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New Horizons Completes First Stage Of Long Journey To Pluto And Beyond
Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2007The eighth mission to the fifth planet has reached its crescendo - Jupiter, my friends, is in the rear view mirror! Just yesterday we passed closest approach, sealing the deal on our gravity assist and setting us up for our mid-July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system. Saturday Night Date With Lunar Eclipse 
Paris (AFP) March 1, 2007The Moon will turn a shade of copper red this Saturday when it will be fully eclipsed by the Earth, whose shadow will blot out all but a tiny bit of refracted solar light. Star gazers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will have a front-and-center view of the eclipse in a late-night sky, with the zenith occurring at 23:21 GMT. Fuel To Be Removed From Space Shuttle 
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Mar 02, 2007NASA officials decided to remove propellants from space shuttle Atlantis before returning the spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The decision stems from a Monday severe thunderstorm that pummeled the shuttle with golf ball-sized hail, producing as many as 2,000 "divots" in the shuttle's external fuel tank's foam insulation and damaging about 26 heat shield tiles on the shuttle's left wing. |
Germany Preparing For Moon Mission
Berlin (AFP) March 1, 2007The German space agency is preparing for a mission to the moon, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Thursday. The head of the German Space Programme (DLR), Walter Doellinger, told the newspaper that it would be ready by 2013 to send an unmanned space shuttle to orbit the earth's only natural satellite. Impossible For Great Wall To Be Visible With Naked Eye From From Space 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2007Chinese scientists have reopened the debate on whether or not the Great Wall is visible from space with the human eye, labeling it "impossible". In a report published in Chinese science magazine Science and Technology Review, Dai Changda, Jiang Xiaoguang and Xi Xiaohuan, all researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), argue that the claim, made by American and Russian astronauts, defies the laws of biological science. Scientists Rehearse For Foton Mission 
Noordwijk, Holland (SPX) Mar 02, 2007Over 60 scientists and technicians have taken up temporary residence in ESA's brand new microgravity science laboratory, where, for the coming days, they will rehearse procedures to prepare experiments for the Foton M3 mission later this year. |
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Hughes Signs Contract With Arianespace to Launch SPACEWAY 3
Germantown, MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2007Hughes Network Systems has awarded a launch services contract to Arianespace for the launch of its next-generation SPACEWAY 3 satellite. The Ariane 5 heavy launcher will launch SPACEWAY 3 into geosynchronous transfer orbit from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch date is projected for August 2007. The Discovery Of Eris 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2007In 2005, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and his team discovered a large body in the outer solar system. It was not the first distant object that had been found in the Kuiper Belt -- that region encircling our solar system is composed of hundreds of icy objects. But it was the largest known Kuiper Belt object, just beating out Pluto in terms of size, and so their discovery was heralded as "the tenth planet." Iridium Satellite To Open New Ground Station In Norway 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2007Iridium Satellite announces plans to open a new telemetry, tracking and command/control (TTAC) earth station in Norway. The TTAC opening is part of a continuous improvement plan to enhance Iridium's industry-leading constellation reliability and global mobile satellite communications service quality. |
Engineers "Can" Do Anything To Build The James Webb Space Telescope Model
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Engineers "can" do almost anything it seems. During the week of Feb 19, they constructed a model of the James Webb Space Telescope out of cans. It was on display at Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, Calif. It was built to highlight National Engineer's Week. Clyde Space To Supply SOHLA-2 Electrical Systems And Solar Arrays 
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2007Astro-Technology SOHLA (Space Oriented Higashiosaka Leading Association) has selected Glasgow based small satellite power specialist, Clyde Space, to supply the complete power system for the SOHLA-2 spacecraft. SOHLA-2 is a 50kg microsatellite and will be the first demonstrator of Panel ExTension SATellite (PETSAT) which was first proposed by the Nakasuka Laboratory of University of Tokyo. NASA Helps Create A March Madness For Robotics 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2007For many people, this time of year brings 'March Madness,' the frenzy of tournaments to determine the best college basketball team in the nation, but for thousands of high school students around the world, the 'madness' involves robots. The robots are in their shipping crates en route to their local regionals. |
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