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January 31, 2012
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Earth's Energy Budget Remained Out of Balance Despite Unusually Low Solar Activity
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2012
A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity - not changes in solar activity - are the primary force driving global warming. The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth's energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth's surface and the amount returned to space as heat. The researchers' calculations show that, despite unusually low solar activity between 2005 and 2010, the planet continued to absorb more ener ... read more

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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's THEMIS Satellite Sees a Great Electron Escape
When scientists discovered two great swaths of radiation encircling Earth in the 1950s, it spawned over-the-top fears about "killer electrons" and space radiation effects on Earthlings. The fears we ... more
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TECH SPACE

Publicity and Panic for Satellite Re-Entries
Space agencies struggle with the technical issues surrounding uncontrolled satellite re-entries. It's hard to predict when or where a bird will finally come down. Usually, the low risk of any damage ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Ukraine, Russia to Launch 2 Dnepr Carrier Rockets in 2012
Ukraine and Russia will carry out two rocket launches under the joint Dnepr space program, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuri Alekseyev said on Friday. Moscow has recently decid ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm
The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ra ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

First Vega rocket assembled on launch pad
ESA's new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket's inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport. The launch window opens on 9 February. ... more
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SPACEMART

BJP slams blacklisting of former ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday slammed the union defence ministry for the blacklisting of ISRO and accused the government of having lost its "grace to govern". "The unsavoury controve ... more
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TECH SPACE

ISS Orbit Raised to Avoid Collision with Space Junk
Specialists of Russia's Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellit ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
Iran meets European powers amid threats of UN sanctions snapback
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LAUNCH PAD

Launch of Proton-M with Dutch Satellite Postponed
The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunication satellite onboard scheduled for Friday has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, Russian space agency Rosc ... more
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SPACEMART

PM should probe ISRO blacklisting order
Stung by a government order debarring him and three other reputed space scientists from occupying official posts, former Indian space agency chairman G Madhavan Nair has demanded that Prime Minister ... more
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MOON DAILY

A Moon Colony by 2020
Last Week, while addressing a Florida Space Coast audience, GOP candidate Newt Gingrich pledged to create a moon colony if elected president. This may at first seem far-fetched and an act of panderi ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

X1.8 Solar Flare and CME
The sun unleashed an X1.8 class flare that began at 1:12 PM ET on January 27, 2012 and peaked at 1:37. The flare immediately caused a strong radio blackout at low-latitudes, which was rated an R3 on ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space Weather Center to Add World's First 'Ensemble Forecasting' Capability
After years of relative somnolence, the sun is beginning to stir. By the time it's fully awake in about 20 months, the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., charged with rese ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In a paper publi ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

INTEGRAL reveals new facets of the Vela pulsar wind nebula
Astronomers studying the Vela pulsar wind nebula with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory have successfully resolved its morphology in the hard X-ray band, for the first time. This pulsar-powered nebula is t ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russia Plans to Launch U.S. Satellite in February
Russia is preparing a Proton-M carrier rocket for the launch of the U.S. Sirius FM-6 telecoms satellite, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. "The launch is tentatively scheduled f ... more
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Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
Seismic signatures reveal fragmentation patterns of fireball meteoroids
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TIME AND SPACE

Does antimatter weigh more than matter
Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the u ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork
Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRI ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies
Astronomers have combined observations from the LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope [1] with measurements made with ESO's Very Large Telescope, ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA's J-2X Engine Kicks Off 2012 With Powerpack Testing
A new series of tests on the engine that will help carry humans to deep space will begin next week at NASA's Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The tests on the J-2X engine bring NASA one ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA Says No to Probe Crash Theory Test
NASA has refused to participate in an experiment designed to show if U.S. radars could have had an impact on Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the deputy head of the country's space agency, ... more
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MOON DAILY

U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Cosmology in a petri dish
Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth tr ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Moves Closer to Planetary Landing Demo Capability on Earth with Draper's GENIE
NASA could test its payloads on Earth under realistic flight conditions before sending them into space by using a technology flown by Draper Laboratory last month. Using the GENIE (Guidance Em ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian cargo vessel arrives at space station
A Russian cargo vessel docked safely at the International Space Station Saturday carrying mainly water and fuel, the mission control centre said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Romney sees launchers fueled by private enterprise
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tried to boost support on Florida's "Space Coast" Friday ahead of next week's key primary, promising business would play a bigger role in future missions. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russian launch of Dutch satellite delayed
The launch of a Russian rocket meant to put a Dutch communications satellite into orbit has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, officials said. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia to postpone next manned space launches
Russia is set to pospone the next two manned launches for the International Space Station (ISS) for several weeks due to technical problems with the Soyuz spaceship, an industry source told Interfax Friday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

First US chief technology officer stepping down
Aneesh Chopra, who was tasked with bringing a dose of Silicon Valley to the US government as the first chief technology officer, is stepping down. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellites Reach 150 Years of Combined On Orbit Service
The U.S. Air Force's fleet of Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR and IIR-M satellites has accumulated 150 collective years of successful on-orbit operations. The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: ... more
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