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Shuttles' successes, failures discussedOrlando, Fla. (UPI) Jan 6, 2011 The space shuttle enabled scientific discovery and expanded human access to space, but failed to make spaceflight routine and inexpensive, space experts say. That combination of success and a failed, unrealistic promise was discussed by a panel of experts examining the shuttle's legacy as it enters a final year of missions near the 30th anniversary of the first launch, Florida Today reported. "None of us gets tired of watching it launch, and it's going to be heartbreaking to watch that l ... read more |
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  Sugar And Spice In a packed arena, students are yelling and cheering in the bleachers at a national championship event. But this is no traditional sporting event: It's a FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST stan ... more | .. |
  The Hunt For The Lunar Core The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. ... more | .. |
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 Rocket City Space Pioneers Announce Partnership With Solidworks The Rocket City Space Pioneers - a partnership of Huntsville businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations - have announced that Dassault Systemes SolidWorks has partnered with t ... more | .. |
 The 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, nationwide competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. For ma ... more | .. |
  A Look Into Vesta's Interior Researchers from the University of North Dakota and from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have discovered a new kind of asteroid using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility ... more | .. |
  New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity On Rhea Newly released images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, revealing a history o ... more |
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 Dawn Has A Consistent 2010 Dawn finishes 2010 much as it began the year, thrusting with its ion propulsion system in steady pursuit of a distant world. During the next year, the probe will arrive there and begin its scrutiny. ... more | .. |
  2011: The Arianespace Family Takes Shape After reaffirming its world leadership in 2010, Arianespace is now actively preparing for the maiden launches of Soyuz and Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. Since being found ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Will Have A Record Year Of Launch Activity In 2011 Arianespace will use the "world's best operational launch team" to meet its goal of performing a planned total of 12 missions in 2011, when the expanded launcher family of Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega w ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integr ... more |
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 ISRO To Launch Two Communication Satellites This Year ISRO said on Wednesday, it plans to launch at least two large communication satellites within this calendar year to tide over the scarcity of transponders due to the failure of two consecutive GSLV ... more | .. |
 New Shuttle Repairs And Additional Imaging Begin Space shuttle Discovery remains inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians are starting repairs on three support beams, called stringers, on th ... more | .. |
 Shuttle's Stringer Work Begins Today Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will begin modifications to 34 support beams, called stringers, on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank today. Crews will fit piec ... more | .. |
 NASA Checking On Rover Spirit During Martian Spring Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March. Spirit landed o ... more |
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 Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more | .. |
 GSLV Broke Up When Connectors Snapped India's heavy rocket broke up midair on Christmas day when onboard connectors that transmit signals snapped inadvertently, the space agency said Friday. "The inadvertent snapping of 10 connect ... more | .. |
 Rover Will Spend Seventh Birthday At Stadium-Size Crater The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a Dec. 31, 2010, view of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the southwestern rim ... more | .. |
 Turkey To Launch First Home-Made Communications Test Satellite Turkey plans to send its first home-made communications test satellite into orbit in September next year, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday. The satellite, 3USAT, will pr ... more |
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 ISRO To Launch Singapore's First Satellite In Orbit In February The launch of the satellite, dubbed X-Sat, has been delayed since 2007. Experts estimated that the delay has raised the cost of satellite four-fold to more than 40 million Singaporean dollar from ea ... more | .. |
 Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more | .. |
  Auction May Hold Piece Of Final Frontier For Space Buffs Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial secto ... more | .. |
 Arianespace says it plans 12 launches in 2011 Arianespace said on Tuesday that it planned 10 launches in 2011, including six of its Ariane 5 rockets and the first Russian Soyuz rockets from the European space base in French Guiana beginning in August. ... more |
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