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June 28, 2011
SPACEWAR
Taming the Heavens: The New Space Diplomacy
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 28, 2011
In February, the government of the United States issued its first-ever National Security Space Strategy (NSSS), a document jointly produced by the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The timing of the release was interesting, coming three months after the Council of the European Union released a draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities. Skeptics in Washington suspected that the NSSS was a negotiating document released in response to the EU effort, ... read more

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GPS NEWS

US Supreme Court to hear warrantless GPS case
The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether police can attach a GPS tracking device to a suspect's vehicle without obtaining a search warrant. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Improving Slumber on the Space Station With Sleep-Long
It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home. Just imagine if you were approximately 210 miles from home and free floating in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, l ... more
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TECH SPACE

Scientists a step closer to understanding 'natural antifreeze' molecules
Scientists have made an important step forward in their understanding of cryoprotectants - compounds that act as natural 'antifreeze' to protect drugs, food and tissues stored at subzero temperature ... more
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EXO LIFE

Breathing Through the Eyes
Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us - and all the other animals on the planet - beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains ... more
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TECH SPACE

Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication
Imagine a machine that can build a part or a tool as the need arises, whether on Earth, Mars or the International Space Station. Almost 10 years ago, engineers at NASA's Langley Research Cente ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Moon Geyser Finding Significant, UCF Scientist Says
A team of international astronomers this week reported that a salt-water reservoir is the likely source of geyser plumes observed on Enceladus - one of Saturn's moons. Joshua Colwell, a Univer ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Parallel Ariane 5 launch campaigns keep up Arianespace's 2011 mission pace
Preparations for the next two Ariane 5 flights are underway at the Spaceport, once again demonstrating Arianespace's flexibility in meeting customer timing for the orbiting of their telecommunicatio ... 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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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Will Compete Space Launch System (SLS) Boosters
It should come as no surprise that NASA has selected a "shuttle-derived" vehicle with two existing LOX/LH2 stages as its reference design for the new heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) ordered by ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

The 'Eyes, Ears and Hands' of the Shuttle Test Team
When space shuttle astronauts are living and working in Earth orbit, their mission - and, ultimately, their lives - depend on all the shuttle orbiter's systems and controls working exactly as expect ... more
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GPS NEWS

House Committee Acts to Halt LightSquared Proposal Until GPS Interference Issues Resolved
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has approved action that would "fence" or halt the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from expending any funds related to a conditiona ... more
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ROBO SPACE

NASA and NSF Collaborate to Develop Advanced Robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with NASA and two other federal agencies to support the administration's National Robotics Initiative. The initiative complements the adminis ... more
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SPACEMART

OHB AG acquires Space Systems Division from Swedish Space Corporation
The European space and technology group OHB AG has acquired the Space Systems Division from Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) via an asset deal and integrated this business within the newly incorporat ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Astronomers Reach For The Stars To Discover New Cancer Therapy
Astronomers' research on celestial bodies may have an impact on the human body. Ohio State University astronomers are working with medical physicists and radiation oncologists to develop a potential ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Sierra Nevada Space Systems Completes Milestones For Commercial Crew Program
Sierra Nevada Space Systems (SNC) has announced completion of two significant milestones as part of the Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program. SNC is building the Dream Chaser, a Spac ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno Blanket Check
As the Juno spacecraft is elevated by a rotation fixture, a technician at Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., examines the installation of blankets on the aft deck. The imag ... more
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system
Two papers in this week's issue of Science report the first oxygen and nitrogen isotopic measurements of the Sun, demonstrating that they are very different from the same elements on Earth. These re ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Getting Closer to Endeavour Crater
Opportunity is making excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with only 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) to go before reaching the first landfall on the rim, a place called "Spirit Point." The r ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

You Can Hunt for Icy Worlds
A team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has developed a new website, IceHunters, to challenge the public to discover Kuiper Belt objects in the outer solar system. It is hoped that among ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ariane 5 payload integration underway; First Soyuz launchers arrive
Both satellite passengers for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011 are well advanced in their integration phase as preparations move forward for the July 1 launch from French Guiana. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Tasting the Ocean Spray of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more
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SPACEMART

Space research gives birth to new ultrasound tools for health care
The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound. Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute ... more
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CONSTELLATIONS

MT Aerospace to supply 81 propellant tanks for Iridium NEXT Satellite Program
MT Aerospace Satellite Products has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space for the manufacture of 81 propellant tanks for the Iridium NEXT satellite program. The Wolverhampton/England-based ... more
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GPS NEWS

Study Shows Interference with GPS Poses Major Threat to U.S. Economy
More than 3.3 million U.S. jobs in agriculture and industries rely heavily on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and the disruption of interference with GPS posed by LightSquared's planned d ... more
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
Hybrid excitons speed ultrafast energy transfer at 2D organic interface
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MARSDAILY

NASA Mars Rover Arrives in Florida After Cross-Country Flight
NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. The Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, arrived la ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

How to Keep Lonely Exoplanets Snug - Just Add Dark Matter!
Dark matter is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when considering how life can be supported on another planet, but to Dan Hooper and Jason Steffen of the Fermilab Center for Particle As ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to ca ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery
Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon ne ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

SOFIA Successfully Observes Challenging Pluto Occultation
On June 23, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star. This event, known as an "occultation," allowed sc ... more
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CONSTELLATIONS

DeLorme Unveils Plans for Personal Communicator with Global Satellite Coverage
DeLorme has announced the Fall 2011 release of the DeLorme inReach, the first Iridium-based personal communicator to deliver truly global two-way satellite text messaging; delivery confirmations; SO ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Europe to build space re-entry vehicle
The European Space Agency says it is going ahead with its re-entry vehicle demonstrator, known as the IXV, which it expects to launch in 2013. ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

UA Awarded Millions to Shape Solar Telescope Mirror
When finished, the 4.2-meter mirror will be the largest telescope mirror ever pointed at the sun. Polished into a highly complex, asymmetric shape, it will be the centerpiece of the Advanced Technol ... more
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