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NASA's Spitzer celebrates 10 years in space

25 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 24 (RDI IBNS) Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.

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NASA prepares for first Virginia coast launch to moon

24 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 23 (RDI IBNS) In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.

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NASA releases new imagery of asteroid mission

24 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 23 (RDI IBNS) NASA released Thursday new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid.

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Sam Pitroda in Kolkata

24 August, 2013

The Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations and the Chairman of National Innovation Council Mr. Sam Pitroda inaugurating leaflets for the innovation centric science laboratory ‘Innovation Hub’, in Kolkata on August 23, 2013. He delivered a lecture also.

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India's 200 cr satellite mission delayed

20 August, 2013

New Delhi, Aug 19 (RDI IBNS): The launch of India's massive home-made rocket and communications satellite Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-D5 was called off just two hours before the scheduled lift-off on Monday due to a fuel leak.

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Astronaut Michael Foale leaves NASA

11 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 10 (RDI IBNS) NASA astronaut Michael Foale has retired, ending a 26-year space agency career that included 375 days in space during six space shuttle missions and extended stays aboard two space stations.

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NASA telescope finds source of Magellanic Stream

10 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 9 (RDI IBNS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.

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Hubble finds telltale fireball after gamma ray burst

06 August, 2013

Washington, Aug 5 (RDI IBNS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma ray bursts are produced by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects.

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INSAT-3D placed in Geosynchronous Orbit

02 August, 2013

Bangalore, Aug 1 (RDI IBNS) India's advanced weather satellite INSAT-3D, launched in the early hours of July 26, 2013 from Kourou, French Guyana, has successfully been placed in Geosynchronous orbit after three orbit raising manoeuvres commanded from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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NASA, Korean space agency discuss cooperation

31 July, 2013

Washington, July 30 (RDI IBNS) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and the president of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Seung Jo Kim, met in Washington Monday to discuss collaboration in aeronautics research and space exploration, including KARI's robotic lunar mission and NASA's asteroid initiative.