Latest Space News 2010-02-24 *Delivered Daily!
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India Plans To Send Two Astronauts Into Space
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 23, 2010 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to send two astronauts to space within six to seven years, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said.
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A Stellar, Metal-Free Way To Make Carbon Nanotubes
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 – Space apparently has its own recipe for making carbon nanotubes, one of the most intriguing contributions of nanotechnology here on Earth, and metals are conspicuously missing from the list of ingredients.
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Andrew Browne Appointed CFO Of SES
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Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 – Global satellite operator SES S.A. has announced the appointment of Andrew Browne as Chief Financial Officer and member of its Executive Committee, replacing current CFO …
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 – NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) K-L program completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) in El Segundo, Calif. on Feb. 19.
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Reston VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 – Mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks has announced that the initial on-orbit testing of Ground Based Beam Forming (GBBF) is complete. The TerreStar GBBF system is the first two-way GBBF system to employ both ground based calibration and beam forming.
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www.spacedaily.com
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 23, 2010 – Since the launch of the first Meteosat in 1977, 33 years of imagery combined with increasing computer power have given meteorologists the tools to improve weather forecasting, with direct benefits for us.
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Discovery gets ready to meet fuel tank and boosters
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A heavy-lifting crane rotates the shuttle Discovery vertical Monday night, the next step in the procedure to move the orbiter from the Vehicle Assembly Building floor to a room next door containing the external tank and solid rocket boosters.
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NASA sets timetables for engine and demonstrators
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NASA hopes to begin flying flagship-class space technology demonstration missions by 2014 and develop a powerful new hydrocarbon first stage engine for a heavy-lift rocket by 2020, according to budget documents released Monday.
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NASA releases new details of commercial crew program
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NASA will attempt to stimulate a portfolio of private transportation providers in its commercial crew program, striking a balance between emerging and established space companies, according to new agency plans released Monday.
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Space Station 98% Complete with 4 Shuttle Flights Remaining
www.space.com
The successful STS-130 mission of NASA’s shuttle Endeavour has left the International Space Station nearly complete, with just four more shuttle flights remaining.
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Space Junk Mess Getting Messier in Orbit
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The already untidy mass of orbital debris littering low-Earth orbit nearly got nastier last month when collision was averted between Chinese and European objects. But the space junk mess will get even messier without action, experts say.
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Astronauts Photograph Rare High-Altitude Clouds
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Striking and polar mesospheric clouds, also known as noctilucent clouds, were photographed recently by space station astronauts.
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SpaceX’s New Rocket At Launch Pad for Final Tests
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SpaceX has hoisted its new Falcon 9 rocket atop its Florida launch pad for final tests ahead of a launch test debut later this year.
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Nasa has produced a new free iPhone app that allows users to be part of their own space mission to the moon, officials said.
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www.physorg.com
NASA’s GOES-P meteorological satellite is lifted into the mobile service tower at Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. |
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www.redorbit.com
In less than four months since launch, the first calibrated images are being delivered by ESA’s SMOS mission.
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Precision timekeeping
www.astronomy.com
While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly — a central prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity — a new experiment in an atom interferometer …
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www.physorg.com
In this Feb. 18, 2010 photo, Ad Astra Rocket Company scientists Chris Olsen, foreground, and Ben Longmier test the company’s VASIMR rocket engine inside a vacuum chamber in Webster, Texas. There are only a few places in space where humans can go in the next couple of decades. .. |
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New NASA Web Page Sheds Light on Science of a Warming World
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NASA has launched a new web page to help people better understand the causes and effects of Earth’s changing climate.
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Alien Star Clusters Fill Our Galaxy
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Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy are invaders from other galaxies, according to a team of scientists from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.
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www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) — When NASAs satellite operators need accurate, real-time space-weather information, they turn to the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) of the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. |
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SCIENCE with a TWIST:
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March 29, 2008, was an especially dark night for some people. Notable landmarks like Alcatraz Prison, the Sears Tower and the Sydney Opera House all went dark for an entire hour. This wasn’t some strange coincidental power outage, though.
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On This Day – Feb 24:
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1949: V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1969: Mariner 6 – USA Mars Flyby launched. Mariner 6 and 7 took measurements of the surface and atmospheric temperature, surface molecular composition, and pressure of the atmosphere. In addition, over 200 pictures were taken. Mariner 6 is now in a solar orbit.
Born On This Day:
1931: Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
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