Space News Update

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Space News Update

• August 29-September 1, 2008

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News Content This Week

• NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of
  Crater
• How Do Galaxies Grow? Assembling the Most Massive
  Galaxies in the Universe
• Space Station Evades Space Debris
• Space Calendar
• NASA TV
• Launch Schedule
• Popular Space
• Space Image of the Week
• (click on the images for more information)

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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of
Crater
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How Do Galaxies Grow? Assembling the Most Massive
Galaxies in the Universe
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Space Station Evades Space Debris
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Space Calendar
http//www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/0801
Aug 29 - RapidEye 1-5 Dnepr 1 Launch Aug 29
- Asteroid 2000 BM19 Near-Venus Flyby (0.034 AU)
Aug 29 - Asteroid 2005 GQ21 Near-Mars Flyby
(0.038 AU) Aug 29 - Asteroid 2004 RX10
Near-Venus Flyby (0.039 AU) Aug 30 - Comet
P/2003 K2 (Christensen) Closest Approach To Earth
(1.340 AU) Aug 30 - 25th Anniversary (1983),
STS-8 Launch (Guy Bluford, 1st African-American
in Space) Aug 31 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton
Closest Approach To Earth (2.101 AU) Aug 31 -
Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth
(2.494 AU) Aug 31-Sep 02 - 2nd International
Workshop on Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated
Circuits for Space Applications (AMICSA 2008),
Cascais, Portugal September 2008 Sep ?? -
RazakSAT/Cubesats Falcon 1 Launch Sep ?? -
Cosmos-Parus/ Orbcomm-CDS 3/ Sterkh 1 (Cospas 11)
Cosmos 3M Launch Sep ?? - Koronas-Foton
Tsyklon 3 Launch Sep ?? - Condor E Strela
Launch Sep ?? - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch Sep ??
-NewAug 25 Omid 2 Saphir 1 Launch Sep 01 -
Asteroid 1998 SD9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Sep 01 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Closest Approach To
Earth (0.916 AU) Sep 01-03 - 8th Workshop of
the European Astrobiology Network Association,
Neuchchatel, Switzerland.
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http//www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/0801
Space Calendar, Continued
Sep 01-05 - 7th Microquasar Workshop, Foca,
Izmir, Turkey Sep 01-05 - 3rd Heidelberg
Summer School The Art Craft of Astronomical
Instrumentation - from Optical to Infrared,
Heidelberg, Germany Sep 01-05 - High Energy
Astrophysics VIRGO.UA Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine
Sep 02 - Cassini, Distant Janus Flyby Sep 02
- Comet C/2007 Y2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To
Earth (4.260 AU) Sep 02 - Asteroid 216
Kleopatra Occults TYC 1167-00586-1 (10.5
Magnitude Star) Sep 02 - Asteroid 3267 Glo
Closest Approach To Earth (1.125 AU) Sep 02 -
Lecture Comets, Asteroids, and Minor Planets,
Baltimore, Maryland Sep 02-04 - 7th ESA CNES
International Workshop on Space Pyrotechnics,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands Sep 02-04 -
3DNTT Proposal Meeting, Quebec, Canada Sep 03
- Asteroid 1732 Klemola Occults HIP 37135 (6.8
Magnitude Star) Sep 03 - Asteroid 10221
Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.516 AU)
Sep 03 - Cassini, Distant Methone Flyby Sep
03 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To
Earth (4.140 AU)
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Upcoming Launch Schedule
September 10 An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program 18
spacecraft to launch from Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California. 1212 p.m. EDT (1612
GMT).September 10 A Rockot booster to launch
the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite to
study Earth's gravity field in a space shot to be
staged from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern
Russia.September 10 A Russian Soyuz rocket to
launch the unmanned Progress 30 cargo ship toward
the International Space Station from Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.September 19 An
Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to loft the
Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter toward the Moon from
the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,
India.
More information regarding launches
at http//www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/
launch_schedule.html
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NASA TV
Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA
website.
August 29, Friday 8 a.m. - Interview with STS-125
Commander Scott Altman - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 10 a.m. - Interview with STS-125 Pilot
Gregory Johnson - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 1 p.m. - Interview with STS-125 Mission
Specialist Andrew Feustel - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 2 p.m. - Interview with STS-125 Mission
Specialist Michael Good - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 4 p.m. - Interview with STS-125 Mission
Specialist John Grunsfeld - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 7 p.m. - Interview with STS-125 Mission
Specialist Michael Massimino - HQ (Public and
Media Channels) 8 p.m. - Interview with STS-125
Mission Specialist K. Megan McArthur - HQ (Public
and Media Channels) August 30, Saturday 8 a.m. -
Interview with STS-125 Mission Specialist John
Grunsfeld - HQ (Public and Media Channels) 9 a.m.
- Interview with STS-125 Mission Specialist
Michael Massimino - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 10 a.m. - Interview with STS-125
Mission Specialist K. Megan McArthur - HQ (Public
and Media Channels) 1 p.m. - Replay of NASA 50th
Anniversary Lecture -- Speaker - Dr. Eric Schmidt
- (Public Channel) 2 p.m. - Interview with
STS-125 Pilot Gregory Johnson - HQ (Public and
Media Channels) 3 p.m. - Interview with STS-125
Mission Specialist Andrew Feustel - HQ (Public
and Media Channels) 5 p.m. - Documentary Explorer
1 Beginnings of the Space Age - HQ (Public
Channel) 7 p.m. - Replay of NASA 50th Anniversary
Lecture -- Speaker - Dr. Eric Schmidt - (Public
Channel) 8 p.m. - Interview with STS-125
Commander Scott Altman - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 9 p.m. - Interview with STS-125 Mission
Specialist Michael Good - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 10 p.m. - Documentary Explorer 1
Beginnings of the Space Age - HQ (Public Channel)
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Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website
NASA TV, Continued
August 31, Sunday 8 a.m. - Interview with STS-125
Commander Scott Altman - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 9 a.m. - Interview with STS-125 Pilot
Gregory Johnson - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) 10 a.m. - Interview with STS-125
Mission Specialist Andrew Feustel - HQ (Public
and Media Channels) 11 a.m. - Interview with
STS-125 Mission Specialist Michael Good - HQ
(Public and Media Channels) 12 p.m. - Interview
with STS-125 Mission Specialist John Grunsfeld -
HQ (Public and Media Channels) 1 p.m. - Interview
with STS-125 Mission Specialist Michael Massimino
- HQ (Public and Media Channels) 2 p.m. -
Interview with STS-125 Mission Specialist K.
Megan McArthur - HQ (Public and Media
Channels) September September 2, Tuesday 630
a.m. - Rollout of Space Shuttle Atlantis to
Launch Pad 39A - KSC (All Channels)
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Popular Space
NASA and Challenger Center Combining Efforts for
Students
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Space Image of the Week
A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark
Matter