USU Lands NASA Contract for Telescope
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Utah State University has secured a &#36;40 million contract with NASA to build an orbiting telescope that will examine galaxies and try to find new stars.
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jangobongo writes &quot;After a 20 year struggle, the University of Arizona&#39;s $120 million Large Binocular Telescope was dedicated last week.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Feb. 21  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U.S.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a &#36;154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe is said to be pursuing a job as chancellor of Louisiana State University.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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Taxpayers are funding a telescope to  search for space aliens and research devoted to improving the  shelf-life of vegetables, part of $13.2 billion in  special-interest projects the U.S. Congress approved last year,  a private watchdog group said on Wednesday.
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N has   won a five-year, $3.9 billion contract to build a capsule-like   U.S. spacecraft called Orion to take humans back to the Moon   and beyond, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration   said on Thursday.
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This image released Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, by NASA shows six of the three-dozen &quot;ultraviolet luminous galaxies&quot; spotted in our corner of the universe by NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. 's  Space & Mission Systems business unit is being awarded a U.S.  Navy technical services contract worth up to $686.1 million to  support the U.S. Joint Forces Command's warfighting center, the  Defense Department said on Friday.
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James Webb's eye is lookin' good After a rather difficult week, some good news for NASA: its engineers have just finished making the mirror that will be the eye of its next space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). All that remains is for it to be ground and polished.â¦
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A device developed in Boulder has been selected by NASA to fly aboard a $400 million lunar-mapping mission set for launch in 2008.
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NASA is readying a mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and its asteroid cousin Vesta.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed a deal with a company owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson to develop space tourism.
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HILO, Hawai&#39;i - A new camera at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 3,600 times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers said.