February 15, 2017
India successfully launched a record breaking 104 satellites aboard a single launch booster this week, including 88 Earth observation microsatellites from the U.S. start-up Planet Labs, as well as microsatellites from Israel, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-14/india-readies-record-satellite-launch-as-space-war-intensifies
http://newatlas.com/india-isro-satellite-launch-record/47919/
http://mashable.com/2017/02/12/planet-record-breaking-satellite-launch/#G0aCleuqqOqC
Arianespace conducted its first Ariane 5 launch of the year, placing the SKY Brasil-1 and Telkom-3S satellites on a trajectory towards geostationary orbit.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/02/ariane-5-sky-brasil-1-telkom-3s-passengers/
NASA has identified three candidate landing sites for its planned 2020 Mars rover mission.
http://www.space.com/35678-nasa-2020-mars-rover-three-landing-sites.html
https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/13/scientists-narrow-list-of-landing-sites-for-nasas-next-mars-rover/
Researchers examining data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are puzzling as to why they have discovered only one ice volcano of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. A leading theory is that other cryovolcanoes must have once existed, but have since crumbled away due to the warmer conditions that exist at Ceres - as opposed to moons and other bodies where cryovolcanoes have been found further away from the sun.
http://www.futurity.org/ceres-cryovolcano-1354692-2/
A team of researchers has released a dataset documenting more than 100 likely exoplanets that need to be independently confirmed. The team has cataloged observations from 1,624 stars, all within 325 light years from Earth.
https://thespacereporter.com/2017/02/exoplanet-hunting-team-finds-100-potential-planets/
http://newatlas.com/radial-velocity-star-dataset/47905/
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronomy_team_releases_planet_search_data_finds_more_than_100_candidates_999.html
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