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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory to launch aboard an Atlas V from Cape Canaveral on November 25. |
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A DSCOVR Mission preparing to launch in January for NASA, NOAA, and the US Air Force. |
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DSCOVR Mission looks at Earth's Climate. |
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(Cape Canaveral, FL) -- The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of NOAA's space weather alerts and forecasts. Without timely and accurate warnings, space weather events like the geomagnetic storms caused by changes in solar wind have the potential to disrupt nearly every major public infrastructure system, including power grids, telecommunications, aviation and GPS. DSCOVR will succeed NASA's Advanced Composition Explore's (ACE) role in supporting solar wind alerts and warnings from the L1 orbit, the neutral gravity point between the Earth and sun approximately one million miles from Earth. L1 is a good position from which to monitor the sun, because the constant stream of particles from the sun (the solar wind) reaches L1 about an hour before reaching Earth. From this position, DSCOVR will typically be able to provide 15 to 60 minute warning time before the surge of particles and magnetic field, known as a coronal mass ejection (or CME), associated with a geomagnetic storm reaches Earth. DSCOVR data will also be used to improve predictions of geomagnetic storm impact locations. Our national security and economic well-being, which depend on advanced technologies, are at risk without these advanced warnings. |
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NASA
SCIENCE SATELLITE NEARS REENTRY: A NASA science satellite will plunge back to earth on Saturday raining over twenty pieces of debris over an unknown region of our planet. |
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EUROPE'S ARIANE 5 LIFTS-OFF ON 60th FLIGHT: An Ariane 5 rocket lifted-off on September 21 carrying two communications satellites into earth orbit to service North America and the Middle East. Launch of the sixieth flight of an Ariane 5 occurred on time at 5:38:07 p.m. EDT. It was also the fifth and final Ariane flight of the year as Arianespace turns their attention to launching Russia's Soyuz 2 rocket in October and December. (Launch Story) |
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NASA SPACECRAFT DEPARTS ON A FIVE YEAR VOYAGE TO JUPITER: A NASA spacecraft began a 1700 million mile voyage on Friday from America's Space Coast as it travels to our solar system's largest and most complex planet. Launch occurred
follow a brief countdown delay at 12:25:01 pm EDT, on August 5. |
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iPHONE
4's TO LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION ON FINAL SHUTTLE FLIGHT: A pair of apple iPhone 4's launched into earth orbit aboard the final space shuttle flight and will be used by astronauts during a series of experiments aboard the International Space Station. |
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SHUTTLE ATLANTIS LIFTS-OFF ON HER FINALE FLIGHT : NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday to begin a twelve day mission to resupply the International Space Station. Nearly 900,000 spectators around the Kennedy Space Center and along the Space Coast witnessed the final launch of a space shuttle. |
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ARIANE 5 LAUNCH DELAYED DUE TO FAULTY FUEL VALVE: A mighty European rocket will have to wait three weeks to carry aloft two high definition broadcast satellites due to a bad fuel valve. A launch attempt on July 1 was scrubbed due to a faulty fuel valve on the core main stage. Arianespace on Saturday announced a 20 day delay to roll the Ariane 5 back to it's assembly building to replace the valve. (PreLaunch Story) |
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RUSSIAN
CARGO CRAFT DOCKS TO SPACE STATION: A Russian cargo craft loaded with equipment and supplies successfully docked to the International Space Station on
June 23. |
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AIR
FORCE LAUNCHES MINUTEMAN MISSILE FROM CALIFORNIA: A
Minuteman III missile with an unarmed re-entry vehicle was launched on a test flight June
22
from Vandenberg, AFB in California. |
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RUSSIA
LAUNCHES SOYUZ U WITH CARGO FOR SPACE STATION An unmanned spacecraft filled with fresh supplies, fuel and hardware lifted off a top a Russian rocket on
Tuesday bound for the International Space Station. |
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RETRO ISSUE: STS-78 Shuttle Columbia June 1996 Fifteen years ago, the space shuttle Columbia lifted-off on a life sciences Spacelab flight and SpaceLaunch News covered the flight not only in print but on radio, too. Columbia lifted-off on June 20, 1996, and reporter Charles Atkeison broadcast the launch day on WAMT-AM here on the Space Coast that morning. Take a moment and enjoy most of our back issue from the flight and the stories and thoughts as we prepared for the upcoming International Space Station. (STS-78 SLN Magazine) |
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NASA
SPACECRAFT PREPARES TO DEPART OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: A NASA spacecraft is speeding out and away from our solar system and will make the first leap into interstellar space at any moment according to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. |
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JOINT NASA-ARGENTINA SPACECRAFT LAUNCHES ON SCIENCE MISSION: A NASA instrument aboard an Argentinan built spacecraft designed to study the salt content of the earth's oceans launched on June 10 on a joint mission to study the ocean's circulation. Aquarius will help scientists study the ocean's currents and how the water flows from one region to the next. A United Launch Alliance Delta II-7320 rocket with the SAC-D Aquarius satellite riding a top occurred on time at 7:20 a.m. PDT (10:20 am EDT), from Vandenberg, AFB in California. |
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Space shuttle portrait in earth orbit Space shuttle Endeavour, moving at 17,500 mph and docked at her port-of-call, was photographed over one hundred times by the crew of the Russian Soyuz TMA20 in the closing days of May. Beautiful images show the orbiter at the International Space Station, the first time an orbiter has been photographed at the orbiting complex. A perspective never before seen or recorded by a space crew, the Soyuz crew spent an hour in one place as the shuttle-station complex moved and rotated around as camera's clicked away 600 feet away. |
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NEW
SPACE STATION CREW READY FOR BUSY TIME IN ORBIT:
The next crew members bound for the International Space Station are in their final hours before launch to begin nearly six busy months of living and working in earth orbit. |
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SHUTTLE
ENDEAVOUR COMPLETES HER FINAL SPACE FLIGHT:
Gliding out of earth orbit and into the blackness of a Florida night sky, shuttle Endeavour returned home to the Kennedy Space Center on
June 1 completing her twenty-fifth and final space flight. |
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94 year-old Recalls Personal Space Shuttle Memories: Space flight has long captured the emotions and imagination of many over the past fifty years, and it's not just for the young either. One sweet lady, who at 74 left her home in Hollywood, Florida to be closer with her family on the Space Coast, has kept up with space launches for most of her life. "I have been a space fan long before I came to help my daughter, Mary Myers, publish SpaceLaunch News in 1990," the soft spoken Josephine Myers explained. (Read Her Story) |
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SHUTTLE
ENDEAVOUR DEPARTS SPACE STATION FOR A FINAL TIME: Completing her final mission to the International Space Station, shuttle Endeavour departed her home for the last twelve days to test a new navigation system and prepare for her voyage home. |
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NASA
UNVEILES NEW SPACECRAFT FOR CREWED DEEP SPACE TRIPS:
NASA unveiled today the future vehicle of American space travel which will carry humanity beyond the International Space Station and out into deep space and the moon. |
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L N talks with Discovery pilot Eric Boe:
Space shuttle astronaut Col. Eric Boe, who piloted the final flight of Discovery in March, returned to his hometown of Atlanta just weeks following his second trip to the International Space Station. |
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