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New Horizons Taking Exploration To Edge Of Sol
Boulder CO (SPX) May 02, 2006Our spaceship, New Horizons, was paid for by the people of the United States of America. New Horizons is on its way to the very frontier of our solar system: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Great nations explore. Discovery Scheduled For Important Move 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 02, 2006NASA officials say an important milestone for the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery mission will occur May 12, when the shuttle is moved from its hangar. The move from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center is known as the rollover. Inside the assembly building, Discovery will be attached to a redesigned external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Wildblue Helps Advance Mission To Planet Red 
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006Mars is a dark and cold place named after a god of war. The red planet's hostile surface has yielded tantalizing clues suggesting the presence of life, either now or in some ancient time. |
Sweden Launches Maxus 7 Sounding Rocket
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) May 02, 2006The sounding rocket Maxus 7 was successfully launched from the Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) launch facility at Esrange Space Center this morning at 06:16 UT and reached an apogee of 702 km which enabled 12 minutes of microgravity. Starsys Delivers Capture And Separation Systems For Orbital Express Program 
Poway CA (SPX) May 02, 2006Starsys, Inc., a SpaceDev Company recently delivered two major subsystems -- the Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Separation System and the Orbital Express Capture System, for DARPA's Orbital Express program, under contract with The Boeing Company. NASA GOES-N Mission Remains On Hold 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 02, 2006NASA's next GOES mission, labeled GOES-N, has not yet been rescheduled for launch. At present, the only information from the space agency is the launch will occur "no earlier" than May 18. |
Space Advocate Reviews The Vision For Space
Washington DC (SPX) May 1, 2006After President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) in 2004, NASA went to work to develop plans for the long-overdue return to exploration. Hubble Provides Spectacular View Of Ongoing Comet Breakup 
Baltimore (SPX) May 02, 2006The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before our eyes. Recent Hubble images have uncovered many more fragments than have been reported by ground-based observers. Cassini Observes Saturnian Waves And Shear 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a remarkably detailed view of Saturn's clouds revealing waves at the northern boundary of the bright equatorial zone, presumably associated both with the strong wind shear there and also the difference in density across the boundary with the band to the north. |
Sea Launch To Launch Intelsat Americas-9
Long Beach CA (SPX) May 02, 2006Sea Launch said Monday it has signed a launch contract with Intelsat to orbit the Intelsat Americas-9 spacecraft in the fourth quarter of 2007. Spallation Neutron Source Begins Producing 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) May 02, 2006The Spallation Neutron Source has generated its first neutrons last Friday, the Department of Energy announced Monday. A pulse of protons from the SNS accelerator complex, traveling at nearly the speed of light, struck its target and spalled, or scattered, neutrons from the nuclei of mercury circulating inside the target. Gorbachev Urges Solar Power Not Nuclear 
Geneva (AFP) May 02, 2006Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last Wednesday urged the world's biggest industrialised nations to set up a 50-billion-dollar (44-billion-euro) fund to support solar power, warning that oil or nuclear energy were not viable energy sources for the future. |
Satellites Get Africa Calling
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006Today tens of millions of ordinary people on the continent carry a cellphone, something not even the richest African could have possessed a mere decade ago. And every month, millions more dial into the 21st century, with profound implications for African societies. Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Tree Rings Rewrite Late Bronze 'Med' History 
New York NY (SPX) May 01, 2006Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered trading partners at the start of the Late Bronze Age. Until now. Australian Leading Edge Superconductor Mine Sweeping System Revealed 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 02, 2006The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon. Sandy Macdonald, today unveiled a new class of highly advanced sea mine sweeping technology being developed by Australia. |
Satellite Provides Vital Information to Military
Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (SPX) May 02, 2006Roughly 15,000 miles above the earth's surface, a communications satellite provides vital information to all branches of the U.S. military. It joins more than 9,000 other items in space that are tracked by the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System. LM Delivers Components For Missile Satellite 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) May 1, 2006Lockheed Martin said Monday it has delivered a critical payload subsystem and associated software integral to the U.S. military's Space-Based Infrared System's first geosynchronous orbit satellite. GPS-Guided Parachutes Increase Safety In Resupply 
Al Asad, Iraq (SPX) May 02, 2006The cargo bay doors of a KC-130J Hercules opened, bringing the night air into view, as a chill wind circulated through the inside of the plane. Five Marines braced themselves against the front of the cargo bay watching the two remaining parachute systems attentively. |
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