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October 24, 2012
STATION NEWS
Russia launches three astronauts to ISS
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 23, 2012
A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station. Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA's Kevin Ford blasted off in a Soyuz TMA-06M space craft on schedule at 1051 GMT from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an AFP correspondent said. Russian state television showed live footage of the astronauts strapped into the cramped craft and reading instructions, with their mascot, a t ... read more

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MOON DAILY

European mission to search for moon water
A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Sonic boom rocks southwest England
Police in southwest England say they were inundated with calls after a sonic boom, believed to be caused by a meteor, rocked Devon and Cornwall counties. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Space daredevil Baumgartner is 'officially retired'
Felix Baumgartner, the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, says he is giving up being a daredevil but now aims to help others in trouble. ... more
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TECH SPACE

50-year-old computer restored in Britain
Two British computer enthusiasts say they have restored to working order a 50-year-old computer that once appeared as a prop in a James Bond movie. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Quasar May Be Embedded in Unusually Dusty Galaxy
Hubble astronomers have looked at one of the most distant and brightest quasars in the universe and are surprised by what they did not see: the underlying host galaxy of stars feeding the quasar. Th ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Monitoring Io's Insane Volcanic Activity from the Comfort of Earth
Watching active volcanic eruptions should definitely be done from a distance, but a group of California researchers has figured out how to do it from the comfort of home. Using an ingenious combinat ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole
NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
G7 threatens new sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles
US Senate declines to fast-track TikTok bill as Canada plans own review
Russia orders more firepower against Ukraine naval drones
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SPACE SCOPES

World's Most Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed
Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. For the past several years, a group of optical scientists and ... more
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GPS NEWS

GreenRoad Announces World's First Smartphone Fleet Driver Performance Management Service
GreenRoad has announced the world's first smartphone-based driver performance solution for fleets. Encompassing several key technological and engineering breakthroughs, GreenRoad Smartphone Edition, ... more
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GPS NEWS

Trimble Adds Boom Height Control to its Field-IQ Crop Input Control System
Trimble has introduced boom height control for self-propelled sprayers as the latest feature of its Field-IQ crop input control system. Farmers that use the Field-IQ solution with boom height contro ... more
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GPS NEWS

Runzheimer International Launches 2012 Total Employee Mobility Survey
Runzheimer International has opened its eighth annual Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking Survey to participants. The survey was developed by Runzheimer in 2005 to help organizations understand the ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A 84-million star color-magnitude diagram of the Milky Way bulge
Astronomy and Astrophysics published the first analysis of a catalog of 84 million individual stars in the Milky Way bulge as a part of the VVV ESO public survey. This gigantic data set allows build ... more
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GPS NEWS

New INRIX Traffic App for Android Provides Relief from Soaring Gas Prices
As gas prices soar to record levels nationwide, INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services, introduced a new INRIX Traffic app for Android that helps drivers ... more
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GPS NEWS

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to Develop Mobile Application for Parks
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is developing a free mobile application to be used in Pittsburgh's parks. Funding is being provided by UPMC Health Plan and the app will be designed by the Pittsburg ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Rapid changes in the Earth's core: The magnetic field and gravity from a satellite perspective
Annual to decadal changes in the earth's magnetic field in a region that stretches from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean have a close relationship with variations of gravity in this area. From this ... more
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UK plan to capture carbon ignited by contracts worth over 4bn pounds
Syria's Al-Hol camp: child inmates and false identities
NATO chief says climate change undermines global security
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LAUNCH PAD

Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian count ... more
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STATION NEWS

New ISS Crew Confirmed
The crew for the next mission to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday has been confirmed. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, as well as NASA astronaut Kevi ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

SwRI to build miniature solar observatory for manned suborbital flight
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received funding from NASA to build a miniature, portable solar observatory for developing and testing innovative instrumentation in suborbital flight. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers study two million light year 'extragalactic afterburner'
Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, except in this case ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Split-Personality Elliptical Galaxy Holds a Hidden Spiral
Most big galaxies fit into one of two camps: pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies and blobby elliptical galaxies. Spirals like the Milky Way are hip and happening places, with plenty of gas and dust to b ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Milky Way's black hole getting ready for snack
Get ready for a fascinating eating experience in the center of our galaxy. The event involves a black hole that may devour much of an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. A supercomp ... more
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MARSDAILY

Valles Marineris - the largest canyon in the Solar System
Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions - at over 21 kilometres in height, ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. The rove ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test
NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and launch ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Patience for Tiangong
We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably several months away from the next exped ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

S. Korea plans third rocket launch bid Friday
South Korea plans to make its third attempt to join the exclusive club of countries capable of placing a satellite in space on Friday with a rocket launch from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Surrey Satellite Technology US Secures Contract for Space GPS Receivers
Today Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC ("Surrey") announced a contract for the batch production of its industry-leading SGR-10 Space GPS Receiver. Surrey also announced the selection of Aeroflex's ... more
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GPS NEWS

DeLorme Releases XMap 8.0 with Enhanced GIS, GPS Connectivity and Data Collection Tools
DeLorme, the innovation leader in professional mapping and navigation technology, disconnected GIS solutions, and personal satellite messaging, has announced the release of a significant upgrade to ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers Uncover A Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution
A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion yea ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hubble Sees Galaxy in a spin
NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy around half the size of the Milky Way, which lies 25 million light-years distant. We are fortunate enough to see NGC 3344 face-on, allowing us to study its struc ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

TerraSAR-X images Bonneville salt flats
Clouds, darkness, rain - the radar 'vision' of TerraSAR-X is unaffected by these conditions. Dark and light areas contrast clearly in this image, acquired by the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches ... more
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