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May 26, 2011
SPACE SCOPES
NASA's WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2011
An assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. The nine galaxies are a taste of what's to come. The mission plans to release similar images for the 1,000 largest galaxies that appear in our sky, and possibly more. "Galaxies come in all sorts of delicious flavors," said Tom Jarrett, a WISE team member at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, who studies our Milky Way's nei ... read more

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MARSDAILY

NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars
NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opport ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Formed Rapidly into Runt of Planetary Litter
Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to a new study published in the May 26 issue of the journal Natur ... more
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MOON DAILY

President Kennedy's Speech and America's Next Moonshot Moment
NASA is once again charting a new course to extend humanity's presence into the solar system, developing a new heavy lift rocket and crew capsule to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Thi ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016
NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spe ... more
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MERCURY RISING

Altimetry Is Defining Mercury's Shape
MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) in its first 2 months of operation has already built up a grid of ground tracks that span most of Mercury's surface north of the equator. These data will pr ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

How to Learn a Star's True Age
For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
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TECH SPACE

AsiaSat Announces Expansion of the Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong
Asia Satellite Telecommunications(AsiaSat) has announced the major expansion of its Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong. The project consists of a 900 square metre addition for equipment and a 6 ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

ASTRA 1N delivered to French Guiana
The initial passenger for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 dual-payload launch is now in French Guiana following a trans-Atlantic delivery flight as preparations continue for this fourth heavy-lift missi ... more
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TECH SPACE

Success of GSAT-8 and Future of India's Space Programme
India's advanced communication geostationary satellite, GSAT-8, was successfully launched on May 21, 2011. The satellite was put in orbit from French Guiana by the Ariane-V launch vehicle. Indian Sp ... more
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STATION NEWS

Spacewalkers Outfit Station
The International Space Station's Canadarm2 is closer to having a new base of operation, giving it access to much of the orbiting laboratory's Russian segment. Endeavour Mission Specialists Drew Feu ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Monash student finds Universe's missing mass
A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe's 'missing mass'. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team a ... more
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GPS NEWS

EU to launch Galileo satellites this fall
Backed by Russia, the Europeans will launch two of their Galileo global positioning satellites into space in October, the European Commission said this week. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA to sample an asteroid with new space mission
The US space agency on Wednesday announced plans to send the first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more
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STATION NEWS

US astronaut grapples with 'tears in space'
A US astronaut Drew Feustel learned a valuable lesson about being teary-eyed on a spacewalk, NASA said Wednesday after the Endeavour crew's third jaunt outside the International Space Station. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Sibling rivalry: Why Mars became a planetary runt
Scientists on Wednesday said they believed they could explain why Mars is so much smaller than Earth, its companion in the Solar System's innermost "rocky" planets. ... more
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TECH SPACE

'Self-healing' coating piques U.S interest
U.S. and Swiss scientists say they have developed a polymer-based coating that can heal itself when placed under ultraviolet light for less than a minute. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

U.K. spaceplane passes technical review
A proposed British space plane that would function as a rocket but operate from runways like an airliner has passed an important technical review, experts said. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Astronauts test new exercises on space walk
Two astronauts floated out of the International Space Station on Wednesday after trying out new exercises aimed at preventing decompression sickness while conserving oxygen, NASA said. ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Expanded VLA flexing new scientific muscle
A new and uniquely powerful tool for cutting-edge science is emerging on the crisp, high desert of western New Mexico. Outwardly, it looks much the same as the famed Very Large Array (VLA), a radio ... more
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TECH SPACE

Orbit of GSAT-8 Satellite Raised Further
In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 12:22 hrs IST (May 23, 2011), the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GSAT-8 was fired for 35.8 minutes by commanding the satellite from ISRO's Mast ... more
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STATION NEWS

Spacewalkers Prepare for Third Excursion
STS-134 Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will conduct the third spacewalk of the mission Wednesday. They will be trying a new pre-breathe protocol designed to replace the overnight c ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation System
NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that the system will be based on d ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Nearby Supernova Factory Ramps Up
A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better un ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report
During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. A crane lift of the har ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Welcome home, Paolo!
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GMES Masters seeks innovative uses for Earth observation data
Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Zeil joined with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain in launching the GMES Masters competition, seeking out innovative commercial uses of Earth obs ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GOES-13 Satellite Video Close-Up of Deadly Joplin, Missouri Tornado
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 provides forecasters with continuous visible and infrared imagery of weather systems across the U.S. and a new movie from the NAS ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To Rest
NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesda ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Thermal Vac Testing
The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with th ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

New deep space vehicle to be based on Orion: NASA
NASA said Tuesday that a new spacecraft to ferry humans into deep space will be based on designs for the Orion crew exploration vehicle and built by Lockheed Martin. ... more
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