Sun may rise, after all, on faulty space probe
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Scientists are hopeful they can retrieve particles of solar wind from a capsule that crashed in the desert last week. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 7--Virginians might catch a glimpse of tonight's unusual nighttime  launching of the space shuttle Discovery, if it lifts off as planned.
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It's "all systems go" for one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever attempted. After more than 40 years of methodical planning and four months of intense troubleshooting, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has begun its search for a bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.
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The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of solar wind may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said.
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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The shuttle Discovery is ready to roar, but poor weather might keep it on the ground today.
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A U.S. spy satellite is expected to crash back to Earth as early as next month. Another thing to worry about? Not quite
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Last week's news that the orbiting Hubble  observatory's most productive and far-seeing camera may be irreparably damaged sent a chill through the world of astronomy. Even if astronauts return to the Hubble next year as planned to repair and replace several instruments, fixing the electrical malfunction in the Advanced Camera for Surveys is not expected to be on the schedule....
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We should be using probes to look for life in space instead of radio signals, say scientists.
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Three weeks after the Genesis space capsule slammed into the Utah desert after its parachutes failed to deploy, NASA scientists remain hopeful they can salvage the mission and reveal clues about the origin of the solar system.
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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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Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.
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By Rasha Madkour Associated Press  HOUSTON -- The orbiting Discovery crew started the meticulous inspection of the shuttle's heat shield on Sunday, looking for any possible damage from liftoff.
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Something strange happened on the sun last week: all the sunspots vanished. This is a sign, say scientists, that solar minimum is coming sooner than expected.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up.
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Spacewalking astronauts found evidence of damage to a joint that allows solar panels on the International Space Station to rotate to face the sun.