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>Subject: Stellar collision / Soyuz in Kourou / Minotaur launch success
>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:35:26 -0400
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> NEWSALERT: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 @ 1937 GMT
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>SCIENTISTS TRACK COLLISION OF POWERFUL STELLAR WINDS
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>Astronomers have tracked the motion of a violent region where the powerful
>winds of two giant stars slam into each other. The collision region moves
>as the stars, part of a binary pair, orbit each other, and the precise
>measurement of its motion was the key to unlocking vital new information
>about the stars and their winds.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/11winds/
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>DEAL INKED TO BUILD SOYUZ LAUNCH BASE IN KOUROU
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>Russian and French officials gathered Monday in Moscow to sign a contract
>setting the stage for the development of a South American launch site for
>Russia's venerable Soyuz rockets.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/11soyuz/
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>MINOTAUR ROCKET LAUNCHES U.S. MILITARY SPACECRAFT
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>Deploying tiny probes to inspect or service spacecraft in distress and
>flying satellites that can operate with limited human touch are the chief
>goals behind a state-of-the-art technology demonstration mission
>successfully launched into Earth orbit Monday morning.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/xss11/status.html
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>FIXES ORDERED ACROSS BOEING'S DELTA 4 ROCKET LINE
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>Boeing's Delta 4 rockets are being retrofitted with new pressure valves to
>alleviate bubbling in liquid oxygen fuel lines that possibly occurred in
>the fleet's maiden liftoff in 2002 and investigators determined caused
>engine trouble during the first Heavy booster's December test flight.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d310/050410briefing.html
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>STRANGE NEW TYPE OF STAR CLUSTER FOUND IN ANDROMEDA
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>A U.K.-led team of astronomers has discovered a completely new type of
>star cluster around a neighboring galaxy. The new-found clusters contain
>hundreds of thousands of stars, a similar number to the so-called
>"globular" star clusters which have long been familiar to astronomers.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/09starcluster/
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>SOLUTION FOUND FOR GREAT PANCAKE MYSTERY?
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>Scientists may have solved a decades-old puzzle regarding the distribution
>of the eleven small satellite galaxies that surround the Milky Way.
>Cosmological theory predicts that these galaxies should occupy a large,
>nearly spherical halo but observations show that the satellite galaxies
>have a bizarre flattened, pancake-like distribution.
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> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/09mystery/
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/11winds/">SCIENTISTS TRACK COLLISION OF POWERFUL STELLAR WINDS</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/11soyuz/">DEAL INKED TO BUILD SOYUZ LAUNCH BASE IN KOUROU</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/xss11/status.html">MINOTAUR ROCKET LAUNCHES U.S. MILITARY SPACECRAFT</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d310/050410briefing.html">FIXES ORDERED ACROSS BOEING'S DELTA 4 ROCKET LINE</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/09starcluster/">STRANGE NEW TYPE OF STAR CLUSTER FOUND IN ANDROMEDA</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/09mystery/">SOLUTION FOUND FOR GREAT PANCAKE MYSTERY?</a>
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