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December 29, 2010
SOLAR SCIENCE
Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2010
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and tempest. But two centuries of observing sunspots - dark, relatively cool marks on the solar face linked to mighty magnetic forces - have revealed that our star follows a roughly 11-ye ... read more

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RUSSIAN SPACE

Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite launch failure
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OPINION SPACE

ISRO Cannot Afford Failures
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace Flight 199: Launch Postponed 24 Hours
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EXO LIFE

Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon
The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia's leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astrobiology Top 10: Viking Results Revisited
Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of l ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Hole Punch Clouds Over West Virginia
Looking up on a chilly December morning in 2009, residents of rural West Virginia (southwest of Charleston) would have seen a halo of light bursting through the thin bank of clouds that hung overhea ... more
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GPS NEWS

Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit
ESA's GIOVE-A satellite - the first prototype of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - is still working well after five years in space. The first 'Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element' ... more
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IRON AND ICE

SOHO Spots 2000th Comet
As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (S ... more
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SPACEMART

Failed rocket launch threatens India's space ambitions
The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country's efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned Sunday. ... more
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SPACEMART

GSLV Failures Fuel Disappointment And Anxiety
While disappointment haunts the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about the two successive failures of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) missions, there is fear whether the ... more
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SPACEMART

India Plans To Launch 30 Satellites In Next Decade
India is mulling to launch at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next one decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said. "We expect not less than 30 satellites," Di ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore
An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

When the Black Hole Was Born
Most galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, harbor super-massive black holes varying in mass from about one million to about 10 billion times the size of our sun. To find them, ... more
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ROBO SPACE

S.Korea schools get robot English teachers
Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more
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TECH SPACE

TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure
The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot built to walk like senior citizens
Robots have been made to run, jump and even dance, but they might be more useful if they could walk like a senior citizen, Japanese researchers say. ... more
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SPACEWAR

Iran to launch 'reconnaissance' satellite
Iran will launch a reconnaissance satellite dubbed the "Fajr" in the next few months, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in a report Saturday by the official IRNA news agency. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views Of Rhea
Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, rev ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England
Snows are finally winding down in New England as a powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured a ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed

Citizen Scientists Join Search For Earth-Like Planets

Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World

EARTH OBSERVATION
TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure

U.S. Navy launches first EMAL plane

Thales-led group wins German radar deal

EARTH OBSERVATION
Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit

Launch Of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed To Next Year

Galileo's Navigation Control Hub Opens In Fucino

EARTH OBSERVATION
China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected

EARTH OBSERVATION
Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show

EARTH OBSERVATION
SOHO Spots 2000th Comet

Asteroid's Coat Of Many Colors

NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment Of Meteorites

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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Studying A Football-Field Size Crater
On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and s ... more
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SPACEMART

Outer Space Issues 2011 - Upcoming Trends Forecast
There are outstanding issues in the coming year that deserve increased attention in terms of global outer space activities - from tackling the growing problem of orbital space debris, enhancing Eart ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA Railroad Keeps Shuttle's Boosters on Right Track
For nearly three decades, the NASA Railroad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has kept the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters on track. The mighty boosters fly in pairs and generate a comb ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Contract Marks New Generation for Deep Space Network
NASA has taken the next step toward a new generation of Deep Space Network antennas. A $40.7 million contract with General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, San Jose, Calif., covers implementation of tw ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

J-2X Turbomachinery Complete
NASA and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne have successfully completed the heart of the J-2X upper stage rocket engine - the turbomachinery assemblies - for the first development engine off the productio ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser
A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

New Technology: Hybrid Ion Rocket Engine
The greatest advancement to jet aviation since the first Heinkel He178 V1 took off was, of course, the afterburner. The greatest thing that could happen to the scientific community would be if it wa ... more
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MARSDAILY

IceBite Blog: Trek to University Valley
Preparing for University Valley By Margarita Marinova: We have spent the past week getting all of our equipment ready: sleeping bags, personal tents, work tents, food, drilling equipment, weather st ... more
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