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December 28, 2011
LAUNCH PAD
Soyuz poised for Globalstar second-generation satellite launch at Baikonur
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 28, 2011
Another Soyuz is ready for liftoff at the service of Arianespace - with this workhorse launcher to carry six Globalstar second-generation satellites in a mission scheduled for tomorrow night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will be the third of four flights contracted to Arianespace for the orbiting of 24 second-generation spacecraft in Globalstar's mobile satellite voice and mobile satellite handset data services. The previous two Baikonur Cosmodrome missions with Globalstar's ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE

First J-2X Engine Rockets Through First Round of Testing
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MARSDAILY

Arvidson To Be Participating Scientist on New Mars Rover
NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, h ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Time for a Change? Calendar Overhaul Proposed
Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of ... more
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TECH SPACE

Owner of house hit by satellite fixes roof himself amid compensation snag
A Siberian homeowner who miraculously escaped serious injury when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house had to fix it himself as the authorities wrang ... more
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MARSDAILY

Wheel Passes Checkup After Stalled Drive
This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called "Komati" on the "Saddleback" outcrop. After two d ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed
The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Conducts Orion Parachute Testing for Orbital Test Flight
NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday, Dec. 20, in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry as ... 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

New Exo planets raise questions about the evolution of stars
University of Toulouse and University of Montreal researchers have detected two planets of sizes comparable to Earth orbiting around an old star that has just passed the red giant stage. This planet ... more
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STATION NEWS

New crew arrives at international space station
The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard. The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhs ... more
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TECH SPACE

Siberian man miraculously unharmed as satellite piece crashes through roof
A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was ... more
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TECH SPACE

Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris
A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts say. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russian satellite hits 'cosmonaut street' in Siberia
A fragment of a Russian satellite that crashed into Siberia in the latest setback for Russia's space programme hit a residential house on a street named after cosmonauts, officials said Saturday. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

Scientists eye Mercury magnetic puzzle
Mercury, the smallest planet and the closest to the sun, has an unexpectedly weak magnetic field, and European researchers have fingered the sun as the culprit. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch
A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defence ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia's embattled space programme. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Images Titan and Dione Above Saturn
Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The no ... more
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TECH SPACE

Astrium and Vizada become a world leader in satellite communications services
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, completes the acquisition of Vizada after receiving the necessary regulatory approvals. Vizada is a leading independent provider of global satellite communic ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers discover deep-fried planets
Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swel ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA's Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, that are the smallest yet detected, and the closest in size to Earth. In a paper ... more
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TECH SPACE

"Space ball" drops on Namibia
A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. ... more
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TECH SPACE

USAF Hosted Payload On SES Satellite Completes Initial On Orbit Tests
SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) reports that the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP), hosted on the SES-2 satellite launched in September, has successfully completed initial on-orbit test ... more
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TECH SPACE

Belarus Strongman Vows Nation Will Build World's Best Spacecraft Ever
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the former Soviet republc would build the best spaceship the world has ever seen. Lukashenko, once famoulsy dubbed "Europe's last dictator ... more
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STATION NEWS

NASA 'Smart SPHERES' Tested on ISS
In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Vega to fly ESA experimental reentry vehicle
The launch of ESA's IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe's new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft's flight in 2014. Launched into a suborbital t ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy s ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Exo planets that survived red giant stage found
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia sends multinational crew to ISS
Russia on Wednesday sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate
NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take th ... more
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EXO LIFE

A Look below the Surface At Laguna Negra
A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

A Brighter Future for Spaceflight
Recent times have been troubling for the global spaceflight community. We have witnessed the end of the venerable Shuttle program, without an operational replacement vehicle for NASA. America's spac ... more
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EXO WORLDS

First Earth-sized planets found
Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists one s ... more
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