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South Korea's First Rocket Set Up On Launch Pad Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 18, 2009 ![]() ULA Delta II Completes 20 Year Era Of GPS Launches ![]() The 48th successful and final Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite launch occurred today, ending one of the most successful space launch programs in American history. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched GPS IIR-21(M) into orbit from Space Launch Complex-17A at 6:35 a.m., EDT today. The first Air Force Delta II GPS launch occurred Feb. 14, 1989 and today's ... more |
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Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island Ethiopians dream of an electric car future Study warns US emissions progress may flatline Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Press Release from Business Wire: International Treatment Solutions Group Top EU court upholds nuclear green label Invasive plants and bacteria threaten Iraq's Euphrates ![]()
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Planned Rover Test To Run A Week Or More![]() Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained to gain as much distance in the sandbox as Spirit would need to complete on Mars to escape its predicament. The team expects to drive the test rover for several hundred meters, or yards, worth of ... more NASA's WISE Mission Arrives At Launch Site ![]() NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has arrived at its last stop on Earth - Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. WISE is scheduled to blast into space in December, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2. Orbiting around Earth, it will scan the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, unveiling hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and ... more NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield ![]() A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE, was vacuum-packed into a 15-inch diameter payload "shroud" and launched on a small sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on ... more |
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DLR At Moscow Aviation And Space Salon - MAKS 2009![]() For the third time since 2005, the German Aerospace Center is taking part in Russia's national aerospace exhibition, the MAKS Aviation and Space Salon. The exhibition is being held at Zhukovsky, 40 kilometres southeast of Moscow. From 18 to 23 August, DLR will showcase itself as Germany's national research establishment at a joint stand with the German aerospace industry. ... more India And Russia Complete Design Of New Lunar Probe ![]() India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday. The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here." ... more Ariane 5 Ready For This Week's Launch ![]() Arianespace has completed the payload integration on its fourth Ariane 5 to be launched in 2009, clearing the way for this vehicle's liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on Friday, August 21. The heavy-lift Ariane 5 has been fitted with its dual payload "stack" of the JCSAT-12 and Optus D3 telecommunications satellites, and is being readied for a rollout to the Spaceport's ELA-3 ... more |
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