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June 27, 2012
ROCKET SCIENCE
Through the atmosphere with sharp edges
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 27, 2012
After a 10-minute flight, the sharp-edged SHEFEX II spacecraft landed safely west of Spitsbergen. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center launched the seven-ton and roughly 13-metre-long rocket and its payload from the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway at 21:18 CEST on 22 June 2012. As it re-entered the atmosphere, SHEFEX withstood temperatures exceeding 2500 degrees Celsius and sent measurement data from more than 300 sensors to a ground station. "The SHEFEX II flight takes us one step further i ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Arianespace to launch DZZ-HR high-resolution observation satellite
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Jean Dauphin, Director Earth Observation Navigation and Science - Astrium France, announced that they have signed the launch service and solut ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX's Merlin 1D Engine Achieves Full Mission Duration Firing
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that its Merlin 1D engine has achieved a full mission duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust and specific impulse (Isp). The e ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Drives a Little
Opportunity has been exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. With Mars Odyssey still working to recover from their safe mode event, Ultra High Frequency (UHF) relay for ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury
MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full ME ... more
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VSAT NEWS

KVH Chooses Andesat as mini-VSAT Broadband Reseller in South America
KVH Industries has named Andesat a reseller for its mini-VSAT Broadband service and TracPhone V-series satellite communications systems. In addition to managing a mini-VSAT Broadband hub at their te ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Ehime University) has concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 (Figure 1) developed from a multiple merger among fo ... more
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STATION NEWS

Astrium awarded two ATV evolution studies from ESA
Astrium has been awarded two studies by the European Space Agency (ESA) to define how to evolve technologies used on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and the Columbus space laboratory for future ... more
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EXO LIFE

SETI on the SKA
It was a vision of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that was never meant to be. In 1971 NASA's Ames Research Center, under the direction of two of SETI's great heavyweights - Hewlett-Pac ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA tweaks flight path of Mars mission
NASA says a maneuver Tuesday adjusted the flight path of its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target on Mars. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Meteor metal among solar system's oldest
U.S. scientists say they've discovered a new primitive mineral in a meteorite that they believe to be among the oldest minerals formed in the solar system. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Is NASA's Voyager about to leave the Solar System?
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, appears to be on the verge of becoming the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and begin a new journey in outer space, experts say. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Google teaching computers to mimic human brain
Google on Tuesday said it was dabbling with getting computers to simulate the learning process of the human brain as one of the unusual projects for researchers in its X Lab. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's Hu praises astronauts for space advance
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday told the three astronauts aboard a space capsule they had pushed forward China's space programme, after they carried out the country's first manual docking. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Packing Up Tiangong
The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is drawing to a close. Soon, the astronauts will board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft that carried them to Tiangong 1 for the return to ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Chinese astronauts set to return
Chinese astronauts will return to Earth in several days after completing the major tasks, and measures have been taken to ensure a safe return, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said her ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to send foreign astronauts to space with its spacecraft someday
It is believed that China will be able to train foreign astronauts with its own space technology and send them to space by Shenzhou spacecraft someday, the spokeswoman of China's manned space progra ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's first female astronaut excells in performance: spokeswoman
Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman entering the space, had an excellent performance in past eight days, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. The 33-year-old veteran pilot adapte ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Arrangements for China's next space mission based on review of Shenzhou-9
The arrangements for the Shenzhou-10 mission will be decided after a full review of the Shenzhou-9 mission and status of orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, said a spokeswoman for China's manned space p ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China invests some 19 billion yuan in space docking missions
China has planned about 19 billion yuan (about 3 billion U.S. dollars) in budget for the country's space rendezvous and docking missions, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Chinese astronauts complete major tasks in first six days in space
Three Chinese astronauts have completed major tasks over the past six days inside the conjoint Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 space lab, before they succeeded in a manual docking on Sunday. Ch ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Staying stimulated in space
How are the astronauts' lives on their first day in the Tiangong-1? Will they feel bored? They have completed a lot of scheduled work and began to implement the same work and rest schedule as on the ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Experts respond to rumors about Shenzhou-9
The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has aroused many people's interests on the space flight. Of the various ideas on the Shenzhou-9, some are expectations and good wishes but some are rumors and misunderstand ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Vizada Extends Pharostar High-Speed VSAT Satellite Service
Vizada, the leading provider of global satellite-based mobility services recently acquired by Astrium, is launching a new addition to its Pharostar maritime VSAT portfolio. The latest innovati ... more
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EXO LIFE

The Origin of Life Challenge
In 2011, retired chemist and entrepreneur Harry Lonsdale announced his plans to fund research on how life originally formed. Of the 76 proposals submitted to his Origin of Life Challenge, Lonsdale a ... more
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MOON DAILY

ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission
In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away
An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europe, has observed a "submillimeter galaxy" located about 12. ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions
The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Houston, TX, on their recently awarded resea ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Looking into the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission
On 19 June 2012, the European Space Agency (ESA) formally adopted the largest collaboration of astronomers in the World, including scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ... more
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TECH SPACE

NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. The mission is one step c ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Space Launch System Core Stage Moves From Concept to Design
The nation's space exploration program is taking a critical step forward with a successful major technical review of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket that will take astron ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wa ... more
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