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Sunday:
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IKONOS sees aftermath of World Trade Center collapse
Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite took a new picture of Manhattan on Saturday, showing the remains of the World Trade Center towers and the debris and dust that has settled throughout the area. Also visible are the many emergency and rescue vehicles in the surrounding streets.
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Stellar winds' X-rays play role in galactic evolution?
Colorful star-forming regions that have captivated stargazers since the advent of the telescope 400 years ago contain gas thousands of times more energetic than previously recognized, powered by colliding stellar winds. This gas radiated as X-rays is one of the long-sought sources of energy and elements in the Milky Way galaxy's interstellar medium.
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Saturday:
September 15, 2001 | |
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Russia launches new docking module for Alpha
The next step in assembling the international space station is underway with the launch of Russia's Docking Compartment-1 module atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 2335 GMT (7:35 p.m. EDT) Friday. Linkup with Alpha is set for 9:05 p.m. EDT Sunday.
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Sister star world 2.5 million light-years away
Presented here is a new color image of the southwest region of the Andromeda Galaxy taken with Subaru's prime focus camera "Suprime-Cam". We see the stars of the Andromeda Galaxy as a great many small white dots. Many of the stars, star clusters, and nebulae in the image are seen clearly resolved for the first time.
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Athena delayed again
The continued difficulty getting personnel to the Alaska launch site given the grounding of America's commercial air fleet has forced officials to again postpone the blastoff of a Lockheed Martin Athena rocket. Liftoff has slipped two more days to Friday, Sept. 21.
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Chandra examines a quadrillion-volt pulsar
The high-voltage environment of one of the most energetic and strongly magnetized pulsars known has been surveyed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A team of astronomers found a powerful jet of high-energy particles extending over a distance of 20 light years and bright arcs believed to be due to particles of matter and anti-matter generated by the pulsar.
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Friday:
September 14, 2001 | |
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Russia to launch new docking module for Alpha
The next step in assembling the international space station is scheduled for today with the launch of Russia's Docking Compartment-1 module atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff is expected at 2335 GMT (7:35 p.m. EDT). DC-1, nicknamed Pirs or Pier, will serve as an additional docking port and Russian airlock for the orbiting outpost.
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Greater Hubble accuracy deepens understanding
The dedicated team effort to understand and correct systematic effects in observations from Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph has now been concluded. In future astronomers who use the observations from this instrument will be able to measure the exact velocity of interstellar clouds, as well as the motions of individual parts of nebulae and galaxies.
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Unique tasks for SMART-1 in exploring the Moon
Space scientists meeting in Berlin next week will compare their hopes for the European Space Agency's first lunar project, SMART-1, with other forthcoming missions to the Moon.
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Thursday:
September 13, 2001 | |
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IKONOS view of Manhattan
This one-meter resolution satellite image of Manhattan, New York was collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite. The image shows an area of white and gray-colored dust and smoke at the location where the World Trade Center once stood.
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SPOT satellite images
World Trade Center fires
This SPOT satellite image of Manhattan was acquired three hours after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The colors result from the use of infrared bands to identify the actual fire hot spots.
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Athena launch delayed
Next week's planned blastoff of a Lockheed Martin Athena rocket from Alaska has been postponed by two days because America's grounded commercial air fleet has made travel to the launch site impossible.
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Terrorist attack seen from Alpha, NASA centers closed
Astronauts aboard the orbiting international space station reported they saw rising smoke and dust clouds from the devastated World Trade Center towers Tuesday as they passed overhead. With American targets under attack, NASA centers were closed and Air Force bases at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg were put on high alert.
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Satellite sees smoke plume from World Trade Center
Images from NASA's orbiting Terra spacecraft show the fire plume from Manhattan on Tuesday after the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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Wednesday:
September 12, 2001 | |
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XM Satellite Radio delays commercial service launch
Due to Tuesday's national tragedy, XM Satellite Radio has postponed the launch of its commercial service in San Diego and Dallas scheduled for Wednesday.
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Tuesday:
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Terrorist attack seen from orbit, NASA centers closed
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Astronauts aboard the orbiting international space station reported they saw rising smoke and dust clouds from the devastated World Trade Center towers Tuesday as they passed overhead. With American targets under attack, NASA centers were closed and Air Force bases at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg were put on high alert.
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Icy veil around the Eagle's fiery heart is unmasked
This is such an unusual view of the impressive M16 nebula, also known as 'The Eagle', that even the most devoted sky-lovers will be surprised. It shows exactly what in the best known pictures of this famous nebula remains invisible: huge amounts of the cold dust that enshrouds newborn stars.
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Mysterious 'twofaced' star explained, scientists say
There's a simple reason why a curious neutron star in the M15 globular star cluster has shown two faces over the years, beaming an X-ray portrait as perplexing as Mona Lisa's smile. The reason: That's not one star system, but two.
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Lockheed Martin team passes SBIRS High review
The Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High team led by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company successfully completed the system critical design review with its customer, the U.S. Air Force, recently. The review demonstrated that SBIRS High would meet the customer's requirements and establish the foundation for the next generation space-based surveillance systems.
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Galileo still beaming back Io and Jupiter encounter data -- This week's focus for the Galileo spacecraft is again playback of the recorded data that was acquired during the August 5 flyby of Io and Jupiter. A variety of observations are planned for return this week, from the Photopolarimeter Radiometer, the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and the Solid State Imaging camera.
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Monday:
September 10, 2001 | |
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World's largest monolithic solid rocket motor test fired
Aerojet has successfully test fired a full-scale, 67-foot demonstration solid rocket motor. The motor burned nominally in this assessment of the performance, quality and processing of the solid propellant. The booster will be used by the new Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 launch vehicle.
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1st cell culture experiments completed on station
The first cell culture experiments aboard the International Space Station have been successfully completed, and the crew is preparing for the first in-depth study of lung function in space.
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Chandra finds eruption, pulsation in nova outburst
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a burst of X-rays and never-before observed short-term cyclical pulsing from a white dwarf star that has just undergone a thermonuclear explosion. These observations are helping scientists to better understand explosions that occur on the surfaces of white dwarfs in a special kind of binary star system.
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The Hubble Space Telescope's majestic view of the Eskimo Nebula. This spectacular poster is available now from the Astronomy Now Store.