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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 26, 2009 
Arianespace has marked a historic milestone with the arrival of its first two Soyuz launchers in French Guiana, which will be used to inaugurate service with this medium-lift workhorse vehicle next year from the Spaceport. The Soyuz 2-1a launchers were carried aboard the MN Colibri roll-on/roll-off transport ship, which docked on schedule yesterday morning at Pariacabo port near Kourou ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Nov 25, 2009The space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday as it prepared its return to Earth. Atlantis lifted from the orbiting outpost at 0953 GMT. Pilot Barry Wilmore then circled the space station before firing the shuttle's thrusters twice at 1104 and 1132 GMT to leave the vicinity. The astronauts are scheduled to land back on Earth at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9:44 am (1444 GMT) Friday. ... 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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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2009On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier. The diagnostics showed a fully functioning wheel free of obstruction. The rover was commanded forward with 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of wheel spin. The rover moved 2.1 millimeters (0.08 inch) forward, 1.1 millimeters (0.04 inch) to ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2009The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009. The moon and the ring have eccentric, offset orbits, so Prometheus dips in and out of the F ring as it travels around Saturn. Its gravitational force drags the dust-sized particles at the edge of the F ring along for the ride. ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2009This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur on the walls of Martian craters, well after the impact crater formed. At the very top of the image is the high crater rim. At the bottom of the image is the crater's central peak, a dome of material ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Nov 24, 2009Russia on Tuesday successfully launched a telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan after a delay sparked by a row between Moscow and its ex-Soviet neighbour, news agency RIA Novosti said. "The launch took place as scheduled at 5:19 pm (1419 GMT)," a spokesman for space agency Roskosmos told RIA Novosti. The Eutelsat-W7 was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The launch of the ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2009Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL-24) and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA-44) have sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama signed by 81 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from across the country calling for additional funding for NASA's human spaceflight program. The large number of cosigners is an indication of the strong national support for human spaceflight and its many benefits ... more  
Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 25, 2009A UCF physics experiment that could help explain the birth of the solar system has been selected to fly aboard a new generation of rocket ship. The experiment, which will gather data and test theories on the formation of planets, will fly aboard New Shepard. Blue Origin, which is developing the next-generation vehicle, is among several companies seeking commercial flight opportunities as ... more |
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