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Russian Space Freighter Progress M-66 Undocks From ISS
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 07, 2009Russia's Progress M-66 cargo spacecraft undocked on Wednesday from the International Space Station to become a temporary space lab before being "buried" in the Pacific Ocean, Mission Control said. The freighter docked with the orbital station on February 13, bringing 2.4 tons of supplies, including oxygen, food, clothes and medical equipment for the ISS crew. "The command for undocki ... more Final Preparations For Atlantis And Crew 
Capa Canaveral FL (SPX) May 07, 2009Final prelaunch operations are under way at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as workers at Launch Pad 39A prepare space shuttle Atlantis for flight. The team is performing final closeouts of the main propulsion system, as well as pressurization of the orbital maneuvering system and reaction control system. At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Atlantis' seven astronauts are cond ... more Delta II Launch Successful 
Vandenberg AFB CA (AFNS) May 07, 2009Teams from the 30th Space Wing and various agencies successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-2 at 1:24 p.m May 5. The rocket carried an experimental satellite for the Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction mission. At approximately one hour after liftoff, with confirmation of the payload ... more The Asteroids Are Coming 
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 04, 2009This isn't just "buzz" to get you excited about a new movie coming; we really are being buzzed by asteroids and other NEOs (Near Earth Objects), and one day these conjunctions could become collisions! There are lots of NEOs out there orbiting the sun. Some, like comets, are less worrisome since they are composed primarily of ice and small, rocky particles that dissipate upon entering Earth ... more Congresswoman Kosmas Discusses Efforts To Delay Shuttle Retirement 
Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2009Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) has met with the crew of STS-119 and congratulated them for their successful mission last month aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The crew launched March 15th on a 13-day mission to deliver the International Space Station's fourth and final set of solar array wings. Congresswoman Kosmas thanked the crew for their service and discussed with them the import ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) May 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that they demonstrated their latest CareBot MSR to a management team from Chubb Insurance. eckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with mobile robot solutions for safety, security, and service. "We really had no idea that multi-tasking personal robots were so advanced and nea ... more Boeing Completes PDR For Tracking And Data Relay Satellite Series K-L 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 05, 2009Boeing has successfully completed the system-level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L program, an important design milestone as the program moves toward integration of the TDRS K satellite for NASA. The comprehensive five-day review was held in El Segundo in March and attended by NASA project, program and Headquarters officials. ... more NASA Selects Future Projects To Study Mars And Mercury 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2009NASA has selected two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury. The projects, valued at approximately $38 million, also establish new alliances with the European Space Agency, or ESA. "The selections will further advance our knowledge of these exciting terrestrial planets," said Jim Green, director of NASA's ... more Magnesium Detected During Second Flyby Of Mercury 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 05, 2009NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium - an element created inside exploding stars and which is found in many medicine cabinets on Earth - clumped in the tenuous atmosphere of the planet. Scientists had suspected magnesium would be present, but were surprised ... more |
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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 Some planets may fall into their stars 
Seattle, April 29, 2009 U.S. astronomers say some of the hundreds of planets that once orbited stars outside our solar system may have fallen into their stars and no longer exist. University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says recent computer modeling has provided the first evidence gravitational forces might pull a planet into its parent star. "When we look at the observed properties of extrasola ... more
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