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 Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2009 
Two US astronauts on Wednesday completed the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the space shuttle Discovery's nine-day mission at the ISS, removing a massive coolant tank. With the help of the station's robotic arm and guided by shuttle Commander Rick Sturckow and spacewalk choreographer Pat Forrester, the duo removed the bulky - albeit weightless in space - liquid ammonia coolant tank from the ISS truss. A new, 800-kilogram replacement will be installed during the second spacewalk late ... read more 
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2009Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced delivery of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-129. The unit will be delivered by Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) and integrated in preparation for SpaceX's future ... more |
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Columbia MO (SPX) Sep 02, 2009Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Suns gravity, and their technique promises a major contribution to a frontier area of basic physics. "Measuring the curvature of space caused by gravity is one of the most sensitive ways to learn how Einsteins theory ... more  
Xichang, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2009Indonesian communications satellite Palapa D has been captured and is now able to conduct orbit maneuver, a few hours after an announcement that it failed to enter a preset orbit following its launch at 5:28 p.m. Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. The satellite is in a normal state, its manufacturer, the French company ThalesAlenia Space, said late Monday ... more  
Redlands CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2009The U.S. electric system, "the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century," is aging, inefficient, congested, and incapable of meeting future energy needs, according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report. As electric utilities work to overcome challenges laid out in the DOE report, they can find guidance in a new benchmark study that focuses on a smart grid and ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 02, 2009There are many different kinds of clouds in space, but none of them have anything to do with what we know as clouds on Earth - which are made out of tiny droplets of water. Originally - before the invention of the telescope - astronomers referred to all the shining, extended structures without clearly defined edges that they saw in space as 'clouds' (nebulae in Latin). Since even ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 01, 2009The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., finds that a star's motion through interstellar gas can account for many of them. "The disks contain small comet- or asteroid-like bodies that may grow to form planets," ... more 
Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 01, 2009As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way. That grisly fate is unlikely, a new study now suggests. While astronomers know that such collisions have probably occurred in the past, the new computer simulations show that instead of destroying a ... more |
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