Tuesday, December 31, 2013

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FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCHES FIRST COMMERCIAL TELECOM PAYLOAD
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A kerosene-fueled Falcon 9 launch vehicle owned and operated by SpaceX climbed away from Florida's Space Coast on Tuesday, steering into orbit more than 50,000 miles above Earth with a television broadcasting satellite in a successful flight signaling the changing landscape of the commercial launch industry.

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X-RAY TELESCOPE, GRAVITY WAVE PROBE TO BE LED BY ESA
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The European Space Agency has decided its next two big science missions, each costing more than $1.3 billion, will be a massive X-ray telescope and a long-proposed observatory to confirm the existence of gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1312/02cosmicvision/

ATLAS 5 LAUNCH SET FOR THURSDAY NIGHT
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An Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office on Thursday, and the preliminary forecast shows cold temperatures at the California launch site will be the only weather concern.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av043/status.html

GPM SATELLITE DELIVERED TO JAPAN AFTER SHUTDOWN DELAY
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An international satellite built to extend and expand precipitation measurements from space has arrived at its Japanese launch site after a trans-Pacific flight from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

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LONG MARCH ROCKET BLASTS OFF WITH CHINESE LUNAR ROVER
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A six-wheeled robotic rover named Yutu rode a Long March rocket into space Sunday on China's first lunar landing mission, marking an auspicious start to a four-day journey to the moon.

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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Astronomy community rallies behind ‘Zombie comet’ ISON | The Raw Story

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Friday, November 29, 2013

NASA plans to grow turnips on the Moon by 2015 | The Raw Story

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Engine trouble scrubs Falcon 9 launch / ISON baffles scientists

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ENGINE TROUBLE SCRUBS FALCON 9'S THANKSGIVING LAUNCH
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Topped with a television broadcasting satellite, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket fired its engines and was moments away from liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, but the commercial booster aborted the launch after computers detected the engines were too slow building up thrust.

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SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY NEW PICTURES OF COMET ISON
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After a multi-million-year plunge from the frozen fringes of the solar system, Comet ISON may have broken apart and evaporated in the fierce heat and crushing gravity of the sun before or during a close flyby Thursday, presumably scotching long-held hopes for a dramatic sky show on Earth over the next few weeks. Or maybe not.

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CHINESE MOON LANDER ON THE VERGE OF LAUNCH
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China has scheduled the launch of an ambitious robotic lunar rover as soon as Sunday on a quest to achieve the first soft landing on the moon in more than three decades.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving launch for Falcon 9 / Comet ISON meets the Sun

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FALCON 9 ON TRACK FOR LAUNCH OF COMMERCIAL SATELLITE
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Thanksgiving Day is launch day for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which is set to take off Thursday with a television broadcasting satellite on a landmark mission to prove the privately-developed launcher's commercial capabilities. Launch from Cape Canaveral is set for 5:39 p.m. EST (2239 GMT).

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HOLIDAY TRAVELERS TRUMP SPACEX LAUNCH PLANS
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Concerned a rocket launch might add more congestion to the skies during Thanksgiving week, federal regulators blocked SpaceX's bid to launch a commercial broadcasting satellite Tuesday and Wednesday, two of the busiest travel days of the year.

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COMET ISON CLOSES IN ON FLYBY OF THE SUN
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Astronomers around the world are closely monitoring Comet ISON's plunge through the inner solar system and awaiting data from a fleet of space telescopes to find out whether the enigmatic chunk of ice will survive a blistering kamikaze-like Thanksgiving Day flyby of the sun.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Daily Kos :: This week in science: A Thanksgiving visitor comes in from the cold

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Massive gamma-ray burst has scientists’ theories ‘going down the drain’ | The Raw Story

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Mars manned mission: "2018 is our last chance to be first"

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Mars probe blasts off / 29 satellites to launch on Minotaur today

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MARS ATMOSPHERIC PROBE BLASTS OFF ABOARD ATLAS 5
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket dispatched a $671 million gas-sniffing sleuth to Mars on Monday, taking the first step in a long-distance voyage across the solar system to survey the Martian atmosphere and decipher an enigma nearly as old as the solar system itself.

