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November 20, 2012

Supersonic Decelerator Project 'On Track' for Success
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 20, 2012
NASA has completed three key milestones in its development of new atmospheric deceleration technologies to support exploration missions across the solar system. The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project, which is developing technologies to use atmospheric drag to dramatically slow a vehicle as it penetrates the skies over worlds beyond our own, completed three successful rocket sled tests of the "SIAD-R," a Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, the first of three innovative decelerat ... read more

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				South Korea's rocket launch likely to take place Nov. 29 South Korea's third attempt to launch a space rocket is expected to take place on Nov. 29 after it has been postponed due to a last-minute technical glitch, the government said Monday. After h ... more		Three ISS crew return to Earth in Russian capsule Three astronauts touched down on the snowy steppes of Kazakhstan on Monday in a flawless pre-dawn landing aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after spending over four months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ... more

Station Crew Off Duty After Undocking Following a long day overseeing the departure of three International Space Station crew members, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin enjoyed an ... more		Rare image of Super-Jupiter sheds light on planet formation An infrared imaging search with the Subaru telescope has captured a rare image of a "Super-Jupiter" around the massive star Kappa Andromedae (K And). The gas giant has a mass about 13 times that of ... more		Putin tells Xi China-Russia ties are at 'unprecedented level' Maduro says US warships with 1,200 missiles targeting Venezuela EU chief's plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming in Bulgaria		Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter' Astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae, which now holds the record for the most massive star kn ... more
				Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars New research by the University of Leicester and The Open University into evidence of water on Mars, sufficiently warm enough to support life, has been published this week in the journal Earth and Pl ... more		AVX Introduces SMD Tantalum Chip Capacitors For Aerospace Applications AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has developed two new high-reliability SMD tantalum chip capacitor series for use in European aerospace appl ... more

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Instrument Delivered for NASA's Upcoming Mars Mission A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for integration into NASA's Mars Atmosphere a ... more		Melt water on Mars could sustain life Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet's northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geologic history and comprise striking simil ... more		Cornell research tests solar panel crop growth in New York NASA Scientists Map Plant Productivity with Data from Ocean Satellite Redwire receives $2M NASA contract to advance biotech and orbital research on ISS		NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface. Researchers ... more
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