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February 20, 2012
ROCKET SCIENCE
Future of Space Transportation
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 20, 2012
The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 15th Annual Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington. General William Shelton addressed an audience of fellow space-focused members of the Department of Defense, FAA, and NASA, along with industry partners and foreign nationals, on the future of space trans ... read more

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STATION NEWS

Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre
ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station
Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more
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UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more
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Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range
Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry
Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more
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NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet
The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. ... 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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STATION NEWS

Space station panel installation delayed
Two Russian cosmonauts will have to install International Space Station debris panels another day after their spacewalk took longer than expected, NASA said. ... more
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EXO LIFE

The quest for sugars involved in origin of life
Sugars give rise to enormous biochemical interest given the importance and diversity of the functions they carry out: they act as an energy storage system and serve as fuel for a number of biologica ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Booster Risk Reduction Solutions
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort. NASA is looking for a ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Performs First J-2X Powerpack Test of the Year
Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center conducted an initial test of the J-2X engine powerpack Feb. 15, kicking off a series of key tests in development of the rocket engine that will carry humans ... more
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MARSDAILY

ISS may become Martian flight simulator
Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the n ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch spacecraft in June: report
China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China A ... more
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EXO LIFE

Microbial oasis discovered beneath the Atacama Desert
Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have f ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Completes J-2X Powerpack Test
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the first in a series of powerpack hot-fire tests on the J-2X engine, which is being developed for NASA to power humans further into space than ev ... 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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MARSDAILY

Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars
In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Is Shenzhou Unsafe?
The recent announcement that China will fly its next Shenzhou spacecraft without a crew aboard is a shock. It completely goes against a tide of recent official statements and general feelings within ... more
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TECH SPACE

Landsat's Thermal Infrared Sensor Arrives at Orbital
A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz. There it will be integrated into the next Landsat sat ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian cosmonauts begin ISS spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday in a spacewalk due to last six hours, Russia's mission control centre said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Cleaning up Earth's orbit A Swiss satellite tackles space debris
The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth - primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components - is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust
A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's surface to wat ... more
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ROBO SPACE

New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip
About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... 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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ROBO SPACE

'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer
New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more
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ROBO SPACE

New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles
"Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more
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ROBO SPACE

In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain
Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers hav ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot seals heal hearts of Japan tsunami survivors
High-tech fluffy seals that respond to human touch are the latest weapon in the battle against depression for survivors of Japan's tsunami disaster. ... more
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Iran mulls base to launch bigger satellites
Iran is planning to construct a facility to send bigger satellites into orbit, the official media reported Friday. Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the base will be used to launch one-tonne ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Sailing on an Extraterrestrial Sea
Many of us have sailed the Earth's lakes, bays and rivers. But, imagine sailing on an extraterrestrial sea of liquid methane-ethane a billion miles from Earth. This is the kind of idea that makes sc ... more
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MASER 12 launched
The microgravity rocket MASER 12 has been successfully launched from SSC's launching facility Esrange Space Center. MASER 12 reached an apogee of 260 km and the experiments on board spent 6 minutes ... more
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