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March 04, 2012
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA Conducts New Parachute Test for Orion
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2012
On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and ensure a safe re-entry and landing. An Air Force C-17 plane dropped a test version of Orion from an altitude of 25,000 feet above the U.S. ... read more

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STATION NEWS

A New Website Sharing ISS Benefits For Humanity
When the International Space Station was first imagined, the idea was to create an unprecedented research platform to support microgravity investigations for the benefit of all humankind. That goal ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Experiments going smoothly on Tiangong-1
Scientific and medical experiments being carried out onboard space lab module Tiangong-1 are seeing "good progress," according to a senior Chinese space technology expert. These experiments ar ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Logistics, recycling key to China's space station
China will have to test its docking, logistics and resource recycling technologies if it wants to establish a manned space station by 2020, a renowned Chinese scientist said Thursday. Qi Faren ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China prepares for manned space docking this year
A leading Chinese space engineer said here Thursday that China's first unmanned space module, the Tiangong-1, is now capable of accommodating astronauts, making it possible for China to carry out it ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Workers Remove Apollo-era Engines from Crawler at VAB
For more than 30 years, NASA's two Apollo-era crawler-transporters carried six space shuttles (Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour and Enterprise) atop mobile launcher platforms fro ... more
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SPACEMART

Space department denies information to ex-ISRO chief
The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair to know the basis on which the government deb ... more
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STATION NEWS

Harper Government renews commitment to ISS
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency, has announced Canada's intention to renew its commitment to the International Space Sta ... 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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LAUNCH PAD

Lockheed Martin Selects Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex To Support Future Athena Launches
Lockheed Martin has chosen Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC) as its dedicated West Coast launch facility for Athena rocket launches. The company's decision will enable Alaska Aerospace Corporatio ... more
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EXO LIFE

Acidic Europa May Eat Away at Chances for Life
The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be too acid to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers find. Europa, ... more
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TECH SPACE

LAMIS - A Green Chemistry Alternative for Remote-Controlled Laser Spectroscopy
At some point this year, after NASA's rover Curiosity has landed on Mars, a laser will fire a beam of infrared light at a rock or soil sample. This will "ablate" or vaporize a microgram-sized piece ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

No Sleep for Shenzhou 9 Mission to Tiangong 1
After enduring some confusing reportage by the Chinese media, the future of China's next astronaut mission is becoming a little clearer. It now seems certain that the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, ex ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Early Detection of Immune Changes Prevents Painful Shingles in Astronauts and Earth-Bound Patients
The physiological, emotional and psychological stress associated with spaceflight can result in decreased immunity that reactivates the virus that causes shingles, a disease punctuated by painful sk ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Space station on another planet suggested
An international space station could be built on another planet rather than in Earth orbit, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Laptop theft did not put space station in peril: NASA
A stolen US space agency laptop containing codes that control the International Space Station did not put the orbiting lab in peril, a NASA spokesman said on Friday. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GPM Microwave Imager Instrument for NASA and JAXA Mission Arrives at Goddard
The Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument has arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for integration into NASA's upcoming Earth science spacecra ... more
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Chinese Remote Sensing Constellation Expands for Global Market
BAE Systems selected to develop NOAA's next-generation space weather satellite
ESA Red Cross alliance advances crisis response
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Watching the planet breathe
Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth's plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters [1], researchers working at NASA's Jet Propulsi ... more
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SPACEMART

Ex-ISRO chief Madhavan Nair ready for a probe
"I have done no wrong. If an inquiry is ordered, I will come out clean. But the inquiry should be done by technical people and also those in the know of government procedures," Nair told reporters h ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants
Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic me ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

China's advanced remote sensing satellite operating soundly
China's first high-resolution remote sensing satellite ZY-1-02C has carried out orbit tests, and images delivered from it reach international levels, China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Ap ... more
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MARSDAILY

Slight Cleaning of Opportunity Mars Rover Solar Panels
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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EXO WORLDS

New model provides different take on planetary accretion
The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System's planets grew as small grains colliding chaotic ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Researchers say galaxy may swarm with 'nomad planets'
Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star. In fact, there may be 100,000 times more "nomad planets" in the Milky Way than stars, according ... more
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STATION NEWS

ATV-3 set to provide ESA's annual service to ISS
ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch on an Ariane 5 to the International Space Station on 9 March from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The co ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Orbit Adjusted for Docking
The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia's Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft ... more
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STATION NEWS

Andre On A PromISSe For Extended Space Station Mission
ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers will stay on the International Space Station for more than a month longer than originally planned. In addition to his normal routine he will spend some of the extra time ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace maintains its open dialog with the space insurance sector
Arianespace has a high-profile presence at this week's World Space Risk Forum in Dubai, where the company's activities include a half-day briefing for the space insurance sector's major players. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

The initial Ariane 5 for launch in 2012 completes its final assembly
Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 for the orbiting of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now complete following installation of its payload fairing - marking an important step as fin ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

MSU satellite surpasses goal; NASA taps MSU to queue up for another launch
The Montana State University satellite that rode into space on a NASA rocket has now gathered information longer than the historic U.S. satellite it was built to honor, says the director of MSU's Sp ... more
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Private rocket assembled for space launch
A private spaceship is close to heading to the International Space Station as SpaceX's Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket have been joined, the company says. ... more
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SwRI and XCOR agree to pioneering research test flight missions
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has reached an agreement with XCOR Aerospace, Inc. to conduct pioneering suborbital space missions with Institute payload specialist astronauts flying aboard one ... more
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