SpaceX announces first Falcon 9 payload / Moon water / Juno to Jupiter

    NEWSALERT: Thursday, September 24, 2009 @ 2012 GMT
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SPACEX DOUBLES DOWN ON INAUGURAL FALCON 9 MISSION
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SpaceX has announced the payload for the first Falcon 9 launch later this
year will be a stripped-down version of the company's own Dragon capsule,
a vehicle being developed to deliver supplies to the International Space
Station.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0909/24falcon/


SCIENTISTS PRESENT NEW EVIDENCE OF WATER ON MOON
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Data from the Indian Chandrayaan-1 Moon mission, supported with similar
data collected during Deep Impact and Cassini flybys of the Moon, has
provided unambiguous evidence of water locked up in the lunar soil,
bringing dreams of a sustainable Moon base one step closer.

http://astronomynow.com/news/n0909/24moon/


JUNE PROBE ON TARGET FOR 2001 DEPARTURE TO JUPITER
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NASA's Juno spacecraft, an energy-efficient probe now being built in
Colorado, is less than two years from beginning its journey to map Jupiter
in hopes of unlocking secrets about the enormous planet's ancient
formation.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0909/24juno/


PAD FUEL LEAK DELAYS DELTA ROCKET LAUNCH TO FRIDAY
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Launch of the Delta 2 rocket carrying a pair of experimental
missile-tracking satellites was delayed to Friday so workers could repair
a small fuel leak at the pad. Liftoff time will be 8 a.m. EDT.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d344/status.html

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EARTH SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS MOUNTED ON SPACE STATION
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European astronaut Frank De Winne, at the controls of a Japanese robot
arm, transferred two science experiments carried into space by the HTV
cargo ship to their new homes on the International Space Station Thursday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/h2b/htv1/status.html

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