From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Nov 29, 2013 8:49 AM
Subject: Engine trouble scrubs Falcon 9 launch / ISON baffles scientists
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ENGINE TROUBLE SCRUBS FALCON 9'S THANKSGIVING LAUNCH
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Topped with a television broadcasting satellite, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket fired its engines and was moments away from liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, but the commercial booster aborted the launch after computers detected the engines were too slow building up thrust.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/131128scrub/
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SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY NEW PICTURES OF COMET ISON
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After a multi-million-year plunge from the frozen fringes of the solar system, Comet ISON may have broken apart and evaporated in the fierce heat and crushing gravity of the sun before or during a close flyby Thursday, presumably scotching long-held hopes for a dramatic sky show on Earth over the next few weeks. Or maybe not.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1311/28ison/
CHINESE MOON LANDER ON THE VERGE OF LAUNCH
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China has scheduled the launch of an ambitious robotic lunar rover as soon as Sunday on a quest to achieve the first soft landing on the moon in more than three decades.
http://spaceflightnow.com/china/change3/131127change3/
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