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March 28, 2012
TECH SPACE
Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 28, 2012
Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to data provided by the Main Center for Space Reconnaissance, which is part of Russia's Space Forces, fragments of the Meteor 1-1 satellite entered the Earth's atmosphere at 02:17 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday [22:17 GMT Monday]," Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. The official added that th ... read more

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TECH SPACE

AMPAC-ISP Hydrazine Propulsion Module Completes Pre-Ship Review
AMPAC-ISP and Orbital Sciences Corporation have completed the Pre-Ship Review for the Hydrazine Propulsion Module (HPM) for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, a collaboration betw ... more
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STATION NEWS

Beaming Success for ISS Fans
Did you ever use a flashlight to send a Morse code message to your neighbor at night as a kid? People like to say hello using lights and it's no different for space aficionados who want to twinkle a ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The close ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Happy Birthday Titan!
On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

NASA Extends Cooperative Agreement With NSBRI
NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded a five-year, $120 million extension of its cooperative agreement with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston. Under the extens ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions NASA Software Patent Portfolios
The Innovative Partnership Program Office of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will hold a March 29 auction with ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC of Chicago to sell three NASA-developed techn ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Science Laboratory Adjusts Orbital Path And Tests Instruments
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, has adjusted its flight path for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August. Tests completed aboard Curiosit ... 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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SPACE TRAVEL

Not your average heat shield
In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, a team of French researchers has proposed isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat-essentially "thermal cloaking." This method, which the ... more
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TECH SPACE

Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth
Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the U.S. Strategic ... more
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TECH SPACE

Boeing Receives Phased Array Antenna System Contract from Yahsat
Boeing has finalized a firm-fixed-price contract with Al Yah Satellite Company (Yahsat), the United Arab Emirates-based multipurpose satellite operator, to design and build active electronically ste ... more
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EXO LIFE

Far-Out Photosynthesis
Everyone knows that we as humans literally owe the air we breathe to the greenery around us. As school children we learned that plants (as well as algae and cyanobacteria) perform the all important ... more
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MARSDAILY

A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation
A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected in 2004 in ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia to Focus on Its Orbital Cluster - Popovkin
Russia will prioritize the development of its satellites over manned spaceflight, aiming to boost the country's economy, the head of the Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Proton Launches Intelsat 22
Intelsat S.A., and International Launch Services (ILS) announced today that an ILS Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 22 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

SciTechTalk: Can long space missions work?
As the United States considers a manned mission to Mars by the mid-2030s, ongoing research is beginning to raise doubts about the ability of human astronauts to survive such a multi-year journey in zero gravity without severe and possibly permanent physical or psychological damage. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

N. Korea takes rocket main body to launch site
North Korea has transported the main body of a long-range rocket to a site in the far northwest of the country in preparation for next month's launch, Seoul's military said Sunday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Europe's smart supply ship on its way to Space Station
ESA's ATV Edoardo Amaldi lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, Friday at 04:34 GMT (05:34 CET, 01:34 local) on an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, heading towards t ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Experimental Payloads Selected For Commercial Suborbital Flights
NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 24 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons and a commercial parabolic aircraft. Six ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA's Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Element ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light-Speed
Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our Galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a s ... more
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STATION NEWS

Japan Shares ISS SMILES via Atmospheric Data Distribution
Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth's atmosphere? The coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, typically produced by solar flares might ... more
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TECH SPACE

Astrium's satellites reap first fruits in Canada
Astrium Services' PixAgri satellite imaging service for crop management has just successfully completed its first agricultural campaign for "La Coop federee", the largest agrifood business in Quebec ... more
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STATION NEWS

ESA Cargo Ship Carries Research and Technology Investigations to ISS
When the European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with more than seven tons of supplies, includin ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Development Solutions
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for advanced development proposals to support the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space La ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

US ramping up private sector's role in spaceflight
The first flight of a commercial vessel to the International Space Station in late April will signal a bigger role for the private sector and open up space tourism opportunities, industry experts and lawmakers say. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Patent requests in Europe reach record in 2011
Patent requests in the Europe reached a record high in 2011, in a telling sign that companies are determined to stay on the cutting edge despite a debt crisis and an uncertain economy. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Europe launches third robot freighter to space station
An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday in the heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Students' experiments to play out in space
Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and Lenovo to inspire young minds. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Some orbits more popular than others in solar systems
Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Europe's next weather satellite gears up for launch
Following the safe arrival of the MetOp-B weather satellite in Kazakhstan, the sophisticated craft is now being carefully assembled and tested before launch on 23 May. MetOp-B will provide essential ... more
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EXO LIFE

Super-Earth unlikely able to transfer life to other planets
While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar system. ... more
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