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THRIFT PAYS FOR EXTRA SCIENCE BY NASA'S MAVEN MISSION
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Citing cost-conscious caution in the early days of the development of NASA's MAVEN mission, scientists say the Mars mission has enough funding reserves to bankroll extra researchers on the MAVEN science team and enhance data analysis models to get the most out of the spacecraft's survey of the Martian atmosphere.

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MINOTAUR ROCKET SET FOR LAUNCH WITH 29 SATELLITES
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Crowned with a record-breaking payload of 29 satellites for the U.S. military, NASA and students, a Minotaur 1 rocket is set to launch Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EST (0030 GMT Wednesday) from Wallops Island, Va. Weather permitting, the launch of the 70-foot rocket could be visible along the U.S. East Coast.

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NASA ENDS PRODUCTION OF NEW NUCLEAR POWER SOURCE
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NASA has decided to stop development of an improved lightweight plutonium power generator, blaming budget constraints and a diminished need for a high-efficiency nuclear power source with the restart of U.S. plutonium production, officials said Sunday.

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

NASA does long-distance software fix on Mars rover Curiosity - Network World

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

New study shows black holes recycle matter and energy back into space | The Raw Story

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NASA says ‘Orion’ deep space vehicle on track for 2014 test | The Raw Story

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Dyson Ring 3: How To Get It Up...

Ok. Go ahead and laugh. I hear laughing is good for the soul AND body. :-)

Seriously, though, assembling a ring made of thousands of miles and a few trillion tons of concrete at 60,000 feet in the air is going to be a neat trick. You won't be doing it with cranes.

My answer? Hot air balloons. Yup. Technology that has been used since AD 200 or so in China. Imagine that, another almost 2,000-year-old technology. Which is also why I figure an altitude of 60,000 feet. According to thus Wikipedia article, the altitude for hot air balloons is several thousand feet higher. See the History tab for that part: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon

Now, clearly, large hot air baloons can carry a lot of weight, if they're big enough. Blimps generally use lighter-than-air gasses to lift immense loads, because they don't want to carry the fuel to keep air hot for an extended journey. A hot air blimp IS possible, however. But the way I'd want to use them for this project, they just have to go up on a tether, position their load, and come back down.

So you could get all the pieces up there with balloons, but how do you KEEP them up there while you're assembling the ring? Answer: You don't put part of the ring up and wait on the rest. You build all the pieces, then put them all up in place at one time. You have one big Launch Day all around the planet. Once they are all locked in place, the ring supports its own weight, just like after you put in the centerpiece of an arch.

Sure, you would test the various components and assembly methods ahead of Launch Day. You'd make several modules, lift them up by baloon, and test assembly at altitude to make sure everything will work on Launch Day.

So, balloons float on the wind. Even with a tether, they'll move with the wind to the limits of the tether. How do you keep the baloons from floating all over on Launch Day so you can assemble the Dyson ring?

Next post...

Dan

Dyson Ring 2: Why Roman Concrete?

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture

Well, the stuff is a lot better than our current concrete. According to the article above, it's been getting pounded in a Roman port breakwater by the surf for a couple thousand years while remaining intact. Portland cement is only good for about fifty years before it's crumbling so bad it needs to be replaced.

Personally, if a solid object is going to be several tens of thousands of feet over my head, I want it to be as durable as possible. Remember the concrete falling at Wrigley Field in Chicago a few years ago? Yeah. Luckily it didn't hit any Cub fans in the head...but you get the point.

A Dyson ring is going to take a LOT of material. Even if it's only a hundred yards wide and fifty thick, at 60,000 feet up, that is one huge circle. It would be several tens of thousands of miles long. It would make the Great Wall of China and the Great Pyramids look like Tinker Toys sitting next to the Hoover dam. You aren't going to make it all in one piece. That means modular construction with perfect interlocking of the modules is a requirement. Since concrete can be made with moulds, that makes manufacturing hundreds of thousands of interlocking identical modules possible.

