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NASA green-lights Discovery shuttle launch for FridayCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 NASA gave the go-ahead for a Friday launch of shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, after a series of delays brought on by bad weather and equipment problems. With 70 percent favorable weather conditions, technicians at Florida's Kennedy Space Center began pumping liquid hydrogen into the shuttle's orange external fuel tanks ahead of the launch now set for 3:04 pm (1904 GMT), the US space agency said. "The team is not working any issue right now preventing a launch on time," spac ... read more |
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  Odin Satellite Observes Water In Comet 103P Hartley 2 The Odin satellite observed Comet Hartley 2 almost continuously from 29 October to 1 November. The water signature (line) was easily detected. Its extension and space distribution is shown on a map ... more | .. |
  Herschel's Hidden Talent: Digging Up Magnified Galaxies It turns out the Herschel Space Observatory has a trick up its sleeve. The telescope, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, has proven to be excellent at finding magnifi ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: The Eye Of Typhoon Megi The German Aerospace Center radar satellite TerraSAR-X looked right into the eye of Typhoon Megi while it was in the middle of the South China Sea. The image, acquired on 21 October 2010, shows the ... more | .. |
 New Method Reveals Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies Astronomers using early data from one of the largest projects to be undertaken with the ESA Herschel Space Observatory have demonstrated that virtually all bright sub-millimetre galaxies in the dist ... more |
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  New High-Speed Data Link To Chilean Observatories Stretching 100 kilometers (60 miles) through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazo ... more | .. |
  Astronaut Ernst Messerschmid Returns To Spacelab Drops of orange juice that transform into cubes, astronauts sliding back and forth on a sled in zero gravity, repeated glimpses of the blue globe below. The images that reached Earth from the D1 Spa ... more | .. |
  All Systems Are Nominal Aboard Bsat-3b Satellite All systems are nominal aboard the BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan. The satelli ... more | .. |
  An International Response To Earth Threatening Asteroids International decision-making will be required to coordinate a global response to deflect a hazardous asteroid from impacting the Earth. A step forward in planetary defense is establishment of ... more |
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 Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow Of Dead Quasar While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange- ... more | .. |
  Supercomputer Models What Webb Telescope Will See As scientists and engineers work to make NASA's James Webb Space Telescope a reality, they find themselves wondering what new sights the largest space-based observatory ever constructed will reveal. ... more | .. |
  Function Analysis Drives The Development Of A Concept Mars Rover Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the ... more | .. |
 Did Earth Encounter Pieces Of An Alien Visitor Last Night Did Earth encounter pieces of an alien visitor last night? Apparently so! It appears tiny pieces of Comet Hartley 2 may have presented a spectacular and startling sky show across the country yesterd ... more |
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 Neutron Stars May Be Too Weak To Power Some Gamma-Ray Bursts A gamma-ray burst is an immensely powerful blast of high-energy light thought to be generated by a collapsing star in a distant galaxy, but what this collapse leaves behind has been a matter of deba ... more | .. |
  Virtual Flight On A Robotic Arm Only Andreas Knoblach's legs hang out from under the cover of the 'cockpit'. They are dangling five metres above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality 'capsule ... more | .. |
  Work On ISS Could Continue Until 2020 The International Space Station (ISS) could remain operational until 2020 if experts agree on the program of future on-board scientific experiments, a Russian cosmonaut said on Tuesday. The se ... more | .. |
 Last Tango In Space Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again - for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models ... more |
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  Astronomers Find Evidence Of Cosmic Climate Change A team of astronomers has found evidence that the universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. They measured the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies, and fou ... more | .. |
 Netherlands stops Shell's CO2 storage project The Dutch government said Thursday it will not allow oil giant Shell to store millions of tonnes of arbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir under a small town, upholding the fears of townspeople. ... more | .. |
  India Plans Two Rocket Launches Next Month India is planning two rocket launches next month that would carry on board home-made communication and remote sensing satellites, along with a Russian payload and a Singaporean micro spacecraft. ... more | .. |
 Flyby Observations To Offer Insight On Comet Nucleus Recent ground-based telescope observations by Planetary Science Institute researchers have offered new insights into the nucleus of a comet that will be the target of a NASA spacecraft flyby this we ... more |
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 Purdue Unveils Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator Purdue University has unveiled "Impact: Earth!" a new website that allows anyone to calculate the potential damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit the Earth. The interactive website ... more | .. |
 The Man Behind Comet Hartley 2 Over the last 40 years, Malcolm Hartley has done just about every possible job for Siding Spring Observatory's UK Schmidt telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The British-born, Scottish-educated ... more | .. |
  Acceptance Testing On Second R-4D Development Engine Completed Aerojet, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA ... more | .. |
  Few Americans using location-based services: Pew study Foursquare is one of the hottest tech startups around but few Americans are using it or similar location-based services, according to a report released on Thursday. ... more |
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