Spacecraft Gears Up for Mercury Flyby
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A NASA spacecraft has a date with Mercury next week for a flyby that will return the first detailed views of the small planet in more than 30 years.
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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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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon is about to start. The unmanned, solar energy driven SMART-1 spacecraft has entered the orbit around the Moon.
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A European spacecraft has started a journey into the unknown as scientists prepare to land on Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The Huygens probe was expected to separate from its mothership, Cassini, at about
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Chinese scientists have optimized the spacecraft&#39;s configuration to reduce its weight and improve the performance of onboard equipment.
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HAMPTON -- When the space shuttle Atlantis re-enters Earth's atmosphere at somewhere around Mach 20 today, a small piece of a protective thermal blanket will be held together with surgical staples and metal pins.
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The U.S. team that took the first privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture a &#36;10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial space travel has nearly arrived.
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The Huygens probe seems to be on the right course after being unleashed on its journey to Saturn's moon Titan.
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Joining forces with JAXA The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the go ahead for a mission to explore Mercury, the inner-most planet of our solar system. The mission was formally adopted at the agency's Science Programme Committee (SPC) meeting last Friday.â¦
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LOS ANGELES - A private spacecraft is to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week today in a bid to win a US$10 million ($15 million) prize and prove that space is open for business.
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over Utah will try to pluck it in midair and bring home its precious cargo -- a few micrograms of the stuff that makes up the sun.
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A NASA probe next week will become the first spacecraft in 33 years to fly by Mercury, a sojourn scientists hope will unlock the secrets of the small sun-baked planet.
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Arrives Monday for a first fly-by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft (Messenger) will on Monday make a close pass of Mercury, marking the first spacecraft visit to the world in 33 years since Mariner 10 dropped by in 1975.â¦
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The European-designed Huygens spacecraft has begun its 20-day descent to Saturn&#39;s satellite Titan with the aim of penetrating its thick atmosphere and unraveling the mysteries below.
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Last week's historic flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft gathered 500 megabytes of data and more than a thousand high-resolution photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.
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NASA scientists and their colleagues at the European Space Agency await the first reports from their spacecraft and probe, which will pass closer to Saturn's icy moon than ever before.