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January 18, 2012
LAUNCH PAD
SpaceX delays February flight to space stationl
Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2012
SpaceX said Tuesday it has postponed its February test flight of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the first-ever bid by a private company to dock at the orbiting lab. The delay is due to technical reasons and a new launch date for the unmanned mission has not been set. "In preparation for the upcoming launch, SpaceX continues to conduct extensive testing and analysis," spokeswoman Kirstin Grantham said in an email to AFP. "We believe that there are a few areas that will ... read more

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MARSDAILY

US may be behind Mars probe failure: Russia
Russia on Tuesday said the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe for Mars could have been caused by radiation from US radars, in its latest allegation of Western interference in its space programme. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft
Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was se ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Saturn moon more Earth-like than thought
Saturn's moon Titan may be more like Earth-like than previously thought with a layered atmosphere just like our planet, European researchers said. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow
A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Another Russian Mars Mission Fails
The ill-fated Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe reentered on Sunday at 1745 GMT (12:45 p.m. EST). Most of the surviving pieces reportedly fell into the Pacific Ocean. About two months ago Phobos ... more
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EXO LIFE

A new dawn over 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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TECH SPACE

Goddard Spacecraft Cleanroom Goes Green For Magnetospheric Multiscale Fab
When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. Thi ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Re-thinking an Alien World
Forty light years from Earth, a rocky world named "55 Cancri e" circles perilously close to a stellar inferno. Completing one orbit in only 18 hours, the alien planet is 26 times closer to its paren ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA Moves Shuttle Engines From Kennedy To Stennis
The relocation of the RS-25D space shuttle main engine inventory from Kennedy Space Center's Engine Shop in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is underway. The RS-25D flight engines, repurposed for NASA's Space ... more
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MOON DAILY

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features
New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. L ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Targets Amboy Rock For Extra Study Ahead of Winter
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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MOON DAILY

Lunar orbiter spots moisture locations
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed features at the moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness, researchers said. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

NASA looking at Cassini radio problems
NASA says it's conducting diagnostic tests on its Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn after its signal was not detected during a tracking pass in late December. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia Mars probe 'crashes into Pacific': military
Russia believes fragments of its Phobos-Grunt probe which spiralled back to Earth after failing to head on a mission to Mars crashed Sunday into the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for its space forces said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Smart appliances set to transform the home
You're at work when you get word of unexpected dinner guests. No problem. Smart appliances to the rescue. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

The gadgets which stood out at CES
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which wrapped up on Friday in Las Vegas featured a dazzling array of high-tech gadgetry. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Open-source robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs
Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research la ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space station to dodge superfast debris
The International Space Station will need to dodge a small but superfast piece of orbiting communication debris Friday morning, the U.S. Space Command said. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Milky Way teaming with 'billions' of planets: study
The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Science Lab Completes Biggest Maneuver On Route To Mars
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars. "We've completed a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception
There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research. In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, ... more
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EXO LIFE

Loss of Planetary Tilt Could Doom Alien Life
Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall an ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Scientists Discover a Saturn-like Ring System Eclipsing a Sun-like Star
A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn. The scientists, led by Ass ... more
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New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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China penalises popular app Xiaohongshu over content
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MARSDAILY

Mars Express spots wrinkle ridges and grabens in Tempe Terra
Tempe Terra is located at the northeastern edge of the Tharsis volcanic region and forms the transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands. This area is characterised by a ... more
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TECH SPACE

ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt
An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and R ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Android-powered watches get Internet savvy
The Internet was strapped to wrists at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday in the form of Android-powered "smart watches" that serve up online content along with telling time. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion study
Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will ev ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planet Population is Plentiful
An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky W ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems
Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems - planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such "two su ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Canaveral has busy 2012 launch schedule
The director of Florida's Cape Canaveral rocket range says a busy 2012 launch schedule is proof there's life after the end of NASA's shuttle program. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Stranded Mars probe to crash into ocean Sunday: Russia
Russia's space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week. ... more
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