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1. Integration Of VIIRS With NPP Complete

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   Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 19, 2010 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies reports that the fourth of five weather instruments that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. Capacity, Flexibility, Reliability All Key Factors In Winning OHO-1 Launch

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   Paris, France (SPX) Mar 19, 2010 - Arianespace's selection by new satellite services operator OverHorizon to orbit its first relay platform was based on criteria that included launch capacity, flexibility ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

3. Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D

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   ... at select IMAX theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

4. Secret Mini Space Shuttle Could Launch April 19

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   Illustration of the X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator during flight. Credit: NASA It's cute. It's little. It's also top secret. The X-37B orbital test vehicle is at Cape Canaveral ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

5. Finally, a "Normal" Exoplanet

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   ... liquid water. Corot-9b orbits a sun-like star at a distance similar to Mercury – one of the largest orbits of any extrasolar planet yet found, and may have an interior that closely resembles Jupiter and ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

6. LRO Camera Releases Science Data From First Six Months

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   Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - NASA is releasing to the Planetary Data System (PDS) the first six months of data acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The PDS serves as NASA's ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

7. CoRoT-9b - A Temperate Exoplanet

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   Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - CoRoT-9b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet thats orbits its star every 95 days, is the latest discovery of the CoRoT satellite, a project in which the German Aerospace Center ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

8. ISS Change of Command as Russian American Crew readies Earth return

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   Map of Soyuz TMA 16 Landing Site, set for Thursday, March 18 at 7:23 AM in the steppes of Kazakhstan ISS Station Commander Jeff Williams, from NASA, handed over command of the massive orbiting outpost ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

9. Mars Express Images Phobos

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   ... on March 7, 2010, on HRSC Orbit 7915. The image has been enhanced to bring out the features in the less illuminated areas. Visit the German Aerospace Center page for 3-D and other imagery of Phobos. Image ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

10. You, Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft

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    The Lunokhod 2 rover, found in images from LRO. Credit: University of Western Ontario On Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s first six ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

11. You Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft

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    The Lunokhod 2 rover, found in images from LRO. Credit: University of Western Ontario On Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s first six ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

12. New Lunar Images And Data Available To Public

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    ... instruments on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... Monday, 15 March 2010

13. Shocking Recipe For Making Killer Electrons

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    Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the ... Monday, 15 March 2010

14. Aerojet And Orbital Complete Taurus II Tests

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    Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Aerojet and Orbital Sciences, along with Aerojet's Russian partner, SNTK, have announced that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia were ... Monday, 15 March 2010

15. New Images of Phobos from Mars Express Flyby

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    ... the rocky moon in exquisite detail and also in 3-D. Mars Express orbits the Red Planet in a highly elliptical, polar orbit that brings it close to Phobos every five months, and it is the only spacecraft ... Monday, 15 March 2010

16. Heads of Agency International Space Station

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    ... they noted the outstanding opportunities now offered by the ISS for on-orbit research and for discovery including the operation and management of the world's largest international space complex. The heads ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

17. Arabsat 5A Satellite Shipped To Launch Site

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    ... transport it to French Guyana in view of an April launch into geostationary orbit. ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

18. Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found

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    ... Cancri definitely revolve around each other in a mere 5.4 minutes. This makes HM Cancri the binary star with by far the shortest known orbital period. ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

19. Possibility of Past Water on Mars Takes a Hit

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    ... a snaking channel and (right) rootless vents; the rootless vents are also marked by yellow spots on the main image. Credit: Jacob Bleacher Images of Mars taken from orbit show a massive system of riverbeds ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

20. ASTRA 3B Topped Off For Arianespace Year-Opening Flight

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    ... orbited by the heavy-lift vehicle on March 24. ... Monday, 08 March 2010