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Preparations On Pace For Discovery MissionCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2010 Less than a week before launch, technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue careful preparations on space shuttle Discovery for the STS-133 mission. Workers are close to wrapping up the installation and connection of ordnance on the shuttle stack and will begin closing out the solid rocket booster forward skirt tonight. The STS-133 crew, commanded by veteran astronaut Steve Lindsey, will conduct its final ascent simulation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston today and revi ... read more |
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  AeroVironment Global Observer Stratospheric UAV Completes Initial Testing AeroVironment reports that the first aircraft developed under the Global Observer Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) program has successfully completed initial flight testing consistin ... more | .. |
  Inexpensive orbital launches described A U.S. company says it wants to offer inexpensive launch capabilities to dozens of universities and organizations hoping to put small satellites into orbit. ... more | .. |
  Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse Of Distant Stars An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or "starquakes," that yield new insights about the size, ag ... more | .. |
  Japan's BSAT-3B Satellite Ready For Launch The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan, is ready for liftoff on Oct. 28 aboard an Ariane 5-ECA l ... more | .. |
  Countdown To Comet Flyby Down To Nine Days NASA's EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per second. On Nov. 4 at about 10:01 a.m. EDT (7:01 a.m. PDT) the spacecraft will ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Oct 27, 2010A few swipes of the pen in Brussels yesterday forged the latest link in the chain of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. ESA signed a contract with Spaceopal, the company providing ground-based services needed to operate the Galileo constellation once it has been fully deployed. The agreement on 25 October was signed by Rene Oosterlinck, ESA's Director of the Galileo Programme an ... more  
Santa Cruz, Calif. (UPI) Oct 25, 2010 New evidence suggests beneath its obscuring cloud cover Venus may be geologically active like the present Earth, not long dead like Mars, U.S. scientists say. More than 1,000 volcanoes have been observed on the surface of Venus but scientists have long sought definitive evidence that the planet is active today, ScienceNews.org reports. Now, planetary geologists say they have spot ... more  
Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 26, 2010Lockheed Martin recently delivered the first two intra-fire unit communications hardware components for the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The two Message Routing Subsystem units are essential elements of the MEADS Internal Communications Subsystem (MICS) hardware, which will support the system-level integration and test of intra-fire unit communications for the a ... more |
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Soot From Space Tourism Rockets Could Spur Climate ChangeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 Rocket exhaust could become a significant contributor to global climate change in coming decades, according to a new study. The research finds that soot emitted by rockets - not their carbon dioxide emissions - has the greater potential to contribute to global climate change in coming decades. The researchers - funded by the Aerospace Corporation and NASA - assumed that a fast-growing suborbital space tourism market will develop over the next decade and examine the climate impact of soot and carbo ... read more |
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