Description:
Announcements of space-related news items. (Moderated)
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New Horizons: Encounter Planning Accelerates
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The PI's Perspective: Encounter Planning Accelerates
Dr. Alan Stern
May 16, 2013
The New Horizons team studied numerous alternate flybys, called SHBOTs, before recommending to NASA a pair of backups to protect New Horizons from possible impact hazards in the Pluto system.... more »
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Cassini Update - May 17, 2013
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Cassini Significant Events for 05/08/2013 - 05/14/2013
Cassini is orbiting Saturn with a 9.6-day period in a plane inclined 61.7
degrees from the planet's equatorial plane. The most recent spacecraft
tracking and telemetry data were obtained on May 15 by the 70-meter diameter
Deep Space Network station at Madrid, Spain. Except for some science... more »
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Cassini, Titan Flyby on May 23, 2013
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Cassini
Titan Flyby (T-91): Looking for Waves
May. 23, 2013
Are there waves on Titan's lakes? Our best chance of answering this question is with the May 23 flyby of Titan, when the Cassini spacecraft passes over the northern sea named Ligeia Mare. The altimetry data that will be collected by the radar... more »
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NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch
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May 17, 2013
Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jb...@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.bye...@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-081
NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW LAUNCH
WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the... more »
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Bright Explosion on the Moon
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Bright Explosion on the Moon
NASA Science News
May 17, 2013
For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. "Lunar meteor... more »
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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
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[link] Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
May 16, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and
Harrison Schmitt visited Earth's moon for three days in December 1972,
they drove their mission's Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles... more »
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