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ISS computer outage could delay Monday’s SpaceX rocket launch CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts and threatens to delay next week’s launch of a commercial supply ship for NASA. NASA said Friday night that a backup computer on the outside of the orbiting lab is not responding to commands. ...

Atlas V Launches Successfully from Space Coast- A top secret U.S. Spy Satellite launched today atop an Atlas V Rocket from Cape Canaveral after a two week weather delay.

Russian spacecraft brings three-man crew to ISS after two-day delay

Soyuz Docking Delayed Till Thursday as Station Crew Adjusts Schedule Three crew members headed to the International Space Station are safe and healthy as they continue on their journey to the orbiting outpost today. All systems on their Soyuz spacecraft appear to be functioning normally, and Russian flight controllers confirmed this morning that the Soyuz TMA-12M vehicle performed two rendezvous ...

Astronomers Looking for Clues to Water’s Origins   A gas and dust cloud collapses to form a star. Amid a whirling disc of debris, little bits of rock coated with liquid water and ice begin to stick together. It is this stage of a star’s formation that astronomers hope to learn more about how water cycles through a solar system, ...

Atlas V launch delayed until at least April 10, officials say The Atlas V launch has been delayed until at least April 10 due to a range instrumentation outage, the United States Air Force said Wednesday. Officials said delaying it until April will allow personnel time to work on the repairs. Most watched video: School tells girl to dress more ...

Atlas V launch set for Tuesday delayed over instrumentation outage The Atlas V launch scheduled for Tuesday at noon has been delayed due to a range instrumentation outage, the United States Air Force said Monday night. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V was scheduled to carry the National Reconnaissance Office payload, which was one of three missions planned for 2014. ...

Your 15 Minutes of ‘Frame’ From NASA’s Cassini Your 15 Minutes of ‘Frame’ From NASA’s Cassini. By Space Coast Daily // March 17, 2014. Loading the player … Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Delicious Digg This Stumble This … By SpaceCoastDaily.com on Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:25:16 -0700

Expedition 39 Set For Launch From Russia Tuesday   TUNE INTO THE LIVE STREAM TUESDAY ABOVE VIDEO: Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Steve Swanson and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos participated in a final “fit check” dress rehearsal in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft and conducted other pre-launch activities at ...

Atlas V rocket launch delayed An Atlas V rocket launch scheduled for Tuesday has been delayed due to a range instrumentation outage, the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing said Monday. Air Force crews have begun working to identify the extent of the repairs needed before the rocket can … By News 13 Orlando

ISS Expedition 38 Returns To Earth Safely russian Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan Live streaming video by Ustream UPDATE Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Expedition 38 Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy landed in Kazakhstan at 11:24 p.m. Monday night. They landed inside the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft ending their mission after five-and-a-half months aboard the International Space Station. The ...

Next Space Station Crew Launch Set For March 25Next Space Station Crew Launch Set For March 25. By Space Coast Daily // March 19, 2014. Loading the player … Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Delicious Digg This Stumble This …By SpaceCoastDaily.com on Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:18:45 -0700

Saft to supply lithium-ion batteries to power US military satellite Cockeysville MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 Saft has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from Lockheed Martin to provide Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for Advanced Extremely High Frequency communication satellites to be used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The order continues Saft’s extensive partnership with Lockheed Martin and experience ...

Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. ...

South Korea buys more Phalanx missles from Raytheon Raytheon has signed a $123 million contract to deliver nine Phalanx Block 1B close-in weapon systems to the Republic of Korea navy. Under the direct commercial sale signed late last year, Raytheon will install the systems aboard the Incheon-class frigates, known as FFX frigates after the Future Frigate Experimental development program, under ...

Last Shuttle Commander Virtually Flies Boeing CST-100 to ISS Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 Chris Ferguson, Boeing’s director of Crew and Mission Operations and commander of the final Space Shuttle flight, virtually returned to space recently in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulator to satisfy a NASA testing requirement for the spacecraft. Ferguson performed manual piloting activities including ...

Probing the edge of chaos Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 The edge of chaos-right before chaos sets in-is a unique place. It is found in many dynamical systems that cross the boundary between a well-behaved dynamics and a chaotic one. Now, physicists have shown that the distribution-or frequency of occurrence-of the variables constituting the physical characteristics of such systems ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Views Striated Ground Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 03, 2014 NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area where orbital images had piqued researchers’ interest in patches of ground with striations all oriented in a similar direction. A close-up look at some of the striations from the rover’s Navigation Camera gains extra drama by including Mount Sharp ...

Russia to Build Equipment for European Jupiter Probe Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 03, 2014 Russian scientists will construct equipment for a European Space Agency probe to Jupiter, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology said Wednesday. Along with observing the solar system’s largest planet, the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is to visit three of the four Jovian moons discovered by ...

Cosmonauts on space station to turn teacher for Russian students Moscow (UPI) Feb 27, 2013 Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station will turn schoolteacher, conducting a lesson from space for Russian students, officials said. The event will broadcast the cosmonauts live to students nationwide on April 11, an Education Ministry official told RIA Novosti Wednesday. April 11 is ...