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Stacking Of New Space Vehicle Begins At Kennedy Space Center Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 09, 2009
For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform (MLP) at Kennedy Space Center, thanks to the hard work and dedication of an experienced team of employees from NASA and contractors United Space Alliance (USA) and Alliant Techsystems. The Ares I-X aft skirt, which was mated to a solid fuel segment in the Rotation, Process ... read moreAll systems 'go,' but weather iffy for Endeavour launch
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2009The shuttle Endeavour this week will make a third try at launching for a rendezvous with the International Space Station, after potentially hazardous hydrogen gas leaks twice delayed the mission, space officials said Wednesday. "I am happy to report that we are ready to proceed with launch countdown. We are ready to tank this vehicle on Saturday morning and proceed with our launch on ... more
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Orbital To Build New Space Science Satellite To Study X-Ray Polarization
Dulles VA (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Orbital Sciences has announced that it has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new low-Earth orbit (LEO) space science satellite that will study X-ray polarization in space. Under the $40 million contract, Orbital will provide the spacecraft bus and conduct mission operations for the Goddard Space Flight ... more New Portrait Of Omega Nebula's Glistening Watercolours
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 09, 2009The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). An active star-forming region of gas and dust about 15 light-years across, the nebula has recently spawned a cluster of massive, hot stars. The intense light and strong winds from these hulking infants have carved ... more New Horizons Wakes For Annual Checkout
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 09, 2009New Horizons is up from the longest nap of its cruise to Pluto, as operators "woke" the spacecraft from hibernation yesterday for its annual series of checkouts and tests. The actual wake-up call went in months ago; the commands for New Horizons to power up and reawaken its hibernating systems were radioed to its computer before it entered hibernation on Dec. 16, 2008. During hibernation ... more NASA works on Spirit's extraction
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 7, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it's using a test rover placed in a sandbox to simulate how best to get the rover, Spirit, extracted from loose Martian soil. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said they are using a special soil that simulates Spirit's predicament on Mars to assess possible maneuvers for getting Spirit onto firmer ground. They began Monday with the simplest ... more |
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Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Launchspace has been studying the space debris issue with an eye toward private sector participation. After all, we cannot expect world governments to willingly contribute to debris reduction until they have to. No agency of a space-faring nation will want to commit huge amounts of funding to the removal of space objects. These agencies are only interested in placing satellites in orbit in ... more Astrophysicists Solve Mystery In Milky Way Galaxy
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2009A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" believed to make up much of the mass of the universe. In two separate scientific papers, the most recent of which appears in the July 10 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, the ... more 40 years on, Paris shows 'A Man On the Moon'
Paris (AFP) July 8, 2009A rare photographic collection showing in Paris this week traces the entire 13-year US space odyssey that put Neil Armstrong on the moon and features original snapshots of the lunar landing. At the Palais de Tokyo arthouse until September 20, the exhibition features original prints of snapshots taken for NASA first by robots, then by astronauts, that were collected over a decade by two young ... more New Method Finds Most Distant Supernovae
Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Astronomers have yet again rewritten the record books for discovering the most distant supernovae. Using Hawaii's W.M. Keck Observatory and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), a team has identified remnants of two massive stars that exploded roughly 11 billion years ago. Studying the deaths of these early stars is essential to understanding the evolution of the Universe and how its ... more |
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