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Northrop Grumman Wins Follow-On Rayguns Contract
Mclean VA (SPX) Mar 01, 2005The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded Northrop Grumman a follow-on contract for operations and maintenance of lasers and facility-support systems used to test the effects of lasers against physical threats. Sounding Out Mars 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2005The first week of May, the Mars Express spacecraft will unfurl its radar antenna. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding - or MARSIS - will have many tasks, but one of the most important will be the search for liquid water. NASA Seeks Berth On India's Moon Mission 
New Delhi (UPI) 01, 2005India is preparing to launch its first ever unmanned moon mission and a satellite dedicated completely to astronomical research by 2007-08, and the U.S. Space Agency, NASA, is in consultations with the Indian officials to participate in the mission. |
Progress On Its Way to Space Station
Baikonur (SPX) Mar 01, 2005An unmanned Russian cargo craft lifted off Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with about 2.3 tons of supplies and equipment for the International Space Station and its Expedition 10 crew, Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov. ATV Communication System Sees Progress On Flight Testing 
Baikonur (SPX) Feb 28, 2005An essential communications system to enable successful docking of Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and the International Space Station (ISS) was today launched on board the 'Progress' cargo delivery vehicle by Soyuz flight 352. Prepping A Powerhouse To Return To Space 
Cape Canaveral (SPX) Mar 01, 2005With the Space Shuttle's Return to Flight approaching in May, employees in one team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are looking forward to seeing three of their babies - the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) - at work for the first time in more than two years. |
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Space Entrepreneur Walt Anderson Arrested For $200 Million Tax Scheme
Washington (SPX) Mar 01, 2005The US DoJ and IRS have arrested telecom businessman Walt Anderson on charges of failing to pay $200m in taxes. In the late 1990s Anderson tried to commercially lease the Space Station Mir. Shenzhen Man Set For Star Trek 
Shenzhen (SPX) Mar 01, 2005Chinese tourists have been taking the world by storm in recent years but one affluent and adventurous man in the booming southern China city of Shenzhen has set his sights higher - space. XM Radio's Satellite Delivered To Orbit 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2005XM Satellite Radio has announced the successful launch of its XM-3 satellite. Liftoff occurred on February 28 at 10:51 pm EST off the Sea Launch Odyssey Launch Platform in open waters of the Pacific Ocean on the equator. |
H-IIA F7 Third-time Ignition Experiment
Tokyo (SPX) Mar 01, 2005Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to inform you that we acquired data on the third-time ignition experiment of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.7 (H-IIA F7) second stage engine as scheduled. Newly Seen Force May Help Gravity In Star Formation 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2005Scientists have pierced through a dusty stellar nursery to capture the earliest and most detailed view of a collapsing gas cloud turning into a star, analogous to a baby's first ultrasound. First Dark Matter Galaxy Comes Into View 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2005A Cardiff-led team of astronomers has discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars. |
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