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The high-resolution telescope on Deep Impact, NASA's spacecraft that will smash into Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, has been found to have blurry vision.
The high resolution telescope wasn't fully focused after a `bake-out`, a proc...
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CUSat
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Cornell's satellite wins first prize of a NASA launch -- far, far above Cayuga's waters Over the past two years, Cornell's CUSat satellite project has engaged and educated a parade of engineering students, sometimes changing their careers. Now the final product -- an innovative experiment in out...
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Zephyr
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Windsurfing on a Wicked World Working with the Collaborative Modelling for Parametric Assessment of Space Systems (COMPASS) Laboratory at Glenn, Geoffrey Landis of NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, has set sail on a new type of spacecraft: the Venus Landsailing Rover, dubbed the Zephy...
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KOMPSAT-5
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Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the republic of South Korea Space Agency, to provide a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) payload system for KOMPSAT-5, the main Earth observation space program of the Republic of South Korea.
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Isro kicks off Mars mission
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The launch campaign for India's Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), slated for lift off between October and November, kicked off on Monday as Isro engineers began assembling the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at Sriharikota. The 44.4-metre tall brown-and-white PSLV is t...
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Jason-1 oceanography satellite
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Jason-1 is a satellite oceanography mission to monitor global ocean circulation, study the ties between the ocean and the atmosphere, improve global climate forecasts and predictions, and monitor events such as El Niño and ocean eddies. Jason-1 was launched on December 7, 2001 from California'...
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is celebrating its fourth year in space with some of M81's "hottest" stars. In a new ultraviolet image, the magnificent M81 spiral galaxy is sh...
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In the spring of 2004, the GOES-O spacecraft was under construction, and went through thermal-vac testing in the spring of 2005. In mid-2005, it was placed in pre-launch storage at Boeing Space Systems (BSS). As of March 2006, the GOES-O launch date was planned for 7 July 2007. As of January 2009, the...
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IBEX Mission
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Just as the Voyager 2 spacecraft is approaching the edge of our solar system, Southwest Research Institute received official confirmation from NASA Headqua...
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FUSE
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After a hibernation of two years, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE ) telescope is operating normally again.
The orbiting telescope returned to full strength last month after engineers fixed the problem with its onboard software control system.
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Herschel Space Observatory
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Giant mirror will boldly go to explore galaxies:
At the Tuorla Observatory in Piikkiö, near Turku, Finland, most of the last eight months have been spent in polishing the world's largest space mirror, 3.5 metres in diameter. In February 2007, the mirror will be launched with an Ariane-5 r...
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Foton-M2 mission
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A Russian orbital research laboratory, will be launched tomorrow from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The craft will have snails and tritons on board. The animals are to spend sixteen days in the harsh conditions of weightlessness and high irradiation before coming back to Earth, June 16...
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Expedition 24
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Soyuz TMA-19 is a planned 2010 Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. It will transport three members of the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-19 will be the 106th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Vostok-6 Spaceship
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World First Woman Cosmonaut Speaks About Error of Vostok Designers Vostok-6 Spaceship was ascending instead of descending from the orbit because of some error in the control program, World First Woman Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova said when interviewed by Rossiiskaya Gazeta. By request of So...
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China To Launch Shenzhou-9, Shenzhou-10 Spacecraft Next Year China will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012, a spokesman for the China National Space Administration said Thursday. [u...
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