveiled SCC Titan, its new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) soluti ... more
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TECH SPACE

Raytheon Triples Bandwidth on National Weather Services' Satellite Broadcast Network
Raytheon's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System team has successfully tripled the bandwidth on the Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN)/NOAAPort, the primary vehicle through which hydrometeor ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Williams and MIT Astronomers Observe Pluto and its Moons
A Williams College team of astronomers, headed by Bryce Babcock and Jay Pasachoff, have been in Hawaii, near Honolulu, to observe a rare double-double event about Pluto. On June 23rd, they observed ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Charles Bolden National Press Club Address - July 1
NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. will address a National Press Club luncheon on July 1, one week before the final scheduled space shuttle launch. Discussing America's continued commitment to ... more
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STATION NEWS

Training for ISS flight operations
Although he has long since completed his school and university education, Jerome Campan carefully follows the presentation given by instructor Paolo De Lunardi on the projection screen. Sitting in t ... 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

Spend your summer in space...at the Science Museum
This summer, make space at the Science Museum your holiday destination of choice. From 23 July - 31 August, pick up a passport as you enter the museum and follow the new space trail - embarking on a ... more
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MARSDAILY

New Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action
Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Journal - June 2011
Vesta beckons, and Dawn responds. Now more than halfway through its approach to Vesta, Dawn continues creeping up on the destination it has been pursuing since it began its interplanetary travels. T ... more
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MARSDAILY

Islands of Life - Part One
Southern Atacama Desert, Chile - Sunday, May 8, 2011 - This is the first of a series of reports from my recent trip to the Atacama Desert. I traveled with a group of scientists, headed by Jacek Wier ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Astrium signs up for Next Gen Launcher High Thrust Engine
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, continues to prepare Europe's future propulsion technology by signing a euros 60 million rider with the European Space Agency (ESA) and its partners of the ... more
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TECH SPACE

Debris narrowly misses International Space Station
A piece of space debris narrowly missed the International Space Station on Tuesday in a rare incident that forced the six-member crew to scramble to their rescue craft, space agency officials said. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle Atlantis ready to fly July 8: NASA
The shuttle Atlantis is ready to fly on its final mission to the International Space Station on July 8, NASA said Tuesday after a meeting to review plans for last-ever US space shuttle flight. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Improving Slumber on the Space Station With Sleep-Long
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, l ... 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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TECH SPACE

Space debris a growing problem
A scare triggered by orbital debris that on Tuesday came within a couple of hundred metres (yards) of the International Space Station (ISS) sheds light on an acutely worsening problem. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

U.S. shifts focus to multipurpose robots
The Obama administration has launched an ambitious new initiative that aims to shift focus on to robotic research and development to help Americans in all sectors, including defense and security, to interact with advanced technologies. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Space junk narrowly misses station
A piece of debris travelling thousands of miles an hour narrowly missed the International Space Station on Tuesday in a harrowing incident that forced the crew to scramble to their rescue craft. ... 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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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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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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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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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
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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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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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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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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

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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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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