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Ball Aerospace-built WISE Spacecraft Roused from Sleep to Resume Asteroid Hunting Mission 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will emerge from its two-year hibernation next month to resume its near-Earth o...
Waking up to a new year 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night's sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already completed an entire year...
New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts of al...
US scientists claim world's most accurate clock 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Washington, District Of Columbia (AFP) Aug 22, 2013 US scientists said Thursday they have built the world's most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10...
NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2013 In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 8:27 p.m. PDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops...
Flights of Fancy 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 23, 2013 Robert Zimmerman got it exactly right. In last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal his op ed piece appeared, entitled: "No Liftoff for These Space Flights of Fancy." All to...
NASA Partner Completes Second Dream Chaser Captive-Carry Test 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2013 NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colo., successfully completed a captive-carry test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft Thursday, Aug. 22, at th...
Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk, Unfold Russian Flag in Space 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 23, 2013 Two Russian cosmonauts on Thursday completed an almost six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station and successfully returned on board the orbital outp...
NASA Explores New Uses for Historic Launch Structures 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Kennedy Space Center FL (NASA) Aug 23, 2013 NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is seeking concepts for the potential use or divestment of three historic launch platforms that are not needed for t...
Telemetry data confirms launch of South Korean satellite 23 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Yasny, Russia (Yonhap) Aug 23, 2013 South Korea's new multipurpose satellite made contact with a ground station in the Asian country early Friday, confirming its successful deployment into its target...
