[FPSPACE] FW: Space station crew hoists Harmony module to final location
LARRY KLAES
ljk4 at msn.com
Wed Nov 14 15:51:06 EST 2007
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>Subject: Space station crew hoists Harmony module to final location
>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:05:14 -0500
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>HARMONY MODULE PUT IN PLACE ABOARD STATION
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>The space station's crew today detached the new multi-hatch Harmony
>module, now sporting a shuttle docking port on one end, and carefully
>moved the 34,500-pound assembly to its permanent home on the front of the
>lab complex. The high-stakes robotic operation was completed without a
>hitch, a critical step in a complex sequence to prepare the outpost for
>launch of Europe's Columbus research lab next month.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14harmony/
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>DELTA 4-HEAVY ROCKET FIRES AWAY FROM CAPE CANAVERAL
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>It is America's largest unmanned space booster. Its level of complexity
>causes engineers to liken it to launching three rockets at one time. And
>its fiery blastoffs create a dazzling yet heart-in-your-throat sight. Now,
>the mammoth Delta 4-Heavy has entered operational service with Saturday
>night's successful ascent carrying a critical surveillance satellite.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d329/
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>LAST-OF-ITS-KIND SATELLITE REACHES ORBIT
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>Saturday night signaled the end of a 37-year-long string of launches for
>the Air Force's early warning satellite program as the military prepares
>to transition toward a new system.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d329/dsp23.html
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>SHUTTLE ATLANTIS MOVED TO THE PAD
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>Space shuttle Atlantis began the three-and-a-half-mile trip from the
>Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39A at 4:43 a.m. EST Saturday
>morning. The mobile platform was firmly secured in place atop the seaside
>pad at 11:51 a.m. EST. Atlantis is scheduled for launch December 6 to
>ferry the Columbus science module to the space station.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts122/071110rollout/
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>SPITZER TELESCOPE SPIES A STELLAR BUBBLE BLOWER
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>A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140
>light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of
>bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas
>to make bubbles in outer space.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14bubble/
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>CHINESE PUT UP HUSH-HUSH OBSERVATION SATELLITE
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>China orbited a secretive Earth observation satellite during an
>unannounced launch Sunday from the Taiyuan space center in the northern
>part of the nation.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14yaogan3/
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>ORBITAL AWARDED CONTRACT FOR ANGELS SATELLITE PROGRAM
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>Orbital Sciences has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Research
>Laboratory for a $29.5 million contract to support the execution of the
>Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space satellite
>program.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14angels/
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14harmony/">HARMONY MODULE
>PUT IN PLACE ABOARD STATION</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d329/">DELTA 4-HEAVY ROCKET FIRES
>AWAY FROM CAPE CANAVERAL</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d329/dsp23.html">LAST-OF-ITS-KIND
>SATELLITE REACHES ORBIT</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts122/071110rollout/">SHUTTLE
>ATLANTIS MOVED TO THE PAD</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14bubble/">SPITZER TELESCOPE
>SPIES A STELLAR BUBBLE BLOWER</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14yaogan3/">CHINESE PUT UP
>HUSH-HUSH OBSERVATION SATELLITE</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711/14angels/">ORBITAL AWARDED
>CONTRACT FOR ANGELS SATELLITE PROGRAM</a>
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