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October 26, 2011
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Vega arrives at French Guiana in preparation for its January 26 inaugural launch
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 26, 2011
The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport with this latest member of Arianespace's expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle - the medium-lift Soyuz. Vega came to French Guiana aboard the MN Colibri roll-on/roll-off ship, which docked yesterday at Kourou's Pariacabo Port after a two-week Atlantic crossing from Europe, and was unloaded this morning for the launcher's transfer by road to the Spaceport. The four-stage Vega's fir ... read more

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MERCURY RISING

Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around the innermost planet from 11 hours 46 minutes to a precis ... more
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TECH SPACE

ROSAT re-entered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal
On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

New Horizons App Now Available
The team behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has launched a free app that takes iPhone and iPad users along on this historic voyage to the planetary frontier. Now a ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Weather Favorable for NPP Launch
At this time, there is a zero percent chance of not meeting the launch weather criteria for liftoff of the NPP mission. Skies will be mostly clear with good visibility, forecasters say. At NAS ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. The findings suggest that this disk, ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS
The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bri ... more
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MERCURY RISING

Strange Hollows Discovered on Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, rangi ... more
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
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DRAGON SPACE

Living on Tiangong
With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that will follow. We're expecting China to perform two docking tests with the unmanned She ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Is Your Space Elevator Going Up
Anyone who follows new space concepts has heard of the Space Elevator. This is conceived as a non-rocket space structure that is intended to transport material from the Earth's surface into space. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape York
The project has made the decision that Opportunity will winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. On So ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space Waste Transporter: Going Where No Garbage Man has Gone Before
With the growing number of incidents of falling space debris in the news, there is a pressing need to find an alternative solution. John D. Arwood, a Native American and owner of Arwood Waste, propo ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Thousands of dreams to fly on Shenzhou 8
The dreams of more than 40,000 people will be stored as text and video on a chip and sent into space along with Shenzhou VIII spacecraft next month. The Shenzhou VIII is slated to take off in ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star
Using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to study one of the closest protoplanetary discs to Earth, astronomers have detected cold water vapour for the first time in such an environment. Located ... more
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EXO WORLDS

UH Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming
The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus. What astronomers are calling LkCa 15 b, looks like ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans
For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planet ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Diamonds, silver and the quest for single photons
Building on earlier work showing how nanowires carved in impurity-laden diamond crystal can efficiently emit individual photons, researchers have developed a scalable manufacturing process to craft ... more
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TECH SPACE

German satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere
A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Proposal would 'recycle' satellite parts
The U.S. Department of Defense says it is looking for ways to recycle space junk thousands of miles above Earth into valuable new satellite parts. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight
When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of fl ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS orbit readjusted by 3 km
The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by 3.1 km (1.9 miles), a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said. The maneuver was carried out late on Wednesday using th ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

1 clock with 2 times
The unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity is one of the most exciting and still open questions in modern physics. General relativity, the joint theory of gravity, space ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting
An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. "If we conclude that there is something unusu ... more
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MARSDAILY

Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth
The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View
Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar re ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

The Spark Of A New Era Was A Blast For Rocket Science
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX Completes Key Milestone to Fly Astronauts to International Space Station
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced it has successfully completed the preliminary design review of its revolutionary launch abort system, a system designed for manned missions usin ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Final checks for first Soyuz launch from Kourou
Launch directors on Thursday were running through the last checks for the maiden liftoff of Soyuz, the legendary Soviet-Russian rocket, from Europe's base in French Guiana. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Tokyo tech fair opens with robotic clapping of hands
From robotic hand-clapping arms to a device that could show tsunami alerts in the sky, Japanese technology researchers showcased their latest inventions in Tokyo Thursday. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk
A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star is the first to show spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Photo Reveals Planet-Size Object as Cool as Earth
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MOON DAILY

Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon
Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume ... more
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