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 Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 
A large piece of space debris drifted toward the International Space Station Thursday, but NASA said it would not affect the second of three spacewalks outside the orbiter. Astronauts Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang were camping out in the Quest airlock starting in order to acclimate their bodies for their 2119 GMT outing in space, purging nitrogen from their systems. Mission Control ... read more 
Mojave, CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2009XCOR Aerospace reports that it has reached several significant milestones in the 5K18 rocket engine test program. This is the engine that powers XCOR's Lynx suborbital spacecraft. The engine can be seen running in several newly released videos including a video demonstrating the very stable "shock diamond" pattern visible in the engine's supersonic exhaust. "Like all of our rocket engines, ... more
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2009Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early August of this year. ... more  
Montreal (AFP) Sept 2, 2009Cirque du Soleil founder and soon to be space tourist Guy Laliberte will launch an art project promoting access to potable water for all when he blasts off for the International Space Station, he said Wednesday. The multimedia event is scheduled to start at 1200 GMT on October 9 and will touch 14 cities on five continents, he told a video press conference from Star City, Russia where he has ... more  
Xichang, China (SPX) Sep 03, 2009The failure to put a satellite into orbit earlier this week is only one bump on a long road of successes, said a space expert. The setback occurred Monday when the third stage of a Chinese-made rocket failed to fire, causing the Indonesian telecom satellite Palapa D that it was carrying to miss its orbit. The rocket, called the Long March 3B, was launched at the Xichang Satellite Lau ... more |
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Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 03, 2009India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, in one of its vital findings, has endorsed the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, helping the scientists better understand the history of the satellite, a NASA scientist said here today. Speaking at an international conference here, Carle Pieters, a professor at the US-based Brown University, who was associated with the Chandrayaan as a moon mineral m ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Sep 03, 2009The first-arrived payload for Ariane 5's next flight is undergoing initial checkout at the Spaceport in French Guiana as preparations move forward for Arianespace's dual-passenger mission later this month - which will be its fifth heavy-lift launch of 2009. Amazonas 2 is in the Spaceport's S5 satellite preparation facility, having been removed from the shipping container that protected thi ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 29, 2009The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on a 13-day mission to help equip the International Space Station. Discovery roared into the dark nighttime Florida sky at 11:59 pm Friday (0359 GMT Saturday), as scheduled, and reached orbit a few minutes later. "I wish you and to your team good luck and godspeed," National Aeronautics and Space Administration launch ... more |
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