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March 5, 2012

X-Class Solar Flare on March 5

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On March 5, 2012, an X1-class flare propelled a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) that will hit both Mercury and Venus.

Credit: NASA SDO

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March 5, 2012

X-Class Solar Flare on March 5

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On March 5, 2012, an X1-class flare propelled a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) that will hit both Mercury and Venus.

Credit: NASA SDO

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February 18, 2012

Plasma Indirection

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Streams of plasma above the surface of the Sun seen in extreme ultraviolet light for 30 hours on February 7, 2012. The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the high resolution frames at a cadence of one frame every four minutes.

Credit: NASA SDO

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February 17, 2012

50th Anniversary of Mercury Orbital Flight

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On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn circled the Earth three times during a flight that lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds.

Credit: NASA

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February 16, 2012

Proton-M/NSS-14 Rollout and Launch

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On February 14, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with the NSS-14 satellite. NSS-14 carries 52 C-band transponders and 72 Ku-band transponders to provide service to Europe/Middle East, West Africa, North America and South America. The expected lifetime of the satellite is 15+ years.

Credit: Roscosmos

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February 13, 2012

Vega Qualification Flight

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On February 13, 2012, the first Vega lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana. Vega carried nine small satellites into orbit: ASI\’s LARES laser relativity satellite and the University of Bologna\’s ALMASat-1, e-St@r (Italy), Goliat (Romania), MaSat-1 (Hungary), PW-Sat (Poland), Robusta (France), UniCubeSat GG (Italy) and Xatcobeo (Spain).

Credit: ESA

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