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TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 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 ...


GLAST in Orbit

GLAST mission operations at NASA Goddard powered up

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created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite.





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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

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created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 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

New Target Shuttle Launch Dates Announced as Astronauts Complete Rehearsal

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created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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

Let the Planet Hunt Begin

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 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

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

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created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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

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

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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 (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 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 (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on supply mission

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 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 new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

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

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 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.


NASA launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor

NASA launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor

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created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 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

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida

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created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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 ...



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