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Hot spots on Mars give hunt for life new target
Giant hollow towers of ice formed by steaming volcanic vents on Ross Island, Antarctica are providing clues about where to hunt for life on Mars.
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Saturday:
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Biggest explosions may propel fastest cosmic rays
The most powerful explosions in the universe, gamma-ray bursts, may generate the most energetic particles in the universe, known as the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, according to a new analysis of observations from NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
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Horseshoe nebula flows with 'X-ray champagne'
A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals hot gas flowing away from massive young stars in the center of the Horseshoe Nebula, a.k.a. M17 or the Omega Nebula. A group of massive young stars responsible for the activity in the nebula is located in the bright pink region near the center of the image.
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Friday:
August 15, 2003 | |
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What to do with Hubble? Telescope's future debated
A report was released Thursday from the independent panel charged with evaluating options for the Hubble Space Telescope's twilight years of life and how to transition scientific research to the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope during the next decade.
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Titan 4 rocket launch rescheduled for August 20
Work to clean up the nitrogen tetroxide spill at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 has been completed, the Air Force said Thursday, but liftoff of the Titan 4 rocket has been pushed back one additional day.
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Space Imaging to conduct wildland fire risk analysis -- Space Imaging's Wildland Fire Risk Assessment System approach has been selected by the Southern Group of State Foresters to support ongoing fire management planning and wildland fire risk analysis in each community, county, congressional district and fire response zone of the organization's states.
Davis named safety and mission assurance director -- Dr. Jan Davis has been named director of the Safety and Mission Assurance organization at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Davis, a former astronaut who joined NASA in 1979, had been serving as director of the Flight Projects Directorate at the Marshall Center.
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Kalpana inspires South African Indian's space institute -- (Hindustan Times) Kalpana Chawla, the India-born astronaut who died in a space shuttle tragedy, has inspired a South African Indian to launch an academy for youths interested in aeronautics.
SpaceDev reports financial results for second quarter of 2003 -- (SpaceDev) SpaceDev, Inc., a leading provider of microsatellites and hybrid propulsion technology, reported financial results for the second quarter of 2003.
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Thursday:
August 14, 2003 | |
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Titan 4 rocket launch delayed at least one day
Workers at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad are replacing a faulty pump in ground support equipment that caused Tuesday's nitrogen tetroxide leak during fueling of Lockheed Martin's Titan 4B rocket.
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Infamous satellite returns to pad for third launch try
A hard-luck military weather satellite has taken its place on the launch pad for the third time in nearly three years. This time, officials and workers alike hope the mission will finally blast skyward next month.
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Amateur locates powerful stellar explosion before pros
Armed with a 12-inch telescope, a computer, and a NASA email alert, Berto Monard of South Africa has become the first amateur astronomer to discover an afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful explosion known in the Universe.
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1th Circuit Court grants stay to EchoStar -- (EchoStar) In a major victory for satellite TV subscribers, EchoStar Communications Corporation reported Wednesday that the U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta granted EchoStar's motion to stay a District Court's injunction, pending appeal.
EchoStar reports second quarter 2003 financial results -- (EchoStar) EchoStar Communications Corporation reported that its DISH Network satellite television service added approximately 270,000 net new subscribers during the second quarter of 2003. DISH Network had approximately 8.8 million subscribers as of June 30, 2003.
Globalstar reports results for second quarter of 2003 -- (Globalstar) Globalstar, the world's most widely-used handheld satellite telephone service, Wednesday announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2003. Growth in both usage and subscriber levels received a substantial boost during the quarter with the initiation of service in Iraq, and the company further expanded its sales potential with the introduction of new products and pricing plans for the aviation market.
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Wednesday:
August 13, 2003 | |
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Canada's ozone research project launched into space
A Canadian endeavor to study the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere and the fragile ozone layer was successfully propelled into space Tuesday night by an air-launched rocket.
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Titan 4 suffers fuel leak
While fueling the Lockheed Martin Titan 4B rocket at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Tuesday, about 50 gallons of toxic nitrogen tetroxide propellant was leaked. Air Force officials say the status of the upcoming launch is unknown.
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Asteroid has a 'bite' out of it
If someone sneaks a bite of your chocolate chip cookie, they leave behind evidence of their pilferage in the form of a crescent of missing cookie. The same is true in our solar system, where an impact can take a bite out of a planet or moon, leaving behind evidence in the form of a crater. By combining modern technology with a historical telescope, astronomers have discovered that the asteroid Juno has a bite out of it.
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Russian military launches satellite on Soyuz rocket
A Russian Soyuz booster successfully lofted a classified military satellite into orbit Tuesday, marking the 35th orbital launch of 2003. The payload for the launch was a secret satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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Boeing's sanctions may hurt progress of X-37 at Marshall -- (The Huntsville Times) A Huntsville-led NASA program to test new space-plane technology could be affected by Boeing Co.'s inability to compete in government launch contracts, Marshall Space Flight Center's X-37 program manager said.
Board orders consideration of Mauna Kea telescope plan -- (Honolulu Advertiser) A contested case hearing on a plan to add up to six new telescopes to the W.M. Keck Observatory will be reopened, under a new order by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources.
Up to 200 Russian specialists to build Kourou launching pad -- (Itar-Tass) Up to 200 Russian specialists will help build a new launching pad for Soyuz carriers on the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, a high-ranking official said.
Rosaviakosmos plans no changes to cosmonauts' code of conduct -- (Itar-Tass) The "space wedding" of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and his U.S. fiancee Yekaterina Dmitriev will not bring about any changes in the code of conduct aboard the International Space Station, Russian air and space agency Rosaviakosmos spokesman Sergei Gorbunov told Tass.
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Tuesday:
August 12, 2003 | |
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Galaxy torn apart in dark matter halo
For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a phenomenon long thought to play an important role in the formation of giant galaxies: the ongoing disruption of a small galaxy as it orbits within the dark matter halo of a much larger galaxy.
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Pegasus rocket to loft ozone research satellite
A Canadian science satellite designed to monitor Earth's ozone layer will soar into Earth orbit Tuesday night aboard an air-launched Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a carrier jet off the coast of California.
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Antarctic lake water will fizz like a soda
Water released from Lake Vostok, deep beneath the south polar ice sheet, could gush like a popped can of soda if not contained, opening the lake to possible contamination and posing a potential health hazard to NASA and university researchers.
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Monday:
August 11, 2003 | |
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Ulysses spacecraft sees galactic dust on the rise
Since early 1992, Ulysses has been monitoring the stream of stardust flowing through our Solar System. The stardust is embedded in the local galactic cloud through which the Sun is moving at a speed of 26 kilometres every second. As a result of this relative motion, a single dust grain takes twenty years to traverse the Solar System.
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