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DOUGHNUT-SHAPED CLOUD HAS 'BLACK HOLE' FILLING
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20blackhole/ NEW MARTIAN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20meteorite/ CASSINI SHOWS THE DARK SIDE OF SATURN'S MOON DIONE
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20blackhole/">DOUGHNUT-SHAPED<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20blackhole/">DOUGHNUT-SHAPED> CLOUD HAS 'BLACK HOLE' FILLING</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20meteorite/">NEW<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20meteorite/">NEW> MARTIAN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040719dione.html">CASSINI<http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040719dione.html">CASSINI> SHOWS THE DARK SIDE OF SATURN'S MOON DIONE</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19starbursts/">SPITZER<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19starbursts/">SPITZER> PINPOINTS ELUSIVE BUT VIOLENT STARBURSTS</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac167/status.html">NEW<http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac167/status.html">NEW> DATE ESTABLISHED FOR DELAYED ATLAS LAUNCH</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20gps2r12/">NEWEST<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/20gps2r12/">NEWEST> GPS SATELLITE BEGINS SERVICE FOR USERS WORLDWIDE</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19ssmetest/">FIRST<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19ssmetest/">FIRST> ENGINE TESTED FOR SHUTTLE RETURN TO FLIGHT</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/18sprites/">SATELLITE<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/18sprites/">SATELLITE> SEES 'SPRITES' IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/18dart/">AUTONOMOUS<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/18dart/">AUTONOMOUS> RENDEZVOUS CRAFT GOES TO VANDENBERG</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19trmm/">TROPICAL<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/19trmm/">TROPICAL> RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION TO END</a>
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An international team of scientists has found more evidence that massive
black holes are surrounded by a doughnut-shaped gas cloud which, depending
on our line of sight, blocks the view of the black hole in the center.
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While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its
past, researchers have uncovered another piece of the red planet in the
most inhospitable place on Earth -- Antarctica.
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The icy, cratered surface of Saturn's moon Dione shows more than just its
sunlit side in these two processed versions of the same image from the
Cassini spacecraft.
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A major breakthrough in pinpointing some of the most primordial and
violently star forming galaxies in the Universe has been made by a joint
collaboration of U.K. and U.S. astronomers using the Spitzer Space
Telescope to resolve primordial galaxies initially detected by a
ground-based observatory.
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Launch of the final Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket is being delayed
another four weeks so technicians can replace transistors inside an
avionics unit as a precaution. Liftoff is now targeted for August 31 from
Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit checkout of
the upgraded Global Positioning System satellite launched successfully
June 23 from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft has been declared fully
operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe.
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NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi has successfully tested one of
the engines that will carry the next space shuttle into orbit. The engine
will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for installation on the
space shuttle Discovery.
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Photos of red sprites, blue jets, elves and sprite halos are now flowing
into the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory
from the first satellite instrument devoted to the study of these puzzling
high-altitude lightning flashes.
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The Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) flight
demonstrator, a spacecraft developed to prove technologies to locate and
maneuver near an orbiting satellite, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force
Base in preparation for a fall 2004 launch.
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NASA will decommission the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission later this
year. A highly successful scientific research mission, TRMM has provided
data used worldwide in the monitoring and forecasting of hazardous weather
on a demonstration basis.
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