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  Next-generation weather satellite launches to begin forecasting “revolution”

  A powerful new satellite that will give forecasters their best-ever looks at storms and other severe weather has taken to the skies.

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  Full-scale production of plutonium-238 still years away

  The United States has begun manufacturing nuclear spacecraft fuel for the first time in a generation, but full production of the stuff is still seven years or so away.

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  NASA’s Long-lived MESSENGER Probe Slams into Mercury

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  Search for Life Beyond Earth Will Require Giant Telescope

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