New Russian module for space station poised to launch

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RUSSIAN ROCKET ROLLS TO PAD WITH SPACE STATION MODULE
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A Soyuz rocket topped with the new Poisk module for the International
Space Station took a train ride to historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday morning, two days before the new component
begins its trek to the orbiting complex.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp21/091108mrmroll/


GROUND TEAMS STRUGGLE TO SAVE MARS ORBITER FROM ITSELF
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Although engineers are still weeks from uplinking new command logic to
eliminate an unlikely, but potentially fatal, scenario jeopardizing the
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the mission's project manager said Friday he
is confident the $720 million mission will resume soon.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/07mro/


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SPACE MARKETS POST GROWTH, DEFY ECONOMIC CRISIS
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Markets for commercial communications satellites, Earth observation
spacecraft and their launchers, all remarkably unaffected by the global
economic crisis, continue to soar toward yearly double digit growth,
generating billions in annual revenues.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/07markets/


FOREIGN LAND AWAITS SOYUZ ROCKETS LEAVING RUSSIA
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The first two Soyuz rockets scheduled to lift off from the Guiana Space
Center next year will take their first step toward space Saturday,
beginning a transatlantic ocean voyage to a jungle spaceport instead of
heading for the familiar steppes of Kazakhstan.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/06soyuzship/


SMALL EUROPEAN SATELLITES LOOK TO HITCH RIDE TO SPACE
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Future light European institutional missions are slated to shift from
using Russian launchers to the Vega rocket when it begins flying late next
year, but officials with Russian launch providers say they are not giving
up on the market just yet.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/05eurockot/


NASA JUGGLES MANIFEST FOR FUTURE ARES TEST FLIGHTS
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One week after the first major flight test of the agency's new Ares 1
rocket, NASA is closer to cancelling a demonstration launch called Ares
1-Y, potentially replacing it with a new, still undefined test flight in
2012 or 2013.

http://spaceflightnow.com/ares1x/091104ares1y/

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