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GOCE satellite: Critical operations ongoing

Mar 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned. The Mission Control ...

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NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 28, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.

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

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Mar 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Friday of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and selected the official launch date for the STS-119 mission. Commander Lee Archambault and his six ...

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.

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Europe names crew for Mars 'mission'

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Feb 26, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 4

The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.

Space Shuttle Discovery Set to Land Saturday

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Mar 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The space shuttle Discovery's crew is expected to complete its mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:43 p.m. EDT on Saturday, March 28. The ...

Storms prevent shuttle from landing in Fla. (AP)

NASA scraps landing for shuttle 2nd day in a row

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May 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to its home base Saturday for the second day in a row, and kept the astronauts circling Earth after a successful repair job at the Hubble ...

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., ...

NASA analyzing junk that could threaten astronauts

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Sep 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 2

(AP) -- A piece of space junk was drifting toward the shuttle-station complex and its 13 astronauts Wednesday, though NASA officials said the threat would not delay an upcoming spacewalk.

Chinese space debris passes shuttle uneventfully: NASA

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May 14, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 0

A small piece of debris from China's 2007 anti-satellite test passed by the space shuttle Atlantis, but not close enough to require an evasive maneuver, NASA said Wednesday.