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Two cracks found on Discovery's fuel tankWashington (AFP) Nov 11, 2010 Engineers have found two cracks on the external tank of the space shuttle Discovery after delaying its launch until the end of this month following a hydrogen leak, NASA said Thursday. The cracks were found late Wednesday on an aluminium strip which separates the liquid oxygen tank and the liquid hydrogen tank when technicians removed foam insulation from the external tank, the US space agency said. The strip, known as a stringer, provides structural integrity for the external tank where liquid ... read more |
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  A Strategy To Search For Life On Mars The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t ... more | .. |
  EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems (EOS) on Wednesday welcomed the joint Australian-U.S. partnership to boost tracking of space debris. A leader in the field of space tracking, EOS has bee ... more | .. |
  Faster Flood Forecasting At SERVIR-Africa In September 2010, SERVIR Science Coordinator Dr. Ashutosh Limaye made his first journey to the SERVIR-Africa node at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, or RCMRD, in Nairo ... more | .. |
  NASA Test Fires New Rocket Engine for Commercial Space Vehicle NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted a successful test firing Wednesday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Taurus II s ... more |
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 Rocketdyne To Perform Risk-Reduction Tests On 3GRB Engine The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne a $2.35 million contract to perform risk-reduction tests on key components of the Third Generation Reusable Booster ... more | .. |
  Hispasat 1E And KOREASAT Will Ride On 199th Arianespace Launcher Components for another heavy-lift Ariane 5 have arrived at the Spaceport as Arianespace maintains its sustained launch rate for 2010 and beyond, meeting the requirements of its growing international ... more | .. |
 SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more | .. |
  XTAR Awarded Bandwidth Contract From Intelsat General XTAR has been awarded a bandwidth contract from Intelsat General Corporation. The contract calls for XTAR to provide Intelsat General with 16MHz of high power X-band services from its XTAR-LANT sate ... more |
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 All Systems Nominal Aboard LM BSAT-3b Satellite All systems are nominal aboard the BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan. The satellite was launched Oc ... more | .. |
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  ISS Operations Mark 10 Years Ten years ago the crew of Expedition 1 (the ISS-1) began to work onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Station operation in the manned mode was started. This historical moment became po ... more | .. |
 ISRO To Send Up New Communication Satellite In 2010 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expected to close 2010 with the launch of communication satellite GSAT-5P, which will replace the ageing INSAT 2E to ensure continuity of service for ... more |
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 ULA Launches 350th Delta For the 350th time in its illustrious 50-year program history, a Delta rocket launched from U.S. soil, adding another chapter to one of the most successful rocket launch programs in American history ... more | .. |
 Discovery ET Issues Increase With New Cracks Overnight, crews removed space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier assembly, or GUCA, which includes the flight seal, the 7-inch quick disconnect, or QD and the carrier plate, known as the ... more | .. |
 Enhancing Sustainable Development Of Earth From monitoring vanishing glaciers to the accounting of forestry, hydropower and mining assets as steps to boost sustainable development here on Earth, the power of satellite remote sensing plays an ... more | .. |
  Partners In Health Connects Haiti Doctors With Expanded VSAT Support Dedicated to connecting remote areas of the world, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. has announced that Partners In Health (PIH) has selected the AMC-6 satellite to expand and enhance mission ... more |
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 Indonesia building satellite launcher Indonesia has announced it is building a rocket with a range of 125 miles as the first step toward a rocket capable of putting a satellite in orbit. ... more | .. |
  Republicans could scale back US science budgets Budgets for scientific research in the United States could be scaled back with the return of a Republican-majority in Congress as conservatives aim to slash spending to reduce the ballooning deficit. ... more | .. |
 ESA To Operate A Greenhouse In Space On ISS It's small, but it's a greenhouse for space voyagers - and for you. Paolo Nespoli will take a special greenhouse with him to the International Space Station and he's inviting young science enthusias ... more | .. |
  Primordial Dry Ice Fuels Comet Jets One of the biggest comet findings coming out of the amazing images and data taken by the University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission as it zipped past Comet Hartley 2 last week is that dry ice is the ' ... 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 | .. |
  'Russian Doll' Galaxy Reveals Black Holes' True Power Following a study of what is in effect a miniature galaxy buried inside a normal-sized one - like a Russian doll - astronomers using a CSIRO telescope have concluded that massive black holes are mor ... more |
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