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Review says Canadian controls hamper aerospace sales  Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 01:55 PM PST (Reuters) - Canada's aerospace industry is not selling as much as it could in countries such as Russia and China because of overly zealous government enforcement of controls designed to guard against leaks of sensitive technology, an industry review released on Thursday says. Companies in other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries, which have more "balanced" controls, are picking up the slack, the report said. ... Full Story	Top
No organic material found on Mars yet, NASA says  Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 01:15 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first soil analysis of the Red Planet with no sign of organic material, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. "Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect," NASA said in a statement. "At this point, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics. ... Full Story	Top
NASA probe reveals organics, ice on Mercury  Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 11:35 AM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday. Earth-based telescopes have been compiling evidence for ice on Mercury for 20 years, but the finding of organics was a surprise, say researchers with NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the first probe to orbit Mercury. ... Full Story	Top
South Korean civil rocket launch called off, again  Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 01:07 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea canceled the launch of its first space rocket on Thursday after a glitch in the propulsion system halted the countdown just minutes before the scheduled lift-off. It was South Korea's third attempt to put a rocket into orbit and the second time this particular mission has failed. October's scheduled launch was also called off due to a glitch in the Russian-built booster. "We are currently analyzing the cause and expect it will take additional time to identify the exact cause," Lee Joo-ho, Minister of Education, Science and Technology told reporters. ... Full Story	Top

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