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February 27, 2012
EXO WORLDS
A Planetary Exo-splosion
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2012
Mankind's knowledge of planets, limited for most of human history to our own Earth and its solar system neighbors, has exploded in the last 20 years with the discovery of hundreds of exo-planets in the cosmos, a search with the ultimate goal of finding an Earthly twin that could harbor some form of life. For most of history the only planets (from the Greek for "wandering star") known were those visible to the naked eye as they moved - or "wandered" - against the background of stars. Wi ... read more

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

United Launch Alliance Atlas V Launches Mobile User Objective System-1 Mission
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) for the United States Navy lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 5:15 p.m. EST Friday. Th ... more
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GPS NEWS

NASA Pinning Down "Here" Better Than Ever
Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are. For that, they rely on a network of s ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Technology and creativity go "full spectrum" at TED
Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Rhea Before Titan
Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leadin ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Black Hole Came From A Shredded Galaxy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests ... more
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OZONE NEWS

Ozone Suite on Suomi NPP Continues More Than 30 Years of Ozone Data
A new satellite instrument suite is now sending back detailed information about the health of the Earth's ozone layer, the shield that protects the world's population from harmful levels of the sun' ... more
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SPACEMART

Malta signs ESA Space Cooperation Agreement
Malta signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA on 20 February 2012. The objective of this agreement is to allow Malta and ESA to create the framework for more-intensive cooperation in ESA projects in ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Macron proposes French nuclear extension, Ukraine troop deployment
China says to hike defence spending by 7.2% this year
Europe will struggle to plug Ukraine's US military aid gap: analysts
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SPACE SCOPES

NuSTAR's Mirrors Baked in Zhang's Glass Kitchen
It pays to persevere. No one knows this better than Will Zhang. For more than a decade, the astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., experimented with a new technique ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Humanoid Robot Exhibition Opens Drexel Engineers Week
Drexel's College of Engineering will kick off its National Engineers Week celebration with an unprecedented unveiling of seven adult-size humanoid robots as part of nationwide research collaboration ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Clyde Space wins UK Space Agency support for innovative space tech
Clyde Space has been awarded funding for two advanced space technology development projects. The projects are joint developments; the first with the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory at University ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Pulsars: The Universe's Gift to Physics
Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar ... more
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SPACEMART

Gilat Selected by JSC NURSAT to Deploy Broadband Satellite Communications Solution
Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it was selected by JSC NURSAT, one of Kazakhstan's national satellite service providers, to deploy a broadband satellite IP network based on Gilat's advanced S ... more
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VSAT NEWS

ORBIT and Milano Teleport Receive Orders for VSAT Solution Based on ORBIT's OrBand
ORBIT Communication Systems and Milano Teleport, the largest independent teleport in Italy, announced that they received new orders for a complete VSAT solution based on ORBIT's OrBand C-Band VSAT s ... more
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SPACEMART

Top Indian space scientist quits over blacklisting
A top Indian scientist said Saturday he had resigned from the nation's Space Commission to protest the government's blacklisting of four scientists over alleged irregularities in a satellite deal. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Extending the Habitable Zone for Red Dwarf Stars
Stars known as red dwarfs might have larger habitable zones friendly to 'life as we know it' than once thought, researchers say. Red dwarfs, also known as M stars, are dim compared to stars li ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Earth siblings can be different!
The study of the photospheric stellar abundances of the planet-host stars is the key to understanding how protoplanets form, as well as which protoplanetary clouds evolve planets and which do not. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

The Fireballs of February
In the middle of the night on February 13th, something disturbed the animal population of rural Portal, Georgia. Cows started mooing anxiously and local dogs howled at the sky. The cause of the comm ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

THEMIS Celebrates Five Years of Watching Aurora and Space Weather
People still talk about the launch. It was the first - and so far, only - time NASA has launched five satellites at one time. Carefully balanced inside a Delta II rocket, the five THEMIS (short for ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Aiming For An Open Window To Launch Into Space
Why does NASA sometimes schedule a rocket launch for the middle of the night, or aim for a liftoff time when weather is notoriously unlikely to cooperate? The simplicity of the question belies ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity For More Doppler Tracking And Imaging At Cape York
Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more
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TECH SPACE

GMV Announces Contract With Loral for THOR 7 Telecommunications Satellite
GMV, a private, multi-national firm based in Madrid, with North American headquarters in Rockville, Md., announces a contract with Loral (www.loral.com) to provide the flight dynamics system and the ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

UNH scientists launch NASA rocket into Aurora
With the full sky shimmering in green aurora, Saturday night (Feb. 18, 2012) a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from the University of New Hampshire's ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Star Cluster Surrounds Wayward Black Hole in Cannibal Galaxy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers beli ... more
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Fastest wind from stellar mass black hole discovered
The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a University of Michigan doctoral student. Using N ... more
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OPINION SPACE

The Future of Mankind - Space
The human race is a continuing race against time. If we do nothing to alter the effects of time on mankind, we will surely perish over the coming centuries. There are many reasons for this. Begin wi ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Rare Earth element found far, far away
Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium - byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating ... more
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SATURN DAILY

The Many Moods of Titan
A set of recent papers, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal new details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts with the seasons and even throughout t ... more
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MARSDAILY

Dusty Mars Rover's Self-Portrait
This self-portait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter. The dust reduces the rover's ... more
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EARLY EARTH

The Legacy of the Megaflood
Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled Scabla ... more
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CARBON WORLDS

NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been ... more
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TECH SPACE

Laser radar illuminates the way to deep space
This car was not snapped with a camera but scanned by a 3D imaging lidar, the laser equivalent of radar. ESA is developing the sensor as a navigation aid for exploring deep space. Lidar stands ... more
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