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NASA aims to launch Discovery Feb 24Washington (AFP) Jan 11, 2011 NASA said Tuesday it will aim to launch the space shuttle Discovery on February 24, after engineers found a way to shore up cracks on the external fuel tank that have delayed its final liftoff. NASA engineers have been working since November to figure out why cracks were emerging on the 22-foot-long U-shaped aluminum brackets, called stringers, on the shuttle's external fuel tank. According to shuttle program manager John Shannon, the same problem may have existed on the fuel tank, ET-136, that ... read more |
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  Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. ... more | .. |
  In Distant Galaxies, New Clues To Century-Old Molecule Mystery In a study that pushes the limits of observations currently possible from Earth, a team of NASA and European scientists recorded the "fingerprints" of mystery molecules in two distant galaxies, Andr ... more | .. |
  Under Pressure: Stormy Weather Sensor For Hurricane Forecasting It's hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don't have a way to measure sea-level air pressure during hurricanes. NASA researchers, however, are working on a system that will improve forecast ... more | .. |
  RaySat And FUNTORO Offer LIVE Infotainment Systems To Mass Transportation Market RaySat and FUNTORO announce their global cooperation to promote and distribute their complementary products for LIVE satellite infotainment systems on buses, trains and ferries. This cooperation wil ... more |
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  NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter ... more | .. |
  Hubble Snaps Image Of Space Oddity In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp (Hanny's ... more | .. |
 JWST Makes Significant Progress In 2010 Highlighted by the completion of its most important milestone to date, Mission Critical Design Review, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made significant progress throughout 2010. Northrop Grumman C ... more | .. |
  Rover Continues To Explore Santa Maria Crater As the New (Earth) Year begins, Opportunity is continuing to explore the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. The exploration campaign consists of wide-baseline imaging surveys wit ... more |
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 NASA's Hubble Finds That Puny Stars Pack A Big Punch A deep survey of more than 200,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy has unveiled the sometimes petulant behavior of tiny red dwarf stars. These stars, which are smaller than the Sun, can unleash powerf ... more | .. |
  Ex-NASA worker charged military tech sale to SKorea An American who worked for NASA was charged with illegally shipping infrared military technology to South Korea, the Department of Justice announced Monday. ... more | .. |
 Possible Missing Link Between Young And Old Galaxies University of California, Berkeley, astronomers may have found the missing link between gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as "red and dead." ... more | .. |
  Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Goes Live Lockheed Martin has announced that the satellite command and control system - the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture- recently went operational with the successful ... more |
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  China schools issue GPS phones to boost safety Schools in Beijing are giving GPS-equipped mobile phones to students, as China seeks to tackle the twin problems of missing children and campus violence, state press said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Probe Rhea For Clues To Saturn Rings Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its next flyb ... more | .. |
  New Insights Into Sun's Photosphere NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the research team at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have reported new insights into the small-scale dynamics of the Sun's photosphere. The o ... more |
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 Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Now scientists believe they have discovered a ... more | .. |
  Russian Firm Builds Another Aerostat System For China Russia's Augur-RosAeroSystems will finish in 2011 the construction of a third large-size tethered aerostat under a contract with a Chinese firm, the company's president said. The Puma aerostat ... more | .. |
 ESA Spacecraft Model Magnetic Boundaries European scientists have used observations from ESA's Cluster and Venus Express spacecraft to improve models of the interaction of Earth and Venus with the solar wind, the perpetual stream of electr ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong researchers store data in bacteria The US' national archives occupy more than 500 miles (800 kilometres) of shelving; France's archives stretch for more than 100 miles of shelves, as do Britain's. ... more |
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  Lunar water may have come from comets - scientists Water on the Moon came in large part from comets which bombarded the lunar surface in its infancy, a study published on Sunday suggests. ... more | .. |
 Another GPS Software Upgrade Completed As part of a larger ongoing effort by Air Force officials to improve and maintain the current GPS ground system, Air Force Space Command officials completed another sustainment software release for ... more | .. |
 Surprise: Dwarf Galaxy Harbors Supermassive Black Hole The surprising discovery of a supermassive black hole in a small nearby galaxy has given astronomers a tantalizing look at how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history of the Uni ... more | .. |
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