The question is, how do you get all those pieces assembled at 60,000 feet high? Next post...

Dan

Monday, November 11, 2013

Space Elevator Requires Insanely Strong Materials? How About A Dyson Ring?

First, what is a space elevator? A space elevator is a many-miles-long cable that has one end anchored on the ground, and the other end in geostationary orbit, 26,199 statute miles above Earth's equator. Centrifugal force would keep the cable from collapsing back to Earth. Vehicles would ascend and descend the cable to put loads into space from various points along the cable.
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> Current materials aren't strong enough to build such a cable on Earth; however one could be built on the Moon, which has one-sixth of Earth's gravity. That still doesn't help us get to space from Earth, however.

I'd like to propose an alternative method, which I call a "Dyson Ring." This name is derived from the concept of a Dyson Sphere, which is the theoretical concept of building a sphere that completely surrounds a planet. The concept of a Dyson Sphere featured in one of the Star Trek movies.

A Dyson Ring would also surround the entire planet, but would require far less material and time to construct. Like an infinite arch, it would be very strong and able to support itself once built...and support space launch facities that would require far less energy to put loads into orbit than launching from the ground. I think I know how a Dyson ring could be built with existing technology...and some recently re-discovered technology: Roman concrete.

I'll expand on this concept in several future posts, as time permits.

For more than a better world, indeed, an open universe,

Dan

Sunday, November 10, 2013

What is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle? | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/what-is-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle/

Friday, November 8, 2013

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Kepler finds Earth-size planets commonplace

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Privately owned Dream Chaser spacecraft test flight goes perfectly, except for one thing | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/31/privately-owned-dream-chaser-spacecraft-test-flight-goes-perfectly-except-for-one-thing/

Doomed Earth-sized planet a big mystery but a star is in its future

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Dream Chaser damaged by crash landing in California

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DREAM CHASER DAMAGED BY CRASH LANDING IN CALIFORNIA
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A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base on Saturday.

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EUROPEAN CARGO FREIGHTER UNDOCKS FROM SPACE STATION
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Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle backed away from the International Space Station on Monday, firing thrusters to vacate the outpost's safety bubble and begin positioning itself for a destructive re-entry Saturday.

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SIRIUS XM RADIO SPACECRAFT LAUNCHES ON PROTON ROCKET
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A Proton rocket and a Breeze M upper stage guided a fresh satellite into orbit Friday to begin a 15-year mission broadcasting hundreds of music, news and entertainment channels to Sirius XM Radio's 25 million subscribers in North America.

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GROUND CREWS GAS UP MAVEN FOR MARS MISSION
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A team of technicians with specialized skills filled the propellant tank inside NASA's Mars-bound MAVEN spacecraft with 3,626 pounds of hydrazine fuel Friday to help steer the mission toward its ultimate destination in orbit around the red planet.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield: In space ‘you recognize the unanimity of our existence’ | The Raw Story

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Telecom Ramblings: “600Mbps to the Moon” plus 1 more

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There's something about bandwidth in space that simultaneously evokes the responses 'Oh Cool' and 'That sounds so primitive'. That's true for me with the report on various news sources this week about an actual 622Mbps broadband connection between the Earth and the Moon, or more precisely to the Lunar and Atmospheric Dust Environment Explorer probe that is currently orbiting it. … [visit site to read more]

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Space tourism: U.S. firm offers 20 miles-high balloon ride | The Raw Story

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Scientists on track for 2018 space cannon blast of Asteroid 1999JU3 | The Raw Story

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Peru’s Air Force reviving team to investigate UFO’s | The Raw Story

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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Unhappy landing ahead for European satellite running out of fuel | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/18/unhappy-landing-ahead-for-european-satellite-running-out-of-fuel/

Curiosity rover confirms Mars’ massive atmospheric losses | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/18/curiosity-rover-confirms-mars-massive-atmospheric-losses/

India goes to Mars | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/19/india-goes-to-mars/

