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NASA finds more cracks on Discovery fuel tankWashington (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 NASA said Thursday it has found four more small cracks on the metal supports of the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, as the shuttle and external tank undergo further X-ray testing before its final space mission next year. Repairs would be made to the cracks in a similar fashion to the cracks discovered after the November 5 launch attempt, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement. The space agency said it was still too early to determine if the new cracks will delay the Discover ... read more |
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  Tablets galore on tap at major CES gadget fest Tablet computers will lead a host of "smart" gadgets in the Nevada desert this week at a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) spotlighting slick new devices on the horizon. ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5's Sixth Launch Of 2010 This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight ... more | .. |
  President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more |
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 Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more | .. |
  Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more | .. |
  Semisopochnoi Island It is the "Island of the Seven Mountains, " or more precisely in Russian: "having seven hills." This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pac ... more | .. |
  Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more |
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  The Final Frontier Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more | .. |
 HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more | .. |
  Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility To Close After 26 Successful Years The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, a unique collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory, will close on 31 December 2010 after 26 year ... more | .. |
  Officials Award Production Contract For Fourth Advanced Frequency Satellite The Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate announced Dec. 17 the award of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion to Lockheed Martin Space ... more |
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  A Galaxy For Everyone This collage of galaxies from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the many "flavors" that galaxies come in, from star-studded spirals to bulging ellipticals to those paire ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more | .. |
 Switching On The Freezer's Light Rare molecular species like H2D+ and D2H+, built from the hydrogen atom H and its heavier isotope deuterium D have gained great attention as probes of cold and dense molecular cloud cores. Since deu ... more | .. |
 ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8 International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more |
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 Brazil To Join The European Southern Observatory The Federative Republic of Brazil has yesterday signed the formal accession agreement paving the way for it to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Following government ... more | .. |
 Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly Research As the weather gets colder in Maryland, Bob Benson tells tales of winters he used to know in Minnesota, the South Pole, and Alaska. A five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere - the part of Ear ... more | .. |
 Astrobiology Top 10: Close Encounter With Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft flew past comet Hartley 2 yesterday (November 4), at a distance of about 700 kilometers (435 miles). Although the spacecraft's encounter was brief - it raced by the c ... more | .. |
  SORCE's Solar Spectral Surprise Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission - the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) - have made daily mea ... more |
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 Mixed Bag For Indian Space Agency In 2010 It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2010 with the positive developments overshadowing two failed rocket missions. On the positive side the spac ... more | .. |
 Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max' The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. ... more | .. |
 Orbiting junk seen as major space threat Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more | .. |
  Extension of space station support fails The European Space Agency says it was unable to win approval of NASA's proposed five-year extension of operations of the International Space Station. ... more |
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