Daily Space Update, December 19, 2009Category: Space News Video Podcasts | Leave a Comment |
20 12 2009 |
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| Arianespace successfully launched the HELIOS 2B observation satellite today following a relatively rare daytime launch for Europe’s heavy-lift booster. Following a flight lasting 59 minutes and 20 seconds, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle precisely injected the HELIOS 2B satellite into its sun-synchronous polar orbit. This mission was carried out from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff was on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 1:26 p.m. local time in Kourou (11:26 EST). Meanwhile, early Friday morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft left its processing facility on a rail car then was vertically set up at its launch pad. On Sunday at 4:52 p.m. EST, three new crew members will launch aboard the TMA-17 to join the Expedition 22 crew after docking to the International Space Station. They dock to the International Space Station Tuesday. | |||||
Daily Space Update, August 4, 2009Category: Space News Video Podcasts, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment |
9 08 2009 |
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| Space shuttle Discovery almost didn’t make it to the launch pad today when technicians had to battle a rain-drenched crawlerway that slowed the shuttle’s trip to launch pad 39-A and threatened to force NASA to return the crawler transporter back to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Stopping often to clean muck of the transporter’s tracks, workers finally completed the journey nearly 12 hours after it began, nearly twice as long as usual. | |||||
Daily Space Update, July 31, 2009Category: Space News Video Podcasts, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment |
3 08 2009 |
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Space Update, July 31, 2009 | ||||
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| NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour flight landed at Kennedy Space Center today to successfully conclude mission STS-127 to assemble the International Space Station and complete the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex. | |||||
