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Cassini Helps With Dune WhodunitPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected. Basic principles describing the rotation of planetary atmospheres and data from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe led to circulation models that showed surface winds streaming generally east-to-west around Titan's equatorial belt. But when NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained the first images of dunes on Titan in 2005, the ... read more |
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London (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says. In an interview 40 years after the first manned moon landing, Cambridge University Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Martin Rees said most future space mission would likely be robotic, BBC News reported Tuesday. Manned space exploration wou ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2010Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), scheduled for launch in 2011. Confirming the size and fit of manufactured components is one of the steps required prior to welding the spacecraft's fuel tanks into the propulsion system's feed lines. The image was taken on June 29, 2010, during the propulsi ... more  
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2010Sea Launch Company, a leading provider of launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of EchoStar Satellite Services L.C.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS), providing EchoStar with the ability to launch up to three satellites on the Sea Launch system. Sea Launch expects to launch the satellites using the ... more |
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cosmonauts Complete First Expedition 24 SpacewalkHouston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2010 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began their spacewalk when they opened the hatches of the Pirs docking compartment at 12:11 a.m. This was the 147th spacewalk overall in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance. The cosmonauts wore their Russian Orlan spacesuits to outfit the new Rassvet module for a Kurs automated rendezvous system capability for future dockings of Rus ... read more |
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