Live coverage of tonight's work on shuttle Discovery

NEWSALERT: Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 2135 GMT
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DISCOVERY LEAVES HANGAR FOR ITS LAST SPACE VOYAGE
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Moving a major step closer to its final spaceflight before retirement,
shuttle Discovery took a road trip this morning from the hangar to the
nearby Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center where it will be
attached to the external fuel tank and twin solid rockets. See our Mission
Status Center for live updates and streaming video of tonight's hoisting
of the shuttle!

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html

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ASTRIUM WILL HELP SPACEX SNARE EUROPEAN PAYLOADS
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SpaceX and Astrium are teaming up to sell Falcon 1 rocket launches to
European institutional customers for small satellite missions, the
companies announced Thursday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/09falcon1e/


GERMANY, CHINA TO TRACK GREENHOUSE GASES
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A German aerospace contractor and a Chinese research agency have signed a
deal to jointly develop a satellite fleet to monitor greenhouse gases
contributing to climate change, officials announced Wednesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/08carbonsat/


CHINA REMAINS SILENT ON SATELLITE RENDEZVOUS
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The U.S. Air Force last week acknowledged tracking Chinese satellites
secretly testing orbital rendezvous technologies, nearly two weeks after
the spacecraft may have bumped into each other more than 350 miles above
Earth.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/08china/


ATLAS 5 ROCKET PICKED TO LAUNCH COMMERCIAL IMAGER
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A commercial Earth-imaging satellite launch has been added to the U.S.
military, reconnaissance and scientific payloads booked on the powerful
Atlas 5 rocket's manifest, Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/07geoeye2/

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