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GRAIL films the far side of the Moon

Ebb and Flow are the two probes in NASA’s GRAIL mission. They are studying our natural satellite’s gravitational field. Ebb recently filmed the far side of the Moon, the side that we on Earth never see.

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Design a stamp for the Red Planet

With La Poste (the French Post Office), the CNES (the French Space Agency) is inviting 10-17 year olds to design a stamp for Mars. The prize for this competition is a trip to watch a launch in Guiana! French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy is supporting this initiative.

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26 planets and 11 systems for Kepler

To date, the Kepler space telescope has discovered more than 2,000 potential extrasolar planets. 26 of these planets that orbit suns other than our own have just been confirmed in 11 star systems.

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Opportunity: 8 years on Mars

NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on the Red Planet on 25 January 2004. Designed to work for at least 90 days, it is still going! In 8 years, it has found indications suggesting the presence of liquid water in Mars’ past.

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Satellites guide humanitarian aid

Supported by the CNES, the French Space Agency, a company in Toulouse has fitted 100 all-terrain vehicles belonging to humanitarian organisations with satellite relays enabling them to be monitored and to establish communications for greater security.

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Primordial universe mapped by Planck

Able to see in the realm of microwave wavelengths, the European space observatory Planck has spent 30 months scanning the entire sky. The data gathered will show astronomers what the Cosmos looked like just 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

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Phobos-Grunt’s mission ends

The Russian probe that was to have brought samples back from one of Mars’ two moons became locked in Earth orbit after its launch. It finally re-entered the atmosphere on 15 January and its debris ended up in the Pacific Ocean.

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Soyuz in Guiana

This is the mythical rocket par excellence, the one that launched Sputnik, the first satellite and Gagarin, the first man in space. The CSG, Guiana Space Centre, is now one of its launch bases: a historic achievement.
Star Trek and NASA

The first episode of this famous science-fiction series was broadcast in September 1966. NASA has often made references to these programmes, as in the case of the space shuttle Enterprise, which had the same name as the spaceship in the series.
Alan Shepard, from suborbital to the Moon

50 years ago on 5 May 1961, a few weeks after Gagarin, American Alan Shepard reached space. Several years later, he was to walk on the Moon, summarising as it were the race in which the Soviet Union and the United States were competing.