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More delays for Discovery shuttle launchCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 2, 2010 The launch of the shuttle Discovery was delayed until Thursday, the latest in a series of glitches that have set back its final mission to the International Space Station. An electrical malfunction forced the US space agency to announce Tuesday the third delay so far, this time due to a problem with a circuit-breaker in the shuttle's cockpit. The new launch time is set for 1929 GMT on Thursday (3:29 pm local time), but the weather forecast was gloomier than before, with just a 30 percent chance ... read more |
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  Webb Telescope Primary Mirror Segment Completes Cryogenic Test Last week a primary mirror milestone was met for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project as the first gold-coated mirror segment finished testing in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at NASA's Mars ... more | .. |
  Epoxi On Final Approach To Comet Hartley 2 The EPOXI mission spacecraft has refined its path toward a Nov. 4 flyby of comet Hartley 2, successfully performing its final maneuver Tuesday at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT). The spacecraft burned its ... more | .. |
  Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more | .. |
 EPOXI May Face Multiple Cometary Jets During Hartley 2 Flyby Two movies derived from images taken by the two cameras aboard NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft show comet Hartley 2 is, as expected, quite active, and it provides information on the nucleus's rotati ... more |
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 Obama hails 'important milestone' in space exploration US President Barack Obama hailed the 10th anniversary of crews aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as an "important milestone" in the history of human space exploration. ... more | .. |
  Major Surgery Complete For Deep Space Network Antenna The seven-month upgrade to the historic "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has been completed. After a month of intensive testing, similar to the rehabilitation st ... more | .. |
  European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards This year's ESA Innovation Prize for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has been awarded to an application that uses satellites to detect river pollution. A separate prize supported by ES ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Completes Software Specification Review for GPS OCX Raytheon team has successfully completed a key design review of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Advanced Control Segment (OCX), signaling the team's readiness to proceed with the next developmen ... more |
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  Intellian i4 Withstands Fire And Remains Operational Intellian has announced that one of its i4 satellite TV antennas remained operational following a fire that engulfed a customer's fishing boat. Earlier this year while tied at dock, the fishin ... more | .. |
 Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more | .. |
  New Supercomputer To Enable Data Analysis Not Possible Today Imagine a tool that is a cross between a powerful electron microscope and the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing scientists from disciplines ranging from medicine and genetics to astrophysics, environ ... more | .. |
 Savi Challenges You To Imagine The Best Wireless Applications Savi Technology has announced Project Volcano, an industry wide challenge for developers to explode onto the scene and create new ways that everyone can benefit from wireless technology. The b ... more |
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 Boeing Helps Prepare Space Shuttle Discovery Final Payload Boeing engineers and technicians are supporting Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, in part by processing the shuttle's payload, which includes the last U.S. pressurized element to be delivered ... more | .. |
  AMS Discoveries Will Surprise, Lead Scientist Predicts The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) destined for the International Space Station already is collecting cosmic ray signatures, even as it sits in a work stand at the Space Station Processing Faci ... more | .. |
 New Galaxy Clusters Revealed By Cosmic Shadows An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. The survey was conducte ... more | .. |
  After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more |
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  National Space Society Announces The Kalam-NSS Energy Initiative The National Space Society will hold a press conference Thursday, November 4 at the National Press Club to reveal one of the first initiatives ever undertaken by a non-profit American organization a ... more | .. |
  S.Korea navy fires warnings shots at N.Korea fishing boat South Korea's navy fired warning shots Wednesday to drive back a North Korean boat which was fishing illegally in southern waters amid high tension along the Yellow Sea border, military officials said. ... more | .. |
  Israel to boost Tel Aviv's missile shield Israel's military has begun constructing a third battery of long-range, high-altitude Arrow anti-missile interceptors near Tel Aviv to boost defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. ... more | .. |
  LockMart Awarded High-Power Microwave Energy Weapon Contract Lockheed Martin received a $230,000 U.S. Air Force contract to define requirements for a weapon that uses high-power microwave energy beams instead of explosives to take out enemy electronic systems ... more |
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 N.Korea ready to provide torpedo sample over warship sinking North Korea said Tuesday it was ready to provide torpedo samples to back up its denial of responsibility for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan arrests double agent spying for China A Taiwanese military intelligence agent has been arrested for working as a double agent for China, the defence ministry and media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan missile to target Chinese air bases, ports: report Taiwan is developing a potent missile system that can strike airfields and harbours on the mainland, in a bid to nip a Chinese invasion in the bud, local media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  German town prepares tearful goodbye to British troops News that Britain would pull out all of its 20,000 soldiers based in Germany by 2020 hit communities like this tiny northern town like a bombshell. ... more |
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