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March 13, 2011
SPACEWAR
Delta rocket with secret payload launched
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Mar 11, 2011
A Delta IV rocket carrying a classified spacecraft was successfully launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37, officials said. The United Launch Alliance said the liftoff occurred at 6:38 p.m. EST Friday following a half-hour delay caused by unacceptable upper-level wind data from weather balloons, nasaspaceflight.com reported. The 21-story rocket carried a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite dubbed "Gryphon" and was the fourth NRO mission launched si ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice
There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice! The same applies to N ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shot US lawmaker expected at shuttle launch
US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is expected to attend next month's space shuttle launch commanded by her astronaut husband, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Complementary Technology Could Provide Solution To Our GPS Vulnerability
The GNSS Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 follows Tuesday's Royal Academy of Engineering report that set out the risks of GPS disruption from solar storms or illegal jamming an ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

First Release Of Calibrated LYRA Data From PROBA-2
The first calibrated measurements of solar irradiance made by the LYRA instrument on ESA's second PROBA (PRoject for On-Board Autonomy) satellite are now available to the scientific community. Futur ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Speed Demon Creates A Shock
Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the Autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or W ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Approach Earth Nov 8 2011
Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011. The upcoming close approach by this relatively large 400 meter-sized, C-type asteroid presents ... more
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MARSDAILY

Testing Mars Missions In Morocco
"This site is called Moon 2," says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, "I don't remember the re ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
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GPS NEWS

Coalition To Save Our GPS Launched
Representatives from a wide variety of industries and companies have announced that they have joined together to form the "Coalition to Save Our GPS" to resolve a serious threat to the Global Positi ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

The Future For Space Missions
A new report from the National Research Council recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries abo ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The Most Distant Mature Galaxy Cluster
Astronomers have used an armada of telescopes on the ground and in space, including the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and measure the distance to the most re ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Baby Stars Born To 'Napping' Parents
Cardiff University astronomers believe that a young star's long "napping" could trigger the formation of a second generation of smaller stars and planets orbiting around it. It has long been s ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Moon of Saturn a 'hot' research subject
Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, is a veritable heat factory, pumping out heat energy equivalent to 20 coal-fueled power stations, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs On Asteroid Apophis
On January 31 University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planetary Society Statement On Planetary Science Decadal Survey For 2013-2022
The Planetary Science Decadal Survey committee faced a nearly impossible task: to set priorities for NASA's robotic exploration within a tight budget. They did a great job in laying out a plan for s ... more
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IRON AND ICE

A New Dawn Coming To Vesta
Deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn continues thrusting with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is making excellent progress in reshaping its orbit around the sun to match that of its destination ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

InterSKY 4M Provides BLOS Comms For C4I Military Systems
Elbit Systems has announced the launch of its tactical broadband satellite communication (SATCOM) platform, InterSKY 4M. Designed specifically for government and military Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) ... more
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UAV NEWS

One Step Closer To Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two UAV
On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a major step toward demonstrating autonomous aerial refueling between two ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Stallion Renews Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES To Deliver Connectivity To Oil Rigs
SES WORLD SKIES has announced it has signed a three-year capacity agreement with Stallion Oilfield Services to enable mission-critical connectivity for hundreds of oil drilling sites throughout Amer ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Poised For Mercury Orbit Insertion
After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft--carrying seven science instrum ... more
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GPS NEWS

New Marine And Coastal Geospatial Data Available
Astrium GEO-Information Services has introduced new marine and coastal geospatial data that is now downloadable from its www.geostore.com store. The new data includes the Admiralty Raster Charts, an ... more
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GPS NEWS

MapMyFITNESS To Attend 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival
MapMyFITNESS has announced that it will attend and exhibit at the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival. The company aims to engage festival participants and demonstrate the ways that web and mobile techno ... more
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GPS NEWS

Garmin Announces The G1000H For Helicopters
Garmin International has announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data - flight instrument ... more
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GPS NEWS

New TomTom PRO 7150 Delivers Improved Efficiency For Businesses
TomTom has unveiled a new navigation device for the North American market designed for businesses to deliver clear bottom-line benefits. The PRO 7150 from TomTom Business Solutions, the business uni ... more
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MARSDAILY

Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark
NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Celebrating 400 Years Of Sunspot Observations
In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

OSI Geospatial to supply New Zealand navy
OSI Geospatial signed a $2 million contract with Siemens to provide an Integrated Bridge System for the New Zealand navy's frigate Platform System Upgrade Program. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager Seeks The Answer Blowin' In The Wind
In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting NAS ... more
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TECH SPACE

Australian firm to open Malaysian rare earths plant
An Australian mining company said Thursday it plans to finish building a huge rare earths processing plant in Malaysia late this year, in a possible challenge to China's stranglehold on the metals. ... more
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OPINION SPACE

TED Talks For Space Junkies
One need not hold an advanced degree in astrophysics to enjoy and appreciate the Universe's infinite beauty and often bizarre mysteries. All it takes is a healthy curiosity and a splash of imaginati ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Can Bhuvan Give Google Earth A Run For Its Money
Google Earth has competition at hand. Bhuvan, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) answer to the Google application, is snapping at its heels. However, Bhuvan, a satellite mapping tool and th ... more
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