NASA Picks Swede Launch Site for Giant Balloons
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By TOMMY GRANDELL    STOCKHOLM, Sweden  -- NASA has agreed to launch its largest scientific balloons from a site in northern Sweden, a spokesman said Tuesday.    To launch them, the Swedish Space Corp., which owns Esrange, has signed a $1.32 million contract with the Swedish construction company NCC to double the size of the present launch pad...
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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A balloon on Titan, the hazy Saturnian moon, is an idea being discussed by the European space agency.
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The fastest-swiveling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit Saturday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--Rocketplane Kistler is one step closer to launching a demonstration flight to the International Space Station.
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Nasa&#39;s fastest-swivelling space probe ever built -- Swift -- roared into the orbit aiming to explore the violent celestial explosions which may bestow black holes the birth cries.
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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
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Already a leading launch area for scientific balloons in northern Europe, operations at Sweden's Esrange launch facility will expand next year with NASA's decision to use it for launches of its largest ...
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA prepared to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on Thursday on a long-delayed mission to deliver a $1.9 billion European laboratory to the International Space Station, but weather threatened another postponement.
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The US and European space agencies signal their desire to co-operate on the biggest missions.
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Europe's ATV will be the biggest spacecraft Europe has ever flown when it launches in January.
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NASA expects to have  twice as much room as it needs for its research on the  International Space Station and is looking for U.S. partners to  share the novel piece of real estate, authorities said on  Monday.
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BOULDER, COLORADO -- Engineers here at Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corporation are readying NASA's Deep Impact mission for shipping this month to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA is inviting members of the general public from around the world to suggest a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008.
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IndigoSkies writes &quot;NASA today successfully launched the Swift Observatory into Earth orbit for an intense two year study of GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) to determine whether there is a connection between them and the evolution of black holes.
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To first-time viewers, the 50-foot-high Forevertron might look like nothing more than 320 tons of towering scrap metal. But its creator says it's also an antigravity machine designed to propel him to the heavens. Michelle Delio reports from Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.