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Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Rich Vein Of Gypsum Water DepositsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2011 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars. "This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for Opportunity. "This stuff is a fairly pure chemical deposit that formed in place right where we see it. That can' ... read more |
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  Lockheed Martin Selected USAF for Reusable Booster System Flight Demonstrator Program Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is ... more | .. |
 New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images An improved tool has been introduced for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives USAF Reusable Booster System Contract Boeing has received a $2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to define requirements and design concepts for the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experi ... more | .. |
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  Philatelic Cover Reveals the secret names of second Taikonaut team "The names of the seven military pilots selected in 2010 to form China's second group of taikonauts, which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months, appear to have been released to ... more | .. |
 Soyuz' second mission from French Guiana is readied at the Spaceport One of four mission campaigns currently underway for Arianespace is entering its final phase with the payload integration and completion of basic build-up for the Soyuz that will perform this medium ... more | .. |
 NASA Ready to Test Upgraded J-2X Powerpack For engineers working on the J-2X engine program, installation of the upgraded J-2X powerpack on the A-1 Test Stand on Dec. 5 had to feel like a long-awaited holiday gift. The powerpack consis ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Spent Holiday at 'Turkey Haven' Opportunity spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a location called "Turkey Haven," on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This particular location provided favorable northe ... more |
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Maxar Space Systems Secures Contract for New High-Power Communications Satellite
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 On the record with Arianespace Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and members of the company's management team are in Washington, DC this week for their traditional year-end visit and holiday event. While in the US na ... more | .. |
  Much Ado about Space Debris In recent days there has been a hutesium et clamor, otherwise known as a hue and cry, for a cleanup of space debris. The demand to remove all that space trash is admirable. The human race has been c ... more | .. |
  China to launch communications satellite for Turkmenistan China will launch a communications satellite for Turkmenistan with its Long March-3B carrier rocket in 2014, the Chinese launch contractor said on Tuesday. The satellite will be Turkmenistan's ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Marks Five Years of Mission Success With 56 Launches in 60 Months United Launch Alliance was formed just five years ago, bringing together the world's two most experienced launch teams and two highly reliable launch systems, Atlas and Delta. ULA's unparalleled rec ... more |
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  Ball Aerospace Delivers Orion Phased Array Antenna EDUs Ball Aerospace and Technologies has delivered two Phased Array Antenna (PAA) Engineering Development Units (EDUs) for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. ... more | .. |
  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more | .. |
  Record Massive Black Holes in Monster Galaxies University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date - two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion Suns that are threatening to consume anything, eve ... more | .. |
 SAM I Am The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument ... more |
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Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
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 Astrium takes a major step forward in the development of Ariane 5 ME Astrium, the European space industry leader, has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher ... more | .. |
 Leicester set to fly high in India's first-ever national astronomy mission Highly specialised equipment constructed at the University of Leicester for India's first national astronomy satellite- Astrosat - is to be handed over to a delegation from India in December. ... more | .. |
 SES Appoints New Commercial Head For Europe SES has announced the appointment of Ferenc Szelenyi as its new Senior Vice President Commercial Europe for SES. He succeeds Norbert Holzle in this function, who has decided to leave SES. Fere ... more | .. |
 New Exhibition and Website on the Evolving Universe The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die - sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow, and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, d ... more |
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  Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas An explosion far across the universe rattled astronomers last year on Christmas Day. Called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), it incited a flurry of activity from telescopes in space and on the ground, inclu ... more | .. |
  Giant Super-Earths Made Of Diamond Are Possible A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there. A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor "carbon super-Earths" - giant terrestrial planets ... more | .. |
 Orion Continues to Make a Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... more | .. |
 First J-2X Combustion Stability Test a Success NASA conducted a key stability test firing of the J-2X rocket engine Dec. 1, marking another step forward in development of the upper-stage engine that will carry humans farther into space than ever ... more |
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  FLEX-ible Insight Into Flame Behavior Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered. In space, where there is no u ... more | .. |
 Gaia sunshield deployment test Deployment testing of the Gaia Flight Model Deployable Sunshield Assembly has been successfully completed in preparation for the spacecraft mechanical test campaign. Gaia will perform micro-ar ... more | .. |
 Astronaut TJ Creamer Learns Space Station Science From the Ground Up He traveled 65,200,000 miles around the planet while living aboard the International Space Station for 161 days, but a new journey has led astronaut TJ Creamer to the Marshall Space Flight Center in ... more | .. |
  NASA vows $8.8 bln space telescope on track for 2018 After a series of delays and billions spent over budget, the potent James Webb Space Telescope is on track to launch in 2018 at a total project cost of $8.8 billion, NASA vowed on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Team of Astronomer's Finds 18 New Planets Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ... more | .. |
 Fregat upper stage and Pleiades 1 ready for next Soyuz Kourou launch The primary payload for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now undergoing fueling, while the upper stage that will orbit this Earth observation satellite and five co-passengers ... more | .. |
  Total Eclipse of the Moon Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of wes ... more | .. |
 Strange New Type of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Spac ... more |
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