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March 22, 2012
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SpaceX, NASA readies for April 30 launch to ISS
Washington (AFP) March 20, 2012
Preparations for the April 30 launch of the SpaceX's Dragon commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station are underway without major problems, a top NASA official said Tuesday. "The simulations are taking place, I don't know about big drivers right now, only of what they have to do between now and launch day," said NASA Space Station manager Mike Suffredini at a news conference. There is "a lot of work to do between now and April 30, but their schedule supports it as we see it today," ... read more

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SPACE MEDICINE

Early Detection of Immune Changes Prevents Painful Shingles in Astronauts and Earth-Bound Patients4
The physiological, emotional and psychological stress associated with spaceflight can result in decreased immunity that reactivates the virus that causes shingles, a disease punctuated by painful sk ... more
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Arianespace's third ATV launch for ISS servicing is given a "go" for liftoff
The Ariane 5 launch of Europe's no. 3 Automated Transfer Vehicle has been given the green light for a March 23 liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on a servicing mission to the International ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Sub-Scale Solid-Rocket Motor Tests Material for Space Launch System
A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design has been successfully tested by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Al ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's gra ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Completes Primary Mission at Mercury, Settles in for Another Year
On March 17, 2012, MESSENGER successfully wrapped up a year-long campaign to perform the first complete reconnaissance of the geochemistry, geophysics, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere, a ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Experients may force revision of astrophysical models of the universe
In a challenge to current astrophysical models of the universe, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine and the University of Rostock in Germany have found that current estimates of ic ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition
If you had chosen Cimarron Memorial High School, Orcutt Academy High School and Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy as your top picks in this past weekend's "Robotics March Madness Bracket," ... 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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Astrium and Air Liquide create EuroCryospace
Astrium and Air Liquide have announced the creation of a European strategic partnership called EuroCryospace. It is an extension of Cryospace, which was set up 25 years ago to develop and manufactur ... more
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STATION NEWS

Astrium: double delivery for ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi launch
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, is completing the mission preparation for the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-3. On March 23, 2012, the unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft named after the Ita ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Ashton Kutcher signs up for Branson space flight
Actor Ashton Kutcher is set to go into orbit after becoming the 500th customer to sign up for Richard Branson's pioneering space ship, the British tycoon said Monday. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Near-miss asteroid will return next year
When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet - but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer than many satellites, highlighting the g ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia May Sink Satellite Salvage Plan For Antarctic Internet Connection
A modern, state of the art communications satellite stranded last August in a useless orbit will constitute a double failure if Russian officials de-orbit the spacecraft as planned, according to an ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Ecliptic RocketCams Capture Action on ISS During Initial Phase of Robotic Refueling Mission Demo
Six rugged RocketCam color video cameras captured close-up views of the first phase of NASA's teleoperated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) demonstration, conducted March 7-9 on the exterior of the I ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars on a Shoestring
It's no secret that Mars exploration is in trouble at NASA. Budgetary axes have swung, creating a potentially bleak future for missions and results. After the Curiosity rover mission (currently in f ... more
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MARSDAILY

India's Mars mission gets Rs.125 crore
India's mission to Mars got Rs.125 crore (over $24 million) in the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday. The allocation was a part of the total plan outla ... 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

NASA and CSA Robotic Operations Advance Satellite Servicing
NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tas ... more
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MOON DAILY

China to get lunar soil
Preparations are on in China to launch a moon mission and bring about two kilogram of lunar soil samples to Earth, People's Daily reported Friday. The mission is part of the third phase of the ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia to launch new ISS module in 2013 as scheduled
Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos denied reports Friday of a delay to the launch of the new multi-purpose Nauka lab for the International Space Station (ISS). "The launch has been planne ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Hot-Fires Launch Abort
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, which is supporting The Boeing Company during the development of its CST-100 spacecraft in NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2), completed mission-durati ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's Lunar Docking
Manufacturing has begun on China's first lunar lander, Chang'e 3, which is expected to launch in 2013. This spacecraft will release a rover onto the surface. If all goes well, we can expect the Ch ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Researchers develop blueprint for nuclear clock accurate over billions of years
A clock accurate to within a tenth of a second over 14 billion years - the age of the universe - is the goal of research being reported this week by scientists from three different institutions. To ... more
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North Korea to invite observers to satellite launch
North Korea said Saturday it would invite foreign experts and journalists to observe a satellite launch which has sparked widespread condemnation and US threats that it could jeopardise food aid. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Viz App Will Now Take Users Across the Universe
NASA's Science Mission Directorate is organized into four disciplines: Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics and Earth science. This structure has put NASA scientists at the forefront of discovery a ... 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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MOON DAILY

Two New NASA LRO Videos: See Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour
In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new videos. One video takes viewers thro ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Prolonged Space Travel Causes Brain and Eye Abnormalities in Astronauts
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space revealed optical abnormalities similar to those that can occur in intracran ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Sub-Scale Solid-Rocket Motor Tests Material for Space Launch System
A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Skydiver in 4-minute free-fall jump
An Austrian who made a free-fall jump from 71,581 feet into New Mexico that lasted nearly 4 minutes plans to make a 120,000-foot "space jump," officials said. ... more
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STATION NEWS

DARPA Makes Room On ISS For Programmers
Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. The absence of gravity presents a significant challenge for precision robotic maneuvering and operati ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robots in record-distance ocean swim
Four wave-powered robots have set a record by swimming more than 3,200 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, their U.S.-based developer said. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

The Arianespace "Power of Three" strategy is spotlighted at Washington's Satellite 2012 event
Arianespace's new "Power of Three" theme is making its industry debut at this week's Satellite 2012 event in Washington, D.C., where the company is underscoring the synergy, availability, reliabilit ... more
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