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August 09, 2010
STATION NEWS
Next Spacewalk No Earlier Than Wednesday
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 09, 2010
The next spacewalk to complete the removal of a failed ammonia pump module and installation and activation of a new pump module on the International Space Station's S1 Truss will take place no earlier than Wednesday. Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson completed the first spacewalk to remove and replace the pump module at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday. As the result of an ammonia leak in the final line that needed to be disconnected from the failed pump module, the day's ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

Senate passes its version of NASA budget
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GPS NEWS

US appeals court nixes GPS tracking without warrant
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MOON DAILY

Mimicking The Moon's Surface In The Basement
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Activity From August First CME Subsides
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.

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SPACEMART

Inmarsat Invests Over One Billion Dollars In Ka-band Network
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DEEP IMPACT

How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year
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SPACE TRAVEL

Training Astronauts For Space - Under Water
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STATION NEWS

Third spacewalk needed to fix station cooling system: NASA
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites help measure Earth's water
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ROBO SPACE

U.S. robot teams set for Aussie face-off
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Instrument Tracks Pollution From Russian Fires
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SPACEMART

Boeing Receives 3-Satellite Contract From Inmarsat
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Performs Science And Rolls To Endeavour Crater
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EXO LIFE
Looking For The Coolest Forms Of Life On Earth
London, UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2010
Two UK scientists are travelling to one of the coldest places on Earth to help them understand how life could exist on other planets in our Solar System. Professor Liane Benning (University of Leeds) and Dr. Dominique Tobler (University of Glasgow) are travelling to Ny-Alesund on the island of Svalbard to investigate how the snow and ice there was first colonized by extremophiles - organis ... more

MOON DAILY
NASA Seeks Data From Innovative Lunar Demonstrations
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2010
NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through demonstrations of small robotic landers. The purpose is to inform the development of future human and robotic lander vehicles. The Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) BAA will result in multiple small firm-fixed price indefinite ... more

MARSDAILY
Spirit In Sweep And Beep Mode
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2010
Spirit remains silent at her location called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate. No communication has been received from the rover since Sol 2210 (March 22, 2010). It is likely that Spirit has experienced a low-power fault and has turned off all sub-systems, including communication and gone into a deep sleep, trying to recharge her batteries. There is the additional risk that the rover ... more

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SPACE SCOPES

Taking The Twinkle Out Of The Night Sky

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A Galactic Spectacle


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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Planets In Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star

Detector Technology Could Help NASA Find Earth-Like Exoplanets

NASA Finds Super-Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Google phones unseat BlackBerry as top sellers in US

Acoustic Tests On New Glonass-K Satellite Completed

China Leads In Outer Space Pollution

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
US appeals court nixes GPS tracking without warrant

adidas Turns Your Smartphone Into A Personal Coach

Russia To Launch 3 Glonass Satellites In September

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
China Contributes To Space-Based Information Access A Lot

China Sends Research Satellite Into Space

China eyes Argentina for space antenna

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year

Planets Align For The Perseid Meteor Shower

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Might Collide With The Earth In 2182

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
WISE Discovers Over 90 Near-Earth Objects

'Sample return' space missions examined

Fascinating Images From A New World

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ROBO SPACE
Robot Climbs Walls
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 06, 2010
Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ("rocker") scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds - the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees. "While this robot eventually can be used for inspection, maintenance and surveillance, probably the greatest short-term potential is as a teaching tool or as a really cool toy," says robot developer ... read more

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
NASA Seeks Data From Innovative Lunar Demonstrations

Mimicking The Moon's Surface In The Basement

Russia To Launch Moon Probe In 2012

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Spirit In Sweep And Beep Mode

Opportunity Performs Science And Rolls To Endeavour Crater

Hundreds Of New Views From Telescope Orbiting Mars

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Training Astronauts For Space - Under Water

Senate passes its version of NASA budget

This Month In Exploration - August

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
US Senate panel votes to extend space shuttle program

Last Shuttle External Tank Rollout At Michoud

United Space Alliance To Slash Workforce As Shuttle Ends

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Next Spacewalk No Earlier Than Wednesday

Third spacewalk needed to fix station cooling system: NASA

US astronauts begin key ISS repair spacewalk

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