NASA says JWST needs more cash / Delta 4 to launch GPS tonight

   NEWSALERT: Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 1404 GMT
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NASA: EXTRA MONEY NEEDED TO LAUNCH JWST THIS DECADE
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One week after a House subcommittee proposed terminating NASA's costly
successor to the orbiting Hubble observatory, agency officials told an
advisory panel Thursday that the James Webb Space Telescope can be
launched as soon as 2018, but political realities could delay the
mission's start well into the 2020s.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/14jwst/


ASTRONAUTS RESTART COMPUTER

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Atlantis commander Christopher Ferguson and pilot Douglas Hurley carried
out troubleshooting procedures early Friday and successfully restarted a
shuttle flight computer that failed Thursday. But it is not yet clear what
caused the initial failure and given the critical nature of the machines,
flight controllers planned to carefully monitor general purpose computer
No. 4 to make sure it was, in fact, running normally.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/status.html


DELTA 4 ROCKET TO LAUNCH NEW GPS SATELLITE TONIGHT
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After having to scrub Friday's attempt to launch a next-generation Global
Positioning System satellite because stormy weather prevented the team
from retracting the protective mobile service gantry away from the Delta 4
rocket, officials have reset the predawn liftoff for Saturday at 2:41 a.m.
EDT (0641 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d355/status.html


DISCOVERY LEAVES HANGAR TO MAKE ROOM FOR ATLANTIS
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The space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday morning made her first public
appearance outside the hangar since being retired, emerging without any
main engines, nose thrusters or aft rocket pods. Seeing the stripped down
orbiter with a gaping hole in the nose was a harsh reminder that the
spaceship's flying days are over.

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SOYUZ ROCKET LAUNCH BEEFS UP GLOBALSTAR SATELLITE FLEET
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Six fresh spacecraft for Globalstar's mobile communications satellite
fleet were deployed Wednesday by a Russian Soyuz rocket, propping up the
company's degraded two-way voice service for more than 400,000 subscribers
around the world.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/13soyuzglobalstar/

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