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Space News from SpaceDaily.Com brings the space industry professional daily news from the frontier, with contract, bid, launch and on-orbit satellite news as it happens.
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THEMIS Satellites Discover What Triggers Northern Lights Eruptions
 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
What causes the shimmering, ethereal Northern Lights to suddenly brighten and dance in a spectacular burst of colorful light and rapid movement? To find out, NASA launched a fleet of five satellites called THEMIS, the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms.
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Shenzhou's Spacesuit Showdown
 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
China will fly two different types of extravehicular spacesuits on the upcoming Shenzhou 7 mission. This has now been confirmed by Chinese media reports. The announcement adds a curious and unexpected twist to China's saga of planning its first spacewalk.
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Trench On Mars Ready For Next Sampling By NASA Lander
 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water.
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Plasma Bullets Spark Northern Lights
 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers studying data from NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft. The gigantic bullets, they say, are launched by explosions 1/3rd of the way to the Moon and when they hit Earth-wow.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares For Next Sample Analysis
 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
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Boeing Delivers Fouth High-Definition TV Satellite To DIRECTV
 St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 -
Boeing Company has announced that DIRECTV has taken on-orbit delivery of the DIRECTV 11 satellite, which will continue to expand DIRECTV's industry-leading lineup of high-definition television channels and services to millions of households in the United States.
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