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June 05, 2012
ROCKET SCIENCE
Dream Chaser Flight Vehicle Scales Rocky Mountain Summits
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 05, 2012
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser design passed one of its most complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry test conducted near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County, Colo., on May 29. Just like the space shuttle before it, SNC's Dream Chaser will go through extensive testing to prove its wings will work. The company built a full-scale flight vehicle of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to carry out the evaluations. Backdropped by skyscrapi ... read more

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Boeing Receives DARPA Airborne Satellite Launch Study Contract
Boeing has been awarded an 18-month study contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate technologies for on-demand small satellite launch systems. Under the A ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Boeing Delivers First Space Launch System Hardware to NASA
Boeing has delivered NASA three flight computer software test beds, the first critical element for flight software development in support of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Flight software control ... more
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TECH SPACE

Artemis keeps talking the talk
Although ESA's Artemis telecommunications satellite has officially completed its mission, it still has plenty to offer. Reaching its working orbit almost 11 years ago after an arduous journey, Artem ... more
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Sea Launch Delivers the Intelsat 19 Spacecraft into Orbit
Sea Launch AG launched Thursday the Intelsat 19 satellite from the Equator on the ocean-based Launch PlatformOdyssey, completing its eleventh mission for Intelsat S.A. and marking Sea Launch's first ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook
NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn deep in the asteroid belt orbiting Vesta
Far from Earth, on the opposite side of the sun, deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn is gradually spiraling around the giant protoplanet Vesta. Under the gentle pressure of its uniquely efficient ion pr ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

It's a Sim: Out in Deep Space, New Horizons Practices the 2015 Pluto Encounter
The science instruments aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were running at full tilt, with cameras snapping images, sensors scanning the space environment and the communications system trading ra ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Pacific Island leaders back 'ocean of peace' at fraught summit
Russia launched 458 drones, missiles in overnight attack: Ukraine
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DRAGON SPACE

What will China's Taikonauts do aboard Tiangong 1?
Launch date is looming for three Chinese taikonauts, including the country's first woman in space, who will attempt to manually dock their Shenzhou 9 spacecraft at the orbiting Tiangong 1 space modu ... more
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EXO LIFE

Why SETI Counts
Are we alone in the universe? It's probably the greatest question posed by space exploration. It fascinates scientists and the general public. It's important and deeply compelling. We want to know, ... more
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IRON AND ICE

UT's Josh Emery Uncovers Clues About Asteroid That Will Pass Near Earth
The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor ... more
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MARSDAILY

On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum
Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin's McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Why is China sending a woman into space?
"China's first female astronauts have, trained hard and conscientiously, and are now ready to take part in the Shenzhou manned spaceflights. For all astronauts the implementation of a manned spacefl ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory
Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more
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MARSDAILY

Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes
In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Sierra Nevada Announces the Completion of Four Dream Chaser Milestones FOR NASA
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that the Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed four additional NASA Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program Mile ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

US cargo ship on return voyage from space station
The US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel was released by the robotic arm of the International Space Station early Thursday at the start of its return to Earth from an historic mission. ... more
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MOON DAILY

UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest
In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

New Findings on Astronaut Vision Loss
Could vision changes experienced by astronauts be linked to a vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency? While investigating the vision changes recently identified in astronauts, nutritional assessment data ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NSO To Use Venus Transit To Fine-Tune Search For Other Worlds
A century ago, scientists chased transits of Mercury and Venus in an effort to size up our solar system. Next week, they will use the last Venus transit for a century to learn how to size up other s ... more
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SpaceX Dragon capsule splash lands in Pacific
US company SpaceX's cargo vessel Thursday splash landed in the Pacific Ocean, capping a successful mission to the International Space Station and blazing a new path for private spaceflight. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa
In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteri ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars missions may learn from meteor Down Under
A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there. Scientists have tried to find out how the planet's environment came to contain met ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Venus transit may boost hunt for other worlds
Astronomers around the world will be using advanced telescopes to watch Venus cross in front of the Sun on June 5 and 6 in the hopes of finding clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants
Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around t ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia
The long and tumultuous history of asteroid (21) Lutetia is revealed by a comprehensive analysis of the data gathered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft when it flew past this large main-belt asteroid on 1 ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

US cargo vessel prepares to leave space station
US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship is preparing to make its return journey to Earth after a landmark mission to the International Space Station, NASA and SpaceX representatives said Wednesday. ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule
A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more
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BC Company Becomes First Official Producer and Distributor of Replica SpaceX Spacecraft
Less than an hour after Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made spaceflight history by becoming the first commercial company ever to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station, an ind ... more
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Intelsat Signs First Commercial Falcon Heavy Launch Agreement with SpaceX
Today, Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, announced the first commercial con ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China launches telecommunication satellite
China successfully sent a telecommunication satellite, "ChinaSat 2A," into orbit on Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Cen ... more
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