NASA launches Dawn probe on solar system discovery
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The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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im333mfg writes &quot;Tonight at 7:08pm PST, the Cassini spacecraft will be releasing the much anticipated Huygens Probe for a rendezvous with the Saturn moon Titan.
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NASA fueled Discovery for liftoff Tuesday on a backbreakingly difficult space station construction mission, despite a gloomy forecast calling for rain right around launch time.
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Twin NASA probes aimed at the Sun are sending home super-sized panoramas of Earth's nearest star as they take up positions to track explosive solar storms.
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NASAâs Dawn spacecraft, originally scheduled to head into space this past Saturday on a mission to visit two large asteroids, will now be launched in September.
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter. The fastest spacecraft ever launched was within a million and a half miles of Jupiter early Wednesday, giving scientists a close-up look at the giant gaseous planet and its moons.
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The Dawn probe may be the feeblest spacecraft NASA's ever built, but it may usher in a new age of ultraefficient space travel
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The US space agency is set to launch on Thursday the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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NASA launched a $250 million quick-response satellite today to study enigmatic gamma ray flashes from brief-but-titanic deep space explosions that may be the &quot;death
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For the third time in two days, NASA postponed the launch of its asteroid-bound Dawn probe Saturday, with liftoff now slated for no earlier than September.
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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has left Earth on a mission to explore the giant asteroids Ceres and Vesta.  Today's Science@NASA story explains the scientific reasons for making the trip.
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis.
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US space shuttle Discovery blasted off at 11:38 am (1538 GMT) on Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Launch date pencilled in NASA has confirmed the launch date for Dawn, its mission to the asteroid belt. The space agency is aiming for a launch window that opens at 07:25 (EDT) on 26 September, and closes again 29 minutes later.â¦