Kepler-56 tilted planetary system throws planet-formation theories for a loop | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/19/kepler-56-tilted-planetary-system-throws-planet-formation-theories-for-a-loop/

Massive asteroid TV135 due back near Earth in 2032 | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/19/massive-asteroid-tv135-due-back-near-earth-in-2032/

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Biggest known star in the universe is ripping itself apart | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/16/biggest-known-star-in-the-universe-is-ripping-itself-apart/

Monday, October 14, 2013

Elon Musk’s futuristic Grasshopper space rocket makes its highest jump | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/14/elon-musks-futuristic-grasshopper-space-rocket-makes-its-highest-jump/

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Astronaut Scott Carpenter, second American to orbit the Earth, dies at 88 | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/astronaut-scott-carpenter-second-american-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-88/

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

India putting final touches on Mars-bound spacecraft

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INDIA PUTTING FINAL TOUCHES ON MARS-BOUND SPACECRAFT
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India's first Mars probe is preparing for launch in late October on a trial run to the red planet to lay the technological foundation for future Indian deep space missions.

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FIFTH WGS COMMUNICATIONS CRAFT ENTERS MILITARY SERVICE
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The U.S. Air Force has taken control of its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, and a sixth high-throughput WGS spacecraft is on track to join the Defense Department's most capable fleet of communications satellites by the end of 2013, prime contractor Boeing announced last week.

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LADEE ARRIVES AT THE MOON FOR LUNAR SCIENCE MISSION
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NASA's LADEE spacecraft slipped into orbit around the moon Sunday, beginning a feverish four-month campaign to demonstrate a next-generation laser communications system and answer long-standing questions about the nature and origin of the tenuous lunar atmosphere.

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SES 8 SATELLITE SHIPPED FOR NEXT FALCON 9 LAUNCH
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A communications satellite booked for the next launch of the Falcon 9 rocket was transported by truck from Virginia to Florida this week as SpaceX seeks to allay the worries of the payload's owner - the global commercial operator SES - and the insurance community after the Falcon 9's test flight Sunday encountered a second stage engine restart anomaly.

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PROTON'S RETURN-TO-FLIGHT MISSION DELAYED BY GLITCH
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Grounded since a startling launch failure in July, Russia's Proton rocket will have to wait at least another two weeks to resume flights due to a technical problem on the booster's first stage.

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MAVEN GRANTED REPRIEVE FROM GOVERNMENT CLOSURE
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Engineers returned to work on NASA's next Mars mission at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday after receiving an emergency exception under federal law to continue launch preparations for a $671 million orbiter to probe the red planet's atmosphere.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Long-range forecast: Sunny spell will …wipe out life on Earth | The Raw Story

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Atlas 5 arrives at launch pad for Wednesday flight

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ATLAS 5 ARRIVES AT LAUNCH PAD FOR WEDNESDAY FLIGHT
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With its U.S. Air Force payload mounted on top, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rolled to its oceanfront launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a predawn blastoff Wednesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av041/status.html

ANTARES LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION MOVED BACK A DAY
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Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Saturday the launch of its Antares rocket with the company's first functioning Cygnus cargo craft for the International Space Station will be delayed one day to change out a faulty cable. Liftoff from Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is now set for Wednesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/cots1/status.html

JAPAN'S 'AFFORDABLE' EPSILON ROCKET MAKES DEBUT LAUNCH
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A Japanese rocket designed to make launches cheaper and more efficient blasted off from southern Japan on Saturday, achieving success on its first flight with a compact telescope to peer at Mars, Venus and Jupiter and observe their response to blasts of solar wind.

http://spaceflightnow.com/epsilon/sprinta/130914launch/

MORE TESTING NEEDED BEFORE SPACEX'S NEXT LAUNCH
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SpaceX has scheduled a second static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket for Wednesday, with liftoff of the upgraded launcher from the company's new California launch pad expected later in September.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/006/status.html

http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/astra2e/130913delay/

VOYAGER 1 CROSSES OVER INTO INTERSTELLAR SPACE
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Covering nearly a million miles a day, NASA's nuclear-powered Voyager 1 spacecraft, 36 years and 12 billion miles from Earth, has crossed the boundary between the sun's influence and interstellar space, sailing into the vast gulf between the stars to become humanity's first true starship, scientists announced Thursday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1309/12voyager/

