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MARS ROVERS RENEWED
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As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with
Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space
agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations,
as long as they keep working.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040921renew.html
A NEW CLUE FROM MARS?
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Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of
water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap.
This result gives a boost to understanding of geological and atmospheric
processes on Mars, and provides important new hints to evaluate the
hypothesis of life present on the Red Planet.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/20marsmethane/
WHAT GENESIS SOLAR PARTICLES CAN TELL US
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The recent crash of NASA's Genesis space probe may have looked like bad
news for scientists, but its cargo of particles captured from the sun
should still yield useful information, according to Qing-Zhu Yin, a
planetary scientist at University of California-Davis.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/21genesis/
SUGAR IN SPACE PROVIDES CLUE TO ORIGIN OF LIFE
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Astronomers have discovered a frigid reservoir of simple sugar molecules
in a cloud of gas and dust some 26,000 light-years away, near the center
of our Milky Way Galaxy. The discovery suggests how the molecular building
blocks necessary for the creation of life could first form in interstellar
space.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/21sugar/
NASA PICKS CONTRACTOR FOR FIRST PROMETHEUS MISSION
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory selected Northrop Grumman Space
Technology as the contractor for co-designing the proposed Prometheus
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft. The contract award is for
approximately $400 million, covering work through mid-2008.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/20jimo/
ALCATEL SIGNS A NEW CONTRACT FOR EXPRESS AM33 AND AM44 PAYLOADS
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Alcatel has announced the signature of a new contract with the Russian
Satellite Communications Company to develop and deliver the payloads for
the Express AM33 and AM44 communications satellites.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/20express/
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