Friday, June 28, 2013

Pegasus launches tonight / Chinese astronauts return to Earth

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Reserve Your Space for the Skylab 40th Anniversary Before It's Too Late

There's still time to secure your ticket(s) to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Skylab 40th Anniversary Celebration on July 27, 2013! A fundraiser to support scholarships for outstanding college students studying science and technology, the event includes a dinner reception and a Skylab astronaut panel discussion, as well as a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity and more. Help us honor the crew of the first U.S. space station and support America's future leaders. Reserve your SPACE now!

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AIR-LAUNCHED PEGASUS ROCKET CLEARED FOR FLIGHT THURSDAY
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After a one-day delay to complete repairs to the electrical system feeding key facilities at the Western Range, officials today cleared the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket to launch NASA's IRIS sun-studying satellite on Thursday evening off the coast of California.

http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/iris/status.html

PHOTOS: TAKE A TOUR INSIDE AND AROUND THE L-1011 CARRIER AIRCRAFT: http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/iris/tour

 

CHINESE ASTRONAUTS CONCLUDE 15-DAY SPACEFLIGHT
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After a 15-day mission in which astronauts taught physics lessons to students and completed rendezvous and docking trials, three crew members aboard China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft returned to Earth on Tuesday night.

http://spaceflightnow.com/china/shenzhou10/status.html

 

SOYUZ LAUNCHES BROADBAND BEACON FOR DEVELOPING WORLD
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Four satellites soared into space Tuesday on top of a Soyuz rocket launched from the jungle of South America, beginning the assembly of a fleet of spacecraft equipped to beam broadband connectivity to billions of people beyond the reach of affordable high-speed Internet services.

http://spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/vs05/130625launch/

 

RUSSIAN IMAGING SATELLITE IN ORBIT AFTER SOYUZ LAUNCH
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Russia launched a civil remote sensing satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket Tuesday, lofting a spacecraft with a modernized high-resolution digital camera to collect imagery of Earth for Russian government agencies and international customers.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/25soyuz/

 

RUSSIAN SPACEWALK PAVES WAY FOR NEW LAB MODULE
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Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin staged a successful six-hour 34-minute spacewalk Monday, installing cable clamps, attaching handrails and testing rendezvous equipment to help pave the way for installation of a new Russian laboratory module later this year.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/130624spacewalkends/

 

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

NASA picks new class of astronauts / Upgrading the Ariane 5

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AIR-LAUNCHED PEGASUS ROCKET TO FLY NEXT WEEK
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The winged Pegasus XL rocket will be rolled from its hangar and mated to the belly of the L-1011 carrier aircraft this week at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for a dramatic mid-air launch over the Pacific on June 26.

http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/iris/status.html

 

NEW CLASS OF NASA ASTRONAUTS SELECTED
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NASA has selected eight new candidates -- four men and four women -- to join the ranks of its astronaut corps. for missions to the International Space Station and beyond.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/17astros/

 

ARIANE 5 ROCKET UPGRADES COULD BE ACCELERATED
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Arianespace's new leader is pushing to accelerate modifications to the Ariane 5 rocket to match a trend toward larger communications satellites equipped with electric propulsion systems, company leaders said.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/16ariane5/

 

ATV CARGO SHIP ARRIVES AT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
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A European resupply spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Saturday, using a laser-guided autopilot system to make a precision rendezvous and deliver seven tons of fuel and supplies for the lab's six-person crew.

http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va213/130615docking/

 

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Ariane 5 flies / Healthy Hubble looks for even longer life

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Scholarship Foundation Hosts Skylab 40th Anniversary Benefit

Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean and fellow Skylab astronauts will join the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in celebrating the 40th anniversary of Skylab on July 27, 2013. The benefit event includes a gourmet dinner in the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center followed by a panel discussion with the astronauts in the Lunar Theater. Get fundraiser details and tickets at:

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ARIANE 5 LAUNCHES ON SPACE STATION RESUPPLY MISSION
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Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, a massive refueling tanker, cargo transporter and garbage truck rolled into one, lifted off Thursday evening from a tropical launch pad in South America headed for the International Space Station.

http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va213/status.html

 

HEALTHY HUBBLE TELESCOPE RAISES HOPES OF LONGER LIFE
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Four years after a final shuttle servicing mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is operating like a fine watch, with no major technical problems that would prevent it from continuing its trail-blazing observations through the end of the decade -- 30 years after launch -- project officials say.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/01hubble/

 

AGING HUBBLE STILL FOCUSED ON ASTRONOMICAL FRONTIER
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Despite steady advances in ground-based astronomy, the Hubble Space Telescope, with its famously flawed mirror, its equally famed redemption and more than two decades as an icon of world-class science, is more productive today than at any point in its history, scientists say.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/01hubble/science.html

 

MARS ROVER CURIOSITY POISED FOR TREK TO MOUNT SHARP
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Ten months after a spectacular landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is wrapping up a second drilling campaign, mission managers said Wednesday, and the science team is gearing up to begin the long trek to Mount Sharp, a towering mound of layered rock 5 miles away that is expected to shed new light on the red planet's history and habitability.

http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/130605plan/

 

CHINESE SHENZHOU SPACECRAFT TO LAUNCH SOON
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Chinese engineers transferred a 191-foot-tall Long March rocket to the launch pad Monday as officials gear up for liftoff of China's next human spaceflight in mid-June, state media reported.

http://spaceflightnow.com/china/shenzhou10/130603rollout/

 

PROTON FLIES TO HIGH ORBIT WITH COMMERCIAL SATELLITE
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Taking an exceptionally long climb into exceptionally high orbit, a Russian Proton rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Monday on a 15-hour flight that successfully deployed a commercial communications satellite.

http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/ses6/

 

BOEING'S CREW CRAFT TESTED FOR LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT
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Boeing's CST-100 human-rated commercial crew capsule has moved two steps closer to reality with the successful completion of aerodynamic testing in a wind tunnel and a propellant plumbing system for the craft's Atlas 5 launch vehicle, NASA and Boeing announced Friday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/02cst100/

 

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