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December 19, 2011
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Arianespace Completes 2011 Launch Manifest With Successful Soyuz Campaign
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 16, 2011
Arianespace confirmed Soyuz' mission flexibility in operations from the Spaceport with tonight's successful launch that placed six satellite passengers into Sun-synchronous orbit. Departing precisely at the planned liftoff time of 11:03:08 p.m. in French Guiana, the Soyuz performed a 3-hour, 26-minute flight to deploy its payload of the French Pleiades 1 and Chilean SSOT satellites for civilian and defense image gathering, along with four French ELISA micro-satellite demonstrators for defense-rela ... read more

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Vega moves closer to its first liftoff
The integration of Vega's first, second and third stages is now complete at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The new rocket is moving full speed ahead towards its maiden flight at the end of Jan ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China celebrates success of space docking mission
China held a rally on Friday to celebrate the success of the country's first space docking mission between the target orbiter Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft. President Hu Jintao, als ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Reaffirms Agency Scientific Integrity Policy
NASA has reaffirmed its commitment to science with the release of a new framework on scientific integrity. The framework summarizes the agency's policies and practices that strengthen and uphold sci ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Takes Next Step In Developing Commercial Crew Program
NASA has announced a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency's plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Industry Leaders Discuss New Booster Development for Space Launch System
On Dec. 15, more than 120 aerospace industry leaders from more than 70 companies attended the Space Launch System's Advanced Booster Industry Day held at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more
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MARSDAILY

Meteorite Shock Waves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars
When a meteorite careens toward the dusty surface of the Red Planet, it kicks up dust and can cause avalanching even before the rock from outer space hits the ground, a research team led by an under ... more
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Acra Control Proven in Low Earth Orbit
Acra Control is proud to support Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) as they work to become the first commercial company in history to berth with the International Space Station (ISS). In ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity at One of its Two Winter Spots
Opportunity is positioned at one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There are two candidate sites for winter havens that indicate suff ... more
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MARSDAILY

Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars
A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. The microbes tolerate tem ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Tiangong-1 orbiter starts planned cabin checks against toxic gas
The Chinese prototype space lab Tiangong-1 on Thursday started regular checks for toxic gas inside the cabin to better prepare for the country's future manned space docking mission. The Tiango ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA to change private spacecraft plans
NASA says planned changes in the next stage of a program to develop privately operated U.S. spacecraft will give it more flexibility amid funding uncertainties. ... more
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Soyuz is cleared for its second Arianespace launch from the Spaceport
Arianespace's no. 2 Soyuz mission from French Guiana has been given the launch go-ahead, moving preparations into their final phase for a nighttime liftoff tomorrow with six satellite passengers. ... more
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NASA Announces: Dragon To The Space Station
December 8 2011, marked the one year anniversary of Dragon's first Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight. The flight made history as SpaceX became the only commercia ... more
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MARSDAILY

MARSIS Completes Measurement Campaign Over Martian North Pole
The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. The campa ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Concludes 2011 Testing of J-2X Engine
NASA conducted its final J-2X rocket engine test of the year Dec. 14, the 10th firing in a series of tests on the new upper-stage engine that will carry humans farther into space than ever before. ... more
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Is there profit in outer space
Inside an immaculate but otherwise nondescript industrial building just outside the Beltway in suburban Virginia, half a dozen engineers and technicians, wearing lab coats, shoe covers, and hairnets ... more
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Arianespace Signs First launch contracts for Vega
With preparations under way for the first launch of Europe's new light launcher Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Arianespace has signed its first commercial launch Service and Sol ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Raytheon Announces Commercial Availability of High Speed Guard
Raytheon's High Speed Guard cross domain technology is now commercially available as an off-the-shelf product. High Speed Guard, previously offered as a service, has been on the U.S. Department of D ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Russia space agency 'bans foreign travel'
They may be working to reach the final frontier, but employees of Russian space agency Roscosmos face going no further than Russia for their holidays. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Raytheon BBN Awarded Research Contract To Enable Early Awareness Of Emerging Technology
Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $5.2 million by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) under the Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) progra ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Orion Drop Test Makes A Clean Splash
Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) Orion test article took its eight and final splash of the year into the Hydro Impact Basin on Dec. 13. Orion, t ... more
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Orbital Selects Antares as Permanent Name For New Rocket Based On Taurus II Program
Orbital Sciences has announced that Antares will be the permanent operational name for the medium-class launch vehicle created by its research and development program formerly known as Taurus II. Or ... more
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane No It's Stratolaunch
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose SpaceShipO ... more
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Russian who helped put Gagarin in space dies at 99
One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Phobos-Grunt mission now impossible says chief designer
Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, will not be able to complete its mission, the head and chief designer of the Lavochkin spacecraft con ... more
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Microsoft co-founder unveils space travel plans
A giant airplane that can in mid-flight launch a rocket carrying cargo and humans into orbit is the future of space travel, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said on Tuesday. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby o ... more
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MARSDAILY

In Search Of A Wet Warm Life Filled Mars
Scientists from The Australian National University have found that extensive regions of the sub-surface of Mars could contain water and be at comfortable temperatures for terrestrial - and potential ... more
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Arianespace selected to launch MEASAT-3b
Asia's leading satellite operator, MEASAT Global (MEASAT), has chosen Arianespace to launch the MEASAT-3b satellite. MEASAT-3b will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 ... more
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MARSDAILY

Preparing for human exploration of Mars by measuring background radiation
NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space
NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. ... more
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