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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 50 Years Of Scientific Excellence
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2009On a clear March day in 1926, in the middle of a snow-covered field in Auburn, Mass., Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard changed exploration forever. Launching from a modified music stand, Goddard's liquid fuel rocket lifted itself 41 feet into the winter sky, flew for two and a half seconds, and landed in the space age. Goddard's dream had become reality. To honor Goddard's achievement an ... more Making The Space Environment Safer For Civil And Commercial Users 
Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2009The House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing to examine the challenges faced by civil and commercial space users as space traffic and space debris in Earth orbit continue to increase. Subcommittee Members questioned witnesses about potential measures to improve the information available to civil and commercial users to avoid in-space ... more Focused On Phobos 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 04, 2009Efforts to reach the martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the Red Planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the largest moon of Mars. Mars actually has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. They might more properly be called satellites, however, because they are extremely small, only a few kilometers in diameter. ... more Second Firing Test For Vega's Zefiro 9A Solid Rocket Motor 
Sardinia, Italy (ESA) May 01, 2009On 28 April, the final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe's new small launch vehicle took place at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test Range in Sardinia, Italy. At 15:30, the peace and quiet of the Sardinian coast was suddenly interrupted by a powerful, deep roar as a Zefiro 9A motor ignited for its final qualification-firing test. The moto ... more Planck Mated With The Ariane 5 ECA Launcher 
Paris, France (ESA) May 01, 2009The Planck spacecraft has been mated with the Ariane 5 ECA launcher on 23 April 2009. After the successful fuelling of the Planck spacecraft in the S5A building a week earlier, the spacecraft was transferred to the final assembly building (Batiment d'Assemblage Final, or BAF) in the evening on 22 April. There it has been integrated on top of the launcher rocket that will place both the Pla ... more |
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Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 27, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it will provide live television coverage of the 2009 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The 3 p.m. EDT Saturday ceremony will take place at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Being inducted are former astronauts George Nelson, one of only four space shuttle astronauts to fly untethe ... more Dawn Now Fully Reconfigured With New Software 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 01, 2009The upgraded Dawn spacecraft is now traveling in a new direction in its orbit around the Sun. The mission continues to go smoothly during this long coasting period, scheduled to conclude in June, when powered flight with the ion propulsion system will resume. Dawn has many computers in its onboard crew and one that serves as the captain of the ship. This primary computer's software had bee ... more Base Considers Disassembling Historical Launch Complex 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) May 01, 2009Vandenberg is currently undergoing the planning stages of removing and disassembling pieces from one of its historical launch pads, Space Launch Complex-5. The reason behind modifying the vacant complex came about when Vandenberg began receiving numerous requests from different agencies, programs and personnel around the globe for unused SLC-5 parts. "As an architectural historian, I ... more Atlantis To Launch On Hubble Servicing Mission May 11 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 01, 2009Top NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Thursday's executive-level Flight Readiness Review at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and determined the shuttle's equipment, support systems and procedures are ready for flight. "We had a very thorough review today," said Bill Gerstenmaier associa ... more |
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Sacramento CA (SPX) May 01, 2009Aerojet has successfully completed the first series of vibration and altitude hot fire tests on NASA's Orion crew module's 160 lb. thrust mono-propellant rocket engine. The objective of the test program was to verify engine performance after the thruster was subjected to Orion vibration loads which produced energy levels that were two times higher than those previously qualified. The ... more Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis Of Problem Behaviors Continues 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2009NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited by Spirit in the past two weeks. The drive took Spirit about 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) toward destinations about 150 meters (about 500 feet) away. The rover has already operated more than 20 ... more Super-Earth And An Ocean World 
Hertfordshire, UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2009The discovery of the lightest exoplanet ever found, less than twice the mass of the Earth, has electrified a week-long meeting on astronomy and space science in Europe. The stunning finding was made by a team headed by Michel Mayor of the Geneva Observatory. The icing on the cake is a related discovery that a previously discovered "super-Earth" orbiting the same star appears to reside in the hab ... more China Launches Yaogan VI Remote-Sensing Satellite 
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Apr 27, 2009China on Wednesday launched a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VI," from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province. The satellite was successfully launched into the space on a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 10:55 a.m., the center reported. It will be mainly used for land resources survey, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning, crop yield estim ... more
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