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Weather delays Discovery space shuttle launch: NASACape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 Foul weather has delayed the scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery until Friday, NASA said. "There is a no go for 24 hours because of the weather," a spokesman at Kennedy Space Center said, as heavy rain fell on the space center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch is now set for 3:03 pm (1903 GMT) Friday, with weather forecasts showing a 60-percent chance of favorable conditions, the US space agency said. ... read more |
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  India Plans Two Rocket Launches Next Month India is planning two rocket launches next month that would carry on board home-made communication and remote sensing satellites, along with a Russian payload and a Singaporean micro spacecraft. ... more | .. |
  Acceptance Testing On Second R-4D Development Engine Completed Aerojet, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA ... more | .. |
  50th Anniversary Of SETI Commemorated With New Observing Project This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of observati ... more | .. |
  Space Fence Program Completes Critical Milestone Raytheon Company has completed a successful system design review (SDR) for the Space Fence program. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to track and de ... more |
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 Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more | .. |
  New type of moon rock identified U.S. scientists say a new type of rock on the moon, the first new variety identified in decades, is probably ancient material born deep inside the moon. ... more | .. |
  US Army Building Smarter Robots The U.S. Army is exploring ways to upgrade its fleet of roughly 3,000 small tactical robots in Iraq and Afghanistan designed to safeguard Soldiers by clearing buildings and caves and using sensors t ... more | .. |
 Studying Child-Mother Interactions To Design Robots With Social Skills To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University ... more |
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 More delays for Discovery shuttle launch The launch of the shuttle Discovery was delayed until Thursday, the latest in a series of glitches that have set back its final mission to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Electrical malfunction delays Discovery launch to Thursday An electrical malfunction has forced the US space agency to delay until Thursday the shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. Cloud computing is ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'important milestone' in space exploration US President Barack Obama hailed the 10th anniversary of crews aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as an "important milestone" in the history of human space exploration. ... more |
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 Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more | .. |
 Boeing Helps Prepare Space Shuttle Discovery Final Payload Boeing engineers and technicians are supporting Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, in part by processing the shuttle's payload, which includes the last U.S. pressurized element to be delivered ... more | .. |
Discovery Go For Wednesday Launch The Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team voted unanimously to proceed toward Discovery's targeted liftoff at 3:52 p.m. Wednesday. Mike Moses, chair of the Prelaunch Mission Management team, ... more | .. |
Shuttle Discovery counts down to final space voyage Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, is readying for its final mission Wednesday following repairs to leaks in a pressurization system that has twice delayed the launch. ... more |
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  The Fading Final Frontier We have all heard the expression "space, the final frontier." Over the past several decades the space age has matured, and the general public and the government have been pressed to address many oth ... more | .. |
 Slow-Motion Giants Carry Shuttles To The Pad For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have traveled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Co ... more | .. |
  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more | .. |
 Discovery's final home 'up in the air' As the space shuttle Discovery is prepared for its Wednesday launch on its final mission, uncertainty surrounds its eventual permanent home, U.S. officials say. ... more |
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  e2v To Develop Image Sensors For PLATO Exoplanet Mission e2v has been awarded a contract to develop a new Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensor by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space scie ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more | .. |
 Witch's Brew Aids J-2X Engine Hardware Assembly Manufacturing of NASA's J-2X rocket engine includes a Halloween plunge into an icy cauldron of liquid nitrogen. Key components of the J-2X fuel turbopump, the rotating machinery that drives the liqu ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more |
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