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January 10, 2012
MARSDAILY
'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2012
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who was a member of the science team for the Mars rovers and many other interplanetary missions. The site is an outcrop that provides a sun-facing slope to aid in maintaining adequate solar power during the rover's fifth Martian winter. It also provides targets of scientific interest for the rover's robotic ... read more

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SATURN DAILY

New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Titan
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -300 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China launches Ziyuan III satellite
China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Monday aboard a Long ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Orion Drop Test - Jan. 06, 2012
After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6. Orion, the next deep space explorat ... more
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STATION NEWS

Photographing the International Space Station from Your Own Backyard
Photographing the International Space Station seems like something that could be done only from space, but taking a picture from your own backyard actually is easier than you might think. If y ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Team Undertakes 'EPIC' Event
Anyone who has ever been involved in a computer upgrade knows that they can be complicated, and that you have to take your time, be careful, and go step-by-step if you want to be successful. T ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. Th ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Stormy Skies and Garden Worlds
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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ROCKET SCIENCE

Europe's Vega rocket launch set for early February
The maiden voyage of Europe's Vega rocket, designed to launch small payloads of about 1.5 tonnes into low-Earth orbit, is set for February 9, the head of the European Space Agency said Monday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX To Be First To Use Solar Panels On A Manned US Spacecraft
For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will use deployable solar arrays as its primary power source for running sensors, driving heating and cooling sys ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

China to launch Bolivian satellite in 2013: Chinese Ambassador
China would put Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite into orbit in December 2013, China's Ambassador to Bolivia Shen Zhiliang announced Thursday. The manufacturing process of the satel ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars rover to spend winter at 'Greeley Haven,' named for late ASU geologist Ronald Greeley
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ASU ... more
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MARSDAILY

Trajectory Maneuver For Mars Lab Slated for January 11
An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars. The action will use a choreographed s ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace Set To Ride The Power of Three In 2012
Arianespace is preparing for the busiest year of flight activity ever in 2012, building on an industry leadership position that benefits from the operational synergy, availability and commercial adv ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

NPL and SUERC calibrate a 'rock clock'
New research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) will improve the accuracy of estimates of the time of geological events. Th ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Rocket pioneer Lowell Randall dies
Lowell Randall, described as one of the "great pioneer rocket scientists" who launched the U.S. space program, died this week in New Mexico. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Failed Russian space probe to fall
Up to 400 pounds of Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars space probe could fall to Earth between Jan. 10 and 21, the Roscosmos space agency said Friday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Hawking: Mankind must colonize space
British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Spying on Tiangong
In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal "Spaceflight", published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, "Spaceflight" claimed ... more
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MOON DAILY

'Mini moons' may surround Earth
Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ariane 5, Soyuz, Vega: Three world-changing launch vehicles
After confirming its world leadership in 2011, Arianespace is now ramping up for operations in 2012. It aims to carry out seven Ariane 5 launches, five Soyuz launches and the first Vega launch. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Well Positioned For Another Winter On Mars
Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op ... more
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TECH SPACE

Successful Compatibility Testing of UHF Hosted Payload on Intelsat-22
It's pretty cool to think about the power of satellite communications (SATCOM), and the advantages it provides for our military customers. What's definitely not cool is the fact that interoperabilit ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Wanted: Habitable Moons
As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satelli ... more
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Rare Moon mineral found in Australia
A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism
As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Satellites: Europe's Arianespace sets 13 launches for 2012
European satellite launch operator Arianespace said on Thursday it had scheduled 13 missions for 2012, the first year in which it would deploy rockets in all three categories of payload. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

2011 in Polish astronautics
The year 2011 was very important for the space industry development in Poland. This article contains a short summary of most important Polish space-related events. b>Poland to join ESA br> /b ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Wraps Up A Stunning Year Of Asteroid Exploration
Dawn concludes 2011 more than 40 thousand times nearer to Vesta than it began the year. Now at its lowest altitude of the mission, the bold adventurer is conducting its most detailed exploration of ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Why The X-37B Is Not Spying On Tiangong
In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal "Spaceflight", published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, "Spaceflight" claimed ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design
University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock
Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. ... more
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