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November 19, 2010
SPACE TRAVEL
KLM Announces Suborbital Flight Relationship With Space Experience Curacao
Mojave CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2010
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced to the Netherlands press that they were embarking upon a new relationship with Space Experience Curacao (SXC). KLM will be supporting future suborbital flights through purchases, inclusion in their frequent flyer program, inclusion in future KLM vacation packages to Curacao, and other yet-to-be-named support. The flights will be made on the XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft. Last month SXC and XCOR Aerospace jointly announced the intent of SXC to lease a ... read more

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SPACEWAR

LockMart Submits Bid For Space Fence
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TIME AND SPACE

Pushing Black-Hole Mergers To The Extreme
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NASA cancels ISS spacewalk after 'spacesuit discomfort'
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MICROSAT BLITZ

NASA Nanosatellite Studies Life In Space
NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help answer astrobiologys fundamental questions about the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the u ... more
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SPACEMART

Russia Plans To Launch Nigerian Satellites In December
Russia is planning to launch two Nigerian satellites into orbit in December, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X earth monitoring satellites will be launched to ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Captures New 'Life' In Ancient Galaxy
Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are helping to show that ell ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Flooding In Pakistan
In early November 2010, the director general of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department warned that flood water could linger up to six more months in Pakistan. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The Enigma Of The Missing Stars In Space May Be Solved
New stars are born in the Universe around the clock - on the Milky Way, currently about ten per year. From the birth rate in the past, we can generally calculate how populated space should actually ... more
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MARSDAILY

Leicester Scientists Involved In Development Of New Breed Of Space Vehicle
Scientists and engineers at the internationally acclaimed Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead ... more
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GPS NEWS

New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS
Responding to the increasing need for developers of GNSS devices to be able to test GLONASS enabled systems, Racelogic have launched LabSat 2: a dual channel unit capable of recording, replaying, an ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

The International Space Weather Initiative
Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered
An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

NASA's Microsatellite FASTSAT Moves Toward Launch
NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, moves one step closer to launch on Friday, Nov. 19, at 7:24 p.m. CST, from the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2
NASA has just issued a travel advisory for spacecraft: Watch out for Comet Hartley 2, it is experiencing a significant winter snowstorm. Deep Impact photographed the unexpected tempest when it ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Administrator Bolden's Statement On International Space Summit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement after participating in today's Head of Space Agencies Summit in Washington: "This year, the International Academy of Astronauti ... more
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TECH SPACE

Development Of Meteosat Third Generation To Start
Marking a significant milestone for Europe's next fleet of meteorological satellites, ESA has given the go-ahead to Thales Alenia Space in France to start work on developing the Meteosat Third Gener ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Eruption At Mount Merapi
The primary danger during the eruption at Merapi Volcano has been pyroclastic flows. These avalanches of hot volcanic gases, ash, and rocks descend rapidly and violently, occasionally at speeds over ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Researchers Trap Antimatter Atoms
In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never been ... more
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MARSDAILY

IceBite Blog: Setting Up An IceBreaker
Since the arrival to the McMurdo station in the Antarctic two days ago, most of our time has been spent on assembling and testing our Mars prototype drill: the Icebreaker. Icebreaker was built to br ... more
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First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy

Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered

Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds

MARSDAILY
U.S. Army upgrades force tracking system

Development Of Meteosat Third Generation To Start

Sonar System Inspired By Dolphins

MARSDAILY
New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS

Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013

SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver

MARSDAILY
Two Telescopes For Tiangong

Chinese Female Taikonaut Identified

Tiangong Space Lab Spurs China Space PR Blitz

MARSDAILY
How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17

Purdue Unveils Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator

MARSDAILY
Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space

Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block

Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2

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LAUNCH PAD

Ball Aerospace's First Standard Interface Vehicle Set To Launch
The first Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. for the Space Development and Test Wing of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Syste ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

A Tale Of Two Cities
You would never confuse Seattle, Washington, with New York City. One is home to about 600,000 people, the other has a population of 8.2 million. One ardently protects the wild salmon thrashing ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Scientist Recognized For Work On Natural Resources Remote Sensing
NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior presented the William T. Pecora Award to Marvin E. Bauer of the University of Minnesota for his pioneering work in remote sensing of natural resources. B ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

TakeMeToSpace.com Launches Space Tourism
There is a new destination on the Internet for would be space travelers. TakeMeToSpace.com is the new place to keep up with the latest space tourism activity. The website provides daily indust ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Two Telescopes For Tiangong
In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, a small space laboratory. Later that year, China will perform its first docking test in space when the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docks with Tiangong 1. In ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space
Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed presence of particles collected from a small container aboard the ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block
The animation below shows the motion of Comet Ikeya-Murakami on Nov. 13, 2010, captured with a New Mexico-based telescope operated remotely by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The images w ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen In Starry Sea
A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos - ... more
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