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January 10, 2014

Orbital Sciences launches second mission to space station
Washington (AFP) Jan 09, 2014
Orbital Sciences Corporation on Thursday launched its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship on the company's first regular supply mission to the International Space Station. The liftoff of the Antares rocket carrying the ship took place at 1:07 pm (1807 GMT) from Wallops Island, Virginia, according to footage carried by the US space agency NASA's television network. The first stage of the rocket was expected to run for four minutes and 20 seconds before separating. The second stage motors would then f ... read more

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				A Busy Year Begins for New Horizons With Pluto encounter operations now just a year away, the New Horizons team has brought the spacecraft out of hibernation for the first of several activities planned for 2014. Mission operator ... more		Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid - its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation last year. ... more

Surprising new class of 'hypervelocity stars' discovered escaping the galaxy An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" - solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy. ... more		New kind of planet or failed star? Astrophysicists discover category-defying celestial object An object discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto nearly 500 light years away from the sun may challenge traditional understandings about how planets and stars form. The obj ... more		Iran Guards unveil underground naval base Israel intercepts missiles fired from Yemen Russian attacks kill six across Ukraine, Kyiv says		NASA's Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such pl ... more
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