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Discovery's Main Tank Arrives At The Cape
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) March 1, 2006
Shuttle Discovery's main fuel tank arrived by barge at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday afternoon, after leaving its assembly facility in Michoud, La., last Saturday. NASA officials said at a briefing Tuesday they are looking tentatively at a liftoff of Discovery on May 10, although engineers are continuing to test shuttle components - particularly the foam insulation on Tank ET-119, which remains a concern.

   
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    ESA Satellite Program Monitors Dangerous Ocean Eddies
    Houston TX (SPX) March 1, 2006
    Ocean FOCUS began issuing ocean-current forecasts on Feb. 16 - just in time to warn Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and natural gas producers that a new warm eddy had formed in the area.

    Hitch As Russian Rocket Launches Arab Telecoms Satellite
    Moscow, Russia (AFP) Mar 02, 2006
    A Russian rocket launched a Saudi telecoms satellite into space overnight, but mechanical problems complicated the last phase of placing the payload in orbit, Russia's space agency said Wednesday.

    MHF Logistical Solutions Demonstrate Live Remote Cargo Tracking
    Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 02, 2006
    MHF Logistical Solutions offered live, real-time demonstrations of its new remote tracking and cargo monitoring service at the Waste Management Conference which met in Tucson, Arizona, over the last week.

    NASA Sets Media Rollout Of CEV Model
    Moffett Field CA (SPX) March 1, 2006
    NASA is inviting news media representatives to view a scale model of the new Crew Exploration Vehicle at its Ames Research Center on March 7.

    Magnetic Field Sculpts Narrow Jets From Dying Star
    Manchester, UK (SPX) March 1, 2006
    Astronomers have detected a tightly wound magnetic field around a dying star that is confining its ejected matter into narrow, corkscrew-shaped jets.

    Mars Rover Team Plays It Safes With Spirit
    Pasadena CA (SPX) March 1, 2006
    NASA's Spirit recorded this view while approaching the northwestern edge of the formation Mars Exploration Rover mission controllers have named Home Plate, a circular plateau-like area of bright, layered outcrop material roughly 80 meters (260 feet) in diameter.

    Responsive Space Means Microsats Are Go For Launch
    Vandenberg AFB CA (AFM) Mar 02, 2006
    As a US combatant commander prepares for battle, he might need a close, up-to-date look at what is happening on the ground. He may need to put more "eyes" on a particular area.

    Russian Space Industry Still Optimistic And Creative
    Moscow, Russia (RIA) Mar 02, 2006
    Russia's Federal Space Program for 2006-2015 includes government allocations for a series of light spacecraft, so technologically advanced that, at two- to three-digit weights in kilos, they successfully do what 20 years ago only heavy satellites could.

    SETI Optical Telescope Nears Completion
    Harvard MA (SPX) March 1, 2006
    Workers are nearing completion of a new optical instrument that will be devoted exclusively to the search for extraterrestrial life.

    Saturn Moons In Ghostly Specter
    Pasadena CA (SPX) March 1, 2006
    Ghostly details make this dark scene more than just a beautiful grouping of two Saturn moons, with Tethys on the left and Titan on the right.

    Titan's Methane Mystery May Be Solved
    Nantes, France (SPX) March 1, 2006
    An international team of planetary scientists said they may have solved the mystery of why the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon, Titan, is rich in methane.

    u-blox: LEA-4T Precision Timing GPS Module For Global Synchronicity
    Thalwil, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 02, 2006
    u-blox AG has introduced the LEA-4T, a high performance, low power, precision timing GPS receiver capable of a (compensated) time pulse accuracy of 15 ns. Needing just one satellite and consuming no more than 38 mA, the LEA-4T is ideally suited for telecomm network synchronization.

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