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November 29, 2011
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Student Developed Software Helps To Detect Near Earth Asteroids
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 28, 2011
An asteroid impact with the earth can really ruin your day: just consider the dinosaurs. Most asteroids, also known as minor planets, orbit the sun beyond the planet Mars and present no danger, but there is a class of asteroids whose orbits cross the orbit of the earth. If one of these asteroids and the earth are at the same point in their orbits at the same time, a collision could occur. Called Near Earth Objects (NEOs), astronomers are interested in discovering as many of these as possible, and ... read more

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Mars Science Laboratory Lifts Off Protected by Lockheed Martin-Built Aeroshell
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launched this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. at 10:02 a.m. ET aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket provided by United Launch Alliance. The miss ... more
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NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Mars
NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an ... more
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Did US climate weapon knock-out Russian probe
Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America's ionosphere research site in Ala ... more
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The Martian Chronicles Continues With Russian Bit Part
While the future of Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe remains unclear, a team of experts from a space research institute in Moscow has arrived in the United States where NASA is about to launch its Curios ... more
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Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Boosts Latest Mars Rover to the Red Planet
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne demonstrated the consistent reliability of its power and propulsion systems by successfully boosting the Mars Science Laboratory rover, which will travel to the red plan ... more
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Russia's Medvedev evokes Stalin ahead of elections
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday evoked the executions of the Stalin era in a pre-election vow to punish those responsible for a recent string of costly space mishaps. ... more
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NASA launches biggest-ever rover to Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover, the biggest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, blasted off Saturday on a journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there. ... more
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Opportunity Continutes To Scout For Site To Winter In
In preparing for positioning Opportunity for the coming winter, the project has been scouting sites with favorable northerly tilt on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. ... more
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No further contact with stranded Mars probe: ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday it had been unable to establish a new link with Russia's stricken Mars probe but added that the craft's orbit seemed to have become more stable. ... more
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ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt
Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ... more
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Data beamed from Russia Mars probe deciphered
Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday. "So ... more
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MSL and Curiosity 'Locked and Loaded' for Launch
Following Wednesday morning's Launch Readiness Review, NASA and contractor managers gave the launch team the go-ahead to continue working towards liftoff of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) on Satu ... more
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Preparing for future human exploration: measuring the radiation environment on Mars
NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more
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Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne to Power 'Curiosity' Rover on Mars
When the Mars Science Laboratory embarks on its voyage to Mars on Nov. 25, Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne products will be onboard to make the mission possible. Curiosity, about the size of a Mini C ... more
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ESA tracking station establishes contact with Russia's Mars mission
On Tuesday, 22 November at 20:25 GMT, ESA's tracking station at Perth, Australia, established contact with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Contact with the Mars mission was lost shortly after sepa ... more
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NASA in high gear for Mars rover launch
The US space agency plans to launch on Saturday the most powerful and advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may once have existed on the red planet. ... more
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Station makes contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe: ESA
A European tracking station in western Australia has "established contact" with Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe, which has been stranded in orbit since its launch on November 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. ... more
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Russian experts baffled by erratic behavior of Mars probe
Russian Federal Space Agency experts are puzzled by the rising orbit of the Phobos-Grunt unmanned Mars probe, Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov said on Tuesday. The probe was launched on No ... more
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Mars departure window closing, will open later
The astronomical window for the Phobos-Grunt's mission to Mars has just about closed, believe space industry sources. The probe could still fly by the red planet, but the expedition to land on and t ... more
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US to launch rover seeking signs of life on Mars
The biggest, most advanced robotic machine ever built to explore Mars is poised to launch Saturday on a mission to find places where life may have existed, or may live on today, NASA said this week. ... more
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Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails
If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more
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NASA Updates Prelaunch Events for Mars Science Lab
NASA has updated information about the news conferences and other events for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover launch. Liftoff is scheduled at 7:02 a.m. PST (10:02 a.m. EST) on Sa ... more
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'Little chance' of saving stranded Mars probe: Russia
Russia's space agency admitted Tuesday there was little chance of saving a probe that aimed to bring back soil from Mars's largest moon but has been stranded in Earth orbit since launch. ... more
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Last chance to send Russian Mars moon probe expires Monday
The launch window to send Russia's Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft to a Mars moon will close on Monday, an airspace source told RIA Novosti. "The spacecraft has already unfolded its solar panels an ... more
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Opportunity Nearing A Winter Haven
The project continues to implement the seasonal plan for Opportunity, which is to winter over on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater where northerly tilts are favorable for s ... more
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Launch Team Focuses on Unique Needs of Curiosity
About the size of a small SUV and weighing as much as some cars, the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" is being asked to conduct the most intensive examination of the surface of the red planet eve ... more
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New Missions To Investigate How Mars Turned Hostile
Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The Martian surface i ... more
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MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation Will Be A Data Rich Feed
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, which is set to launch Nov. 25, is expected to improve not only our knowledge of Mars, but also the science of hypersonic flight - more than five times the speed of s ... more
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MRO Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion
Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the pl ... more
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MSL launch delayed to Saturday Nov 26
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed one day to allow time for the team to remove and replace a flight termination system bat ... more
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Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat an ... more
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