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November 09, 2011
MARSDAILY
Russian probe fails to take route for Mars
Moscow (AFP) Nov 9, 2011
Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe has failed to take its planned trajectory towards Mars and is stuck in an Earth orbit, the space agency said, adding it now had three days to try to fix the problem. "We have three days while the batteries are still working," said Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin. "I would not say it's a failure. It's a non-standard situation, but it is a working situation. The Phobos-Grunt probe blasted-off just after midnight Moscow time from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in its first planetary mission since the 1996 Mars-96 probe which crashed after launch. ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Large asteroid makes rare fly-by of Earth
A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule
NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Moscow's Mars pioneers hail success, gripe at space rations
Six men who spent 520 days in isolation in Moscow to simulate a flight to Mars on Tuesday spoke of their pride at becoming "spacemen" but complained of the monotony and cravings for crusty baguettes. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace Ends 2011 With Three Launcher Campaigns
On November 7, for the first time in the history of Arianespace, the company's operating teams were all deployed concurrently on the Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center in ... more
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MARSDAILY

Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars
The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km a ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Preparing to Stock the Medicine Cabinet for Long-Duration Missions
When aerospace engineers design the new vehicle intended for long-duration space travel, they will need to include a good-sized medicine cabinet. Stocking it, however, is more of a challenge than a ... more
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MARSDAILY

U.S. institute wraps up data collection in Russian Mars 520-day mission simulation
For the past 17 months, researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) collected data to evaluate the impact of prolonged operational confinement on the sleep, performance ... more
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EXO LIFE

White House: No contact yet from E.T.
In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth
NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more
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EXO LIFE

Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send m ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA's Future Up In Space
In a recent interview at the White House, President Obama addressed NASA's future. He said, "I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that w ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China
China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov. 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nat ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules
Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Six Astrium satellites on the same flight
Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Pleiades 1 Very High ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Is the Pluto System Dangerous?
New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. We've taken the s ... more
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STATION NEWS

Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS
The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third flight to service the International Space Station has begun its build-up at the Spaceport, preparing this heavy-lift launcher for an early 2012 mission from Fren ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's great big leap skyward
A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago. Two days later, the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module, accomplishing China's first space dockin ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China masters space command, control
China's space control network has realized integrated command and control, which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russia aims for first conquest of Mars
Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Return from virtual flight to Mars
520 days without sunlight, fresh air or direct contact with the outside world - the six test subjects on the Mars500 mission have had to forego plenty of things while 'travelling' to Mars and back t ... more
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IRON AND ICE

EPOXI Mission Report For November 2011
As we approach the anniversary of the EPOXI flyby of Hartley 2, it is time to look at what we have learned about comets from this mission. In the first week of October, a special session of the annu ... more
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ROBO SPACE

NASA Robotic Lander Test Flight Will Aid in Future Lander Designs
NASA will conduct a 100-foot robotic lander altitude test flight Friday, Nov. 4, to mature the technology needed to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of ach ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Will China's next space mission be manned?
An interview with Huang Weifen, deputy chief director of China's astronaut program. b>Reporter: /b>When will Chinese astronauts perform the space rendezvous and docking task? b>Huang ... more
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MARSDAILY

Welcome back and thank you, Mars500
The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500's six brave volunteers stepped out of their 'spacecraft' to be welcomed by the waiting scientists ... more
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SATURN DAILY

NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set
NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received that ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's space industry to see accelerated expansion over next 10 years
China's space industry will develop quickly over the next 10 years as the country pushes ahead with its space programs after its first space docking on Thursday. Lab modules, a space station a ... more
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TECH SPACE

GMV Awarded Contract For Paz Satellite Control Center
GMV has been awarded a 3 million Euro contract to provide the control center of the new Spanish satellite Paz, due for launch at the end of next year. The contract includes all platform-planning and ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Mask-bot: A robot with a human face
Mask-bot can already reproduce simple dialog. When Dr. Takaaki Kuratate says "rainbow", for example, Mask-bot flutters its eyelids and responds with an astoundingly elaborate sentence on the subject ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China space prowess benefits world
China's latest achievements in space exploration symbolize new gains of not only the Chinese but also the mankind. The successful docking of Tiangong-1 space lab module and Shenzhou-8 spacecraft at ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid 2005 YU55 Update
NASA scientists will track asteroid 2005 YU55 from the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif. for at least four hours each day from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10. Radar observations from the Arec ... more
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