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The First Of Many Asteroid Finds For WISEPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2010 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. The near-Earth object, designated 2010 AB78, was discovered by WISE Jan. 12. After the mission's sophisticated software picked out the moving object against a background of stationary stars, researchers followed up and confirmed the discovery with the University of Hawaii's 2.2-meter ... read more |
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Russian Specialists Raise ISS OrbitMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 25, 2010 Russian specialists have completed the operation to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by about 5 km (3 miles), Mission Control said on Sunday. "The space maneuver was carried out in the nominal mode and took about 150 seconds," Mission Control said. Corrections to the space station's orbit are conducted periodically before launches of Russian cargo ships and U.S. shuttles to compensate for Earth's gravity and to safeguard successful dockings. The correction was ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2010NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. The original RFI in December 2008 noted that a potential shuttle recipient would have to pay an estimated $42 million ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2010During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Delta IV rocket that will carry it into orbit, are being assembled on the launch pad. The GOES-P spacecraft is currently being processed at Astrotech Space Operat ... more  
Miami FL (SPX) Jan 18, 2010Is there anybody out there? In Alejandro Jenkins' case, the question refers not to whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but whether it exists in other universes outside of our own. While that might be a mind-blowing concept for the layperson to ponder, it's all in a day's work for Jenkins, a postdoctoral associate in theoretical high-energy physics at The Florida State University ... more |
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Robotic Capture And Mating Of Orbital's Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft To ISSRichmond, Canada (SPX) Jan 22, 2010 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a $2.4M (USD) contract from Orbital Sciences to provide a critical interface that will enable capture and mating of the Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The contract also contains an option to purchase additional units for follow-on operational missions worth at least $4.0M (USD). The Cygnus spacecraft is being developed by Orbital under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Space A ... read more |
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