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Tank leak delays Discovery launch until end NovemberCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 A hydrogen leak forced NASA to announce its fifth delay Friday to the space shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, this time until the end of November. A seven-inch (18 centimeter) long crack was found on the external fuel tank of the shuttle just hours before it was to launch, prompting the latest setback for the troubled mission after a spate of bad weather and electrical glitches. The Discovery launch, now set for November 30, aims to be the fourth and final shu ... read more |
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  Vega P80 First Stage Is Rolled Out To The Spaceport's Vega Launch Facility A representative P80 first stage for Vega is now on the launch pad in French Guiana, marking a milestone in preparations for next year's introduction of this lightweight vehicle, which will be opera ... more | .. |
 Boeing Launches Fourth Earth-Observation Satellite For Italy Boeing on Nov. 5 successfully launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO). A Delta II ... more | .. |
 Arianespace To Launch Azerbaijan's First Satellite The International Relations and Accounting Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan has chosen Arianespace to launch the country's first co ... more | .. |
  NASA Extends TIMED Mission For Fourth Time Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth's environment and space, not to mention collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA's T ... more |
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  Flight Of The Comet This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. During the encounter, the spacecraft and comet whisked past eac ... more | .. |
  Saudi Arabia, Ukraine To Hold Joint Space Explorations Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to cooperate in peaceful space exploration, the website of the Space Agency of Ukraine said on Saturday. The agreement was signed between Pres ... more | .. |
 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Engine Helps Boost 350th Launch Of A Delta Vehicle In conjunction with the 50th year of powering the Delta-family of rockets, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne celebrated the 350th launch of a Delta rocket by successfully helping to boost the fourth COSM ... more | .. |
 China Calls For Improved Earth Observation In Developing Countries Chinese Minister for Science and Technology Wan Gang has called for more international cooperation to boost research capabilities and the level of earth observation in developing countries. Co ... more |
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  China launching spacecraft at record rate China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said. ... more | .. |
 EPOXI Reveals Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft successfully flew past comet Hartley 2 at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) Thursday, Nov. 4. Scientists say initial images from the flyby provide new information about the co ... more | .. |
  NASA working to re-set Cassini spacecraft Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are working to understand what caused NASA's Cassini spacecraft to put itself into "safe mode," ... more | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Video Captures ABM Capabilities Of Distributed Aperture System For F-35 Northrop Grumman has released a video showing the successful detection and tracking of a two-stage rocket launch at a distance exceeding 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) with the company's AN/AAQ-37 Dis ... more |
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  ViaSat Sets New 4 Mbps Return Link Standard For Ku-Band ISR Satcom ViaSat has completed operational testing of an airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) satcom system that is providing transmission of 4 Mbit/sec through a high-speed return li ... more | .. |
  US Army Plans Large Manned-Unmanned Demo The U.S. Army is planning a largest-of-its-kind demonstration - called Manned Unmanned Systems Integration Concept, or MUSIC - at Dougway Proving Ground, Utah, in September of next year, service off ... more | .. |
  US Army Building Smarter Robots The U.S. Army is exploring ways to upgrade its fleet of roughly 3,000 small tactical robots in Iraq and Afghanistan designed to safeguard Soldiers by clearing buildings and caves and using sensors t ... more | .. |
 Orbital Launches MRT For Joint US/Japan Missile Defense Test Orbital Sciences has announced that it successfully launched a Medium Range Target (MRT) vehicle under a direct contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The MRT vehicle served as an inte ... more |
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  ORBIT To Supply Tri-Band Telemetry Tracking Systems To Patuxent River USNAWC ORBIT Communication Systems has announced the award of a contract for the supply of two Tri-Band (L/S/C) Telemetry Tracking Systems. The order was placed by the Telemetry Branch, Atlantic Test Range ... more | .. |
 ManTech Awarded US Army Contract To Provide ECCS In Afghanistan ManTech International has announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to provide Expeditionary Cellular Communications Service (ECCS) in Afghanistan. The contract is value ... more | .. |
 Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) achieved its third ballistic missile intercept using a Raytheon Standard Missile-3. During Thursday's test, which marked the 18th SM-3 intercept, the ... more | .. |
 Hughes Undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM Certification Hughes Network Systems has announced its HX System for land mobile, maritime and airborne communications-on-the-move (COTM) is undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) certification by the U.S. Strat ... more |
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