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Wednesday 28 July 2010

Russian cosmonauts to take spacewalk tonight

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OVERNIGHT SPACEWALK COMING UP FOR STATION COSMONAUTS
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Playing repairmen and electricians outside the International Space
Station, two Russian cosmonauts will conduct a spacewalk late tonight to
replace a bad television camera and wire up the outpost's newest module.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp24/100726eva/


ZOMBIESAT HAS THREE MORE SATELLITES IN ITS CROSSHAIRS
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The out-of-control Galaxy 15 spacecraft will pass near three more orbiting
broadcast platforms before it loses power in late August or early
September, putting an end to the zombie satellite's menacing tour of the
geostationary arc.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/25galaxy15/


TROUBLED WEATHER SATELLITE RECEIVES FINAL INSTRUMENT
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The next U.S. weather satellite has received its final observing
instrument and will begin pre-launch environmental testing in October,
NASA announced last week.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/25npp/


CURIOSITY GOES FOR A SPIN
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The Curiosity rover took its first steps Friday inside a clean room at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, kicking off a test campaign to prove the $2.3
billion robot can operate on the surface of Mars.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/23curiosity/


ESA SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS AWAIT DECISIONS ABROAD
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The European Space Agency's selection of its next generation of space
science probes will depend on upcoming decisions before science and budget
panels in the United States and Japan.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/23cosmicvision/

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