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March 30, 2012
SOLAR SCIENCE
Solar Climate Change Could Cause Rougher Space Weather
Reading UK (SPX) Mar 30, 2012
Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand solar maximum is one of 24 during the last 9,300 years and suggest the high levels of solar magnetic field seen over the space age will reduce in future. This decline will cause a reduction in sunspot numbers and explosive solar events, but those events that do take place could be more damaging. Graduate s ... read more

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EARLY EARTH

Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent
A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

TWINS and IBEX observe impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere
For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged partic ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice
Field measurements in the spectacular blue ice region of Antarctica not only provide confidence in the accuracy of ESA's CryoSat mission, but have also shown that this part of the ice sheet has incr ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Sees Fields of Green Spring up in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil. Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This ... more
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MARSDAILY

Dusty, Acidic Glaciers Could Explain Layered Deposits on Mars
Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have puzzled ... more
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STATION NEWS

Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27
Russia's space agency Roscosmos says the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station will return to Earth April 27. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX names safety panel
Commercial space company SpaceX says an independent panel of former NASA astronauts and officials will oversee its efforts to develop safe human spaceflight. ... 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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Much faster than a speeding bullet, planets and stars escape the Milky Way
Idan Ginsburg, a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Physics and Astronomy, studies some of the fastest moving objects in the cosmos. When stars and their orbiting plants wander too close ... more
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MARSDAILY

Slight Drop Of Left-Front Wheel
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. Radio Doppler trackin ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Swiss pioneer motor aimed at slashing satellite launch costs
Swiss researchers said Thursday they have built a mini-motor which they claim could slash the costs of satellite launches by 10 times, ushering in "a new era of low-cost space exploration." ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Enceladus, Janus and Dione Rev 163 Raw Preview
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming ... more
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SPACEMART

Satellite And SES Continue On Their Growth Path In Europe
SES report that satellite has become the leading TV infrastructure in Europe, ahead of terrestrial and cable reception. Approximately 84 million European households have satellite (Direct-to-Home, D ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Space Network to Begin New Design Phase For Ground Segment
The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase B of its lifecycle, the Mission Defini ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic Refueling Mission: Fueling up in Space
Satellites are designed to withstand a variety of challenges to ensure that the sensitive electronics on board can survive the effects of launch and perform for years in the harsh conditions of spac ... more
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TECH SPACE

Astrium completes in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system
Astrium's teams have successfully completed the in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system, which launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana on 16 December 2011. In accepting de ... 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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SPACEMART

Russia Awards Astrium Two Satellite Contracts
Astrium has been awarded two contracts from the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) for the delivery of two telecommunication satellites Express AM4R and Express AM7. Astrium will ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ATREX Mission Launched from Wallops
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more
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MOON DAILY

Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more
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SPACEMART

UNL offers new degree in space, cyber and telecommunications law
Six people on board the International Space Station hopped into emergency escape pods early Saturday morning in case of a possible collision with a chunk of a wrecked Russian satellite, according to ... more
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MARSDAILY

'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future
One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Billions of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets Could be Orbiting Red Dwarf Stars
A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates ... more
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STATION NEWS

Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages
Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking with the International Space Station (IS ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure
Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced by the space industry for the last 10 y ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Russia plans to build nuclear space engine
Russian space officials say the country is dedicated to the successful building of a nuclear engine for spacecraft by 2017. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

N. Korea begins fuelling rocket: report
North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch that the West considers a missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, citing a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. ... more
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STATION NEWS

European cargo vessel docks with space station
An unmanned European craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday 2233 GMT, laden with tonnes of fuel, water, oxygen and other supplies, France's CNES space agency said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica
Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Happy Birthday Titan!
On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The close ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes
Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive - claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more ... more
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