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NASA assumes ownership of next station module
The European Space Agency formally handed over ownership of the Tranquility module to NASA on Friday, two-and-a-half months before the connecting node's February launch on shuttle Endeavour. FULL STORY
Rocket barons share thoughts on launch industry
Managers of the top commercial launch providers, including bankrupt Sea Launch, disagree on the outlook of the industry as satellite operators clamor for more participants in the launch market. FULL STORY
Crews work inside station; Bresnik awaits birth news
The Atlantis astronauts worked through another day in space Friday, transferring equipment from the shuttle to the International Space Station and making preparations for a second spacewalk Saturday. Shuttle flight engineer Randolph Bresnik, meanwhile, awaited word from Earth on the birth of his second child, a girl, scheduled for delivery Friday two weeks ahead of his wife's December due date. MORNING STORY NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. F (.pdf download)
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Soyuz rocket launches military payload -- Russia launched a military spy satellite into space Friday on a Soyuz rocket from the country's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, according to the defense ministry. Liftoff was at 1044 GMT on Friday.
Spacewalk No. 1 a success; Atlantis' heat shield cleared
Astronauts Mike Foreman and Bobby Satcher completed a six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk Thursday to install a spare S-band antenna assembly on the International Space Station, lubricate robotic snares used to grip payloads and equipment and work on cable runs and connections. The tasks were finished with two hours to spare, allowing the crew to deploy an external payload attachment fixture as a bonus task. CREWS AWAKENED BY FALSE ALARMS FULL STORY MORNING STORY NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. D (.pdf download)
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New hope for plucky Japanese asteroid mission
Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth. FULL STORY
Atlantis streaks to successful station linkup
Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station with a smooth docking at 11:51 a.m. EST. A few hours later, the astronauts successfully removed the first of two pallet-like carriers from the payload bay and installed it onto the station, giving the outpost a new stockpile of spare parts for the future. DOCKING STORY MORNING STORY NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. C (.pdf download)
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Beijing summit lands agreement for space talks
President Barack Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao have agreed to expand and formalize U.S.-Chinese discussions on new cooperative space efforts, including initial talks on robotic planetary exploration and human space options. FULL STORY
U.S. and China tackle mounting debris hazards
Quick-thinking Chinese ground controllers were able to maneuver a high-value Chinese spacecraft out of the path of space debris marking the first such save by China, demonstrating the country's maturing space tracking and command and control systems. FULL STORY
Astronauts give Atlantis full post-launch inspection
A preliminary assessment of ascent imagery and data beamed down during an inspection of the shuttle Atlantis' nose cap and wing leading edge panels shows no signs of any significant heat shield damage, the chairman of NASA's Mission Management Team said Tuesday. FULL STORY MORNING STORY NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. B (.pdf download)
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Atlantis mission to fortify future of the space station
With the shuttle program entering its final year of operation, engineers are readying Atlantis for launch Monday on a three-spacewalk mission to deliver 15 tons of spare parts and equipment to the International Space Station as a hedge against failures when the shuttle is no longer available for service calls. PREVIEW STORY NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. 0 (.pdf download)
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Rosetta comet probe beams back views of home planet
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft flew by Earth last week, receiving a gravity assist and capturing rare images of the planet's dynamic atmosphere and city lights across North America. SEE THE PHOTOS
Spirit's roving chances bleak, NASA fears
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday will begin commanding the Mars rover Spirit to start backing out of the sand pit in the same tracks it left going into the scientifically rich location where it became stuck in April. FULL STORY
Technical glitch postpones commercial Atlas 5 rocket
Friday night's launch of an Atlas 5 rocket on a commercial mission to deploy an international telecommunications satellite was scrubbed due to a technical issue. Liftoff will be delayed at least a few days, clearing the Eastern Range for Monday's planned liftoff of shuttle Atlantis. MISSION STATUS CENTER - live updates! PHOTOS:READY FOR COUNTDOWN PHOTOS:ROLLOUT TO LAUNCH PAD PHOTOS:NIGHTTIME SHOTS OF ROCKET LAUNCH EVENTS TIMELINE GROUND TRACK MAP
Scientists confirm abundant water in lunar crater
The Centaur rocket stage NASA dispatched on a suicidal plunge into the moon last month uncovered buckets of water inside a frigidly-cold, permanently-dark crater at the lunar south pole, scientists announced Friday. FULL STORY
Rosetta swings by Earth for critical gravity boost
The Rosetta comet-chasing probe passed another waypoint on its circuitous route to destiny Friday, making a final visit home before being thrown into deep space to meet the mission's icy target. PREVIEW STORY
Poisk module adds room to International Space Station
Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, a new Russian module arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday to give the complex another docking port and a platform for spacewalks and science experiments. FULL STORY
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China launches research satellite -- China sent a Shijian research satellite into orbit Thursday, less than 24 hours after announcing the launch through state-run media outlets. Liftoff was at 0245 GMT from the Jiuquan space center.
