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National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff	NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles.
Fast Company April 2010 Damian Joseph	What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather.
AskMen.com	NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.
National Defense March 2009 Robert H. Williams	Space Sensor Measures Serosol Impact On Climate NASA will soon be receiving a space-based system that should help scientists better understand the impact of aerosols on climate change and global warming
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	NASA names Honeywell for deep-space test mission NASA flight engineers needed data processing and control systems for a new mission -- a space flight validation mission that will test technologies for future deep space missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	NASA picks Octagon Systems for balloon computer The PC-680 SBC is able to manage data flow for NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) program.
Science News August 19, 2000	Earth Views The "Global View of the Earth" Web site offers lesson plans and other material for middle school teachers interested in classroom use of images taken by NASA's Landsat-7 satellite.
Geotimes September 2003 Naomi Lubick	Final mission for Galileo A small, sturdy spacecraft known as Galileo will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere this Sunday at about 4 p.m. EST, after eight surprisingly productive years of observing the giant gassy planet and its moons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	Boeing Chooses Expand Networks's Compass Platform for Orbital Express Demonstration To test and optimize Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and telemetry data for satellite networks, Boeing selected the Compass Platform.
Popular Mechanics February 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Can NASA's New Climate Detective Find the Missing CO2? Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will ferry a CO2 sniffing satellite, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, into space, where it will try to unlock secrets of Earth's carbon cycle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	NASA picks DRS sensor for satellite Awarded a $5.4 million contract, DRS Technologies will make advanced infrared sensor modules supporting the Wide-field Infrared Survey Experiment (WISE) mission of the NASA Medium Explorer program.
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Todd Hoeksema: A Flare for All Things Solar The researcher at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University in California helped NASA create a new "roadmap" for future solar physics research.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Sun Fuels Climate Change The recipe for global warming has changed, according to a new statistical analysis of solar output. The sun may be increasing its output and contributing to global warming more than previously thought.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Genesis Crashes with Pieces of the Sun The world watched last September as the spacecraft Genesis, launched in 1998, returned to Earth with a crash-landing on Utah's desert floor.
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CIO December 15, 2003 Malcolm Wheatley	A Visit to Europe's Mission Control AT 19:15 Greenwich Mean Time on June 2, 2003, after one Earth orbit, the space probe Mars Express separated from the final stage of the giant Soyuz-Fregat rocket launcher that had blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. Europe's mission to Mars was under way.
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IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Jean Kumagai	Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather.
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Popular Mechanics September 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John McHale	Rad-hard IC market remains solid Designers of radiation-hardened integrated circuits for space applications see the military market as remaining steady. Meanwhile, the hardening-by-design concept provides a less expensive alternative to designers.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo	NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum April 2010 Sigrid Close	Shooting Stars Can Shoot Down Satellites We don't know enough about meteoroids
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IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mason Peck	Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain.
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner	NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa.
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
AskMen.com	Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	Rad-Hard, Single-Board Computer for Space Avionics Introduced by Aitech The 3U CompactPCI 1 GHz rad-hard embedded computer is an enhanced version of the Aitech space-flown S950 single-board computer with increased processing power and data throughput.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage.
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Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA's New Spacecraft Will Touch The Sun Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will literally touch the surface of the sun.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	Classroom Space Travel Kit Team Encounter and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education have created the Classroom Space Travel Kit, which allows students worldwide to participate in a real space mission while they learn about the scientific principles on which the exercise is based.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
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National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	Small Drone Carries Any Payload You Want Front-line troops have a growing appetite for small drones that they can launch by hand. Now, a new aircraft has been thrown into the field to compete with the Ravens and Pumas already being used by the military.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg	Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system.