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March 14, 2012
TECH SPACE
Lockheed Martin Space Fence Radar Prototype Tracking Orbiting Objects
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Mar 14, 2012
A prototype of a new radar system developed by a Lockheed Martin-led team is now tracking orbiting space objects, bringing the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program one step closer to revolutionizing our nation's space situational awareness. Utilizing powerful, new ground-based radars, Space Fence will enhance the way the U.S. detects, tracks, measures and catalogs orbiting objects and space debris with improved accuracy, better timeliness and increased surveillance coverage. Lockheed Martin's prot ... read more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance
An international particle physics collaboration has announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they tra ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Earth's protective bubble hasn't burst
For the first time, the loss of atmospheric ions from Earth and Mars has been observed during the same solar wind stream. In a new study, data from ESA's Cluster and Mars Express spacecraft, which o ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Multi-Agency Satellite Begins Climate and Weather Studies
NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations. The satellite will provide scientists with c ... more
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GPS NEWS

Iris: watch how satcoms help pilots
ESA is set to unveil a new interactive display in Amsterdam demonstrating communications via satellite for pilots as part of its pioneering Iris air traffic management project. By 2020 Iris will all ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Latest Hot Fire Test on Launch Abort Engine for Boeing CST 100 Spacecraft Completed
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a full-mission duration hot-fire test on a Launch Abort Engine (LAE) for Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The CST-100 ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Maritime Satellite Communications Market Tops 1.4 Billion in Revenues
Euroconsult has forecast that the number of satellite communications terminals in the global maritime market will nearly double over the next decade, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog
A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one. That's because Venus, Earth and Mars orbit within a vast dust cloud produced b ... 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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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou-9 may take female astronaut to space
Authorities have completed the initial selection of crew members for China's first manned space docking mission, and the roster includes female astronauts, an official with the country's manned spac ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Villain in disguise: Jupiter's role in impacts on Earth
Whilst most famous for his catalog of 110 galaxies, nebulae, clusters and double stars, Charles Messier was a comet-hunter at heart. His catalog was simply a list of nuisances, faint fuzzies that lo ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch 100 satellites during 2011-15
China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015, according to a space official. According to Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager ... more
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GPS NEWS

Smartphones can help track diseases
Smartphones can improve disease surveillance in the developing world with more accurate, faster, cheaper gathering of disease information, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Europe's Arianespace inks new deals at US conference
European satellite launch operator Arianespace announced at a satellite expo in Washington Tuesday that it had signed two new contracts this week for launches in the coming years. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

China needs own space laws: Official
China needs its own law to protect its rights in outer space as well as regulate its domestic space activities, a top official has said. "China is among the very few countries that are active ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA exploring ways to clean up space debris
Faced with increasing threats of space debris, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is actively exploring ways to clean up the outer space. Donald Kessler, an astrophysi ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Space travel impacts eyes, brain
A study of astronauts' eyes and brains shows that they are affected after a long space stint. This includes flattening of the rear of the eyeball, bulging of the optic nerve and changes in the ... 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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MOON DAILY

Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report
Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. ... 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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SPACE MEDICINE

Eye problems common in astronauts: study
Brain and eye problems have surfaced in astronauts who spent more than a month in space, marking a potential setback to plans for longer deep space missions, a US study said Tuesday. ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Venus, Jupiter in night sky dance
An unusual opportunity to see two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, appear to be right next to each other in the night sky is peaking in the next two days, astronomers said. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Encounters of another kind: meteorite chunk falls on Oslo
A Norwegian family was flabbergasted to find that what appeared to be a piece of a meteorite had crashed through the roof of their allotment garden hut in the middle of Oslo, media reported Monday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Most experienced US spacewalker retires
A NASA astronaut who spent more hours walking in space than any other American and also set a record for the longest spaceflight mission has retired to join the private sector, the US space agency said Monday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

DARPA chief leaving for Google job
Google on Monday confirmed that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chief Regina Dugan is taking a yet-to-be-revealed role at the Internet powerhouse. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

SciTechTalk: Rembering a space 'Pioneer'
Space probes and planetary orbiters have become so commonplace, launch of a new one, whether into our solar system or beyond, hardly causes a ripple in the public consciousness. ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia space chief hospitalised with 'head injury'
The head of Russia's state space agency, which has suffered a series of recent setbacks, has been hospitalised with a head injury, reports said Sunday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Announces A New Contract For The ILS Proton Launch Of The Mexsat-1 Satellite
International Launch Services (ILS) announces a new contract for launch of the MEXSAT-1 satellite on an ILS Proton for the Mexican government's Ministry of Communications and Transportation, the Sec ... more
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SPACEMART

Global Satellite Industry denounces UNIDROIT Protocol
The European Satellite Operators' Association (ESOA), the US Satellite Industry Association (SIA), the Space Industry Association of Australia, the Canadian Satellite and Space Industry Forum, the C ... more
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TECH SPACE

Andrews Space Contracted to Deliver 100 Series Command and Data Handling System for GEO Application
Andrews Space (Andrews) has been contracted to deliver three integrated avionics suites based on its 100-Series avionics architecture for a Geosynchronous spacecraft application. The contract ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System
Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior of Unique Neutron Star
A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October 2010, a ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich - you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Experiment Observes Elusive Neutrino Transformation
An international team of physicists-including several from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-has detected and measured, for the first time, a transformation of one particular type of ... more
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