Sunday:
June 23, 2002 | |
0302 GMT |  |
Evidence found of lake, catastrophic flood on Mars
Geologists at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum have discovered a large former lake in the highlands of Mars that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, and which overflowed to carve one of that planet's largest valleys.
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Titan 2 booster to launch U.S. weather satellite
A polar orbiting weather satellite that will be used in global forecasting and environmental research is slated for blastoff Monday atop a refurbished Air Force Titan 2 missile.
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New science experiments installed in station lab
The new Expedition 5 crew's main science activity this past week involved activation and maintenance of the new Stelsys liver cell experiment ferried to the International Space Station by space shuttle Endeavour recently.
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Saturday:
June 22, 2002 | |
0600 GMT |  |
Proton launch scrubbed
Today's launch of the Proton rocket was postponed due to a problem with the EchoStar 8 direct-to-home TV broadcasting satellite cargo. Liftoff had been scheduled for 0515 GMT (1:15 a.m. EDT).
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Life after retirement for Hubble hardware
Two pieces of 'retired' hardware retrieved from the Hubble Space Telescope provide scientists and engineers with unique knowledge of how long-term exposure to the harsh space environment affects hardware.
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NASA's ICESat to be fitted with laser for launch
The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System instrument for NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), has arrived at Ball Aerospace for integration with the spacecraft. The mission will measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, vegetation structure and land topography.
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Friday:
June 21, 2002 | |
0220 GMT |  |
Proton rocket to launch U.S. TV satellite Saturday
The EchoStar 8 satellite, built to beam television programming to millions of homes across the U.S., will ride a Russian Proton rocket into Earth orbit on Saturday.
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Student prompting closer look at stellar birthplace
What began as an essay contest in British Columbia, Canada to encourage an interest in astronomy for elementary school students has resulted in spectacular images and scientific data that may warrant possible follow-up observations.
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Where have all the comets gone?
Most comets disintegrate after their first few passages through the inner solar system, say scientists at Southwest Research Institute. A new study has revealed that 99 percent of the objects from the cloud of comets at the edge of the solar system, known as the Oort cloud, break apart sometime after they enter the inner solar system.
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Eurockot successfully launches Iridium satellites
A pair of spare satellites for the Iridium mobile communications network were successfully launched into space Thursday by a Rockot vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The spacecraft are part of a plan designed to ensure Iridium's constellation operates through 2010.
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Thursday:
June 20, 2002 | |
0508 GMT |  |
Shuttle Endeavour returns station crew to Earth
Diverted to California after back-to-back landing delays Monday and Tuesday, the shuttle Endeavour's crew glided to a picture-perfect Mojave Desert touchdown Wednesday, bringing a trio of weary space station fliers home after a U.S. record 196 days in space.
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