From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: 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
LAUNCH PREVIEW STORY:
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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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.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mission-to-mars-astronomy/id548931049?mt=8
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