Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station | Synopsis

Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station

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Loaded with 2. 9 tons of supplies and equipment, the Progress M-17M spacecraft climbed away from its launching stand at 3:41 a.m. EDT (1:41 p.m. local time) and accelerated smoothly toward orbit atop a jet of fiery exhaust. Eight minutes and 45 seconds later, the supply ship was released into its planned preliminary orbit, on track for a docking at the aft port of the Russian Zvezda command module around 9:40 a.m. "Good morning," station commander Sunita Williams radioed NASA flight controllers in Houston. "Happy Halloween, and hopefully our little trick-or-treat vehicle is on its way. We just got to see it out the window and that's pretty special. Hope you guys are having a great day." This was the fourth Progress launched this year, the second to follow an abbreviated six-hour rendezvous with the space station.

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Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station

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The unmanned ship, loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 14, 2009 | Reduction

Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 14, 2009

Another shot of one of the many battles between the two Prodrift champions, James Deane and Alan Sinnott. by Aatomotion
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Following a successful readiness review, Kepler began its search for planets around other stars at 5:01 p.m. Pacific Time (8:01 p.m. Eastern Time) on May 12, 2009. The first of the science data are scheduled to be sent down to Earth on June 18, at which point analysis of the data by the science team will commence. While it will take years to discover any Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zones of stars (regions where temperatures are right for liquid water), we expect to confirm fairly quickly the three planets known to transit, or cross in front of, their stars in the Kepler field of view. In the months ahead, we expect to begin detecting large planets that orbit their stars closely. This activity concludes the commissioning phase of the project, and this is the last mission update I will be writing.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 14, 2009

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Following a successful readiness review, Kepler began its search for planets around other stars on May 12, 2009.

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Launch of Air Force's secret space plane delayed again | Essentials

Launch of Air Force's secret space plane delayed again

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The liftoff of an Atlas 5 rocket set to carry the robotic X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-3), which looks like a mini space shuttle, has now been slipped to Nov. 27, pending confirmation that the rocket range can support the launch. According to a statement today from spokesperson Jessica Rye of United Launch Alliance (ULA), which builds the Atlas 5, the leadership at ULA and the Air Force agreed to postpone the launch of the X-37B for two weeks. The postponement stems from an ongoing investigation of an engine glitch during an Oct. 5 flight of a Delta 4 booster, a relative to the Atlas 5. That launcher experienced a lower-than-normal upper-stage engine chamber pressure when it launched to place a Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-3 spacecraft into orbit.

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Launch of Air Force's secret space plane delayed again

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The third launch of the  Air Force X-37B spaceship, a secret space plane used for classified missions in Earth orbit, has been postponed, officials said.

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