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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the third stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with several solid rocket motors attached sits on NASA’s Space Launch Complex-2. The Delta II will carry NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite into space. NPP [...]
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What the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) will look like in space.CREDIT: NASA NASA plans to announce tomorrow (Jan. 10) the launch of a new satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), to monitor Earth’s landscape and the changes to it. The new satellite, scheduled to launch Feb. 11, will replace the Landsat 5 satellite, [...]
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A model of Explorer 1, the first artificial satellite launched by the United States, on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1954, U.S. scientists and military officials decided to try to launch an artificial satellite during the International Geophysical Year (which ran from July 1957 to June 1958). On [...]
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Also, STS-131 crew on tour, and Orion returns to Dryden.
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NASA file image acquired September 11, 2005 To view a video of this event go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6257608714 From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare [...]
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NASA file image acquired September 11, 2005 To view a still image of this event go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6257079237/ From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar [...]
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