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NEWSALERT: Thursday, October 21, 2004 @ 1802 GMT
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The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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NEXT BOEING DELTA 2 ROCKET LAUNCH POSTPONED
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Monday's predawn launch of a replacement Global Positioning System
satellite aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket has been postponed due to
technical concerns. A new launch date has not been established.
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d308/status.html
NEW VIEW OF THE SKY
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Astronomers have overcome longstanding technical hurdles to map the sky at
little-explored radio frequencies that may provide a tantalizing look deep
into the early Universe. The scientists have released images and data
covering half of the sky, and hope to complete their survey within a year.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/20radio/
I, ROBOTIC TELESCOPE
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The world of astronomy meets the science fiction world of Isaac Asimov's
"I, Robot" with the commissioning of a new robotic telescope. While it
lacks the humanoid qualities of the movie version, this robot will aid in
humanity's quest to understand the early Universe by observing the most
distant and powerful explosions known.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/20robot/
EUROPE'S HIPPARCOS FINDS REBELS WITH A CAUSE
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A team of European astronomers has discovered that many stars in the
vicinity of the Sun have unusual motions caused by the spiral arms of our
galaxy, the Milky Way. According to this research, based on data from
ESA's Hipparcos observatory, our stellar neighborhood is the crossroads of
streams of stars coming from several directions.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/20hipparcos/
DEEP IMPACT PREPARES FOR DECEMBER LAUNCH
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final
preparations for a launch on December 30. The probe will fire a copper
projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 next year to create a crater
that could be as large as a football field.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/19deepimpact/
SPACE SHUTTLE MOVERS GET NEW SHOES
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NASA's two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new "shoes." A $10
million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than
one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy Space Center begins mid-October.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/19crawler/
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