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Space station's solar panel needs crucial repair
Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2007Two astronauts will try to fix a torn solar panel on the International Space Station during a space walk that has become crucial for the orbiting laboratory's mission, NASA said Wednesday. NASA plans to send the astronauts, members of the shuttle Discovery crew who arrived at the station last week, outside the orbiting laboratory on Friday to repair a solar wing that ripped when it was deplo ... more Panel on space station solar antenna rips
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA scientists were Tuesday examining the damage to a panel on a solar antenna on the International Space Station which ripped as it was repositioned by the crew of the shuttle Discovery. "The team is meeting right now to look at these many pictures and try to decide what exactly is causing the problem," said Mike Suffredini, the manager of the orbiting space station. "We don't clearly ... more US shuttle mission to ISS extended 
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station. The decision was taken by the director of the orbiting space lab, Mike Suffredini, on Monday and relayed Tuesday to the Discovery crew by mission control in Houston. As the US sp ... more Spirit Continues Studies Of Rocks On Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Spirit is healthy and continues to investigate "Home Plate." After completing extensive studies of "Site 3" using the Moessbauer spectrometer and other instruments, the rover proceeded toward "Site 4." Meanwhile, it's already time for Spirit to start thinking about winter again. Over the coming weekend, the rover was scheduled to acquire long-baseline stereo images of Home Plate and surrounding ... more Phoenix: Tasks En Route To Mars Include Course Tweak And Gear Checks 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time. The 45.9-second burn nudged the spacecraft just the right amount to put it on a course to arrive at the red planet seven months from today. At Mars, Phoenix will face a challenging 7-minute descent through the atmosphere to land in the far no ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, beginning the relocation of a key supporting truss but also detecting a problem with one of the mechanisms supporting an key energy unit of the International Space Station. Damage was discovered in a joint supporting the station's solar arrays, a problem that NASA engineers will now have to solve. US astronaut Daniel Tani not ... more Mars Ice Shaken Not Stirred 
Boulder, CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2007Mars, like Earth, is a climate-fickle water planet. The main difference, of course, is that water on the frigid Red Planet is rarely liquid, preferring to spend almost all of its time traveling the world as a gas or churning up the surface as ice. That's the global picture literally and figuratively coming into much sharper focus as various Mars-orbiting cameras send back tomes of unprecedented ... more Discovery docks with International Space Station
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2007The US shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station on Thursday for a complex construction mission to pave the way for the installation of European and Japanese laboratories. The mission is also making space exploration history as shuttle Commander Pam Melroy, 46, and the station's crew chief, Peggy Whitson, 47, became the first women to hold the reins of the two spacecraft ... more Asia's space race heats up as China launches first lunar orbiter 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed in the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise. China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020. The la ... more |
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Tuscon AZ (SPX) Oct 22, 2007The University of Arizona will open the new UA Mars Lounge, dedicated to its Phoenix Mars Mission, and unveil a large landing clock on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center. The mission's principal investigator, Peter Smith, will unveil the clock in the Student Union rotunda. The lounge was designed to give students, faculty, staff and visitors a glimpse into what UA scientists h ... more Boosting The Accuracy Of Rosetta's Earth Approach 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 22, 2007Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. Rosetta is now approaching Earth for its second planetary swing-by of 2007. After passing Mars in April 2007, Rosetta is now approaching Earth for the second time - the third of four plane ... more Back in the space race: Russian revival raises new questions 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 17, 2007The Soyuz rocket, carrying an American, a Malaysian and a Russian, was a study in world peace as it thundered toward the stars on the latest mission to the International Space Station. "The more people in space the better it is for human beings," declared American reserve astronaut Michael Fincke as he drank toasts with Russian colleagues at a dilapidated viewing platform at Baikonur cosmodr ... more Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian Underground 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it. Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, it would freeze and boil at the same time. But there is evidence, like vast, dried up riverbeds, that Mars once was a warm and wet world that could ha ... more
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