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Mars' dust key force on atmosphere, surface
According to most scientists who study the Mars, dust is the defining feature of the planet's atmosphere and may constitute the major force eroding the planet's surface, much like the role played by water on the Earth.
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Next-generation ion engine development begins
NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington has announced the selection of a team for the development of an advanced ion propulsion system - an alternative to conventional chemical propulsion that could revolutionize the way we send science missions into the solar system.
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Endeavour arrives home
Riding atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, Endeavour was returned to Kennedy Space Center today after a two-day cross-country ferry flight from its landing site at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
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Saturday:
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Supply ship docks to the International Space Station
An unmanned Russian supply ship made a successful automated docking to the International Space Station early Saturday, delivering a couple tons of cargo, equipment and propellant to the outpost.
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NASA postpones launch of comet-chaser probe
NASA's CONTOUR comet probe will remain Earth-bound for at least two extra days while technicians analyze particles found on the spacecraft and officials decide whether cleaning will be required.
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Endeavour heads home
Nine days after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, space shuttle Endeavour began its cross-country piggyback ride atop a Boeing 747 carrier jet Friday. Bad weather last Wednesday forced the shuttle's landing to be diverted from Kennedy Space Center to Edwards.
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As summer starts, next El Nino is slow to grow
The Pacific Ocean doesn't show signs of anything that looks like the whopper El Nino of 1997-1998, according to the latest information from the U.S.-French ocean-observing satellite Topex/Poseidon.
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Friday:
June 28, 2002 | |
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Military weather satellite repaired for October liftoff
With its propulsion system replaced after an acid residue ruined its first one during a year-long launch delay, a military weather satellite is ready to begin the campaign for an October liftoff.
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Tests delay debut of Atlas 5 rocket by a week
The inaugural launch of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket has been pushed back one week -- to no earlier than August 6 -- so engineers can re-run a series of tests.
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Comet-chaser poised for launch early Monday
A small space probe designed to get up close and personal with at least two comets will be blasted into space Monday. NASA's CONTOUR spacecraft remains scheduled for liftoff at 2:56 a.m. EDT (0656 GMT) aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Neither Rome nor universe built in a day
The early evolution of the universe has confounded astronomers for years. Observations seem to show that giant black holes containing as much mass as three billion suns formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Collecting so much material so quickly was as unlikely as building a 20-room mansion in a day's time.
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Thursday:
June 27, 2002 | |
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Light observed fighting to escape black hole's pull
Scientists have found new evidence that light emanating from near a black hole loses energy climbing out of a gravitational well created by the black hole, a key prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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Young stars in old galaxies: cosmic hide and seek game
A group of European and American astronomers have made an unexpected, major discovery. They have identified a huge number of "young" stellar clusters, only a few billion years old, inside an "old" elliptical galaxy, probably aged some 12 billion years. For the first time, it has been possible to identify several distinct periods of star-formation in a galaxy as old as this one.
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First image released from new weather satellite
The first image from space sent by NOAA-17, the country's newest environmental satellite, has been beamed to NOAA. Following its textbook launch Monday, the new satellite is undergoing a routine functions check before becoming fully operational. Its first image shows cloud patterns over the Great Lakes area.
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Wednesday:
June 26, 2002 | |
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New supply ship en route to International Space Station
A cargo freighter loaded with tons of supplies and fuel for the International Space Station and it's three-person crew blasted off from Kazakhstan today on a three-day flight to the orbiting outpost.
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Energetic ring shows way to pulsar 'bulls-eye'
Astronomers have found the "bulls-eye" pulsar in a bright ring of high-energy particles in a distant supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Arecibo Radio Telescope, will help scientists better understand how neutron stars channel enormous amounts of energy into particles moving near the speed of light.
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International cooperation in space still viable, panel says
Despite the ongoing trials and tribulations of the International Space Station project, there is still a role for international cooperation in it and other space projects, a multinational panel concluded last week.
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Tuesday:
June 25, 2002 | |
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Next space shuttle mission faces extended delay
NASA's next shuttle mission - the planned July 19 launch of Columbia on a science mission featuring the first Israeli astronaut - will be delayed at least "a few weeks" because of potentially dangerous cracks found in the propulsion systems of two other orbiters.
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Titan 2 rocket launches polar-orbiting weather eye
A leftover relic of the Cold War launched a civilian satellite Monday on a $298 million mission to continue a 40-year legacy of tracking Earth's global weather from space.
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Aqua satellite undergoes initial in-space tests
NASA's newest Earth Observing System satellite, Aqua, is successfully providing data and engineering images. After more than six weeks on-orbit, the spacecraft and its six instruments are almost midway through their checkout period and are performing extremely well.
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Supply ship undocks from International Space Station
The Russian Progress 7P cargo vessel, loaded with trash and unneeded equipment, was unhooked and spring-ejected from the back end of the International Space Station at 4:26 a.m. EDT (0826 GMT) today to reenter the atmosphere. A fresh supply ship is slated for launch early Wednesday on a three-day trek to the orbiting outpost.
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Monday:
June 24, 2002 | |
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Titan 2 rocket to launch weather satellite today
A polar orbiting weather satellite that will be used in global forecasting and environmental research is slated for blastoff today atop a refurbished Air Force Titan 2 missile. Liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for 1822 GMT (2:22 p.m. EDT).
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Student-polished mirrors ready for Starshine 4
Optical physicist Vince Huegele of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., inspects some 800 of roughly a thousand mirrors ready for assembly onto Starshine 4 - a space-bound satellite which, when ready for launch, will resemble a high-tech disco ball.
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New image of supernova
This image of Supernova 2002dj was taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile on June 14. SN 2002dj is a Type-Ia supernova located in the nearby, early-type galaxy NGC5018. The supernova is the bluish object to the right of the galactic center. NGC5018 is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, at an estimated distance of 130 million light years from Earth.
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