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Launch Preps In Final StretchCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 Crews at Launch Pad 39A finished installing the STS-131 payload into space shuttle Discovery's cargo bay as launch preparations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida reach the final stretch. Technicians are working to connect the necessary electrical connections and closeout procedures on the vehicle's aft compartment are expected to be completed tomorrow. At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Discovery's astronaut crew members are set to begin their gradual sleep shift in preparati ... read more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 24, 2010Arianespace has set for March 26 its initial Ariane 5 mission of 2010, which will carry SES ASTRA's ASTRA 3B commercial telecommunications satellite and the COMSATBw-2 secure relay platform for the German armed forces. The Friday evening liftoff is scheduled at the opening of a launch window that runs from 7:03 p.m. local time at the Spaceport in French Guiana to 7:52 p.m. (22h03-22h52 UTC ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 24, 2010The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) will be boosted by 1.7 kilometers (about a mile) on March 24, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said on Tuesday. "The maneuver will be performed with the help of eight boosters on board the Progress M-04M space freighter which is currently docked with the Zvezda module [on the ISS]," the spokesman said. "As a res ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2010NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location. Software uploaded this winter is the latest example of NASA taking advantage of the twin Mars rovers' unanticipated longevity for real Martian test drives of advances made ... more |
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Arianespace - 30th Anniversary, New MomentumParis, France (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 The Board of Directors of Arianespace met on Monday, 22 March 2010 in Evry, near Paris. It congratulated the company on its technical performance and record order book, and decided to give it the resources needed for development by bolstering its financial structure. b>Technical performance br> /b> With 35 successful launches in a row and seven years without a failure, Ariane 5 continues to confirm its technical and operational maturity, launch after launch. Arianespace set a new record with thi ... read more |
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