NASA Langley's SCIFLI Team To Take Images Of
SpaceX C2 Launch

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Hampton, VA (SPX) May 17, 2012
A team from NASA's Langley Research Center will have its eyes, cameras and telescopes trained on the skies for the launch of the first commercial spaceflight carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The SCIFLI (Scientifically Calibrated In Flight Imagery) team, based at NASA Langley, is preparing to capture visual and thermal snapshots of the SpaceX launch as the Falcon 9 rocket

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NASA Dawn Spacecraft Reveals Secrets of Large
Asteroid

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and relation to the terrestrial planets and Earth's moon. Vesta now has been revealed as a special fossil of the early solar system with a more varied, diverse surface than originally thought. Scientists have confirmed a variety of ways Vesta

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ISS Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report

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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 17, 2012
Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the agency's image department Vladimir Baranov said on Wednesday. "Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin who on Tuesday left for the ISS onboard Soyuz TMA-04M space shuttle, took a speci

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IRVE-3 Flight Hardware Test

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Hampton VA (SPX) May 17, 2012
A NASA flight test designed to demonstrate the feasibility of inflatable spacecraft technology is coming down to the wire. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) is the third in a series of suborbital flight tests of this new technology. It is scheduled to launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore this summer. Technicians will vacuum pack the uninflate

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Endeavour Powered Down 20 Years after First
Launch

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Space shuttle Discovery was powered up hundreds of times during prelaunch processing over the course of 26 years of spaceflight. But Dec. 16, 2011 was different. That morning, technicians inside NASA Kennedy Space Center's orbiter processing facility powered the ship up - and then down - for the final time. Less than a week later, on Dec. 22, Atlantis followed. "After working so many years

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Be There! The First Annual International Space
Station RnD Conference

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Houston TX (SPX) May 17, 2012
Do you want to learn more about science and technology accomplishments on the International Space Station? Do you have an idea for a microgravity experiment? Looking for a way to put the amazing platform of the space station within your reach? Then you need to check out the first annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference! Scientists, students, businesses and en

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Ball Aerospace Submits Solar Electric Propulsion
Concept to NASA

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Boulder, CO (SPX) May 17, 2012
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has submitted its mission concept study to NASA for demonstrating solar electric propulsion (SEP) technologies in space. Ball Aerospace was one of five companies awarded up to $600,000 by NASA in September 2011, to formulate a mission concept to demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies, capabilities, and infrastructure required for sustai

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Ariane 5 mission with twin telecommunications
satellites approved for launch

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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 17, 2012
The Ariane 5 mission with a "mirror" pair of relay satellites for Japan and Vietnam has been given the go-ahead for liftoff on May 15 from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Approval for this flight was issued following the launch readiness review, which is held prior to every Ariane missiona - confirming the "green" status of the Ariane 5 vehicle, its JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2 satellites, the S

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300,000 Times the Strength of the Earth's
Magnetic Field: BLADE's New 14 Tesla Magnet

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: The first researchers to use the new high-field superconducting magnet at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, are searching for "hidden magnetic states". If found, they will provide important confirmati

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