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Measuring how connected you are to the world around you is often a process of removing yourself from you current state in order to really understand the things you often take for granted. Today’s world is full of so many distractions that it can often be difficult to pay attention to the current events that shape the cultural landscape around us. Yet one easy-to-access service is making it convenient and more entertaining to find out what’s going on and hardly putting any effort into it. Satellite TV is arriving in places where basic cable was previously the only television service available. Modern technological improvements are inviting ordinary citizens to indulge in a whole new method of getting connected with the world in which they live.

Orbcomm Inc. announced the successful launch of VesselSat 2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl, an affiliate of OHB System AG.
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After 16 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views into the extreme environments around white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
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For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will use deployable solar arrays as its primary power source for running sensors, driving heating and cooling systems, and communicating with SpaceX’s Mission Control Center and the Space Station.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space.
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“The Fobos-Grunt project was inherently risky and it was underfunded to begin with. There’s no need for conspiracy theories, and no reason to take [Roskosmos head] Popovkin’s suggestion seriously. Maybe he meant extraterrestrials?” – Alexei Sinitsky, editor of aerospace trade journal Aviatsionnoye Obozreniye, according to Christian Science Monitor.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Zi Yuan 3 [ZY-3], VesselSat 2; Date: 9 January 2012, 0317 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The remote-sensing satellite, which had a lift-off mass of 2,650 kg, entered an orbit of 500 km above the Earth about 12 minutes after it was launched.
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The European Space Agency has published a list of events with ESA participation in 2012. Among them is the inaugural flight of the Vega, which has slipped to February.
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