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Discovery Go For Wednesday LaunchKSC FL (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 The Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team voted unanimously to proceed toward Discovery's targeted liftoff at 3:52 p.m. Wednesday. Mike Moses, chair of the Prelaunch Mission Management team, said there are no technical issues in work. "The mission's in great shape," Moses said. The weather forecast calls for a 70 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time. Those odds fall to 40 percent for Thursday. The launch window extends until Sunday. Discovery is headed to the Intern ... read more |
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  e2v To Develop Image Sensors For PLATO Exoplanet Mission e2v has been awarded a contract to develop a new Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensor by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space scie ... more | .. |
  Galaxy Cluster, Quasar 3C 186 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an unusual galaxy cluster that contains a bright core of relatively cool gas surrounding a quasar called 3C 186. This is the most distant such object ye ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more | .. |
  Intellian Introduces Powerful v60G Marine VSAT Communications Antenna Systems Intellian has announced a new addition to its range of VSAT communications antennas, the v60G. Designed for recreational, smaller commercial and oil and gas vessels, or for use in space-constrained ... more | .. |
  Witch's Brew Aids J-2X Engine Hardware Assembly Manufacturing of NASA's J-2X rocket engine includes a Halloween plunge into an icy cauldron of liquid nitrogen. Key components of the J-2X fuel turbopump, the rotating machinery that drives the liqu ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2010Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position an interesting geologic contact within the reach of the robotic arm instruments. On Sol 2399 (Oct. 23, 2010), the robotic arm (Instrument Development Device, IDD) collected an Microscopic Imager (MI) ... more 
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 02, 2010Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was at least one outpost that scientists think bucked the trend. A team led by planetary geologists at Brown University has discovered mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone less than 3.5 ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2010Scientists believe they finally understand why one of the most dynamic regions in Saturn's rings has such an irregular and varying shape, thanks to images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. And the answer, published online in the Astronomical Journal, is this: The rings are behaving like a miniature version of our own Milky Way galaxy. This new insight, garnered from images of Saturn's ... more |
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Western Australia To Host US Defense Space BaseCanberra, Australia (XNA) Nov 02, 2010 Western Australia will host a new multimillion-dollar U.S. defense base to spy on foreign satellites and keep watch on dangerous space junk, local media reported on Saturday. Fairfax newspapers reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is poised to announce the space base when he visits Australia next week with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As a major expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Australia, the paper said the base is likely to be built at the top secret Harold E ... read more |
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