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January 20, 2012
LAUNCH PAD
Inaugural Vega Mission Ready For Liftoff
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 20, 2012
Final checkout of Europe's new Vega launcher was completed last Friday, marking another milestone towards its maiden flight from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first Vega launch campaign began in November with the installation of the P80 first stage on the launch pad. The two solid-propellant second and third stages were added to the vehicle, followed by the AVUM - Attitude and Vernier Upper Module - liquid-propellant fourth stage. All four stages have undergone final accep ... read more

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OUTER PLANETS

Just A Three Year Cruise Left Before Pluto Flyby
Today - as we mark the sixth anniversary of our launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on January 19, 2006 - New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 22 times as far ... more
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MARSDAILY

Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash
A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi ... more
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MOON DAILY

Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China plans to launch 21 rockets, 30 satellites this year
China plans to launch 21 rockets and 30 satellites this year, exceeding its record of 19 rockets and 22 satellites launched in 2010, the main contractor for the country's space program told Xinhua o ... more
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MARSDAILY

Adjusting Robotic Arm on Amboy Rock
Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity is conduc ... more
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MARSDAILY

Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers
Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's M ... more
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EXO LIFE

Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme
The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria - Chryseobacterium and Paenispo ... more
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Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom
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MOON DAILY

Russia talks of permanent moon base
Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it is in talks with European and U.S. partners about creating permanent manned research bases on the moon. ... more
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MARSDAILY

'Flaws' blamed for Russian space failure
The failure of a Russian Mars mission that crashed back to Earth was due to testing errors and engineering flaws, the head of the country's space agency says. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Fate of 'leap second' being debated
A decision whether to keep a system of adding so-called leap seconds to the global time system is being considered at a meeting in Switzerland, scientists say. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager Instrument Cooling After Heater Turned off
In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument more than ... more
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MARSDAILY

Lost in simulated space on the way to Mars
China's Wang Yue was one of astronauts in the Mars-500 project to discover the effects of prolonged space flight on the body and mind. Wang Ru reports. Wang Yue, who is still recovering from 5 ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou 9 Behind the Curtain
The first crew to fly to a Chinese space laboratory could lift off within three months. The launch of the Shenzhou 9 mission to the Tiangong 1 module could take place at the end of March or early Ap ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

US joins effort to draw up space 'code of conduct'
The United States pledged Tuesday to join an EU-led effort to develop a space "code of conduct" that would set rules for orbiting spacecraft and for mitigating the growing problem of orbiting debris. ... 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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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX delays February flight to space stationl
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. ... 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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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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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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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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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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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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ROBO SPACE

A new Artificial Intelligence technique to speed the planning of tasks when resources are limited
Scientists at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) have presented a new technique based on Artificial Intelligence that can automatically create plans, allowing problems to be solved with much gr ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China Plans to Launch 30 Satellites in 2012
China is planning to launch 21 carrier rockets with 30 satellites in 2012, the China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Wednesday. The country's ambitious space program will s ... 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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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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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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