http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/30/virgin-galactic-tourist-spaceship-breaks-sound-barrier/
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sea Launch failure report released / Shuttle Atlantis unwrapped
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AFTER ANTARES TEST LAUNCH, ORBITAL AIMS FOR SPACE STATION
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Buoyed by a flawless test launch of the Antares rocket, the heavy-lifting part of its commercial cargo resupply system for the International Space Station, Orbital Sciences Corp. has its eye on a summer demonstration flight of the company's Cygnus resupply freighter.
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/130426cygnus/
SEA LAUNCH ROCKET FAILURE BLAMED ON HYDRAULIC PUMP
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Sea Launch closed the investigation into a Feb. 1 rocket failure Thursday, concurring with the conclusion of Russian and Ukrainian experts that the mishap was caused by a faulty hydraulic pump used to steer the Zenit 3SL booster in flight.
http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/is27/130427frob/
FORM-FITTING PLASTIC COVER REMOVED FROM ATLANTIS
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The space shuttle Atlantis, now a museum piece at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, has emerged from the protective plastic cocoon that had encased the spacecraft since November.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/130426unwrap/
THIRD SOYUZ LAUNCH IN A WEEK BOLSTERS GLONASS
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Russia successfully launched a Soyuz rocket Friday for the third time in less than a week, deploying a satellite to sustain the country's Glonass navigation network and extend the system's global reach.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/26soyuz/
PROGRESS CARGO CRAFT ARRIVES AT SPACE STATION
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A Russian cargo ship hobbled by a jammed navigation antenna glided into its port on the International Space Station early Friday, completing a dramatic automated rendezvous. After final checks to make sure the stowed antenna would not interfere with an airtight structural seal, the ship was safely locked in place.
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp35/130426prog51pdocking/
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Scientists warn orbiting space junk an urgent problem | The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/scientists-warn-orbiting-space-junk-an-urgent-problem/
*I'm thinking "super-giant ball of aerogel sponge..."
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Raw Story: Einstein’s theory of relativity holds up in deep space
Some 7,000 light years away, Einstein’s theory of general relativity has
stood up to its most intense test yet...
Full Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/einsteins-theory-of-relativity-holds-up-in-deep-space/
Full Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/einsteins-theory-of-relativity-holds-up-in-deep-space/
Monday, April 22, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
LIVE COVERAGE of today's Antares rocket's test launch
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COUNTDOWN UNDERWAY FOR ANTARES ROCKET'S FIRST LAUNCH
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Billed as the biggest, brightest and loudest rocket ever to blast off from NASA's often-overlooked Virginia launch base, the first Antares rocket will ascend into orbit Wednesday on a test flight to prove the booster's reliability before future flights to service the International Space Station.
LIVE UPDATES AND STREAMING VIDEO:
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/status.html
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http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/130416preview/
ANTARES ROCKET ENGINES LEAN ON RUSSIAN MOON LEGACY
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More than four decades ago, working under the orders of the Soviet leadership, technicians toiled in anonymity to build dozens of rocket engines to power Russian moon shots off planet Earth, intending to flaunt the supremacy of communism over capitalism.
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/130416aj26/
CANADIAN BROADCAST SATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM BAIKONUR
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Steadily ascending for nine hours and traveling a distance to loop around the planet four times, a Russian-made rocket booster successfully deployed a Canadian telecommunications satellite into the prescribed orbit Monday night.
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/anikg1/status.html
CANADA'S FIRST RADAR OBSERVATION CRAFT FEARED LOST
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Canada's Radarsat 1 satellite stopped communicating with Earth in late March, and officials fear the country's oldest Earth observation satellite may be lost for good, the Canadian Space Agency announced Tuesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/10radarsat/
PLANET-HUNTER AND X-RAY SENSOR SELECTED BY NASA
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NASA will launch a planet-hunting satellite and mount an X-ray astrophysics experiment on the International Space Station in 2017, the space agency announced last week.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/08explorer/
INTERACTIVE iPAD GUIDE TO CURIOSITY ROVER MISSION
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Solar electric spacecraft propulsion could get NASA to an asteroid, beyond
*This is a start on what I'm talkin' 'bout, Willis. - Dan
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Kepler's problems continue / Replica shuttle boosters rising
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KEPLER REACTION WHEEL STILL PROBLEMATIC AFTER MITIGATION
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NASA's Kepler telescope, peering at the sky from a vantage point more than 40 million miles from Earth, is showing troubling signs of wear and tear, and engineers are studying how to keep the planet-hunting observatory running with jittery vision.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/11kepler/
REPLICA SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS RISING AT THE CAPE
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Towering replicas of the twin solid-fuel booster rockets that provided the vast majority of thrust to propel space shuttles skyward are being stacked outside the new Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/130411srb/
PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/130411srb/gallery.html
NASA UNVEILS 2014 BUDGET REQUEST, ASTEROID INITIATIVE
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The Obama administration is requesting $17.7 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2014 budget proposal, including $105 million to begin laying the groundwork for a proposed mission to robotically capture a small asteroid and move it into high Earth orbit to serve as a target for manned sample return visits in the 2020s.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/10budget/
CANADA'S FIRST RADAR OBSERVATION CRAFT FEARED LOST
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Canada's Radarsat 1 satellite stopped communicating with Earth in late March, and officials fear the country's oldest Earth observation satellite may be lost for good, the Canadian Space Agency announced Tuesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/10radarsat/
PLANET-HUNTER AND X-RAY SENSOR SELECTED BY NASA
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NASA will launch a planet-hunting satellite and mount an X-ray astrophysics experiment on the International Space Station in 2017, the space agency announced last week.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/08explorer/
INTERACTIVE iPAD GUIDE TO CURIOSITY ROVER MISSION
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Possible tell-tale fingerprints of dark matter found
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HUNT FOR DARK MATTER HEATS UP WITH ORBITING DETECTOR
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A $2 billion cosmic ray detector attached to the International Space Station has confirmed a steady flow of antimatter positrons streaming through the solar system from all directions, possibly the tell-tale fingerprints of collisions between particles of as-yet-unseen dark matter.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/03ams/
ANTARES ROCKET ROLLOUT SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY
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Orbital Sciences plans to move its first full-up two-stage Antares booster to the launch pad Saturday ahead of a planned demonstration flight from Virginia later this month.
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/status.html
SHENZHOU SPACECRAFT ARRIVES AT CHINESE LAUNCH BASE
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The spacecraft that will carry three Chinese astronauts into orbit in June arrived at the country's remote desert launch base Sunday for final testing and flight preparations, state media reported.
http://spaceflightnow.com/china/shenzhou10/130401shipment/
INSIGHT MISSION TO FIND WHAT LIES BENEATH MARTIAN SURFACE
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NASA's next Mars lander will launch in 2016 to take the red planet's pulse and temperature, listening for tremors, measuring underground heat and monitoring the wobble in its rotation to answer fundamental questions about what lies beneath the desert world's rust-colored surface.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1303/30insight/
INTERACTIVE iPAD GUIDE TO CURIOSITY ROVER MISSION
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Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now have created an interactive iPad guide to the Curiosity rover mission. Learn more about the mission, explore the rover's components and preview Europe's plans for the next Mars rover destined to visit the Red Planet. Now updated with a timeline of the triumphs and disasters of Mars exploration.
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