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Delta's late night launch to loft new GPS satellite
ven, 14/03/2008 - 16:29Another Global Positioning System satellite is about to launch into space, replacing a craft more than 15 years old. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta 2 rocket is scheduled for early Saturday morning at 2:09 a.m. EDT.
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First spacewalk of mission completed successfully
ven, 14/03/2008 - 16:29Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman completed a 7-hour, 1-minute spacewalk overnight that prepare the Japanese logistics module for attachment to the space station and began assembly of a Canadian robot known as Dextre. The shuttle's arm mounted the new module to station at 4:06 a.m.
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Atlas 5 rocket launches from California for first time
ven, 14/03/2008 - 15:32America's Atlas 5 rocket made its much-anticipated maiden mission from the West Coast early Thursday morning, piercing ground-hugging clouds and fog that blanketed the launch pad to send a secretive spy satellite into orbit.
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First spacewalk of mission begins tonight
jeu, 13/03/2008 - 23:04Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman will press ahead with a near full-duration spacewalk this evening to prepare a Japanese logistics module for attachment to the space station and to begin assembly of a Canadian robot known as Dextre. Canadian robotics experts, meanwhile, are working on a software patch that might resolve a problem preventing engineers from routing power to the robot's components.
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Mission Status Center: Atlas 5 rocket launches from California
jeu, 13/03/2008 - 14:16The inaugural launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base occurred as scheduled this morning, thundering skyward at 3:02 a.m. local time (6:02 a.m. EDT) carrying a classified national security satellite.
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Robot pallet experiences power-up glitch on station
jeu, 13/03/2008 - 14:15A high-tech Canadian robot, launched disassembled on large pallet, was moved from the Endeavour to a work site on the station early today. An initial attempt to route power to the pallet was not successful, but power is not required for the robot's initial assembly and the astronauts were told to press ahead with preparations for a spacewalk Thursday night.
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STS-123 Mission Status Center
jeu, 13/03/2008 - 04:25Complete minute-by-minute coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's final approach and docking with the International Space Station.
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Shuttle Endeavour on course for station docking tonight
mer, 12/03/2008 - 22:29The Endeavour astronauts are closing in on the international space station today, on track for a docking around 11:25 p.m. EDT to kick off a five-spacewalk assembly mission.
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Crew completes evening of heat shield inspections
mer, 12/03/2008 - 15:00The astronauts unlimbered the shuttle's robot arm and inspected the ship's nose cap and wing leading edge panels with a laser scanner on the end of a 50-foot-long boom. The areas of the orbiter that experience the most extreme heating during re-entry appeared in good shape to the untrained eye, including the nose section where launch imagery indicates a possible bird or debris strike about 10 seconds after liftoff.
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Endeavour launch gallery
mer, 12/03/2008 - 07:54This collection of images shows space shuttle Endeavour's middle-of-the-night launch Tuesday. The ship soared from pad 39A and disappeared into a low deck of clouds over the launch site a half-minute after liftoff.
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Jules Verne propulsion system glitch resolved
mer, 12/03/2008 - 02:05Two days after an electronics box cut off a quarter of a European space station resupply ship's propulsion system, controllers successfully revived the suspect command chain and tested its ability to work properly during a series of engine firings Tuesday.
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Space shuttle Endeavour roars into the night
mar, 11/03/2008 - 12:06The space shuttle Endeavour, carrying a crew of seven, a Japanese space station module and a high-tech Canadian robot with 11-foot-long arms, vaulted into orbit early today, lighting up the pre-dawn sky for miles around as it knifed through low clouds and rocketed away on a 16-day space station assembly mission.
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Cassini to dive into water plume of Saturn moon
mar, 11/03/2008 - 08:01NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, skirting along the edges of huge Old-Faithful-like geysers erupting from giant fractures on the south pole to sample scientifically valuable water-ice, dust and gas in the plume.
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Mission preview: Robot, module headed for station
lun, 10/03/2008 - 20:10Space shuttle Endeavour's flight will be a marathon five-spacewalk mission to the fast-growing international space station, delivering a Japanese module and Canadian robot. Read our comprehensive preview of STS-123.
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Engineers assess problem aboard Jules Verne craft
lun, 10/03/2008 - 00:11An electronics box on Europe's first cargo ship shut down a propulsion system command chain responsible for a quarter of the space-age delivery truck's maneuvering thrusters, officials said Sunday.
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Europe's space cargo ship embarks on maiden voyage
dim, 09/03/2008 - 09:12A first-of-a-kind robotic space transporter with a futuristic autopilot control system journeyed into orbit early Sunday, embarking on a mission to track down the international space station using the most advanced space technology ever developed in Europe.
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