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NASA finds more cracks on Discovery fuel tankWashington (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 NASA said Thursday it has found four more small cracks on the metal supports of the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, as the shuttle and external tank undergo further X-ray testing before its final space mission next year. Repairs would be made to the cracks in a similar fashion to the cracks discovered after the November 5 launch attempt, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement. The space agency said it was still too early to determine if the new cracks will delay the Discover ... read more |
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  Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more | .. |
  HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more |
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  The Final Frontier Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more | .. |
  ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8 International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more | .. |
 Orbiting junk seen as major space threat Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more |
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 Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satellites into orbit An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites. ... more | .. |
 'Zombie satellite' finally reboots itself A "zombie satellite" adrift in orbit has come back to life, resetting itself after an unexplained breakdown in space this year, its European controllers say. ... more | .. |
  Extension of space station support fails The European Space Agency says it was unable to win approval of NASA's proposed five-year extension of operations of the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that ... more |
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  S.Korea schools get robot English teachers Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more | .. |
  NASA mulls merging operational divisions NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals. ... more | .. |
  Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia's leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more |
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 Arianespace Flight 199: Launch Postponed 24 Hours The launch of Arianespace Flight 199 has been postponed for 24 hours due to the unfavourable weather conditions over the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Flight 199 will place into geostat ... more | .. |
 A Robot With Finger-Tip Sensitivity Two arms, three cameras, finger-tip sensitivity and a variety of facial expressions - these are the distinguishing features of the pi4-workerbot. Similar in size to a human being, it can be employed ... more | .. |
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 Eutelsat's KA-SAT Satellite Lofted Into Orbit The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat's 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 Decem ... more | .. |
 ISRO Scanning Data For GSLV Flop Scientists and technical experts led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, Dr K Radhakrishnan on Sunday continued to analyse the prodigious data following Saturday's failure of ... more | .. |
 Argentina to record UFO sightings The Argentine Air Force has created a commission to record and investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in the South American country's airspace, a spokesman told AFP Wednesday. ... more |
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