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Small Asteroid To Pass Within Earth-Moon System TuesdayPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 12, 2010 A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. The asteroid, 2010 TD54, will have its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000 kilometers (27,960 miles) at 6:50 EDT a.m. (3:50 a.m. PDT). At that time, the asteroid will be over southeastern Asia in the vicinity of Singapore. During its flyby, Asteroid 2010 TD54 has zero probability of impacting Earth. A telescope of the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey north of Tucson, Arizona discovered ... read more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 11, 2010NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., collaborated with NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Calif., to successfully complete a series of thruster tests at the White Sands test facility. The test will aid in maneuvering and landing the next generation of robotic lunar landers that could be used to explore ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2010Arianespace has organized a meeting of all European manufacturers involved in the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega programs at its company headquarters in Evry, near Paris. The annual meeting organized by Arianespace brings together all European manufacturers of launch systems, including both launch vehicles and facilities. Participants reviewed the events of the previous year, and jointly defined ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 11, 2010Simulating possible chemical processes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, an international team including University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst and Professor Roger Yelle demonstrated the synthesis of complex organic compounds, such as amino acids and nucleotide bases, which are the basic building blocks of life on Earth. The molecules discovered include the fiv ... more |
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LockMart Contracts For Next-Gen ICBM Reentry Field SupportKing Of Prussia PA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010 Lockheed Martin has announced that it has received a $106 million engineering, manufacturing and development contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to develop the next-generation Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) for the U.S. Air Force's Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. Under the 58-month contract awarded in July, Lockheed Martin will design, develop, test and deliver two sets of RFSE. Production of an additional 10 RFSE sets for deployment to all operationa ... read more |
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