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NEWSALERT: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 @ 1738 GMT
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The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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CASSINI SCIENTISTS READY FOR FIRST CLOSE TITAN FLYBY
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The Cassini spacecraft is heading for its first close encounter with
Saturn's moon Titan. University of Arizona scientists on the mission say
Cassini will get its first real glimpse of Titan surface geology and
digest its first gulp of rich Titan air. The first pictures from the close
flyby are expected late tonight.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/041025titanpreview.html
Titan flyby overview:
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/041025flybypreview.html
EYES ON XANADU
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This stunning image taken Sunday reveals Titan's bright "continent-sized"
terrain known as Xanadu. It was acquired with the narrow angle camera on
Cassini as the craft sped toward its first close encounter with the moon
of Saturn.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/041025xanadu.html
PROBLEMS FORCE DELAY IN NASA AUTOPILOT TEST
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Today's opportunity to launch the DART spacecraft aboard a Pegasus rocket
has been scrubbed due to problems with the target satellite to be used
during the rendezvous mission. Weather conditions were unfavorable as
well. The $95 million DART mission will demonstrate key technologies for
autonomous rendezvous between two objects in space without human input.
http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/dart/status.html
ANOTHER DELAY FOR GPS LAUNCH ABOARD DELTA ROCKET
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Launch of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying a Global Positioning System
satellite from Cape Canaveral, rescheduled for this coming weekend, has
been postponed yet again.
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d308/status.html
SURVEY FINDS MYSTERIOUS NEW MILKY WAY COMPANION
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Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy lie in a very flat,
pinwheel-shaped disk. Although this disk is prominent in images of
galaxies similar to the Milky Way, there is also a very diffuse spherical
"halo" of stars surrounding and enclosing the disks of such galaxies.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/24companion/
AS THE WORLD TURNS, IT DRAGS SPACE AND TIME
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An international team of NASA and university researchers has found the
first direct evidence the Earth is dragging space and time around itself
as it rotates.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/24framedragging/
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