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More cracks found in shuttle external tankCape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Nov 10, 2010 Two cracks discovered in space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank could jeopardize the orbiter's planned final launch set for Nov. 30, officials said. Engineers beginning repair work on a crack in the tank's foam insulating layer Wednesday morning discovered the new cracks on the aluminum body of the tank. NASA officials say they are evaluating the cracks to determine how to repair them as the orbiter remains on its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This i ... read more |
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  Atoms-For-Peace - Galaxy Collision In Action European Southern Observatory astronomers have produced a spectacular new image of the famous Atoms-for-Peace Galaxy (NGC 7252). This galactic pile-up, formed by the collision of two galaxies, provi ... more | .. |
  Sunrise Reveals Sun's Magnetic Building Blocks The first results of the Sunrise mission led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now been published. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) i ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Companies For Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle Studies NASA has selected 13 companies for negotiations leading to potential contract awards to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts, propulsio ... more |
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  NASA NIA To Sponsor Student Planetary Rover Challenge Few NASA projects in recent years have captured the public's attention like the Mars rovers. Now researchers are hoping the chance to design a future rover may capture university students' interest. ... more | .. |
  SAS Announces Inaugural Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum Special Aerospace Services will host its first Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum on January 12-14. The forum is being held in Boulder, Colorado, and will present a focused and conce ... more | .. |
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 China leads Asian thrust in research: UN Asia, led by China, is fast challenging America, Europe and Japan in spending on scientific research and development but still lags on key criteria of inventiveness, according to a UN report to be published on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersi ... more |
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  Cassini To Resume Nominal Operations Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24. They have traced the steps taken by an onboard computer ... more | .. |
 NASA begins examination of Discovery NASA says its engineers are investigating the fuel leak that delayed and then canceled last week's launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
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  Cool Star Is A Gem Of A Find NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. WISE is scanning the whole sky in infrared light, ... more | .. |
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APEC host Japan shows high-tech face amid rare earths fears As it hosts an Asia-Pacific summit, Japan is showing off robots, green cars and space probes to prove its high-tech credentials despite slow growth and threats to crucial rare earth supplies. ... more | .. |
 Iran to test own S-300 missiles despite Russia: commander Iran is to test its own homemade S-300 ground-to-air missiles, built in defiance of ally Russia which backed out of a deal to supply the device, a top Iranian military commander said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 UAE Missile Deal Worth 140 Million Announced The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress November 3 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the United Arab Emirates of 100 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) a ... more | .. |
  DSP Satellite System Celebrates 40 Years Tomorrow the 460th Space Wing at Buckley Air Force Base will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite. It was the beginnings of a satellite c ... more | .. |
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  Japanese Troops Successful In Patriot Test Firings The Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) successfully concluded its annual training exercise at Fort Bliss, Texas. The exercise included target engagement and successful test firings of th ... more |
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