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December 24, 2011
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Russian satellite hits 'cosmonaut street' in Siberia
Moscow (AFP) Dec 24, 2011
A fragment of a Russian satellite that crashed into Siberia in the latest setback for Russia's space programme hit a residential house on a street named after cosmonauts, officials said Saturday. The Meridian communications satellite failed to reach orbit Friday due to a failure with its Soyuz rocket, raising new concerns over the Russian space programme which has now lost over half a dozen satellites in the last year. Its fragments crashed into the Novosibirsk region of central Siberia and were ... read more

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Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch
A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defence ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia's embattled space programme. ... more
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SPACEMART

Emirates 'close to French satellite buy'
French hopes of selling 60 Dassault Rafale fighters to the United Arab Emirates may be dimming but France is reported to be close to another major military contract: a surveillance satellite built by Astrium. ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia's space chief says industry in 'crisis' after latest failure
Russia's space industry needs an influx of new faces to overcome its current crisis, the head of the Roscosmos agency said on Friday, hours after a satellite crashed in southern Siberia. "The ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Mechanism Explains Why Universe Was Born with 3 Dimensions
According to Big Bang cosmology, the universe originated in an explosion from an invisibly tiny point. This theory is strongly supported by observation of the cosmic microwave background [2] and the ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers discover deep-fried planets
Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swel ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Images Titan and Dione Above Saturn
Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The no ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Shadow of the Dark Rift
One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy - or perhaps the gal ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
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Trump again casts doubt on his commitment to NATO
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Studies Vegetation Canopy Water Content, Soil Moisture
Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA Airborne ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

China launches high-resolution remote-sensing satellite
China successfully launched Ziyuan I-02C Thursday, a high-resolution remote-sensing satellite, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. Launched at 11:26 a.m aboar ... more
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TECH SPACE

Astrium and Vizada become a world leader in satellite communications services
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, completes the acquisition of Vizada after receiving the necessary regulatory approvals. Vizada is a leading independent provider of global satellite communic ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA's Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, that are the smallest yet detected, and the closest in size to Earth. In a paper ... more
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TECH SPACE

USAF Hosted Payload On SES Satellite Completes Initial On Orbit Tests
SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) reports that the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP), hosted on the SES-2 satellite launched in September, has successfully completed initial on-orbit test ... more
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VSAT NEWS

SES Partners With Rustyice Solutions For Satellite Broadband Services In The UK
SES has signed an agreement with the UK networks systems integrator Rustyice Solutions Ltd for the distribution of SES' satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect. The service will be marketed ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites can help to grow the perfect grape
A little water is needed to make wine, but how do you know when enough is enough? ESA's GrapeLook service can give you the answer. GrapeLook uses satellites to help decide how much to water vineyard ... more
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GPS NEWS

GMV tracks the first Galileo IOV Satellite
GMV has announced the tracking of both data and pilot channels of Galileo first satellite signal with its own line of GNSS receiver products. The first two Galileo satellites were launched fro ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves Cosmic Mystery
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TECH SPACE

"Space ball" drops on Namibia
A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy s ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Exo planets that survived red giant stage found
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Strangely slow pulsar discovered nestled in young supernova remnant
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STATION NEWS

NASA 'Smart SPHERES' Tested on ISS
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APPOINTMENTS

Stefan Gardefjord to lead SSC as new CEO
Stefan Gardefjord has been appointed as the new CEO of SSC by the Board of Directors. He succeeds Lars Persson who is moving on after serving five years as CEO. At fifty-three years of age, St ... more
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TECH SPACE

Belarus Strongman Vows Nation Will Build World's Best Spacecraft Ever
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the former Soviet republc would build the best spaceship the world has ever seen. Lukashenko, once famoulsy dubbed "Europe's last dictator ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Young star rebels against its parent cloud
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The 'supernova of a generation' shows its stuff
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation
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STATION NEWS

Russia sends multinational crew to ISS
Russia on Wednesday sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate
NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take th ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

A Brighter Future for Spaceflight
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Vega to fly ESA experimental reentry vehicle
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