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NASA Exercise Contract Option for NOAA-N
NASA today announced it is exercising a contract option for a Delta II vehicle to launch NOAA-N for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The spacecraft is currently planned […]
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JPL Launches “Saturdays in Space” in Pasadena
People visiting the popular Old Pasadena district will become sidewalk space explorers when scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena bring telescopes, photos and hands-on activities to the One […]
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ILS, Echostar Sign For 2 Launches 2nd Customer for Atlas III, to Fly by End of Year
International Launch Services (ILS) and EchoStar Communications Corp. announced an agreement today for the launch of two geostationary direct broadcast satellites, plus options for launching additional spacecraft. Financial terms were […]
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Orbital Wins U.S. Army Contract for Liquid Fuel Booster Development Program
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today it recently was awarded a $700,000 study contract by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) for Phase I of the Liquid […]
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T Minus 5 Seconds and Counting! Experience a Heart-Pounding, Earth-Shaking Shuttle Launch At Kennedy Space Center
First you see billowy puffs of white smoke. Next you see the space shuttle rise from the launch pad. Then you feel the earth rumble under your feet. Finally, the […]
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Cornell Imaging Team Hopes Close-Up Picture From Eros Landing Will Solve Puzzle Of Never-Before-Seen Surface Features
As NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, known as NEAR Shoemaker, closes in on asteroid 433 Eros, Cornell University astronomers hope that surface details as small as a hand-size rock […]
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Cornell Researchers Turn To Telemetry And Geometry To Capture Distant Asteroid
Will this be the gang that could shoot straight? For the past year, engineers and computer programmers from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), assisted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]
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Hypersonic Vehicle Enters Flight Phase; Second Vehicle Arrives
The first of three hypersonic (X-43A) research vehicles started the final preparations toward a flight in early summer, as the second vehicle arrived on January 31, 2001, at NASA’s Dryden […]
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Planetary Society Students to Take Picture of Mars From Orbit
For the first time ever, students will be given a hands-on opportunity to take a picture of Mars from a spacecraft. The Planetary Society’s Red Rover Goes to Mars Training […]
