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Second Scale Test Of Attitude Control Motor Lights Up The SkyHampton VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2010 The second ground test of a full-scale attitude control motor for the launch abort system, designed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, was conducted March 17 at Alliant Techsystems' facility in Elkton, Md. It was the seventh in a series of ground tests of the control motor system. The motor is designed to keep a crew module on a controlled flight path in the event it needs to jettison and steer away from a launch rocket in an emergency. The control motor consists of a solid propellant g ... read more |
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Noordwijk, Netherlands (AFP) March 22, 2010Four Europeans vying to become guinea pigs for a 500-day simulated mission to Mars said Monday they were proud to be putting their young lives on hold for the sake of scientific advancement. "I want to help humanity take a step forward by improving our level of knowledge," 28-year-old Belgian Jerome Clevers said at the European Space Agency's (ESA) offices in Noordwijk in the western Netherl ... more  
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2010Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that a satellite it delivered to DISH Network is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite successfully deployed its solar arrays late Saturday night and early Sunday morning following a Saturday launch. Early today, it fired its main thruster in order to start maneuvering into geosynchronous orbit. "EchoStar XIV is a very po ... more  
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2010Metal Storm has received video footage from the US Navy of Metal Storm weapon systems taking part in an unmanned systems-based live-fire demonstration. This footage is now being made available on the Metal Storm website. China Lake, located on the edge of California's Mojave Desert, was chosen to provide a realistic environment for the demonstrations. With temperatures reaching 110 degrees ... more |
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Spirit Getting Colder But Opportunity Roving OnPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2010 In her winter position, still embedded in the area called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate, Spirit has transitioned to executing a single, seven-sol plan each week, as long as power permits. The seven-sol plan contains a single X-band uplink and a single Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) downlink. The activity on each sol consists simply of a brief wakeup, an atmospheric opacity (tau) measurement, and then a shutdown for the rest of the day and night. The last downlink from the rover was on So ... read more |
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