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Inspectors find fourth crack in space shuttleWashington (AFP) Nov 15, 2010 Inspectors have found a fourth crack in support beams on the external fuel tanks of the space shuttle Discovery, whose final flight was delayed because of a hydrogen leak, NASA said late Monday. The latest crack was found while technicians were removing foam while inspecting the support beams, which are called stringers, in the aftermath of the hydrogen leak, the space agency said. Two nine-inch (21-centimeter) cracks were found in an adjacent support beam on Friday, and a three-inch (7.5 centim ... read more |
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  Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal s ... more | .. |
  Most Particles In Hayabusa Explorer's Capsule Originate From Asteroid An analysis of some 1,500 particles found in the Hayabusa explorer's capsule revealed that most of them originated from rocks on the asteroid Itokawa, according to the Japanese science and technolog ... more | .. |
  New Florida Initiative Will Help Local Space Industry, State Economy The University of Central Florida will offer two new programs to retrain residents who lose their jobs as the space shuttle program ends, thanks in part to grants from the Florida Board of Governors ... more | .. |
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  Chinese Female Taikonaut Identified Sources in China have confirmed the identity of one of the two female Air Force pilots currently vying to become China's first woman in space. Captain Wang Yaping, 32, a Transport Pilot in the ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman To Help Build Modular Space Vehicles For DoD Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) was selected by NASA as one of the five contractors for the Modular Space Vehicles (MSV) program. NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., ac ... more | .. |
  Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility While lunar mining might some day be economically feasible for countries and companies, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher believes strongly that mining in space is essential ... more |
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  Camera On Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues In Rocks NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental hist ... more | .. |
 China Great Wall Industry Agrees To Buy 20 Rockets, 8 Satellites China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes Tuesday. CGWIC, China's only sa ... more | .. |
  German Robotic Arm Completes Its Five-Year ISS Mission Germany's first experiment in space robotics has now come to an end. On the evening of 15 November 2010, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurichikhin and Oleg Skripochka performed a space walk during which ... more | .. |
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  UN-SPIDER Opens Beijing Office The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) set up its first office in China Tuesday in a bid to promote international cooperat ... more | .. |
  Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster It is 11:15 a.m. on a Friday morning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and time for Yihua Zheng's daily check on the sun. She walks from her small office down the hall to the C ... more | .. |
 Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... more |
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  New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans. The rating system, Graph50 ... more | .. |
  Pentagon Contracts Iridium to Upgrade Satellite Communications Gateway Iridium Communications announces that it has won three Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contracts to upgrade the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) Ga ... more | .. |
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 SkyTerra One Satellite Sends First Signals From Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from LightSquared's SkyTerra 1 following the satellite's launch at 12:29 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 14 on an International Launch Services Proton vehicl ... more | .. |
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 Breaking The Ice In Antarctica Over the course of the past decade, NASA spacecraft have identified several sites on Mars where conditions capable of supporting life existed in the past. One of the most promising of these si ... more | .. |
 Teams Evaluate GUCP Data As Repairs To ET Cracks Continue Over the weekend at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians took additional measurements to ensure the best possible alignment of the newly installed ground umbilical c ... more |
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