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Dawn Mission Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years ago, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft (https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov) set sail for the two most massive bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. […]
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Ball Aerospace Completes Spectrometer Testing and Verification on NASA’s TEMPO Program
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, designed and built by Ball Aerospace for NASA, has completed spectrometer testing and verification. TEMPO was selected by NASA as the first […]
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Full Payload of Satellites for Third Iridium NEXT Launch are Onsite at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Iridium Communications (NASDAQ: IRDM), today announced that all 10 Iridium NEXT satellites for the third launch are onsite at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. Pre-launch processing activities are […]
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New Concept of Terrestrial Planet Formation
Scientists have long been intrigued by the surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth that reveal deep similarities beneath their superficially differing volcanic and tectonic histories. A team of scientists […]
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Milestone Reached on NASA’s Space Launch System Booster Avionics
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, recently completed an important qualification test of the avionics system for the solid rocket boosters the company has […]
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Report: NASA Should Continue its Large Strategic Missions to Maintain United States’ Global Leadership in Space
NASA’s large strategic missions like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the Terra Earth observation satellite are essential to maintaining the United States’ global leadership in […]
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Ukraine changes tactics on North Korea engine claims
In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation could best be described as trolling.
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Space Station Experiment to Explore Mysteries Of Cosmic Rain
A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, […]
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Huge Scientific Gain Seen from Solar Eclipse
“This summer’s total solar eclipse is a bonanza for finding out more about how the Sun shines,” says Williams College astronomer Jay Pasachoff. Pasachoff is heading one of the largest […]