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Three-man space station crew returns to Earth tonight

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THREE-MAN SPACE STATION CREW RETURNS TO EARTH TONIGHT
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Two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut packed up and readied their Soyuz spacecraft for undocking from the International Space Station overnight Tuesday, setting up a fiery plunge back to Earth to close out a 166-day stay in orbit.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/130910prelanding/

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http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/status2.html

SPACE STATION CAMERAS RECORD HTV'S DESTRUCTION
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Japan's HTV cargo craft plunged back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean last weekend, leaving a brilliant trail of fire visible from the International Space Station.

http://spaceflightnow.com/h2b/htv4/130910entryphotos/

LOCKHEED MARTIN LANDS COMMERCIAL ATLAS 5 CONTRACT
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A communications satellite for the Mexican government will launch on an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida in 2015, a rare win for the workhorse booster in the commercial launch market dominated by rockets from Europe, Russia and newcomer SpaceX.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1309/09morelos/

MINOTAUR 5'S DAZZLING NIGHTTIME LAUNCH IN PHOTOS
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Observers up and down the U.S. East coast got a spectacular light show Friday night as NASA's LADEE moon mission rocketed into space from Virginia aboard a Minotaur 5 rocket. We present photos of the launch submitted from readers and imagery captured by remote cameras near the launch pad.

VIEWS FROM NEW YORK CITY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/longexposures/

REMOTE LAUNCH PAD CAMERAS:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/remotes/

EPSILON ROCKET'S MAIDEN LAUNCH RESET FOR SATURDAY
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The next launch attempt for Japan's new Epsilon rocket is scheduled for no earlier than Sept. 14 after a last-minute hold in the launcher's first countdown in late August, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

http://spaceflightnow.com/epsilon/sprinta/status.html

MOON MISSION BLASTS OFF, OVERCOMES POINTING PROBLEM
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NASA's latest moon mission, a $280 million project to study the lunar atmosphere, soared to space aboard a Minotaur 5 rocket Friday in a brilliant late-night launch from Virginia that lit up skies all along the U.S. East Coast.

http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/130907launch/

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http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/status.html

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Mars One: The psychology of isolation, confinement and 24-hour Big Brother | The Raw Story

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Quick look: NASA’s ambitious asteroid grabbing mission - Network World

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Japanese cargo craft leaves station

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HTV DEPARTS SPACE STATION AFTER RESUPPLY MISSION
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Japan's fourth H-2 Transfer Vehicle left the International Space Station on Wednesday, setting up for a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday and clearing the way for the arrival of a privately-owned Cygnus resupply ship later this month.

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CHINESE MILITARY PAYLOAD SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
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China launched three military surveillance satellites Sunday aboard a Long March 4C rocket, but government officials are keeping their mission a secret.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1309/02longmarch/

ZENIT ROCKET RESUMES FLIGHTS AFTER FEBRUARY FAILURE
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An Israeli communications satellite successfully launched Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the first flight of a Zenit rocket since the same type of launcher lost control and crashed into the Pacific Ocean moments after liftoff in February.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1308/31zenit/

HEAVY-LIFTING ARIANE 5 DELIVERS FOR THREE CUSTOMERS
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An Ariane 5 rocket fired its clean-burning hydrogen-fueled main engine, passed an automated check of dozens of health parameters, and lit two tube-shaped solid rocket boosters to blast away from its launch pad in the Amazon jungle Thursday with two communications satellites to serve the Middle East, North Africa and India.

http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va215/130829launch/

AMERICA'S LARGEST ROCKET LIFTS OFF FROM CALIFORNIA
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Igniting its three main engines in a staggered sequence for the first time, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket successfully flew into Earth orbit and deployed a U.S. national security satellite Wednesday.

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