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July 26, 2011
MOON DAILY
Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far side
St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 26, 2011
Analysis of new images of a curious "hot spot" on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province and the surprising composition of the lava that formed it offer tantalizing clues to the Moon's thermal history. The hot spot is a concentration of a radioactive element thorium sitting between the very large and ancient impact craters Compton and Belkovich that was first detected by Lunar Prospector's g ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Ball Aerospace Develops Flight Computers for Next-Generation Launch Vehicles
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has completed development of prototype launch vehicle flight computers equipped to bring safety and reliability to future human spaceflight systems. These ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

SwRI suborbital astronaut payload specialists move to flight planning phase, release mission patch
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the devel ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves
An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice s ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research
A designer metamaterial has shown it can engineer emitted "blackbody" radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's temperature, a team of researchers led by Bosto ... more
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GPS NEWS

China to launch 9th orbiter for indigenous global navigation network
China will launch the ninth orbiter into space in "coming days" as part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network. The "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite will be l ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Planetary Nebula Discovered By Amateur Astronomer
In a partnership between amateur and professional astronomers, the recent discovery of a dying star's last gasps could help resolve a decades-old debate among astronomers. That is, are stellar compa ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Spotlight Time for Tiangong
The upcoming launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will come at a critical time. The US space program has just retired its fleet of Space Shuttles, and currently lacks any means of launching ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
RTX radar selected to support autonomous X 62A fighter testing
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SPACEWAR

STSS Demonstrator Satellites Track Short-Range, Air-Launched Rocket
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites successfully acquired and tracked a short-range, air-launched target (SRALT) July 8 in a test that showed their ability to ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Central America launches its 'Google' of weather
Officials launched a database Thursday they dubbed the "Google of Central American weather," designed to predict natural disasters as the region grapples with devastating consequences blamed on climate change. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Horn of Africa drought seen from space
Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA's SMOS satellite shows t ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

TerraSAR-X image of the month - Volcanic eruption in Chile
The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite - ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Aura Detects Pollution in the Great Lakes Region
Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region. The fires have also forced thousands of residents to evacuate ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought
The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Graybiel Lab poised for next chapter of space exploration
A 30-year chapter in the history of space travel has ended with the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis, and what comes next is still unknown. But whatever direction the story takes, researchers o ... more
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TECH SPACE

Closing In On The Famous Pioneer Anomaly
Scientists working with recovered data from the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions are closing in on a solution to the famous Pioneer Anomaly. Their just-published results show that the mysterious effect on ... more
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TECH SPACE

Neptec's TriDAR technology to take off on Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft
Neptec Design Group, a leader in space, defence and industrial systems and applications, has announced it will provide its TriDAR rendezvous and docking sensors to Orbital Space Science Corp.'s Cygn ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Final Nanosatellite Launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis
The final satellite launched in the 30-year lifetime of the shuttle program, the latest in a series of nanosatellites built by The Aerospace Corporation with support from the Space and Missile Syste ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Closing In On Spirit Point At Endeavour Crater
Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more
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TECH SPACE

GSAT-12 Communication Satellite placed in Geosynchronous Orbit
The GSAT-12 Communication Satellite, launched onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17), has been successfully placed in Geosynchronous Orbit with a perigee of 35,684 km, apogee of 35,715 ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Four unusual views of the Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy's disc, the halo of stars ... more
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AEROSPACE

Boeing Delivers 400th Airplane to GECAS
Boeing has reached a major milestone with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) yesterday by delivering the leasing company's 400th airplane, a Next-Generation 737-800. GECAS leasing customer Xiamen ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Caltech-Led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet
Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever det ... more
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MOON DAILY

Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist
Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more
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MARSDAILY

MAVEN Mission Completes Major Milestone
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review (CDR). MAVEN, scheduled for lau ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Gantry's First Splash Test Is a Booming Success
The principle is the same one that allows a kid to swing from a bank into a pond on a long rope hanging from a tree to beat the summer heat. On Wednesday, the "kid" was 2,300 pounds of steel, ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled to launch late this year and lan ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

New Russian carrier rockets to the Moon
Russia is working on two large-scale space projects simultaneously, including the next generation of the "Soyuz" spaceships and a principally new space system with the Rus-M carrier rocket. The laun ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Neighbor Galaxy Caught Stealing Stars
Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and their collaborators have found that hundreds of the stars found in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) were stolen from another ne ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Russian space telescope unfurls giant antenna: official
A giant new Russian space telescope on Saturday unfurled its dish-like antenna which will observe radio waves from galaxies and black holes billions of light years away. ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russian satellite will honor Gagarin
Russians on the International Space Station will launch a mini-satellite to honor this year's 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, mission control said. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Hong Kong scientists 'show time travel is impossible'
Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - demonstrating that outside science fiction, time travel is impossible. ... more
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