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February 19, 2014

Company Plans Free Worldwide Wi-Fi Beamed From CubeSats

'The Outernet' Would Utilize Hundreds Of The Small Satellites For Connectivity

A business accelerator focused on independent media delivery systems is incubating its first project: Outernet, which it says is the world’s first truly global media delivery service.

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Chinese Moon Rover Survives Lunar Night

But Yutu Is Not 100 Percent Operational, Officials Say

China's Yutu moon rover has apparently survived the frigid lunar night, but is not quite ready to get back to work, according to the Chinese space agency.

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Another Vega Launcher For Arianespace Takes Shape At Guiana Spaceport

Payload Will Be A Satellite For The Republic Of Kazakhstan

The launcher for Arianespace’s initial Vega flight of 2014 began its build-up this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the first step in a mission campaign that will lead to its orbiting of the DZZ-HR high-resolution observation satellite. To initiate the activity, Vega’s P80 first stage was transferred yesterday from the Spaceport’s Booster Integration Building to the SLV launch zone. 

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Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle

Opportunity's Wheel Broke The ‘Pinnacle Island' Rock From A Larger Specimen, NASA Says

Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in early January. Only about 1.5 inches wide, the white-rimmed, red-centered rock caused a stir last month when it appeared in an image the rover took Jan. 8 at a location where it was not present four days earlier.

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New Space Shuttle Exhibit To Open Feb. 26

On Display At The National Museum Of The U.S. Air Force

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will be cleared for liftoff when the museum's new Space Shuttle Exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 26.

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U.S. Cargo Spacecraft Wraps Up Its First Station Resupply Mission

Will Burn Up On Re-Entry Over The Pacific Ocean

Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus spacecraft, which delivered  nearly one-and-a-half tons of supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station in January, completed its first commercial cargo mission to the orbiting laboratory Tuesday.

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