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NASA succesfully tests Orion abort systemWashington (AFP) May 6, 2010 The US space agency NASA successfully tested an emergency abort system for the space shuttle's successor, Orion, Thursday at a remote test site in the New Mexico desert. The emergency system used powerful rocket motors to blast the crew module off the launch site, shooting it 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) into the air in six seconds at high rates of speed, then wafting it back to Earth on a parachute. "This system is much more advanced in capability and technology than any abort system designed in ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) May 06, 2010As fears grow that the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico could soon catch the oil slick and drag it south towards coral reefs in the Florida Keys, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data. By combining surface roughness and current flow information with Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) data of the spill, SAR image analysts are able to d ... more 
Sacramento CA (SPX) May 06, 2010Aerojet has announced that NASA has successfully completed altitude testing of Aerojet's advanced 5500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/Liquid Methane (LCH4) Rocket Engine at NASA's White Sands Test Facility (WSTF). The 5500-lbf LO2/LCH4 engine development effort is funded by the Propulsion and Cryogenics Advanced Development Project (PCAD) under NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program. T ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) May 06, 2010North American satellite operator and services provider, Hughes, has engaged Arianespace to orbit its powerful Ka-Band broadband satellite Jupiter. Arianespace has announced that it has been selected by Hughes Network Systems to launch its Ka-Band, high-throughput Jupiter satellite. The contract calls for a launch in the first half of 2012. Jupiter will weigh approximately 6,100 kgs at lif ... more |
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NASA green lights Atlantis launch for May 14Washington (AFP) May 5, 2010 NASA gave the green light Wednesday for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, officially setting the mission clock on its journey to the International Space Station for May 14 at 2:20 pm (1820 GMT). The decision from top managers at the US space agency came at the end of a flight readiness review at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, NASA said in a statement. Weather permitting, the mission will launch the shuttle on a 12-day trip to the ISS to deliver an integrated cargo carrier and a Russian- ... read more |
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