Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2012
NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta, using images that were among the last taken by the spacecraft as it departed its companion for the last year. The first set of images is a color-coded relief map of Vesta's northern hemisphere, from the pole to the equator. It incorporates images taken just as Dawn began to creep over the high northern latitude

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S. Korea to make third rocket launch bid in
October

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Seoul (AFP) Sept 11, 2012
South Korea will make its third attempt next month to put a satellite in space, the science ministry said Tuesday, as it bids to join an exclusive club of Asian nations with space-launch capability. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-I), whose two previous launches both ended in failure, will blast off between October 26-31, depending on prevailing weather conditions, the ministry said in

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Russian deputy PM proposes Moon station

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Moscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2012
A top Russian official on Tuesday proposed setting up a space station on the Moon to revive Moscow's struggling space programme, a day after the prime minister ripped into its failures. Outspoken recently-appointed deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is a former envoy to NATO, suggested the plan in an interview to Vesti FM radio station, saying that Russia's space agency should focus o

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Roscosmos Space Agency Recalls Briz-M Upper Stage
Batch

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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 12, 2012
The Russian space agency Roscosmos will recall the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages, one of which caused the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket to fail in August, the agency's chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Monday. "The decision has been made to recall and thoroughly examine the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages," Popovkin told journalists. "Each upper stage will be dismantled." Rus

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NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander
Aces Major Exam

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 12, 2012
Completing this round of flight test objectives, the "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, flew to an altitude of 100 feet and descended gently to a controlled landing during a successful free flight Sept. 5 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Guided by autonomous rendezvous and capture software, the vehicle located an on-the-ground target using its onboar

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NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on
Mars

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of carbon-dioxide snow falling anywhere in our solar system. Frozen carbon dioxide, better known as "dry ice," requires temperatures of about minus 193 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 125 Celsius), which is much colder than needed for freezing

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Luca Parmitano flying high

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Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2012
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to fly to the International Space Station in 2013, and his mission came a step a closer with the unveiling of his mission name and mission patch. Luca will spend six months on the International Space Station on Expedition 36/37 under an agreement with Italy's ASI space agency and NASA. A competition was opened for Italian residents to suggest a mission n

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Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly of NASA's
MAVEN Spacecraft

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Denver CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2012
Lockheed Martin has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN is scheduled to launch in November 2013 and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. ATLO represents a critical stage of the program because it is when the spacecraft begins to take form and culmi

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Early Mars may not have been hospitable after
all: study

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Paris (AFP) Sept 9, 2012
Instead of a warm, wet and possibly life-bearing planet as some scientists contend, early Mars may have been a hostile and volatile place with frequent volcanic outbursts, a study said Sunday. Earlier research had theorised that certain minerals detected on the surface of the Red Planet indicated the presence of clay formed when water weathered surface rock some 3.7 billion years ago. Th

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Chandrayaan II may be delayed, says ISRO Chief

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New Delhi (IANS) Sep 12, 2012
India's quest for the moon, by the name of "Chandrayaan II," planned for 2013-14, may be delayed. Indicating this at a news conference organised after the successful launch of "PSLV-C21", the 100th mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan said that while ISRO was keen on making the second "moon mission" a reality as scheduled, its Russian partner had other

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