Space News Update

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Space News Update
July 25 - 28, 2006
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News Content This Week

• Remembering the Moon
• A Peek Into the Suns Future
• Exploring Mars with Mini Probes
• Rover Update
• Upcoming Space Launches
• NASA TV
• Space Image of the Week
• (click on the images for more information)

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Remembering the Moon
Apollo 11 Landing Site
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A Peek Into the Suns Future
Someday the Sun Will Become a Red Giant Star
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Exploring Mars with Mini Probes
Baseball-Sized Probes Will Explore Mars
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Rover Update
Opportunity Wheel Tracks
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Upcoming Space Launches

• July 26 Dnepr    Multi-payload
• Launch time 1943 GMT (343 p.m. EDT)Launch
  site Baikonur Cosmodrome, KazakhstanThe ISC
  Kosmotras Dnepr rocket will launch several small
  spacecraft including BelKA, Baumanets, UniSat 4,
  two JAESat microsatellites and 14 CubeSat
  nanosatellites for a variety of international
  institutions.
• July 28 Rockot    KOMPSAT
• Launch time 0705 GMT (305 a.m. EDT)Launch
  site Plesetsk Cosmodrome, RussiaA Eurockot
  Rockot will launch the KOMPSAT 2 Earth
  observation satellite for the Korea Aerospace
  Research Institute. Launch delayed in the wake of
  October 2005 Rokot failure that lost the CryoSat
  spacecraft.
• http//www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html
  

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NASA TV

• (all times EDT)
• July 24, Monday1 p.m. - NASA TV Audio
  Engineering Delay Test
• July 25, Tuesday1 p.m.- NASA TV Multi-Center
  Media Event Test
• July 27, Thursday825 a.m. - 9 a.m. - NEEMO 10
  Underwater Mission Media Interviews2 p.m. - ISS
  Mission Status
• http//www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Break
  ing.html

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Space Image of the Week
Red Spots Have a Close Encounter