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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 03 October 2008
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 Officials at NASA are breathing sighs of relief now that the pen of US President George W. Bush has left his signature on a temporary spending bill that included provisions to allow NASA to purchase Soyuz flights from Russia in spite of a nuclear nonproliferation act and extended NASA’s current 2008 funding level through the end of the year as Congress continues to wrangle a cohesive federal budget plan into place (the fiscal year for the US federal government started on October 1).
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 03 October 2008
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 In 2007, former Microsoft executive and billionaire Charles Simonyi paid more than $20 million for a trip aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station. He followed four others who paid millions for trips to the ISS, and was apparently so pleased with the experience that he’s decided to pay another $30 million to become the first two-time space tourist. Both of Simonyi’s flights were booked through Virginia-based Space Adventures.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 03 October 2008
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 On Monday evening the end came for the ESA’s first cargo ship. The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle plunged into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean in a destructive reentry that burned up most of the craft and left only a few dozen small fragments of the ship to fall into the uninhabited waters. The fiery plunge was caught on video by two NASA airplanes contracted by the ESA to collect data on the reentry, as well as data gathered by imagers aboard the International Space Station as it traveled overhead. The reentry marked the end of a successful premiere mission for the ATV system, the first cargo ship built by the ESA.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 03 October 2008
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 With two space shuttle poised on the launch pad, the planned October mission to service the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has been pushed back to next year following a failure of the telescope’s command and data systems. The breakdown does not prevent Hubble from orienting itself towards targets, once oriented the telescope cannot take pictures or transmit data back to Earth. Complicating the breakdown is the fact that NASA had planned to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on a servicing mission in less than two weeks.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 After three failed launch attempts, SpaceX’s two-stage Falcon 1 rocket finally made it into orbit, marking the first time that a private enterprise has launched its own orbital craft. Founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, SpaceX has for six years been lining up financing for its continued operations, even in the face of repeated failures. The 21-meter (68-ft) rocket carried a 165 kg (364 lb) dummy payload to an orbit between 500 and 700 km (312-437 mile) above the Earth.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 Facing the likelihood of being locked out of the International Space Station for lack of ability to actually get to it, opposition has softened in the US House of Representatives to extending a NASA exemption from a nuclear nonproliferation act targeting Russia, allowing the space agency to purchase rides aboard Russia’s Soyuz space capsule to the ISS. The Senate has also approved an increased NASA budget for next year, up nearly 17% from 2008.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 This week China successfully launched the nation’s third manned spaceflight, a three astronaut orbital trip that included the nation’s first spacewalk. The Shenzhou 7 craft launched on Thursday, September 23rd the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Chinese province of Gansu. The crew rode the 62 meter (200 ft) tall Long March 2F into orbit, five years after China’s first manned flight. Shenzhou 7 was crewed by Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng; all three are 42-year-old Chinese fighter pilots.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 Opportunity, the little rover that could, just recently climbed up out of Victoria Crater on Mars after spending two years studying the large crater Now, its setting a course for a crater 20 times the size of Victoria: Endeavour Crater. Endeavour is eleven km (seven miles) to the southeast of Victoria, a distance equal to the total mileage Opportunity has racked up since landing on Mars in January 2004.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 The International Astronomical Union is welcoming a new dwarf planet into the league of dwarf planets: Haumea. Previously known as 2003 EL61, the football-shaped dwarf planet is about 2000 km long – as long as Pluto is wide - but only weighs in at a third of Pluto’s mass. Haumea is composed almost entirely of rock with a crust of pure ice. It is joining Ceres, Pluto, Eris, and Makemake as our solar system’s dwarf planets.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 Weighing in at 116 times the mass of the sun - that’s 254,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons - coming close to the theoretical limit of 150 solar masses (at which point gravity would not be strong enough to keep the hydrogen and helium in close). The next closest star hardly comes close, at just 89 solar masses. And they are brother and sister, gravitationally bound to each other.
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