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 Los Angeles CA (XNA) Jul 14, 2009 
Space Exploration Technologies, a California company known as SpaceX, said Sunday it has successfully launched a privately financed rocket into Earth orbit. On its fourth launch, the privately developed SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has achieved sweet success at last, said the company. The booster blasted off from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, on Sunday and reached orbit after a 9.5-mi ... read more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 14, 2009The weather has been anything but cooperative for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, but NASA has promised a sixth attempt late Wednesday for the International Space Station mission. The shuttle is now set to lift off at 6:03 pm (2203 GMT) Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the US space agency saying there is only a 40 percent chance of unfavo ... more
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Spirit remains positioned just west of Home Plate, in the location called "Troy," where the rover has been continuing an ambitious science campaign. The campaign includes extensive observations with the panoramic camera (Pancam) and miniature thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-TES) plus contact science using all the tools on the robotic arm (instrument deployment device, or IDD). ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 12, 2009By the early 21st century, we would be colonising the Moon, honeymooning on Mars and scouting the moons of Jupiter, if the visions conjured by the first lunar landing were to be believed. Forty years later, the sad truth is this: today, we do not venture beyond our own backyard. Our travelling horizon lies no farther than the International Space Station, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Opportunity has driven to a large expanse of outcrop to conduct in-situ (contact) science. On Sol 1932 (June 30, 2009), the microscopic imager (MI) collected a stack of images, and then the Mossbauer spectrometer (MB) was placed on a surface target called "Absecon" for an overnight integration. On Sol 1933 (July 1, 2009), another MI stack of images was taken, and the MB was placed again on ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Biologists have found microbes that live in the hottest, coldest, driest and most unpleasant places on Earth. Many of these bugs don't adapt well to new surroundings, but one microbe is remarkable for withstanding a wide range of conditions. This quality might make this unique organism suitable for adapting to life on Mars. This ultimate survivor is called Methanosarcina barkeri. As its ... more |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009Forty years ago, mankind's most daunting frontier was boldly overcome when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, establishing America's dominance in the space race. At the height of the Cold War, Armstrong's "small step" onto the lunar surface was a giant slap in the face to the Soviet Union, which had been the first to put a satellite into orbit, and fly a man into space. ... more  
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2009Space Systems/Loral has announced that it shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it is scheduled to launch in early- to mid-August aboard a ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS). "We are very proud of being able to contribute ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2009Since the February 10, 2009 collision of Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251, the Department of Defense has begun to ramp-up its efforts to warn satellite operators of high-risk, close approaches by debris and other satellites. The latest population estimates of maneuverable spacecraft are as high as 800. However, since all operators do not report on satellite status, some fraction of these may ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) July 12, 2009Forty years after the United States landed a man on the moon, China's fledgling space programme is racing to get to the lunar surface before an American return and ahead of its Asian rivals. The United States - the only country to have sent men to the moon - is hoping to touch down on the lunar surface again by 2020, almost a generation after it first completed six historic manned lunar ... more |
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