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March 09, 2012
DRAGON SPACE
Three for Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 09, 2012
The closer we get to the launch of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, the more confused space observers have become. We should have a firmer picture of the whole mission by now, but there are still some big unanswered questions. Media reports on the mission have been garbled and contradictory. What is going on? This author believes that planning for this mission has been anything but straightforward. The overall pattern of reportage and disclosure is different from r ... read more

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EXO WORLDS

Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely Rare
Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation
Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own'
This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds
Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Debris disks consist of fields of planetesimals and dust encircling stars. A few hundr ... more
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MOON DAILY

Magnetic moon
In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Star Comb joins quest for Earth-like planets
If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it. Such a comb-a tool for precisely measuring frequenc ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

What Next for X-37B
On March 5, the X-37B robot spaceplane celebrated a birthday in orbit. This mysterious, semi-classified spacecraft is still up there, and it's not clear when it ... 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

Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five"
Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms
This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Impact of solar storm less than feared
A massive solar storm hitting Earth is having less impact on satellites, power grids and communications than some had feared, U.S. space weather experts say. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Humanoid robot will fight shipboard fires
U.S. scientists say they're developing a humanoid robot to fight fires aboard warships, moving autonomously to handle firefighting tasks usually done by humans. ... more
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TECH SPACE

'SimCity' game rebuilt for age of climate change
Climate change is coming to SimCity. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Court ruling forces FBI to deactivate GPS to track suspects
A recent US Supreme Court decision is hurting the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to monitor criminal suspects with global positioning satellites (GPS), according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. ... 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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TECH SPACE

Apple unveils new iPad, Apple TV box
Apple unveiled a third-generation iPad on Wednesday enhanced with features aimed at keeping it on top of the booming tablet computer market. ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action
An afternoon whirlwind on Mars lofts a twisting column of dust more than half a mile (800 meters) high in an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars ... more
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MARSDAILY

Working models for the gravitational field of Phobos
Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Despite decades of Martian exploration, we still know very little about Phobos. Many fundamental properties of this small potat ... more
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VENUSIAN HEAT

Space Weather: Explosions on Venus
In the grand scheme of the solar system, Venus and Earth are almost the same distance from the sun. Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times hotter than Earth and its days more t ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone
Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), in prepar ... more
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TECH SPACE

Dr. Strangelove and How I Learned to Love Space Debris
The whole issue of space debris smacks of Peter Sellers' character in Dr. Strangelove where one hand was trying to do the opposite of the other. This is much like the U.S. government's approac ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic Refueling Mission Begins With Space Station Robotics
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important mileston ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way
A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles ... more
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SPACEMART

New Report Expands on Vital Role of Aerospace and Defense Industry to U.S. Economy
A new report commissioned by AIA demonstrates the irreplaceable impact the aerospace and defense (A/D) industry has on America's economic and national security. Addressing the current economic crisi ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield
Workers recently began cutting and coating the first thermal protection system tiles - part of the heat shield that will protect an Orion spacecraft during an upcoming flight test which will simulat ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle
NASA models using data from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) have now provided more information about the two CMEs associated with t ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Enjoying massage of the future at the world's top IT fair
With all the frantic deal-making and head-spinning gadgets at the world's top IT fair, it is perhaps no surprise that a chair promising the benefit of two hours sleep in 20 minutes drew big queues. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Ground robot speed records raise hopes
Record ground speeds achieved by robots in recent tests by the U.S. Department of Defense raise hopes more robots will be put to military use in the years to come. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years
A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years, space weather experts said Wednesday. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot artist 'draws' crowds at world's top tech fair
A robot caricaturist that can draw an accurate likeness of its subject in just three minutes was wowing the crowds on Wednesday at the world's biggest IT fair, but not every customer was satisfied. ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Plays Role in Vaccine Development
Have you ever been afflicted with a case of food poisoning so awful it made you stop to wonder why no one's found a cure or sure-fire preventative for it yet? And chances are you or someone you know ... more
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