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July 07, 2011
SHUTTLE NEWS
Gloomy weather could delay Friday shuttle launch
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 6, 2011
Stormy weather could postpone the last-ever flight of the US shuttle program by delaying Atlantis's final mission to the International Space Station a day or two, NASA said Wednesday. A tropical storm system moving north from the Caribbean is expected to bring rain, clouds and thunder to Florida right around the time of Atlantis's scheduled liftoff Friday at 11:26 am (1526 GMT). "It is not looking favorable right now for launch," said NASA weather officer Kathy Winters, downgrading her forecast ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA needs new 'breakthrough,' says Obama
NASA needs new technology breakthroughs to revitalize its mission to explore the universe, President Barack Obama said Wednesday as the shuttle Atlantis was preparing for its final mission. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Space technology 'on the NHS' and easier access to space
New space technologies that could benefit the NHS, and the first step in the reduction of insurance costs for satellite operators were the topics of discussion Monday July 4 when Minister for Univer ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Spacecraft Captures Images and Sounds of Big Saturn Storm
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini fir ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Does Asteroid Vesta Have a Moon
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on Vesta, and from now until the ion-powered spacecraft goes into orbit in mid-July, every picture of the giant asteroid will be the best one ever taken. What wi ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Langley Rockets to Kentucky for Summer Motion
A team from NASA's Langley Research Center is excited to be returning to Summer Motion in Ashland, Ky. for the second year in a row. NASA technicians and others from the Hampton, Va., facility ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace to launch THOR 7 satellite for Telenor
Arianespace's Communications satellite operator Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has chosen Arianespace to launch its new satellite, THOR 7. The THOR 7 satellite will be placed into geost ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observat ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
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SPACEMART

LightSquared Secures 265 Million Dollars In Additional Financing
LightSquared, the nation's first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, reports that it has raised $265 million. The capital was drawn from both existing investor ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Serious Hardware Incident with the Subaru Telescope Interrupts Its Operation
While shutting down the observation system at the end of the night shift during the early morning of Saturday, July 2. 2011, the telescope operator detected an error signal from the top unit of the ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China launches experimental satellite
China on Wednesday launched an experimental orbiter in the country's Shijian satellite series from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province. The satellite, SJ-11-03, ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The Eye of Gaia a billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the supe ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Track24 Defence releases SCC Titan
Track24 Defence, the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist, has unveiled SCC Titan, its new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) soluti ... more
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UAV NEWS

X-47B Can Operate From an Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have completed a demonstration of the ship-based software and systems that will allow the X-47B unmanned air vehicle to operate from the deck of an aircraft carrie ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

DLR scientists support expedition with a highly accurate 3D model of mountain
Considered one of the most beautiful mountains in the world and, at 8000 metres high, the most difficult to climb, K2 lies on the border between Pakistan and China. For scientists at the German Aero ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Pioneering ERS environment satellite retires
After 16 years spent gathering a wealth of data that has revolutionised our understanding of Earth, ESA's veteran ERS-2 satellite is being retired. This pioneering mission has not only advanced scie ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn
Imagine being caught in a thunderstorm as wide as the Earth with discharges of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than normal, flashing 10 times per second at its peak. ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno at T-Minus One Month For Jupiter Launch Window Opening
NASA's Juno spacecraft is 30 days before its first launch window opens. "The launch window is the length of time allotted every day for an attempt to launch the spacecraft," said Jan Chodas, J ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

STS-135 Countdown Under Way
The countdown for the final space shuttle launch began Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT, starting at the T-43 hour mark. However, the launch-day weather forecast looks less than favorable for Friday's 11:26 a. ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

Final space shuttle to carry 5 CU-Boulder-built payloads
The University of Colorado Boulder is involved with five different space science payloads ranging from antibody tests that may lead to new bone-loss treatments to an experiment to improve vaccine ef ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Italian Space Agency to Cooperate With Eutelsat and Skylogic on Broadband Connectivity in Italy
ASI, the Italian Space Agency has announced an agreement with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) to use the new KA-SAT High Throughput Satellite in order to develop broadband connectivity ... more
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GPS NEWS

LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking Apps Cross over 1 Million users in 116 countries
GTX has announced its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary's GPS Tracking Apps crossed over 1 Million downloads with users in 116 countries and continues to be on the top charts of iTunes and Android market place. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Clocking The Spin of Neptune
By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Beyond The Space Shuttle
The end of the space shuttle program does not mean the end of NASA, or even of NASA sending humans into space. NASA has a robust program of exploration, technology development and scientific researc ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

University Of Wisconsin Students Win Space Habitat Competition
University of Wisconsin students topped two other university teams to win the 2011 NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, a competition to design and build a space habitat. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Scientists uncover evidence of a wet Martian past in desert
Scientists at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif., and NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. believe that traces of Mars' wet past are hidden from the scrutiny of space-borne inst ... more
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SPACEMART

Hispasat Selects Gilat for Broadband VSAT Network
Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that it has been selected by Spanish satellite operator HISPASAT, to provide a new broadband satellite IP network based on Gilat's advanced SkyEdge II System. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin Team Completes GeoEye-2 Design Phase Early
The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed the Space System Critical Design Review (CDR) two ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

PSLV-C17 to Launch GSAT-12 on July 15, 2011
Preparations for the forthcoming launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) carrying India's communication satellite GSAT-12 are progressing well at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

High costs, mixed record for US space shuttle
The US space shuttle is the most complex and costly flying machine ever built, and although it helped build a pioneering space outpost it also kept Americans confined to low Earth orbit for 30 years. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Astronauts Arrive at Kennedy for Final Countdown
On the Fourth of July, the four STS-135 crew members arrived in two T-38 jets at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Cluster observes jet braking and plasma heating
High speed plasma flows, often referred to as jets, are extremely common across the Universe. Such jets are observed in Earth's magnetosphere, in solar flares, and near various objects powered by bl ... more
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