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February 02, 2012
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX Test Fires Engine Prototype for Astronaut Escape System
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 02, 2012
One of NASA's industry partners, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), completed a full-duration, full-thrust firing of its new SuperDraco engine prototype at the company's Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas. The firing was in preparation for the ninth milestone to be completed under SpaceX's funded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). "SpaceX and all our industry partners are being extremely innovative in their approaches to developing commercial tra ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

Northrop Grumman Develops Solar Electric Propulsion Flight Concepts for Future Space Missions
Northrop Grumman was recently awarded a contract to study high-power solar electric propulsion flight system technology for NASA deep space and human exploration missions. "In collaboration wi ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia will replace Soyuz for next ISS mission: source
Russia will replace the Soyuz spacecraft set to take the next crew to the International Space Station after a fault was found in testing, a space industry source said Wednesday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

How NASA Solved a 100 Million Dollar Problem for Five Bucks
A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They pa ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Mission Returns First Video From Lunar Far Side
A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquir ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Report Identifies 16 Highest Priorities to Guide NASA Tech Development
During the next five years, NASA technology development efforts should focus on 16 high-priority technologies and their associated top technical challenges, says a new report from the National Resea ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Twinkle, twinkle kidney stone: With a push you could be gone
Just the mention of kidney stones can cause a person to cringe. They are often painful and sometimes difficult to remove, and 10 percent of the population will suffer from them. In space, the risk o ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russia blames 'cosmic rays' for Mars probe failure
Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme. ... more
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Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile'
China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Russian drones in Poland put NATO to the test
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IRON AND ICE

Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit
Dawn is scrutinizing Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), circling the rocky world five and a half times a day. The spacecraft is healthy and continuing its intensive campaign to reveal ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop
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 during the winter. Opp ... more
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TECH SPACE

Three SOPS LEO team snares first operating turn
During his first week of space training years ago, Staff Sgt. Brandon Cosper admits it was difficult to visualize exactly what was happening. As he watched lines of red, yellow and green telemetry d ... more
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EXO LIFE

Ground Truthing Mineralogical Data Collected By Orbiting Satellites
PLL has been moved to its summer home on the northwest finger of Laguna Negra. Meanwhile, back on the south shore, Jeff Moersch, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Univers ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

New Horizons Works through Winter Wakeup
New Horizons might be more than two billion miles from home, but the spacecraft has spent most of the new year at the fingertips of its operators. Since waking the spacecraft from hibernation ... more
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EXO LIFE

Seekers of alien contact renew search
The search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is back on, after a yearlong delay due to funding problems, U.S. researchers said. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Launch of Proton-M with Dutch Satellite Postponed
The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunication satellite onboard scheduled for Friday has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, Russian space agency Rosc ... more
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EXO WORLDS

On-again/off-again 'planet' elusive
A possible planet outside our solar system captured by the Hubble space telescope has failed to show up in subsequent searches, U.S. astronomers say. ... more
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks
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TECH SPACE

Publicity and Panic for Satellite Re-Entries
Space agencies struggle with the technical issues surrounding uncontrolled satellite re-entries. It's hard to predict when or where a bird will finally come down. Usually, the low risk of any damage ... more
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TECH SPACE

ISS Orbit Raised to Avoid Collision with Space Junk
Specialists of Russia's Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellit ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

First Vega rocket assembled on launch pad
ESA's new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket's inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport. The launch window opens on 9 February. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ukraine, Russia to Launch 2 Dnepr Carrier Rockets in 2012
Ukraine and Russia will carry out two rocket launches under the joint Dnepr space program, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuri Alekseyev said on Friday. Moscow has recently decid ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia to postpone next manned space launch: official
Russia plans to postpone its next manned launch to the International Space Station (ISS) by at least a month, the head of its space agency's manned programmes told the RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday. ... more
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MOON DAILY

A Moon Colony by 2020
Last Week, while addressing a Florida Space Coast audience, GOP candidate Newt Gingrich pledged to create a moon colony if elected president. This may at first seem far-fetched and an act of panderi ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian cargo vessel arrives at space station
A Russian cargo vessel docked safely at the International Space Station Saturday carrying mainly water and fuel, the mission control centre said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Romney sees launchers fueled by private enterprise
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tried to boost support on Florida's "Space Coast" Friday ahead of next week's key primary, promising business would play a bigger role in future missions. ... more
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations
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LAUNCH PAD

Russian launch of Dutch satellite delayed
The launch of a Russian rocket meant to put a Dutch communications satellite into orbit has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, officials said. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. ... more
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MOON DAILY

U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Moves Closer to Planetary Landing Demo Capability on Earth with Draper's GENIE
NASA could test its payloads on Earth under realistic flight conditions before sending them into space by using a technology flown by Draper Laboratory last month. Using the GENIE (Guidance Em ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork
Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRI ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia to postpone next manned space launches
Russia is set to pospone the next two manned launches for the International Space Station (ISS) for several weeks due to technical problems with the Soyuz spaceship, an industry source told Interfax Friday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russia Plans to Launch U.S. Satellite in February
Russia is preparing a Proton-M carrier rocket for the launch of the U.S. Sirius FM-6 telecoms satellite, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. "The launch is tentatively scheduled f ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

First US chief technology officer stepping down
Aneesh Chopra, who was tasked with bringing a dose of Silicon Valley to the US government as the first chief technology officer, is stepping down. ... more
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