Two solar sailing trials readied for launch next year
Next year promises to be a banner year for solar sailing, with at least two experimental missions due for launch to demonstrate the novel use of light pressure from the sun for propulsion in space. FULL STORY
Poisk launches to add new room for space station
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the plains of Kazakhstan Tuesday with the International Space Station's newest addition, a module doubling as a docking port for visiting spacecraft and an airlock for spacewalking astronauts. FULL STORY
Troubled asteroid mission stumbles on road home
Hopes are fading for the return of the Hayabusa space probe after another of its ion thrusters failed last week, leaving just one already-damaged engine to guide the hard-luck spacecraft back to Earth, potentially with the first precious samples of an asteroid. FULL STORY
Russian rocket rolls to pad with space station module
A Soyuz rocket topped with the new Poisk module for the International Space Station took a train ride to historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday morning, two days before the new component begins its trek to the orbiting complex. FULL STORY
Ground teams struggle to save Mars orbiter from itself
Although engineers are still weeks from uplinking new command logic to eliminate an unlikely, but potentially fatal, scenario jeopardizing the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the mission's project manager said Friday he is confident the $720 million mission will resume soon. FULL STORY
Space markets post growth, defy economic crisis
Markets for commercial communications satellites, Earth observation spacecraft and their launchers, all remarkably unaffected by the global economic crisis, continue to soar toward yearly double digit growth, generating billions in annual revenues. FULL STORY
Mission control says no threat from orbital debris
Ongoing analysis of the trajectory of a piece of space junk that was believed to pose a possible threat to the International Space Station shows the debris will not pass close enough to the lab complex to force the crew to seek refuge in their Soyuz lifeboats, a NASA official said late Friday. FULL STORY EARLIER STORY
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Foreign land awaits Soyuz rockets leaving Russia
The first two Soyuz rockets scheduled to lift off from the Guiana Space Center next year will take their first step toward space Saturday, beginning a transatlantic ocean voyage to a jungle spaceport instead of heading for the familiar steppes of Kazakhstan. FULL STORY
Small European satellites look to hitch ride to space
Future light European institutional missions are slated to shift from using Russian launchers to the Vega rocket when it begins flying late next year, but officials with Russian launch providers say they are not giving up on the market just yet. FULL STORY
NASA juggles manifest for future Ares test flights
One week after the first major flight test of the agency's new Ares 1 rocket, NASA is closer to cancelling a demonstration launch called Ares 1-Y, potentially replacing it with a new, still undefined test flight in 2012 or 2013. FULL STORY
Orbiter camera sees ice-covered Phoenix lander
A sharp-eyed camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Phoenix lander encased in dry ice in the depths of winter on the northern polar plains of Mars. FULL STORY
Cassini tastes icy material from Saturn moon geyser
The Cassini spacecraft touring Saturn is beaming back data and stunning imagery from Monday's flyby of Enceladus, an enigmatic ice-covered moon with geysers of material spewing from fissures on the surface. FULL STORY
More secrets of Mercury unveiled in September flyby
The flyby of Mercury made by a small NASA probe in late September was scientifically rewarding, despite a glitch that squandered half of the planned observations at the innermost planet, scientists said Tuesday. FULL STORY
Aerial video provides view of Ares 1-X chute trouble
NASA released spectacular footage Monday from an aircraft stationed near the landing site of the Ares 1-X first stage booster, showing remarkable views of liftoff, the botched parachute deployment and splashdown. Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers can watch the video here. FULL STORY MISSION STATUS CENTER
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Atlantis crew finishes mock countdown on launch pad
With just under two weeks left to go until their scheduled blastoff, the six Atlantis astronauts climbed aboard the space shuttle Tuesday for a dress rehearsal at launch pad 39A. Atlantis is scheduled to lift off Nov. 16 on a space station resupply mission. ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER
GPS satellite beset by permanent signal problem
A Global Positioning System satellite launched in March is suffering from permanent signal distortions and will miss its target to enter operational service this year, Air Force officials said. FULL STORY
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Father of China's space program dies -- The father of China's space and strategic rocket program Tsien Hsue-shen, who worked initially on U.S. rocket development, helped bring Werner Von Braun to the U.S. then was wrongly deported back to China in the 1950s for alleged ties with communist China, died in Beijing Oct. 31 at age 98.
