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January 03, 2011
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China to explore Mars with Russia this year
Beijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2011
China's first Mars probe is expected to be launched in October this year in a joint operation with Russia after a two-year delay, state media reported Sunday. The probe, Yinghuo-1, was due to blast off in October 2009 with Russia's "Phobos Explorer" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan but the launch was postponed, the official Xinhua news agency said. Quoting an unnamed expert at the China Academy of Space Technology, the report said the blast-off had been pushed back to October this year ... read more

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SPACE SCOPES

Brazil To Join The European Southern Observatory
The Federative Republic of Brazil has yesterday signed the formal accession agreement paving the way for it to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Following government ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter
Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA finds more cracks on Discovery fuel tank
NASA said Thursday it has found four more small cracks on the metal supports of the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, as the shuttle and external tank undergo further X-ray testing before its final space mission next year. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Did Life Fall from the Skies? Lessons from Titan
In sci-fi movies, the first stirrings of life happen in a gooey pool of primordial ooze. But new research suggests the action started instead in the stormy skies above. The idea sprang from re ... more
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TECH SPACE

HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers
Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8
International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more
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SPACEMART

Mixed Bag For Indian Space Agency In 2010
It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2010 with the positive developments overshadowing two failed rocket missions. On the positive side the spac ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA's Terra Satellite Sees A Snow-Covered Ireland
The Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. are not the only areas dealing with holiday snowfall. Ireland was recently swathed in white on December 22, 2010. When NASA's Terra satellite passed over ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

SORCE's Solar Spectral Surprise
Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission - the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) - have made daily mea ... more
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SPACEMART

Officials Award Production Contract For Fourth Advanced Frequency Satellite
The Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate announced Dec. 17 the award of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion to Lockheed Martin Space ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility To Close After 26 Successful Years
The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, a unique collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory, will close on 31 December 2010 after 26 year ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Switching On The Freezer's Light
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EXO WORLDS

The Final Frontier
Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more
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MARSDAILY

Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars
The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Semisopochnoi Island
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GPS NEWS

Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector
Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more
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GPS NEWS

President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
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. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Orbiting junk seen as major space threat
Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Extension of space station support fails
The European Space Agency says it was unable to win approval of NASA's proposed five-year extension of operations of the International Space Station. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ariane 5's Sixth Launch Of 2010
This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash
President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system. ... more
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