Browse Archive
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NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite
11.23.09 - NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna.
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Wise a Bit Closer to the Sky
11.23.09 - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is now perched atop its rocket in preparations for a Dec. 9 liftoff.
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KSC Powers on Solar Energy Future
11.20.09 - Kennedy Space Center turned to the sun for a one megawatt power plant that could point to future energy production techniques.
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@Astro_Mike for Tweet of the Year
His first tweet from space is one of five finalists for Tweet of the Year.
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LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
11.13.09 - Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite indicates that the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009, impacts near the moon's south pole.
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NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover
11.12.09 - NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
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Ares I-X Flight Test
NASA's first flight test for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals.
› Ares I-X Flight Test Section
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Free Spirit: Updates on the efforts to free the Spirit rover
11.18.09
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JPL Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination
10.19.09 - A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft.
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IBEX Releases First-Ever All-Sky Map
10.15.09 - The IBEX mission science team has constructed the first-ever all-sky map of interactions occurring at our solar system's edge, where the sun's influence wanes.
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LCROSS Impacts the Lunar Surface
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and its Centaur rocket stage hit near the lunar south pole in a search for water ice.
› LCROSS
› LRO
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NASA Ice Campaign Takes Flight in Antarctica
09.28.09 - Operation Ice Bridge is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth's polar regions.
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Expedition 21
Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev join the crew on the International Space Station.
› Space Station Section
› Expedition 21
› Interactive Station Guide
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Herschel's Multi-Hued View of the Sky
10.02.09 - A new image from the Herschel Observatory shows off the observatory's talents for seeing multiple wavelengths of light.
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Space Radar Reveals Topography of Tsunami Site
10.01.09 - The topography of the Samoan Islands, hit by a devastating tsunami on Sept. 29, is highlighted in this pair of images from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
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Radial Channels Carved by Dry Ice
09.30.09 - Spider-shaped features in the south polar region of Mars are carved by vaporizing dry ice in a dynamic seasonal process.
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NASA Goddard Shoots the Moon to Track LRO
09.24.09 - The laser ranging effort to track the LRO spacecraft produces distance measurements accurate to within about four inches over nearly 250,000 miles.
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Instruments Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface
09.24.09 - NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon.
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MRO Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts
09.24.09 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars.
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Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows
09.21.09 - NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month.