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China Sends Research Satellite Into SpaceJiuquan, China (XNA) Jun 16, 2010 China has successfully sent into space a scientific research satellite at 9:39 a.m. Tuesday from northwest China's Gansu Province. The satellite "Shijian XII," sent from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center of Gansu Province, was carried by the China-developed Long March 2D rocket. Sources with the launch center said the satellite was designed for carrying out scientific and technological experiments including space environment probe, measurement and communications. "Shijian XII" was develope ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2010The International Space Station's Expedition 24 crew began the week Monday with a variety of science experiments. Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson was scheduled to reinstall an old pump into the U.S. segment's oxygen generation system, in an effort to coax it back into action to support the increase of the crew to six people which will begin Thursday. Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko ... more 
Baikonur Space Center, Kazakhstan (UPI) Jun 13, 2010 Russian space officials moved a Soyuz-FG rocket to its launch pad Sunday in preparation for its flight to the International Space Station later this week. The rocket will carry cosmonaut Yuri Yurchihin and U.S. astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelcock to the orbiting space station where they will join the current crew of two Russians and American Tracy Dyson. The spacecraf ... more  
Seoul (AFP) June 11, 2010South Korean and Russian experts launched an investigation Friday after the fiery failure of the Asian country's latest rocket launch, which some researchers blamed on inadequate testing. The Naro-1 rocket, which was Russian-made but assembled in South Korea, veered off course and exploded 137 seconds after blast-off on Thursday. The mishap came after a first rocket failure last year, th ... more |
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Opportunity Could Resume Driving SoonPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2010 The pancam mast assembly (PMA) azimuth error from Sol 2257 (May 30, 2010), is still being resolved on Opportunity, although with a likely explanation in hand. Diagnostics were run on Sols 2259, 2261, 2262 and 2265 (June 1, 3, 4 and 8). In every case, the diagnostics indicated a healthy PMA azimuth actuator. Further investigation now suggests that the miniature thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-TES) is the origin of the PMA symptom and that the PMA was just waiting on a signal from the Mini ... read more |
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