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December 31, 2011
MARSDAILY
Mars Rover Opportunity Positioned at Candidate Site for Winter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 31, 2011
Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity experienced anomalously high current in the right-front wheel on Sol 2808 (Dec. 17, 2011). Diagnostics on Sols 2810 and 2812 (Dec. 20 and 22, 2011) indicated a nominal wheel and drive actuator with the terrain being the indicated explanation for t ... read more

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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch Shenzhou-9, Shenzhou-10 spacecraft next year: spokesman
China will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012, a spokesman for the China National Space A ... more
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Orbcomm and SpaceX Improve Launch Plans for OG2 Satellites
Orbcomm Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today announced the launch schedule for Orbcomm's second generation (OG2) satellites. The updated plan includes launching the first OG2 ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China issues white paper on space exploration
China on Thursday issued a white paper on the development of space industry since 2006 and the major tasks for the next five years. The white paper titled "China's Space Activities in 2011" wa ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

China to push forward human spaceflight projects in next five years: white paper
China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight, according to a white paper titled "China's Space Acti ... more
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MOON DAILY

China to launch orbiters for lunar soft landing in next five years: white paper
Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 China will launch orbiters for lunar soft landing, roving and surveying to implement the second stage of lunar exploration in next five years, a white paper said Thursday ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China makes rapid progress, breakthroughs in space industry: white paper
A white paper published on Thursday said that China has made innovative achievements and breakthroughs in major space projects, and space technology has been upgraded remarkably. The white pap ... more
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EXO LIFE

Launching the Lake Lander 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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DRAGON SPACE

China lays out five-year space plans
China said Thursday cleaner fuel will power its next-generation rockets, which will launch heavy cargoes into space, bringing nearer plans to build a space station and put a man on the moon. ... more
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Arianespace Completes 2012 With Soyuz Launch Partner Mission For Globalstar
Arianespace wrapped up another busy - and historic - 12 months of commercial launch services today by orbiting six satellites for mobile voice and data services on the ninth flight of 2011 - during ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Journaling the Journey into Space
They likely don't make a notation of the star date or call it a captain's log, but astronauts aboard the International Space Station, like many other voyagers, keep journals during their journeys. T ... more
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MOON DAILY

Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit
NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. Named Gravity Recovery And Interior ... more
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Orbcomm Prepares For Launch Of Second AIS Satellite
LuxSpace, an affiliate of OHB System AG, has confirmed that construction and testing of the LuxSpace VesselSat2 AIS satellite has been successfully completed. The spacecraft has been shipped t ... more
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MOON DAILY

Powerful Pixels Help Map The Apollo Zone
Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon: For NASA ... more
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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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ROCKET SCIENCE

First J-2X Engine Rockets Through First Round of Testing
The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.? It's NASA's first new human-rated rocket engine to be developed in 40 years. The J-2X engine - hi ... 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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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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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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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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Soyuz poised for Globalstar second-generation satellite launch at Baikonur
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 th ... 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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