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DELTA 2 ROCKET SET FOR HISTORIC LAUNCH MONDAY
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After 20 years and over 50 launches for the U.S. military, the respected
Delta 2 rocket will make one last flight for the Air Force at dawn Monday
carrying the final spacecraft in the current generation of Global
Positioning System satellites. Follow the countdown in our live Mission
Status Center:

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d343/status.html

 

Aug. 17

Delta 2  •  GPS 2R-21 (M8)

Launch window: 1035-1049 GMT (6:35-6:49 a.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket will launch the eighth modernized NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R military navigation satellite. The launch will be run by the U.S. Air Force. The rocket will fly in the 7925 vehicle configuration. Delayed from Sept. 11 and Dec. 18, 2008. Moved up from Aug. 21. [July 15]

SUPER PLANETARY NEBULA
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A team of astronomers from Australia and the United States have discovered
a new class of object which they have nicknamed 'Super Planetary Nebula'.

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n0908/14SN/


VARIABILITY IN SUPERNOVAE
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Newly discovered sources of variability in type Ia supernovae could cause
problems in their use for calculating cosmic distances and the expansion
of the Universe.

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n0908/13sn/