The go-ahead is given for Arianespace's August 2
flight with Ariane 5

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 01, 2012
Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission of 2012 has been given the green light for liftoff later this week following the launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This procedure, which is performed before every Ariane mission, examines the "go" status of the launcher, its dual payload of the Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2 satellites, the Spaceport's infrastructure and th

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Strange but True: Curiosity's Sky Crane

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 01, 2012
On August 5th at 10:31 p.m. Pacific Time, NASA will gently deposit their new, 2000-pound Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, wheels-first and ready to roll. Quite a feat - because it will come screaming through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph. Curiosity, aka the Mars Science Laboratory, will be the largest mission ever to land on another planet. It's big because it has a big mystery to

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New York's Times Square to broadcast Mars landing

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Washington (AFP) July 31, 2012
The highly anticipated landing of NASA's sophisticated $2.5 billion rover on Mars will be broadcast on a large screen in New York City's Times Square, NASA said on Tuesday. The touchdown of the Curiosity rover, equipped with a sophisticated roving toolkit for analyzing the terrain for signs that microbial life once existed, is scheduled for August 6 at 1:31 am Eastern time (0531 GMT). A

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Mars Landing Sky Show

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 01, 2012
Every time NASA lands a rover on Mars--or even makes the attempt--it is cause for celebration. On August 5th, the heavens themselves are aligning to mark the event. Only a few hours before the Mars Science Lab spacecraft reaches the red planet and drops Curiosity on a hair-raising descent mission planners have dubbed the "seven minutes of terror," Mars itself will be put on a special show

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Initial assembly is completed for Arianespace's
fifth Ariane 5 to be launched in 2012

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 01, 2012
Arianespace's fifth heavy-lift Ariane 5 for launch in 2012 has completed its initial build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in preparations for a September mission to orbit the Astra 2F and GSAT-10 satellites. This assembly activity in the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building included installation of the ESC-A cryogenic upper stage and vehicle equipment ba

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Driving on Mars, There's an App for That

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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2012
Upon entering the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale met several creatures along the way who needed her help to find what they were missing. One of those, the Scarecrow, needed a brain. With the help of his friends and the great wizard this oversight was finally rectified. In the magical world of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, those in the Mars Exploration Program also have their S

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China to land first moon probe next year

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Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2012
China has said it will land an exploratory craft on the moon for the first time next year, as part of an ambitious space programme that includes a long-term plan to put a man on the moon. China's third lunar probe will blast off in the second half of 2013 and attempt to land and transmit back a survey of the moon's surface, state television reported late Monday. If it succeeds, experts s

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China's Long March-5 carrier rocket engine
undergoes testing

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Beijing (XNA) Aug 01, 2012
China on Sunday successfully conducted tests on its new 120-tonne-thrust liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene engine for its new generation carrier rocket, the Long March-5, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The test was conducted in Xi'an, capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi province, according to the CASC's sixth research institute. The L

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Cerebral and visceral reactions

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When presented with news and other information, we have both visceral and cerebral responses.

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'Superbird' stuns researchers

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A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became "superbird" ? diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds, f

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