From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 09:51:17 PST
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>Subject: Titan 4 launch this weekend / Cosmic Valentine rose from Spitzer
>Space Telescope
>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:36:22 -0500
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>TITAN 4 ROCKET TO LAUNCH MILITARY SATELLITE SATURDAY
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>The latest in a long line of surveillance satellites that detect missile
>launches and nuclear explosions is awaiting liftoff Saturday aboard a
>Titan 4B rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/titan/b39/status.html
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>SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE SENDS COSMIC VALENTINE ROSE
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>A cluster of newborn stars herald their birth in this interstellar
>Valentine's Day commemorative picture obtained with NASA's Spitzer Space
>Telescope. These bright young stars are found in a rosebud-shaped (and
>rose-colored) nebulosity known as NGC 7129. The star cluster and its
>associated nebula are located at a distance of 3300 light-years in the
>constellation Cepheus.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/12spitzerrose/
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>BEAGLE FAILURE INVESTIGATION FORMALLY BEGINS
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>Launched on a shoestring budget, its size tightly confined, the British
>Beagle 2 lander headed to Mars for a highly-ambitious mission to look for
>evidence of life. A Christmas Day touchdown on the Red Planet was planned,
>but the craft never phoned home and subsequent weeks of searching turned
>up only silence.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/040211board.html
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>INTERNATIONAL INTERPLANETARY NETWORKING SUCCEEDS
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>A pioneering demonstration of communications between NASA's Mars
>Exploration Rover Spirit and the European Space Agency Mars Express
>orbiter succeeded. While Mars Express was flying over the area Spirit was
>examining, the orbiter transferred commands from Earth to the rover and
>relayed data from the robotic explorer back to Earth.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040212marsexpress.html
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>
>FIRST MILSTAR SATELLITE MARKS 10 YEARS OF SERVICE
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>The first U.S. Air Force Milstar communications satellite, built by a team
>led by Lockheed Martin, has achieved its 10-year design life of on-orbit
>service, providing our nation's warfighters with secure and reliable
>communications during military operations since 1994.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/12milstar1/
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>
>GRAVITATIONAL LENS REVEALS HEART OF A DISTANT GALAXY
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>Many examples are known where a galaxy acts as a gravitational lens,
>producing multiple images on the sky of a more distant object like a
>bright quasar hidden behind it. But there has been a persistent mystery
>for over 20 years: Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts there
>should be an odd number of images, yet almost all observed lenses have
>only 2 or 4 known images. Now, astronomers have identified a third,
>central image of a lensed quasar.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/11lens/
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/titan/b39/status.html">TITAN 4 ROCKET TO
>LAUNCH MILITARY SATELLITE SATURDAY</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/12spitzerrose/">SPITZER SPACE
>TELESCOPE SENDS COSMIC VALENTINE ROSE</a>
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><a
>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/040211board.html">BEAGLE
>FAILURE INVESTIGATION FORMALLY BEGINS</a>
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><a
>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040212marsexpress.html">INTERNATIONAL
>INTERPLANETARY NETWORKING SUCCEEDS</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/12milstar1/">FIRST MILSTAR
>SATELLITE MARKS 10 YEARS OF SERVICE</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/11lens/">GRAVITATIONAL LENS
>REVEALS HEART OF A DISTANT GALAXY</a>
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