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Final Shuttle Motor Test CompletedHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for approximately 123 seconds - the same time each reusable solid rocket motor burns during an actual space shuttle launch. Preliminary indications show all test objectives were met. After final test data are analyzed, results for each objective will be published in a NASA report. ATK Launch Systems, a unit of Alliant Techsystems Inc ... read more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 26, 2010Arianespace's ability to accommodate its customers' launch timing requirements is being demonstrated once again with the scheduling of Eutelsat's W3B telecommunications satellite for an Ariane 5 launch this August/September. The newly-signed contract for this payload extends a highly successful 25-year cooperation with Eutelsat - as more than half of the telecommunications operator's satel ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2010Recreating how the seeds of life might have survived aboard an ancient meteorite that crashed to Earth is no small feat, but scientists have begun doing just that in their labs. Their high-impact experiments could help indicate whether life on Earth got its start from alien organic material that hitched a ride aboard space rocks. Perhaps one of the likeliest building blocks of primordial l ... more  
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2010An international group of astrophysicists has determined that a massive planet outside our Solar System is being distorted and destroyed by its host star - a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the planet, WASP-12b. It's a discovery that not only explains what's happening to WASP-12b; it also means scientists have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to observe how a planet en ... more |
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Elbit Systems Unveils It's UAS Intelligence Management CenterHaifa, Israel (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 Elbit Systems has unveiled its new Intelligence Management Center (IMC) for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The new center, already ordered by several customers around the world, enables management of UAS operational activities, training and simulating. The UAS management center's forte is its ability to provide the mission commander with data received by all deployed sensors. The mission commander is provided an overall picture, received from the various sources of intelligence gathering, ... read more |
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