Russian radio telescope launched / GPS bird goes up / Shuttle update

NEWSALERT: Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1652 GMT
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RUSSIAN SATELLITE ON MISSION TO PEER INSIDE BLACK HOLES
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Russia launched a long-delayed radio telescope Monday to help astronomers
see deeper into supermassive black holes, obtain views of collapsed stars
and better measure the influence of dark energy on the cosmos.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/18spektr/

LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/18zenitgallery/

RAFFAELLO CARGO MODULE RETURNED TO SHUTTLE BAY
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In the dwindling hours of the shuttle program's last visit to the
International Space Station, the Atlantis astronauts detached the bus-size
Raffaello cargo module and moved it back to the shuttle's payload bay
early Monday, wrapping up NASA's final shuttle-station resupply mission.

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

SPACE STATION RESTOCKING COMPLETED BY ATLANTIS CREW
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The Atlantis astronauts put in a final day of logistics transfer work
Sunday, working through off-duty time to finish moving a last few items
into the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module for return to Earth.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/110717fd10/index2.html

GPS NAVIGATION SATELLITE TAKES NIGHTTIME RIDE TO ORBIT
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Continuing a prolific partnership that has benefited billions of users
around the world, the Delta rocket family Saturday successfully launched
its 50th satellite for the Global Positioning System.

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

LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d355/launch/

TWO BROADCASTING SATELLITES SHARE PROTON ROCKET RIDE
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Communications satellites for North America and Kazakhstan blasted off on
top of a Proton rocket Friday and successfully arrived hours later at
their targeted posts thousands of miles from Earth.

http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/ses3/

LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/ses3/launch/

DAWN ASTEROID EXPLORER MOVES INTO ORBIT AT VESTA
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NASA's robotic Dawn spacecraft drifted into orbit around Vesta on
Saturday, starting a yearlong science campaign to map one of the solar
system's largest unexplored worlds sandwiched in the main asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/17dawn/

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