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Discovery Facing Local Weather Delays At Cape CanaveralHouston (UPI) Apr 19, 2010 Shuttle astronauts prepared Monday for a second landing attempt, after rain at Kennedy Space Center forced them to wave off the first of the day's landing opportunities. Rainy conditions remained in the outlook for the day's final Florida landing opportunity, at 10:23 am. If waved off for a second time, NASA planned to land at Edwards AFB in California. Tuesday's forecast for Florida shows an improved weather outlook, but still included a chance of rain showers within 50 km of the shuttle's runway. ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2010In a unique collaboration between national space agencies, the United States and Japan began combining elements of their satellite resources on Monday to increase a critical type of Earth observation data. The partnership will more than double the quantity of this data that is used to explore earthquake hazards, forest declines, and changing water resources in the Americas. This new partne ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2010For the first time, scientists have detected clear signs of recent lava flows on the surface of Venus. The observations reveal that volcanoes on Venus appeared to erupt between a few hundred years to 2.5 million years ago. This suggests the planet may still be geologically active, making Venus one of the few worlds in our solar system that has been volcanically active within the last 3 million y ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2010GPS navigational devices are as ubiquitous as cell phones, freely used by commercial and government users alike to determine location, time, and velocity. These tools, however, are only as good as the signals they receive. Now, NASA engineers have found a way to improve the reception of those signals. GPS, which stands for the Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation syst ... more |
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CryoSat-2 Begins Its Icy MissionBonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2010 Europe's Ice research satellite CryoSat-2, which was built by Europe's leading space company Astrium, is now in orbit. At 14:57 (UK Time), it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) on board a Dnepr launcher which has placed the 720 kilogram spacecraft into a polar orbit. Around 17 minutes after launch the spacecraft separated from the upper stage and sent its first signals to the Malindi (Kenya) ground station. CryoSat-2 will measure the ice coverage at the Earth's poles with previ ... read more |
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