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Feb 13 set as new date for Europe's Vega rocket
Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2012
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday that the first launch of a long-awaited light rocket, Vega, which had been pencilled for February 9, would take place on February 13.
Vega is being deployed at a new pad at ESA's space base at Kourou, French Guiana, to complement ESA's heavyweight Ariane 5 and the Russian-made medium launcher Soyuz.
An ESA spokesman told AFP that the new dat
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New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2012
An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, the planet orbits within the star's "habitable zone," where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.
The researchers found evidence of at
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Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission
Moscow (UPI) Feb 3, 2012
NASA says crew replacement on the International Space Station will be delayed following the failure of a Russian Soyuz capsule in a ground test.
Russian technicians overpressurized the Soyuz vehicle causing a split in welds on the descent module that brings the space crew back to Earth, Michael Suffredini, NASA's program manager for the space station, told The Washington Post Thursday.
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U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life
London (UPI) Feb 3, 2012
Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has been in a "super-drought" lasting 600 million years, British researchers say.
Scientists at Imperial College London said they based that assertion on analysis of Martian soil brought back to Earth from the 2008 NASA Phoenix mission.
Their three-year analysis suggests the Martian surface has been dry for such a lon
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Armadillo rocket flys high
Heath TX (SPX) Feb 03, 2012
Following detailed analysis of the downlinked telemetry and audio/video recordings from both ground based cameras and a camera that was recovered from the rocket, Armadillo Aerospace has determined that the maximum altitude attained by the STIG-A rocket in the January 28th mission was approximately 82-km MSL (~50 miles).
A failure of the ballute (balloon-parachute) recovery system meant th
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