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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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 In a remarkable coincidence, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was passing over the landing area for the Phoenix lander on Sunday. The satellite continued to snap pictures as it went overhead, capturing an unprecedented image of the lander and parachutes from orbit. This was the first time that any orbiting spacecraft has captured the landing of another, on any planet.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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 Our solar system’s biggest planet has a bad case of the spots. Known for its Great Red Spot, a centuries-old store three times the size of Earth, Jupiter gained a Little Red Spot (affectionately referred to as “Red, Jr.”) in 2006, and in the past few weeks a third massive storm appeared nearby the other two. The observations were made by both the Hubble Space Telescope (in the near infrared) and Keck Observatory (visible light).
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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 Postponed by a delay in the manufacturing of the problematic external fuel tanks, the space shuttle Atlantis will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 8th, 2008. The mission commanded by veteran astronaut Scott Altman, will be the last shuttle mission sent to the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope and should ensure operation of the storied telescope through 2013.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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422 million miles and eight and a half months after launch, it all came down to what mission controls described as “seven minutes of terror.” For the first time in 32 years, a soft rocket-assisted landing was carried out on Mars, this time by NASA’s water ice-seeking Phoenix lander. After a fiery entry into the Martian atmosphere and a parachute assist, the Phoenix lander gracefully touched down in Mars’ arctic north, sending a confirmation signal that was received on Earth at 7:53 PM EDT.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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NASA's Phoenix lander is targeted to touch down on Mars' northern polar region at 7:53 PM EDT. The landing will be carried live (albeit with a delay from the interplanetary broadcast) on NASA TV starting at 6:00 PM. Phoenix will be the first rocket-powered lander since the Viking probes in 1976. The lander will be a stationary craft, unlike the Mars Exploration Rovers closer to the equator, and will primarily be used to search for water ice under the Martian soil.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 24 May 2008
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 We’ve got some bad news for the current crew of the International Space Station. That ballistic reentry that your predecessors had to endure during their return to Earth via Soyuz capsule was caused by an equipment separation failure. And the same glitch is present in the Soyuz currently docked with your station that you will use to return home. The glitch forced the Soyuz TMA-11 carrying US astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian Yuri Malenchenko, and South Korean Yi So-yeon to endure extreme G-forces, communications disruptions, and a landing hundreds of kilometers off course, and it could have been even worse.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 24 May 2008
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 Despite having proclaimed prior to the 2006 maiden flight of SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket that they would give it three tries, and if it didn’t work, they’d call it quites, Space Exploration Technologies president and founder Elon Musk says that he regrets having said that. Even if this third launch attempt fails, Musk and SpaceX will continue the drive to a successful commercial launch platform.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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 Against the advice of NASA and independent safety experts, several US congressmen are working to add three more shuttle flights to the manifest after the planned 2010 retirement. Of particular interest in the proposed NASA Authorization Act of 2008 is $150 million for a shuttle mission to deliver the currently-grounded Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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 Standing by on the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A is NASA’s space shuttle Discovery, prepped to launch on a construction mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle is scheduled to launch on May 31st at 5:02 PM EDT, carrying the second of three segments of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory to the ISS.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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 The unmanned Progress 29 Russian cargo freighter lifted off yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan towards the International Space Station. Aboard are two tons of the usual supplies, including fresh clothing, food, and other cargo. Also aboard are 90 snails that will live on the station for five months (in their experiment container) before being returned to Earth to die in the name of science: examining the effects of long-term space occupancy on organisms.
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