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January 27, 2012
STATION NEWS
Russia to postpone next manned space launches
Moscow (AFP) Jan 27, 2012
Russia is set to pospone the next two manned launches for the International Space Station (ISS) for several weeks due to technical problems with the Soyuz spaceship, an industry source told Interfax Friday. The source told Interfax that the Soyuz TMA-04M vessel had not withstood tests to its pressure chamber ahead of the planned mission on March 30 and the first flight would be postponed to mid-April or the first half of May. "This re-entry capsule now cannot be used for manned spaceflight," the ... read more

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MOON DAILY

Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues
Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas A and M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perh ... more
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MOON DAILY

Moon looms bright over Republican debate
Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Volunteers Sought for Simulated Mars Mission and Study of 'Menu Fatigue'
Astronauts on a mission to Mars will need much more than freeze-dried ice cream to sustain them, and researchers at Cornell are working to determine the best way to keep them well nourished during t ... more
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GPS NEWS

LED lights point shoppers in the right direction
Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio freq ... more
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EXO LIFE

The Lake Lander's New Home
The Planetary Lake Lander has been moored for the past week a short distance off the southern shore of Laguna Negra, near PLL Base Camp. Its proximity to camp enabled engineers to test its data-samp ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

MT Aerospace wins contract for operation and maintenance of launch facilities' mechanical systems
MT Aerospace again signed an important contract for comprehensive service solutions at the European Space Port: from 2012 until 2016, the Augsburg-based aerospace supplier - through its subsidiary M ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
US takes rivalry with China to the high seas
Trump again casts doubt on his commitment to NATO
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ROBO SPACE

Robot competition in zero-gravity
School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. St ... more
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GPS NEWS

Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellites Reach 150 Years of Combined On Orbit Service
The U.S. Air Force's fleet of Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR and IIR-M satellites has accumulated 150 collective years of successful on-orbit operations. The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: ... more
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GPS NEWS

ESA Director General praises UK space innovation
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Rt. Hon. David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has unveiled a commemorative plaque marking the inauguration of Surrey Satellite Technol ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Classifying Solar Eruptions
Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more
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ROBO SPACE

JPL begins widespread adoption of Maplesoft technology
Maplesoft has announced a major adoption of its products by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). JPL is implementing Maple, MapleSim, and MapleNet in its various projects. Whether creating ... more
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TECH SPACE

First 'cloaking' of a 3D object announced
U.S. researchers say they have "cloaked" a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles for the first time. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia Orbits Chibis Microsatellite
Russia's Chibis (Peewit) microsatellite, which studies gamma-radiation generated by lightning in the atmosphere, was put into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). It separated fro ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle Discovery to make one last flight
The space shuttle Discovery will take to air one last time during its voyage to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, officials said. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler confirms 26 new planets
The US space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian cargo vessel takes off for space station
The Russian cargo ship Progress M-14M was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday, bringing water and fuel to the International Space Station, the mission control centre said. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Life discovered on dead hydrothermal vents
Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on. Or rather, it is replaced. A team led ... more
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SPACEMART

ISRO has gone to dogs, says Madhavan Nair
Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair Wednesday described as "improper" the move to blacklist four scientists, including him, from a government job and said the spa ... more
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SPACEMART

ISRO: A great institution's fall from grace
From humble beginnings of ferrying rocket parts on a bicycle to launching satellites of other countries and landing a craft on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has occupied a ... more
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EXO LIFE

Scientists discover new clue to the chemical origins of life
Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life. A team led by Dr ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom
Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system insi ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Proton-M, Dutch Satellite Taken to Launch Pad
The Proton-M carrier rocket with the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) satellite was installed on a launch pad at the Baikonur space center, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. The launch ... more
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NASA Debunks Life on Venus Claim
NASA has dismissed the sensational claim by a Russian scientist that there is life on Venus, saying that the "disc" seen moving on the surface was in fact a lens cap. Earlier this month an art ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian Space Freighter to be Buried in Pacific
The Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in a remote area in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday after deploying a micro-satellite, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. The spa ... more
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SPACEMART

Nair blames ISRO
Lashing out at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) order to debar him and three other senior scientists from holding any post-retirement government jobs for their alleged involvement in the controvers ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini's radar observes Titan's tropical dune fields
Sand dunes are common on Earth, Mars, Venus and - unexpectedly - on Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Now detailed analysis of radar observations gathered during the Cassini spacecraft's flybys of cloud-s ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity discovered a mineral vein telling of a warmer, wetter and potentially more conducive to life past for the seemingly cold, dry and desolate Red Planet. The mineral vein, ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions o ... more
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GPS NEWS

Opening of UK site producing the heart of Galileo
The first Galileo satellites are already in orbit, with more on the way. ESA's Director General and the UK's Universities and Science Minister have attended the grand opening of the facility where n ... more
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TECH SPACE

Fusion: X-ray laser zaps solid to 2 million degrees
The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer when scientists heated solid matter to two million degrees with the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a study reported Wednesday. ... more
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