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Expedition 12 Prepare For Second Spacewalk
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2006Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began last week (Sunday) by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon. Spacehab Enters Race For Commercial Space Station Supply Work 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2006Spacehab has announced that the Company will be competing for the opportunity to serve as NASA's supplier of commercial International Space Station logistics services. EADS Space To Play Central Role In Galileo Test 
Ottobrunn, Germany (SPX) Jan 23, 2006EADS Space is to play a central role in the test phase for the new European satellite navigation system Galileo, following the contract signature in Berlin Friday between Galileo Industries, as the prime contractor, and the European Space Agency. |
Sea Launch Begins A Sold-Out Year
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2006Following a banner year in 2005 with four successful missions and nine new commercial launch contracts, Sea Launch is now preparing for the first of six missions in 2006, planned for February. China To Launch French-Made Broadcast Sat 
Beijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2006The China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC), China's satellite launch service contractor, and China Satcom signed a deal Friday on the launch of a French-made broadcast satellite, ChinaSat 6B. H-2A To Launch Today 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 23, 2006The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that the launch date of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle Flight No. 8, with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite Daichi (ALOS) onboard, has been set for today (January 23, 2006). |
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NASA Magnetic Field Mission Ends
Vandenburg AFB CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2006NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a successful six-year mission. IMAGE was the premier producer of new discoveries on the structure and dynamics of the Earth's external magnetic field (magnetosphere) and its contents. Martian Glaciers: Did They Originate From The Atmosphere 
Paris (ESA) Jan 23, 2006The spectacular features visible today on the surface of the Red Planet indicate the past existence of Martian glaciers, but where did the ice come from? An international team of scientists have produced sophisticated climate simulations suggesting that geologically recent glaciers at low latitudes may have formed through atmospheric precipitation of water-ice particles. Salty Expression (False Color) 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2006NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit spent the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend analyzing a remarkable exposure of bright, loose material. Spirit discovered the material while driving toward "Home Plate" along the floor of the basin south of "Husband Hill" in Gusev Crater. |
Spacecraft, Heal Thyself
Bristol, UK (ESA) Jan 23, 2006Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive in the airless environment of space, where temperatures can swing from hundreds of degrees Celsius to hundreds of degree below zero in moments. Dissecting Stardust 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2006As they clustered around the Stardust sample return capsule, Donald Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington in Seattle, warned his team they might not be able to see any comet dust. The tiny particles may have made such small tracks in the aerogel collector that they would not be visible to the naked eye. The PI's Perspective 24 Hours After Launch: It Worked! 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 23, 2006"It Worked." Those are the words that form the last entry in my project notebook for the day of launch. Now, a day later, the spacecraft is already undergoing checkouts, and has been de-spun from its launch rotation rate of 68 RPMs to just under 20 RPMs. |
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