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September 23, 2009
NASA Sets Target Date For Ares I-X Rocket's Test Launch
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2009
NASA is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification. Senior managers made the decision after a meeting Monday at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Oct. 27 target date has been confirmed with the Air Force's Eastern Range. The launch window will extend from 8 a.m. to noon EDT. There is another launch opportunity ... read more

Proton Launch Delayed Due To Problem With Glonass Satellite
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2009
Russia's launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center has been delayed due to a problem with one of Glonass-M satellites, a source at the launch facility in Kazakhstan said Tuesday. The source said that the decision to delay the launch from Friday until a later date was "made not at the space center but in Moscow, at [Russian Space Agency] Roscosmos." ... more

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Phobos Grunt Including Phobos LIFE Delayed Until 2011
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2009
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of ... more

Oceansat-2 Set For Launch Tomorrow From Sriharikota
Chennai, India (PTI) Sep 23, 2009
Oceansat-2 satellite that would help identify potential fishing zones and provide inputs for weather forecasting is poised to be launched into orbit on board the Polar Launch Satellite Vehicle from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the east coast, 90 kms from here, Wednesday. Riding piggyback on the 970 kg Oceansat-2, six other nano satellites - four from Germany and one each from ... more

Looking For Life As We Don't Know It
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2009
Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research group in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with "exotic" biochemistry and solvents, such as sulfuric acid instead of water. Their research will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam by Johannes Leitner. The University of Vienna established a research group for Alternative Solvents as a Basis for ... more

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    Argon On The Moon
    Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 23, 2009
    In early October, NASA's LCROSS mission will impact a crater near the Moon's south pole, creating a massive plume of debris that will be visible from Earth. Telescopes on the ground, and on board the LCROSS shepherd spacecraft, will search this plume for evidence of water vapour. The main goal of this mission is to provide evidence of ice deposits in the Moon's polar regions, which are ... more

    School Kids Track LCROSS
    Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 22, 2009
    Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon. On Oct. 9th, LCROSS will smash into the inky-dark shadows of a crater near the Moon's south pole in search of water. Eager youngsters are locked on to LCROSS's signal as intently as they've ever viewed a video game ... more

    Astronomy Question Of The Week: How Quickly Is The Universe Expanding
    Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2009
    In the 1920s, Edwin Powell Hubble was analysing the distances between Earth and various galaxies using the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. In the process, he measured the electromagnetic radiation of the galaxies and discovered mostly what are known as 'redshifts' in their spectra; that is, in the distributions of the various wavelengths. The Doppler effect, among other things, is ... more

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