ULA Launches Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2
Satellite to Orbit for the U.S. Air Force

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Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) May 07, 2012
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 2:42 p.m. EDT Friday. This was ULA's 4th launch of an aggressive 11 mission schedule for the year and marks the 30th Atlas V mission and the 60th launch for ULA. "ULA is proud to serve alongside our

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SpaceX boss admits sleep elusive before ISS
launch

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Washington (AFP) May 6, 2012
Elon Musk, the Internet entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, which aims to be the first private firm to send a cargo craft to the International Space Station, admits he has a case of pre-launch jitters. In an interview with AFP, Musk described the oft-delayed launch of his company's cargo-loaded Dragon spacecraft - now pushed back to May 19 - as both "exciting" and "extremely difficult," and

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Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket
Engine

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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 07, 2012
Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the makers say. The new rocket, which will be around 30 percent more efficient than exising designs, works on a completely novel fuel mixture of acetylene and ammonia (atsetam). "A mixture of ac

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Opportunity Getting Ready To Leave Her Winter
Perch

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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2012
Opportunity is still positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt, but not for much longer. With the improvement in solar insolation and the recent modest dust cleaning events on the solar arrays, the project has determined that the rover has sufficient energy resources to begin moving again on level terrain. The

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Mars Rover Opportunity Hits Paydirt At Endeavour

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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2012
A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics conference in late 2011. Opportunity completed its original three-month mission on Mars eight years ago. It reached Endeavour last summer, three years after the rover's science team chose Endeavour

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Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in
Acidalia Planitia

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Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2012
The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), were acquired on 21 June 2011 and show the transition zone between the western edge of Acidalia Planitia and the Martian highlands. Acidalia Planitia is a plain in the northern lowlands, lying

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Dawn Completes 800 Orbits Of Vesta

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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2012
Dawn is wrapping up a spectacularly rewarding phase of its mission of exploration. Since descending to its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) in December, the stalwart probe has circled Vesta about 800 times and collected a truly outstanding trove of precious observations of the protoplanet. Having far exceeded the plans, expectations, and even hopes for what it would accomplish when LAMO b

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Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space
Transportation Spacecraft

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Houston TX (SPX) May 07, 2012
Boeing has completed the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft on May 2 at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. The test demonstrated the performance of the entire landing system. An Erickson Air Crane helicopter lifted the CST-100 test article to about 14,000 feet and initiated a drogue parachute deployment sequence that was follow

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Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of
Water on Early Mars

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Atlanta, GA (SPX) May 07, 2012
The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points toward the possibility of water on early Mars, scientists have increased their studies on the density of its atmosphere billions of years ago. It's not an easy task. In fact, it's very difficult to e

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Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite

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Cape Canaveral AFS, FL (SPX) May 07, 2012
The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. AEHF-1 was launched from here in August of 2010. The rocket flew in the 531 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, three solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.

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