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March 29, 2012
ROCKET SCIENCE
N. Korea begins fuelling rocket: report
Tokyo (AFP) March 29, 2012
North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch that the West considers a missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, citing a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. "The launch is coming closer. The possibility is high that the launch date will be set for April 12 or 13," the source said according to the Tokyo Shimbun in a report from Seoul. It cited the source as saying that North Korea had begun injecting liquid fuel into the rocket. The paper also said a diplomatic ... read more

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STATION NEWS

European cargo vessel docks with space station
An unmanned European craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday 2233 GMT, laden with tonnes of fuel, water, oxygen and other supplies, France's CNES space agency said. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Billions of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets Could be Orbiting Red Dwarf Stars
A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates ... more
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MOON DAILY

Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure
Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced by the space industry for the last 10 y ... more
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MARSDAILY

'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future
One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ATREX Mission Launched from Wallops
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched ... 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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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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SATURN DAILY

Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more
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STATION NEWS

Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages
Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking with the International Space Station (IS ... 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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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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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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ROCKET SCIENCE

Russia plans to build nuclear space engine
Russian space officials say the country is dedicated to the successful building of a nuclear engine for spacecraft by 2017. ... 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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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

Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica
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 ... 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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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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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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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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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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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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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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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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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

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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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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