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October 28, 2011
STATION NEWS
Station Crew Prepares For Progress Departure and New Arrivals
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 28, 2011
The Expedition 29 crew members living and working aboard the International Space Station made preparations for the departure and arrivals of a series of visiting Russian spacecraft and continued their work with a variety of science experiments Thursday. The hatches between the Pirs docking compartment and the ISS Progress 42 cargo craft were closed to prepare for its upcoming departure. Loaded with trash and gear set for disposal, Progress 42 is scheduled to undock from the station on Saturday at ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Virgin Galactic Selects First Commercial Astronaut Pilot From Competition
Just over fifty years ago, an historic competition for the first pilots to fly into space yielded the Mercury Seven astronauts. Today, from an intense selection process with more than 500 appl ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Continues to Drive North
The seasonal plan is for Opportunity to winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. As such, the project ... more
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EXO LIFE

An Alien Code Close to Home: Seeking ET Beyond the Radio Silence
Any intelligent extraterrestrial life that exists probably won't announce itself by blowing up the White House, or win over the hearts of children as a lovable alien with a glowing finger. Man ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

UK space surveillance system takes birthday snap of only satellite ever launched by a UK rocket
This week marks the 40th anniversary of Britain as a spacefaring nation. On the 28th of October 1971, the UK launched Prospero - a science and technology demonstration satellite - on top of a Black ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

A Solar Cycle Primer From SDO
Telescopes spotted the first blemish on the Sun in 1611. While the Sun had long been thought - at least in the Western world - to be an unchanging, "perfect" orb, sky-watchers observed black sunspot ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

The Arianespace launcher family comes together in French Guiana
Arianespace's full launcher family is now an operational reality as flight-ready versions of all three vehicles - Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega - are together at the Spaceport for the first time, positio ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rosetta reveals the science and mystery of Asteroid Lutetia
On 10 July 2010, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past asteroid (21) Lutetia, one of the largest objects orbiting within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rosetta's encounter revealed an ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
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LAUNCH PAD

NASA Langley Watches Ceres Launch Aboard NPP Satellite
NASA Langley's latest Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), an instrument that has studied the Earth's climate for nearly 30 years, is scheduled to launch at 5:48 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2 ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Major moments of China's rocket launches
China will launch a Long March-2F/H rocket early next month, carrying the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 which will conduct the country's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Three New Planets and a Mystery Object Discovered Outside Our Solar System
Three planets - each orbiting its own giant, dying star - have been discovered by an international research team led by a Penn State University astronomer. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, astronom ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Up close, asteroid seen to be chunk of would-be planet
A rare opportunity to observe an asteroid at close quarters has unveiled a remarkable rock that seems to be a precursor of a planet, astronomers reported on Thursday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

NASA to launch weather-climate satellite Friday
The US space agency is preparing to launch a satellite Friday that will send back data on climate and weather to better help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe
In the current issue of the journal Nature, astronomers report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are n ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch Shenzhou-8 early November
China will launch the spacecraft Shenzhou-8 in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest deseart area. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to perform China's first spa ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA's NEEMO Mission Ending Early Due To Hurricane Rina
Due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina, the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, ended earlier than planned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) op ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

STEREO Mission Celebrates Five Incredible Years of Science
On October 25, 2006, a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observator ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten
Comet Elenin is no more. Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. This trail of piffling particles will remain ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

UNH Scientists Land Roles in European and Japanese Space Missions
Scientists and engineers from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have been selected to provide instruments for two upcoming satellite missions led by the European Space Age ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Explorer 1 The First US Explorer
On September 29, 2011, NASA announced the short list for five potential new "Explorer class" spacecraft. These missions are by definition small and relatively inexpensive, designed to be led by a sm ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star
Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This event was seen at the end of 2010 by ... more
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EXO LIFE

Most vertebrates descended from ancestor with sixth sense
People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this in ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA in Final Preparations for Nov 8 Asteroid Flyby
NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's o ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China plans space lab docking
China's unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft will be launched early next month for the first docking with the country's space lab module, scientists said Wednesday. ... more
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NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training
NASA evacuated a crew of astronauts Wednesday from an underwater lab off the coast of Florida where they were training for a trip to an asteroid, due to the approach of Hurricane Rina. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Starlight study shows Pluto's chilly twin
Sky-watchers reported on Wednesday that a small planet in deep space that triggered one of the fiercest controversies in modern astronomy appears to be a colder "twin" of Pluto. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Vega arrives at French Guiana in preparation for its January 26 inaugural launch
The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport with this latest member of Arianespace's expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle - the ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Pinpointing Stargazing Sites for More Eyes
Communities across England will have a twinkle in their eye and get a big environmental and educational boost thanks to Dark Sky Discovery - a pioneering new national and regional partnership of ast ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Spacenet Selected by Cumberland Farms to Provide Managed Network Services Solution
Gilat Satellite Networks reports that its subsidiary, Spacenet, was selected by Cumberland Farms to upgrade and manage its communications infrastructure for over 600 stores across 11 states. T ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

New Horizons App Now Available
The team behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has launched a free app that takes iPhone and iPad users along on this historic voyage to the planetary frontier. Now a ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy
The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

PPPL scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth
With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen ga ... more
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