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United Launch Alliance Atlas V Launches PAN Satellite Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 10, 2009 ![]() Spacecraft Talk Continued During JPL Wildfire Threat ![]() As the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for the worst. The Deep Space Operations Center at JPL is the nerve center for the Deep Space Network, an international network of antennas that send and receive information to interplanetary ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director ![]()
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US manned space program too expensive: White House panel![]() NASA's plans to fly to the moon and Mars are under threat from a lack of funds and the space agency needs another three billion dollars for its dreams to become reality, a presidential panel said. In a 12-page summary report released Tuesday offering a bleak assessment of plans to send astronauts back to the moon, the committee said the space agency would need the three billion dollars on to ... more Romania To Launch Its First Space Rocket In October ![]() The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) announced on Wednesday that it will launch in October the country's first space rocket, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated by the Google corporation. The rocket dubbed Helen will be launched from a Black Sea platform and is a ... more Shuttle Discovery heads back to Earth ![]() Space shuttle Discovery's crew was to perform a flight control system check Wednesday while en route back to Earth, in preparation for a Thursday landing. NASA said Discovery was scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT. During their STS-128 mission to the International Space Station, the shuttle crew completed all of their major objectives ... more |
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New Horizons Hits Halfway Mark Between Saturn, Uranus Orbits![]() New Horizons has sailed silently through another milestone on the way to its historic reconnaissance of the Pluto system, reaching the halfway point between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. The NASA spacecraft will reach 14.41 astronomical units from the Sun - 1.34 billion miles, or nearly 14 1/2 times the distance between the Earth and Sun - between 6-7 p.m. EDT "Only five operating space ... more Heat And Radiation Crippled India's Maiden Moon Mission ![]() Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Madhavan Nair has said that heat alone was not the culprit as India's maiden moon mission was called off much before its scheduled lifecycle recently. A combination of factors including radiation, caused calling off of the mission. As experts from across the country and abroad began a review of the mission here on Monday, Nair ... more MRO Spots Apollo 12 And Surveyor 3 ![]() Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. Engineering and safety constraints in place for these earliest manned lunar missions dictated landing Apollo 12 at an equatorial site on a flat lava plain (known as maria on the moon). NASA selected a site near ... more |
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