From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: SpaceX's reusable rocket testbed takes highest hop yet
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GRASSHOPPER'S LATEST TEST REACHED 24 STORIES HIGH
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SpaceX's reusable rocket testbed completed another brief hop at a Texas test facility last week, rising 24 stories into the air and landing on its launch pad.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1303/11grasshopper/
ATLAS 5 FITTED WITH SATELLITE PAYLOAD FOR NEXT LAUNCH
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An Air Force surveillance satellite and its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster were joined together Thursday as the duo targets a March 19 blastoff from Cape Canaveral.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av037/payload.html
MARS PREDICTED TO GET CLOSE CALL FROM COMET IN 2014
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A newly-discovered comet is predicted to make a close flyby of Mars in October 2014, perhaps zipping just 31,000 miles from the red planet's surface.
http://astronomynow.com/news/n1303/05sidingspring/
A WINDOW INTO EUROPA'S OCEAN RIGHT AT THE SURFACE
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If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath. A new paper details the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.
http://astronomynow.com/news/n1303/05europa/
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