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The Opportunity rover is stuck in a sand dune.
This occurred on the 24th April, (only now being reported in the media.)
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Faced with a $1 billion cost overrun, NASA may scale back the planned $3.5 billion James Webb Space Telescope and delay its planned 2011 launch.
Boulder's Ball Aerospace & Technologies was awarded a $200 million contract in 2002 to develop the telescope's optical system.
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NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our understanding of the origins and destinies of stars and g...
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GSLV-Mk-III to place communication satellite in orbit The GSLV (Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle)-Mk (Mark)-III that is to be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for experimental purposes next year is designed to place a communication satellite in orbit, according to K. N...
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The International Space Station seems set to become a purely Russian venture.
Despite declarations to the contrary, it seems that the United States is likely to pull out in the near future.
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After more than a decade of work, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has completed a major detector subsystem for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). Completion of the tracking detector is a significant milestone for the telescope project, sche...
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Mars Science Laboratory mission
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Mars Science Laboratory is repeating a highly successful process performed for the Mars Exploration Rovers, in which the entire scientific community -- not just the mission's science team -- has been offered the opportunity to provide input into the selection of the landing site. This process is...
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EO-1 satellite
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A NASA satellite's detection of a faint yellow stain on an ancient glacier in the Canadian Arctic is being hailed as a major breakthrough in the search for life beyond Earth. The yellowish tinge on a remote patch of the Great White North is caused by microbes interacting with a sulphur spring bubbling...
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NASA has told the team developing an asteroid mission to "stand down" from launch preparations.
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STATUS REPORT: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4123Date Released: Tuesday, May 30, 2006OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULEDNICMOS 8791NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 2A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained im...
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At the core of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission sit two small hearts. Each is a cube, just 5 centimetres across. Together they will allow LISA Pathfinder to lay the foundations for future space-based measurements that investigate the very core of Einstein's General Relativity.
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The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (NYSE:LMT) has been awarded a $96.7 million contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre to provide the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environ...
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DLR simulates Mars' atmosphere in Göttingen Is the Earth the only place in our Solar System on which living organisms exist? Is there, for example, life on Mars? The goal of the European space mission ExoMars is to resolve this question. To this end, the atmosphere on Mars is being simulated at the Ger...
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Rocket launch firm blasts onto Milan stock market An Italian rocket launch firm, dubbed Europe's answer to SpaceX, has become the first company of its kind to list its shares. Shares in Avio began trading on the Milan Stock Exchange on Monday and jumped more than 8% before falling back. The firm, whic...
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The UK government is to invest 108m euros (£73.2m) to give Britain a major share in building the robotic probe for Europe's next mission to Mars.
The European Space Agency (Esa) member states approved funding for the ExoMars mission at the agency's ministerial meeting in Berlin.
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