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China on Monday began construction of its new space launch center in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013. The Hainan Space Satellite Launch Center, the fourth and the lowest latitude one in China, only 19 degrees north of the equator, would allow China to take part in more international commercial space ... read more 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station. "Now they bring water back on the space shuttle and analyze it on the ground. The problem is there is a big delay. You'd like to be ... more
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Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2009A tempest that erupted on Saturn in January has become the Solar System's longest continuously observed lightning storm, astronomers reported on Tuesday. The storm broke out in "Storm Alley," a region 35 degrees south of the ringed giant's equator, researchers told the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, near Berlin. Thunderstorms there can be as big as 3,000 kilometers ... more  
Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2009 NASA says it is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts. Space agency officials said the artifacts represent significant spaceflight technologies, processes and accomplishments of the shuttle program. NASA officials said there are partnering with the General Services ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2009Tests on Earth simulating Spirit's predicament on Mars have reinforced understanding that getting Spirit to rove again will be very difficult. To supplement the tests at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the rover team is refining a detailed computer model of rover mobility, calibrated with results from testing and measurements from Mars. "The computer modeling ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2009In response to the release of the Human Space Flight Committee executive summary, the National Space Society's Vice President of Policy Greg Allision prepared the following statement. The National Space Society (NSS) welcomes the release of the Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Space Flight Plans Committee, better known as the Augustine Commission. NSS thanks the Commission for its ... 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 
Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 12, 2009The Discovery astronauts found sunny skies in California on Friday as they descended to a weather-delayed landing at Edwards Air Force Base to end a demanding two-week mission to the International Space Station. Earlier in the day, thunderstorms twice prevented the seven astronauts from landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a replay of the foul conditions on Thursday that kept the shuttle ... more |
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