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Mars Rover Opportunity Positioned at Candidate Site for WinterPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 31, 2011 Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity experienced anomalously high current in the right-front wheel on Sol 2808 (Dec. 17, 2011). Diagnostics on Sols 2810 and 2812 (Dec. 20 and 22, 2011) indicated a nominal wheel and drive actuator with the terrain being the indicated explanation for t ... read more |
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  China to launch Shenzhou-9, Shenzhou-10 spacecraft next year: spokesman China will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012, a spokesman for the China National Space A ... more | .. |
  Minister orders Russian space agency security blitz after blogger invasion Russia's space agency Roscosmos has been given until January to rectify security at its plants or face the consequences, after a reported penetration of its rocket plant in northern Moscow. A ... more | .. |
  Orbcomm and SpaceX Improve Launch Plans for OG2 Satellites Orbcomm Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today announced the launch schedule for Orbcomm's second generation (OG2) satellites. The updated plan includes launching the first OG2 ... more | .. |
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  Raytheon Awarded Airborne Radar Contracts at Year's End Worth $320 Million Raytheon Company has booked $320 million this month in new contract awards related to its active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar programs for domestic and international customers. Wi ... more | .. |
 China issues white paper on space exploration China on Thursday issued a white paper on the development of space industry since 2006 and the major tasks for the next five years. The white paper titled "China's Space Activities in 2011" wa ... more | .. |
  China to push forward human spaceflight projects in next five years: white paper China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight, according to a white paper titled "China's Space Acti ... more | .. |
  China to launch orbiters for lunar soft landing in next five years: white paper Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 China will launch orbiters for lunar soft landing, roving and surveying to implement the second stage of lunar exploration in next five years, a white paper said Thursday ... more |
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 China makes rapid progress, breakthroughs in space industry: white paper A white paper published on Thursday said that China has made innovative achievements and breakthroughs in major space projects, and space technology has been upgraded remarkably. The white pap ... more | .. |
  Chinese Satellite Navigation System Beidou Begin Test Services China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, on Tuesday as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West. Beidou, or Big Dipper, the ... more | .. |
 China's satellite navigation system will meet both civil and defense needs China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System is designed to meet diversified civilian needs, said National Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun Wednesday. "As is known to all, all int ... more | .. |
  Launching the Lake Lander at Laguna Negra A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more |
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  Gilat Awarded Internet Broadband Connectivity Contract in Colombia for Schools Gilat Satellite Networks has been awarded a new contract by the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MINTIC) to provide broadband Internet connectivity to over 1,600 s ... more | .. |
 China lays out five-year space plans China said Thursday cleaner fuel will power its next-generation rockets, which will launch heavy cargoes into space, bringing nearer plans to build a space station and put a man on the moon. ... more | .. |
  China to get 2012 view of Venus transit Parts of eastern and central China will see a complete transit of Venus in June, an event they'll have to wait 105 years to witness again, astronomers say. ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Completes 2012 With Soyuz Launch Partner Mission For Globalstar Arianespace wrapped up another busy - and historic - 12 months of commercial launch services today by orbiting six satellites for mobile voice and data services on the ninth flight of 2011 - during ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth
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  Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show, Jan. 4 The 2012 Quadrantids, a little-known meteor shower named after an extinct constellation, will present an excellent chance for hardy souls to start the year off with some late-night meteor watching. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Extends Its Commercial Space Portfolio Northrop Grumman has expanded its commercial space portfolio with Stratolaunch Systems' recent selection of Scaled Composites, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, to build the largest aircraft ever const ... more | .. |
  Ironing out the details of the Earth's core Identifying the composition of the earth's core is key to understanding how our planet formed and the current behavior of its interior. While it has been known for many years that iron is the main e ... more | .. |
 Journaling the Journey into Space They likely don't make a notation of the star date or call it a captain's log, but astronauts aboard the International Space Station, like many other voyagers, keep journals during their journeys. T ... more |
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 Russia, India to cooperate in production of satellite navigation equipment Russia and India intend to cooperate in the production of satellite navigation equipment and to provide services to civilian users of the Glonass system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian ... more | .. |
 Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. Named Gravity Recovery And Interior ... more | .. |
 Orbcomm Prepares For Launch Of Second AIS Satellite LuxSpace, an affiliate of OHB System AG, has confirmed that construction and testing of the LuxSpace VesselSat2 AIS satellite has been successfully completed. The spacecraft has been shipped t ... more | .. |
 China's homegrown navigation satellite network starts providing services China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System began providing initial positioning, navigation and timing operational services to China and its surrounding areas from Tuesday, a spokesman for ... more |
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 Powerful Pixels Help Map The Apollo Zone Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon: For NASA ... more | .. |
  WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some might say resembles a wreath. You might even think o ... more | .. |
 Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev ... more | .. |
  First J-2X Engine Rockets Through First Round of Testing The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.? It's NASA's first new human-rated rocket engine to be developed in 40 years. The J-2X engine - hi ... more |
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 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, call ... more | .. |
 Star images helping to save Vatican books Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky. The Library neede ... more | .. |
 A galaxy blooming with new stars The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ever ta ... more | .. |
 Arvidson To Be Participating Scientist on New Mars Rover NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, h ... more |
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