Resupply ship launches toward rendezvous with station

     NEWSALERT: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 0909 GMT
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RESUPPLY SHIP SET FOR FRIDAY RENDEZVOUS WITH STATION
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A three-day orbital chase by a robotic cargo freighter to catch the
international space station began high above Earth early this morning with
the successful launch of the Russian-made resupply ship.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/10progress/


NASA AWARDS NUSTAR LAUNCH TO ORBITAL SCIENCES
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NASA has selected Orbital Sciences to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic
Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray telescope. The spacecraft
will fly in 2011 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from the Pacific Ocean's
Kwajalein Atoll.


 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/09nustar/


MAJOR TEST OF SECOND AEHF SATELLITE UNDERWAY
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Lockheed Martin announced Monday that the second Advanced Extremely High
Frequency military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal
vacuum testing at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/09aehf2/


JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE'S SPINE NOW BEING BUILT
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Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space
Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the
actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built.
One of the pieces, called the Backplane, is like a "spine" to the
telescope.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/09jwst/


GEOLOGIC FEATURES IN MARTIAN CRATERS SHAPED BY WATER
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Scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute have found
further evidence for the large role that water has likely played in
shaping the Martian landscape.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/08marscraters/