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SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft Completes High Altitude Drop TestHawthorne CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 SpaceX has announced their Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed a high altitude drop test - meeting 100% of test objectives. This is the last in a series of tests to validate parachute deployment systems and recovery operations before the craft's first launch. During the August 12th test, an Erikson S-64F Air-Crane helicopter dropped a test article of the Dragon spacecraft from a height of 14,000 feet, roughly nine miles off the coast of Morro Bay, California. In a carefully timed se ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 19, 2010The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully corrected on Thursday, an official of the Russian space flights control centre announced. The orbit was raised by 2.2 kilometres to 355.5 kilometres (220.9 miles), the official said, quoted by Interfax news agency. The manoeuvre was carried out using the engines of the Russian cargo vessel Progress M-06M. The orbital ... more 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2010A team of eight institutions that includes the University of Colorado at Boulder has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to participate in a newly formed Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. The center will focus on four major research areas: space launch operations and traffic management; launch vehicle systems; commercial human space flight; and spac ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2010Fifty years ago, Russia made a huge stride in its quest to send a man into orbit. On August 20, 1960, reporters crowded around two small but sprightly dogs, trying to get a good picture of the triumphant space travelers. Belka and Strelka, the first creatures to return safely to Earth after 24 hours in orbit, live on in the memories of former Soviets, unlike many of their predecessors, who ... more |
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Cosmic Lens Used To Probe Dark Energy For First TimePasadena CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 Astronomers have devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe - dark energy. This mysterious force, discovered in 1998, is pushing our universe apart at ever-increasing speeds. For the first time, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were able to take advantage of a giant magnifying lens in space - a massive cluster of galaxies - to narrow in on the nature of dark energy. Their calculations, when combined with data from other methods, significantly incr ... read more |
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