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March 12, 2012
TIME AND SPACE
Proposed nuclear clock may keep time with the Universe
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 12, 2012
A proposed new time-keeping system tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 billion years - the age of the Universe. "This is nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now," says one of the researchers, Scientia Professor Victor Flambaum, who is Head of Theoretical Physics in the UNSW School of Physics. "It would allow scientists to test fundamental physi ... read more

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TECH SPACE

Garafolo tests spacecraft seal to verify computer models
An Akron researcher is designing computer prediction models to test potential new docking seals that will better preserve breathable cabin air for astronauts living aboard the International Space St ... more
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MARSDAILY

Winter Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue
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. While positioned for ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely Rare
Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

SciTechTalk: Rembering a space 'Pioneer'
Space probes and planetary orbiters have become so commonplace, launch of a new one, whether into our solar system or beyond, hardly causes a ripple in the public consciousness. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Announces A New Contract For The ILS Proton Launch Of The Mexsat-1 Satellite
International Launch Services (ILS) announces a new contract for launch of the MEXSAT-1 satellite on an ILS Proton for the Mexican government's Ministry of Communications and Transportation, the Sec ... more
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TECH SPACE

Andrews Space Contracted to Deliver 100 Series Command and Data Handling System for GEO Application
Andrews Space (Andrews) has been contracted to deliver three integrated avionics suites based on its 100-Series avionics architecture for a Geosynchronous spacecraft application. The contract ... more
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TECH SPACE

Astrium wins Helios through life support contract extension
Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, has signed a through life support contract with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA Delegation generale de l'armement) to continue to be re ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System
Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich - you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

New "pendulum" for the ytterbium clock
The faster a clock ticks, the more precise it can be. Due to the fact that lightwaves vibrate faster than microwaves, optical clocks can be more precise than the caesium atomic clocks which presentl ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rep. Schiff Applauds Decision to Reject NASA Request to Divert Mars Funds
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, applauded the decision of Subcommittee Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) to reject a fiscal 2012 repr ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Three for Tiangong
The closer we get to the launch of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, the more confused space observers have become. We should have a firmer picture of the whole missi ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

What Next for X-37B
On March 5, the X-37B robot spaceplane celebrated a birthday in orbit. This mysterious, semi-classified spacecraft is still up there, and it's not clear when it ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five"
Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own'
This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more
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Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks
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EXO WORLDS

Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds
Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Debris disks consist of fields of planetesimals and dust encircling stars. A few hundr ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Star Comb joins quest for Earth-like planets
If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it. Such a comb-a tool for precisely measuring frequenc ... more
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MOON DAILY

Magnetic moon
In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more
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EXO LIFE

Hot Meets Cold at New Deep-Sea Ecosystem: "Hydrothermal Seep"
Decades ago, marine scientists made a startling discovery in the deep sea. They found environments known as hydrothermal vents, where hot water surges from the seafloor and life thrives without sunl ... more
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MOON DAILY

Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms
This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Plays Role in Vaccine Development
Have you ever been afflicted with a case of food poisoning so awful it made you stop to wonder why no one's found a cure or sure-fire preventative for it yet? And chances are you or someone you know ... more
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STATION NEWS

Though Shuttle Retired, ISS Still Open For Business, Research Going Strong
The pace of research aboard the International Space Station is accelerating, even though the space shuttles used to build it have been retired. The shuttles' huge cargo carrying capacity was needed ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Humanoid robot will fight shipboard fires
U.S. scientists say they're developing a humanoid robot to fight fires aboard warships, moving autonomously to handle firefighting tasks usually done by humans. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic Refueling Mission Begins With Space Station Robotics
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important mileston ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Enjoying massage of the future at the world's top IT fair
With all the frantic deal-making and head-spinning gadgets at the world's top IT fair, it is perhaps no surprise that a chair promising the benefit of two hours sleep in 20 minutes drew big queues. ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action
An afternoon whirlwind on Mars lofts a twisting column of dust more than half a mile (800 meters) high in an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield
Workers recently began cutting and coating the first thermal protection system tiles - part of the heat shield that will protect an Orion spacecraft during an upcoming flight test which will simulat ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Ground robot speed records raise hopes
Record ground speeds achieved by robots in recent tests by the U.S. Department of Defense raise hopes more robots will be put to military use in the years to come. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone
Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), in prepar ... more
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