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NASA plans two challenging spacewalks to fix ISS pumpWashington (AFP) Aug 2, 2010 NASA teams raced Monday to get ready for two challenging spacewalks to fix a pump module on the International Space Station's cooling system that dramatically failed last week. ISS astronauts will need a minimum of two spacewalks to remove the failed unit and replace it with a new one, and teams on the ground and in space were racing to do the first of the spacewalks on Thursday, Courtenay McMillan, the spacewalk flight director for the expedition, told reporters. Two astronauts were holding dry ... read more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Boeing has announced that the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite has entered service for the U.S. Air Force. It is now part of a constellation that is delivering significantly improved broadband communications to U.S. military forces and their allies in every theater of operation around the world. WGS is the U.S. Department of Defense's highest-capacity sa ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 02, 2010A Proton-M carrier rocket bearing three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 2, Russia's space agency said on Friday. "Preparation work on one of the three Glonass-M satellites is presently being completed at the Baikonur space center," Roskosmos said in a statement. The two other satellites will be ready for launc ... more 
Washington (AFP) Aug 1, 2010A failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station forced astronauts to re-route power Sunday as NASA planned emergency spacewalks to fix the problem. One of two cooling loops shut down Saturday night, triggering alarms throughout the orbiting station, which is manned by three Russian and three American astronauts. NASA said the crew is not in any danger, but an attempt o ... more |
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Opportunity Back To Normal OperationsPasadena CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2010 Opportunity's activities were impacted by the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode event. However, with the recovery of Odyssey, normal operations with the rover have resumed. Direct-to-Earth (DTE) X-band communications and some Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter relay passes were used by Opportunity, while Odyssey was unavailable to support data relay. On Sol 2309 (July 23, 2010), Opportunity collected remote sensing images along with an atmospheric argon measurement with the alpha particle X-ray spectrom ... read more |
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