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June 11, 2012
DRAGON SPACE
Two Women For Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 11, 2012
After a long and convoluted saga, we are finally approaching the launch of China's next human spaceflight mission. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft is expected to lift off in mid-June, carrying three astronauts to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory. It's been a long wait. China's last human space mission was Shenzhou 7, which flew in 2008. The gap between flights is almost four years! The gap between missions has been lengthened by the fact that China's human spaceflight program has reached a new ... read more

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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou 9 Ready For Manned Mission To Tiangong-1
With the June 9 rollout of the Long March launch vehicle from its assembly building, Shenzhou 9 has taken a major step towards orbit. The Shenzhou launch campaign has settled into a routine where th ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Breaking the limits of classical physics
With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense - the ... more
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SPACEMART

Sea Launch Releases Preliminary Payload Telemetry Data on Intelsat 19
Sea Launch has released preliminary "Quick Look" payload unit (PLU) telemetry information to Intelsat S.A. and Space Systems Loral on June 8, 2012. The data covered the full mission profile from lif ... more
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SPACEMART

EpicNG Satellite Platform bring high performance enhancement to Intelsat birds
Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, has introduced the Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, a new series of satellites based upon a high performance, open architecture ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Tennessee takes big step towards nuclear fusion power
Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineers have made a giant step ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA
Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more
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MARSDAILY

Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum
Opportunity is investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2969 (May 31, 2012), the rover drove 36 feet (11 meters) to the northeas ... more
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Pentagon orders Russian cyber offensive 'stand down'
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German govt hopefuls planning billions for defence spending: report
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LAUNCH PAD

NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll. Kwa ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch manned spacecraft this month
China will launch a spacecraft this month to conduct its first manned space docking, state media said Saturday, the latest step in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test
NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1,150 seconds, breaking the previous re ... more
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MARSDAILY

Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the spacecraft detected unexpected characterist ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

How black holes change gear
Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat. When black holes attract ... more
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TECH SPACE

Study: Vacations are going digital
Packing smartphones, tablets and laptops is as much a part of vacations these days as remembering the sunscreen, a Michigan State University study found. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn
A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Dr. Kazuaki Ota (Kyoto Univ ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

US scientists host 'bake sale for NASA'
Could some really great cupcakes be enough to send Americans back to the Moon? ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These faint objects might be wildl ... more
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SPACEMART

Russia, EADS to Build Space Plant by 2015
Russia's Energia space rocket corporation and Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), will build a joint venture in Russia in about two years, E ... more
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TECH SPACE

Smooth moves: how space animates Hollywood
If you've been to see Wrath of the Titans, then you've watched it in action. A computer programmer is using software he developed to control spacecraft to help animators make more realistic computer ... more
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STATION NEWS

Strange Geometry - Yes, It's All About the Math
Moving liquids without gravity aboard the International Space Station can be tricky - if there's no "down" then water won't flow downhill. Capillary Flow Experiments-2, or CFE-2, a physical science ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Physicists close in on a rare particle-decay process
In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactiv ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Rogozin Talks Up New Spaceport Plan
State investment in the creation of a cosmodrome in the Amur Region is comparable in scale to the first Soviet long-term plan for the electrification of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on Mars
Traveling 300 million miles through deep space to reach the planet Mars is difficult; successfully landing there is even harder. The process of entering the Red Planet's atmosphere and slowing down ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

XCOR Appoints Space Expedition Corp As General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights
With the Tom Sachs space-themed art exhibit, "Space Program: Mars" as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace named Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as the new General Sales Agent (GSA) for the XCOR owned Lynx ... more
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Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA's Non-manned Missions?
Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA's space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million cut to planetary scien ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution
ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon
At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite. In September of 2010, two previously unknown ... more
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SPACEWAR

First SBIRS Satellite Exceeding Performance Expectations After One Year on Orbit
The first Lockheed Martin (LMT)-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite, launched on May 7, 2011, is exceeding performance expectations and is on schedule to achie ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

CU-Boulder students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space
University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five universit ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Origin of particle acceleration in cusps of Earth's magnetosphere uncovered
While flying through one of the cusps in Earth's magnetic field, the four spacecraft of ESA's Cluster mission have sampled the population of highly energetic particles that often fill these 'cavitie ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

James Webb Space Telescope's Mirrors Get 'Shrouded'
Earlier this year, NASA completed deep-freeze tests on the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors in a "shroud" at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The animation drapes high-resolution false color images over a 3-D model of the Vesta terrai ... more
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