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NZ Rocket's GPS Battery DiesAuckland NZ (NZPA) Dec 03, 2009 The battery powering a lost New Zealand rocket's connection to its tracking satellite died about 2pm today, its owner says. A fisherman yesterday found the first stage booster from Atea-1, the first rocket from New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab, which was launched from Great Mercury Island off the Coromandel Peninsula on Monday afternoon. But the 2kg payload and the flight computer, both of which could have valuable data about the flight, has yet to be recovered. ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2009NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's science and relay operations within about a week. Engineers have diagnosed the cause of the Nov. 28 event as the spacecraft's proper response to a memory error with a known source. The likely cause is a ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2009Dawn continues to make steady progress through the solar system as it maintains a gentle pressure on its orbit around the Sun. It has spent 95% of the time since the last log thrusting with its ion propulsion system, stopping only briefly each week to communicate with the mission control team on distant Earth. The probe is on an exciting journey to unlock secrets from the dawn of the solar ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 02, 2009As the International Space Station's smaller, two-person, Expedition 22 crew enjoyed its first full day alone in orbit, Mission Control monitored a small piece of space junk until tracking updates showed it would not come close enough to require precautions. At 11:25 a.m. EST, Flight Director Dana Weigel decided not to awaken the crew based on the latest tracking data on the piece of a ... more |
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  NASA Uses Twin Processes To Develop New Tank Dome Technology   Chang'e-1 Has Blazed A New Trail In China's Deep Space Exploration   Canadian Astronaut Robert Thirsk Lands On Earth |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2009Boeing announced today that DIRECTV 12 was shipped Nov. 25 from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan. Upon arrival, the satellite will undergo final preparations for a December launch aboard an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M rocket. "Boeing has provided advanced satellite systems to DIRECTV for more ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2009Astronomers have discovered hundreds of Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. However, a handful of the planets found orbiting distant stars are more Earth-sized. This gives hope to astrobiologists, who think we are more likely to find life on rocky planets with liquid water. The rocky planets found so far are actually more massive than our own. Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2009Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island" over the last couple of weeks. This target is proving to be something unique that Opportunity has not encountered in more than 2000 Sols of exploring Mars. The science team is theorizing this rock could be either be a type of meteorite that Opportunity has never seen before or it could be ejecta from deep within the ... more |
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