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December 06, 2011
SPACE TRAVEL
Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 06, 2011
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory. In it, the wind of charged particles streaming out from our sun has calmed, our solar system's magnetic field has piled up, and higher-energy particles from inside our solar system appear to be leaking out into interstellar space. "Voyager tells us now that we're in a stagnation region in t ... read more

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EXO WORLDS

Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet c ... more
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EXO WORLDS

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds
Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Medical Robotics Helps Satellite Surgery Project
Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breakin ... more
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EXO WORLDS

New Planet Kepler-21b discovery a partnership of both space and ground-based observations
The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where l ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Find Goldilocks Planet and Others
This morning NASA announced the discovery of the first planet located in the "habitable zone" around a Sun-like star - the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in l ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Fregat upper stage and Pleiades 1 ready for next Soyuz Kourou launch
The primary payload for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now undergoing fueling, while the upper stage that will orbit this Earth observation satellite and five co-passengers ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Team of Astronomer's Finds 18 New Planets
Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ... more
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
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EXO WORLDS

NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life
In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Earth-like planets feature in new survey
Tired of life on Earth? There may be other options, according to a catalog released on Monday of planets and moons that could have the right conditions to support life, planetary scientists said. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars
Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto
NASA's New Horizons mission reached a special milestone this past week on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft. It's taken New Horizons 2,1 ... more
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MARSDAILY

MSL Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed
Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. That first of ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars
New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

First Crew for Tiangong
The successful first docking mission to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has cleared the path for greater things to come. The flight of the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft demonstrated two success ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ma ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity
The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Ugandan works on space project from mother's backyard
Chris Nsamba says that at one time or another every successful scientist has been called a madman, and some think he is crazy about working to send the first Ugandan into space - from the backyard of his mother's home. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China post office offers letters from space
China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space. ... more
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MARSDAILY

ESA gives up bids to contact stranded Russian space probe
The European Space Agency said it will no longer try to make contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt if attempts made Friday fail. ... more
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TECH SPACE

ATK Awarded $20 Million UltraFlex Solar Array Contract from Orbital
ATK was awarded a $20 million contract by Orbital Sciences to provide its UltraFlex solar arrays to power Orbital's enhanced Cygnus cargo logistics space vehicle, which is being utilized under NASA' ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

SAIC Completes Vibro-Acoustic Test Capability, Facility for NASA
Science Applications International has completed design and construction services, providing NASA with a new vibro-acoustic test capability (VTC). The VTC includes a mechanical vibration facility (M ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

X-37B on Overtime
The US Air Force has officially confirmed that the second flight of their X-37B robot spaceplane is on overtime. This small experimental spacecraft, which resembles a car-sized space shuttle, has be ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Ball Aerospace Selected by NASA to Study Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human e ... more
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TECH SPACE

Northrop Grumman Awarded MASTER Ground Processing Contract
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $5.75 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development for the Modular Architecture for Signal-processing, Tracking and Exploitation R ... more
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ROBO SPACE

ONR Helps Undersea Robots Get the Big Picture
Scientists have successfully transitioned fundamental research in autonomy to undersea gliders, demonstrating in recent sea tests how the new software, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR ... more
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EXO LIFE

Could Natural Nuclear Reactors Have Boosted Life on This and Other Planets
While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, Nature sometimes makes them by accident. Evidence for a cluster of natural nuclear reactors has been found ... more
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MARSDAILY

Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists at The University ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Nanosail-D Sails Home
After spending more than 240 days "sailing" around the Earth, NASA's NanoSail-D - a nanosatellite that deployed NASA's first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit - has successfully completed its Earth ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Europe's third ATV is loaded with cargo for its 2012 launch by Arianespace
Cargo loading is underway in French Guiana for the no. 3 Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which is being readied for a 2012 launch from the Spaceport on Arianespace's next Ariane 5 servicing missio ... more
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STATION NEWS

Growing Knowledge in Space
Plants are critical in supporting life on Earth, and with help from an experiment that flew onboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission, they also could transform living in space. NASA's Kenne ... more
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