NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

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Sep 23, 2008 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

New Target Shuttle Launch Dates Announced as Astronauts Complete Rehearsal

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Sep 24, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

The target launch date for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope has been reset to Oct. 14 at 10:19 p.m. EDT. A news conference is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 3, at NASA's ...

Let the Planet Hunt Begin

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May 13, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring ...

NASA Gives 'Go' for Space Shuttle Launch on May 11

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Apr 30, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)

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Jul 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...

Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth

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Nov 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on supply mission

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Nov 16, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

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Oct 28, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (25) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.

TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

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Dec 01, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed ...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode

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Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.

NASA launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor

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Jun 19, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 3

NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida

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Dec 18, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch ...

Stardust Logs A Decade Under The Stars

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Feb 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturday, Feb. 7, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft.

Ulysses space mission to end

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Jun 26, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 2

After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication pass with a ...

Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets

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Mar 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...