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September 28, 2011
MARSDAILY
Help NASA Find Life On Mars With MAPPER
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2011
Would you like to participate in NASA's analog research program? Interested in helping scientists pinpoint where to look for signs of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe? Now you can, with an exciting new citizen science website called MAPPER that was launched in conjunction with the Pavilion Lake Research Project's 2011 field season. The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) has been investigating the underwater environment of Pavilion and Kelly Lake in ... read more

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

US Space Completes Study for USAF and Identifies Cost-Effective Ways to Procure MILSATCOM
U.S. Space has completed a $291,159 study of feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite communications needs that was contracted by the United States Air Force Space and Missile ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

World's First DNA Astronauts to Launch Into Space
Have you ever wanted to go to space? Not a multi-millionaire? No problem. rSPACE LLC, a company whose goal is to allow everyone the chance to actively and personally participate in a real rocket lau ... more
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VENUSIAN HEAT

Venus Weather Not Boring After All
At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view. The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant - at th ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Gilat Spacenet Selected by Major Retailer to Deliver Critical Network Solutions
Gilat has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spacenet Inc., a leading provider of managed network services, was selected to continue its provision of VSAT network services to a major retail ... more
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VSAT NEWS

MOL LNG Selects KVH TracPhone V7 For LNG Tankers
Following a successful trial on its liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, MOL LNG Transport Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, is adding the award-winning TracPhone V7 satellite communic ... more
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GPS NEWS

Ruling Fuels Debate On Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking
On TV crime dramas, police officers keep tabs on suspected criminals by sitting in unmarked cars with some doughnuts, coffee and a pair of binoculars. In today's reality, however, law enforcement ag ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Rohrabacher Demands Release of NASA's Recent On-Orbit Fuel Depot Analysis
today, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) continued his criticism of NASA's new design for deep space exploration by sending a letter to former NASA's Administrator Dr. Michael D. Griffin asking him to jo ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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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SPACEMART

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Reduces About 540 Positions
Lockheed Martin has announced there will be approximately 540 reductions in employment across its Aeronautics business area as part of a plan to trim the organization and improve operational efficie ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

OSU partners with NASA
Thanks to the involvement with NASA, OSU's NASA Education Projects office is known more widely across the United States than here on campus. For the next five years, OSU will be the implementation p ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

The Sounds Of NASA Available For Download
Historic and interesting sounds and sound bites from NASA space missions are available for download as ringtones or on your computer for events, errors, alarms and notifications. The public no ... more
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MARSDAILY

Drilling into Arctic Ice
Drill Hill is a circular mound of impact breccia about a kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, one of many such mounds that litter the floor of Haughton Crater. It's a large pile of rock rubble, initia ... more
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EARLY EARTH

Salty water and gas sucked into Earth's interior helps unravel planetary evolution
An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the E ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Partners Uncover New Hypothesis On Crater Debris
A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta-debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite i ... more
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MARSDAILY

Lockheed Martin Completes Primary Structure of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has reached a new milestone. Lockheed Martin has completed building the primary structure of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft at its Space System ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Continues to Study 'Chester Lake' Rock Outcrop
Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2717 (Sept. 15, 2011), the rover successfully brushed the surface target ... more
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SPACEMART

Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R Satellite Handed Over to Japanese Customers
The BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, is now re ... more
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GPS NEWS

Raytheon GPS OCX Completes Preliminary Design Review
Raytheon has completed preliminary design review for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX), an important milestone in determining the program's developme ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China prepares to launch first space lab module this week
Engineers are conducting the final preparations before launching China's first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 mo ... more
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GPS NEWS

Hexagon Enhances Satellite-based Positioning Solutions with Locata Local Constellation
Locata Corporation has announced Hexagon will integrate the revolutionary Locata positioning technology with Hexagon's positioning receivers. This partnership will leverage each company's expertise ... more
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GPS NEWS

Locata Publishes Interface Specifications and Launches New Local Constellation Concept
Locata Corporation has announced the public availability of an Interface Control Document (ICD) 2011 at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS Conference. The ICD defines the requirements related to ... more
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GPS NEWS

Locata Unveils World's First GPS-style Indoor Positioning Solution
Locata Corporation has announced it will unveil the TimeTenna, a breakthrough positioning antenna technology that - for the first time - allows centimeter-accurate, GPS-style positioning indoors. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

The era of big American physics about to end
The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Building the Tools for Astrobiology's Future
The NASA Astrobiology program has selected eight new projects for funding under the Astrobiology Science and Technology for Instrument Development Program (ASTID). The ASTID program is an essential ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Sunspot 1302 Big Bad And Coming Right At Us
Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona
NASA this week completed the first in a series of flight-like parachute tests for the agency's Orion spacecraft. The drop tests at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona support the design ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year break
International consortium Sea Launch resumed its operations on Saturday with a launch of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a European telecoms satellite, the company said. The rocke ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition
Russia would resume its program of inter-planetary explorations after a long break with an unmanned mission to the Martian satellite Phobos, a Russian space company said Thursday. According to ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

FAU Physicist Develops Mathematical Method to Find Satellite Galaxies
Sukanya Chakrabarti, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics for the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, has developed a mathematical method called "tidal analysis ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Students Participate in Plant Investigation With Space Station Crew
An investigation is stemming out of this world, planting an interest in students in more than a hundred schools across the nation. In the Plants in Space proj ... more
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EXO WORLDS

From the Comfort of Home, Web Users May Have Found New Planets
Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Posts Global Exploration Roadmap
NASA is releasing the initial version of a Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) developed by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. This roadmap is the culmination of work by 12 s ... more
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