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Sunday:
December 28, 2003 | |
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Team looks at scenarios to recover the silent Beagle
A "tiger team" of engineers has been assembled to investigate why all attempts since Christmas morning have failed to locate the British Beagle 2 lander supposedly sitting on the surface of Mars.
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Israeli satellite rides Russian Soyuz into space
A Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket successfully delivered an Israeli communications satellite into orbit Saturday from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The craft will be used to relay television, data and Internet services from the Middle East to the United States' eastern seaboard.
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Saturday:
December 27, 2003 | |
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Tiny Beagle lander still hasn't phoned home
While remaining steadfast in their belief that the Beagle 2 lander survived its journey to Mars, project officials said this morning that the best shot at hearing from the craft won't occur before January 4.
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Odyssey orbiter's view of the Beagle landing site
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which is listening for transmissions of the still-missing British Beagle 2 lander, snapped this image of the basin where the tiny craft should have arrived Christmas Day. The photo was taken by the orbiter in advance of Beagle's planned landing.
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Friday:
December 26, 2003 | |
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Mars Express a success, but no one hears Beagle's bark
In what was obviously a bittersweet Christmas Day for planetary scientists around the world, a tiny lander disappeared without a trace while its counterpart successfully glided into orbit around the Red Planet, becoming the first European spacecraft to take up residence at another world.
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Israeli satellite to launch atop Russian Soyuz booster
A Russian Soyuz rocket will serve as a delivery truck for an Israeli telecommunications satellite Saturday, launching the craft high above Earth to relay television, data and Internet services from the Middle East to the United States' eastern seaboard.
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Thursday:
December 25, 2003 | |
0845 GMT |
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Europe puts orbiter around Mars; Lander fate unknown
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet early Thursday. But the condition of the highly-ambitious British Beagle 2 lander remains a mystery. The first shot at hearing from Beagle 2, confirming it is alive and well on Mars, has turned up nothing but silence. Check our status center for updates:
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BEAGLE 2 MISSION PREVIEW
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Wednesday:
December 24, 2003 | |
0705 GMT |
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European invasion at Mars
The tiny British Beagle 2 lander will be bouncing to the Martian surface at about the same time as the Mars Express spacecraft slides into orbit around the Red Planet tonight at 0300 GMT (10 p.m. EST). We will be providing updates on the events in our status center:
MISSION STATUS CENTER
BEAGLE 2 MISSION PREVIEW
MARS EXPRESS INSTRUMENTS
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Ion engine passes test
A new ion propulsion engine design, one of several candidate propulsion technologies under study by NASA's Project Prometheus for possible use on the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, has been successfully tested by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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BOEING STUDY OF JIMO EXTENDED
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Sharp images of solar storms
As last October's solar flares blossomed into a coronal mass ejections, scientists at the National Solar Observatory used a new set of instruments to record the sharpest-ever images of the heart of the storms.
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Tuesday:
December 23, 2003 | |
0140 GMT |
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Last DSCS satellite ready for military service
A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed on-orbit checkout and testing of the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) spacecraft launched in August from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta 4 rocket. The satellite, the last of 14 DSCS-3 spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin, has now begun its controlled drift to its operational location.
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DSCS 3-B6 SATELLITE LAUNCH COVERAGE
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NASA and USA agree to contract adjustment
NASA agreed to a $40.2 million modification to the Space Flight Operations Contract with United Space Alliance in support of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU).
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Monday:
December 22, 2003 | |
0624 GMT |
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Upgraded satellite en route to GPS constellation
With a flash of blinding light, a $45 million replacement craft began its thunderous trek toward the U.S. military's Global Positioning System constellation Sunday morning aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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First Mercury orbiter shipped for prelaunch tests
Less than six months from its scheduled launch to Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set for the next round of tests to prepare it for the first orbital study of the innermost planet.
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