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NASA launches space-based solar observatoryCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 11, 2010 NASA launched a first-of-its-kind solar observatory into space Thursday in hopes of expanding scientists' understanding of the sun and its complicated workings. A two-stage Atlas rocket roared off its launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:23 am (1523 GMT), carrying NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) into space. NASA said the solar probe successfully separated from the booster rocket about one hour and 48 minutes after the launch. NASA missed its first ... 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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USAF Lab And Academy Collaborate On Space ProjectEdwards AFB CA (AFNS) Feb 10, 2010 Cadets from the United States Air Force Academy and members of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards conducted operational testing on the satellite dubbed FalconSAT-5 here Jan. 11 - 22. According to a U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Astronautics press release, the primary mission of the FalconSAT-5 is to perform space weather measurements with on-board sensors in collaboration with remote ground sites. The FalconSAT-5 mission spacecraft is being integrated and flown by the Department o ... read more |
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