Earth-watching satellite launched on watery mission
A modified Russian ballistic missile successfully launched a $464 million European science satellite Monday to investigate Earth's water cycle by measuring moisture levels in soil and salt concentrations in the world's oceans.
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History-making Japanese space mission completed
Packed with garbage from the International Space Station, the first HTV cargo freighter met a fiery demise over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, punctuating an historic chapter in the Japanese space program. FULL STORY
Parachute failure causes damage to Ares 1-X booster
Two days after NASA launched a test model of its Ares 1 rocket, the flight's mission manager confirmed the first stage descended to the Atlantic Ocean on just one fully functioning parachute, damaging the booster as it splashed into the Atlantic Ocean harder than expected. FULL STORY MISSION STATUS CENTER
HTV cargo ship departs International Space Station
Japan's first cargo-carrying freighter was set free from the International Space Station on Friday, beginning its new role as a garbage scow loaded with 1,600 pounds of trash from the complex. FULL STORY MISSION STATUS CENTER
NASA assessing dented Ares 1-X booster
One of the three 150-foot-wide parachutes designed to gently lower NASA's Ares I-X first stage booster to the Atlantic Ocean after a dramatic six-minute test flight Wednesday deflated after deployment, officials said Thursday, resulting in a harder splashdown than expected. FULL STORY
Ariane 5 hauls up another double payload stack
For this second time this month, the workhorse Ariane 5 rocket carried out a double satellite deployment mission just like clockwork on Thursday and set the stage to break its record for flights in a single year. FULL STORY
Shuttle Atlantis tentatively cleared for Nov. 16 launch
NASA managers met at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday and tentatively cleared the shuttle Atlantis for launch Nov. 16 on a three-spacewalk mission to deliver nearly 15 tons of spare parts and supplies to the International Space Station. FULL STORY ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER - live updates! STORE:STS-129 PATCH STS-129 VIDEO COVERAGE HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO
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Launch of Ares 1-X flight test postponed 24 hours
Dynamic weather conditions, a rogue cargo ship and a snagged instrument cover conspired to thwart Tuesday's attempt to launch the Ares 1-X test rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER IMAGES:ARES 1-X ON EVE OF LAUNCH
Ares 1-X test flight an engineer's delight
NASA has meticulously tailored Tuesday's Ares 1-X test launch as a learning exercise, using more than 700 high-fidelity sensors to collect gargantuan amounts of data during the booster's six-minute flight. FULL STORY
Ares rocket test to occur under cloud of uncertainty
Tuesday's test flight of the Ares 1 rocket will come days after an independent review board called NASA's moon program "unsustainable" because of budget and schedule woes, but NASA officials say the $445 million mission has robust engineering value applicable to a wide range of potential launch systems. FULL STORY
Risk and ingenuity cross paths on Ares 1-X test flight
NASA plans to launch a one-of-a-kind suborbital test flight to validate the aerodynamic design of the agency's embattled Ares 1 rocket, a crew-carrying booster under development to replace the space shuttle. FULL STORY
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Static electricity rule threatens on-time liftoff
A new constraint in the Launch Commit Criteria to prevent the buildup of static electricity on the Ares 1-X flight test vehicle as it accelerates away from Kennedy Space Center has reduced chances for favorable launch weather to 40 percent for the rocket's debut planned Oct. 27. FULL STORY
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