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  New Video Brings Webb Telescope's Third Mirror to Light

  February 1, 2013 — There are four types of mirrors that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. They're called the "primary, secondary, tertiary" and fine steering mirrors. Although the 18 primary mirror ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

  January 30, 2013 — The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story
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  NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station

  January 29, 2013 — In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ... > full story
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  Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy

  January 28, 2013 — Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess. They show the elegant spiral galaxy Andromeda, named after the mythical Greek princess known for her ... > full story
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  World's Most Powerful Engine Blazes Path for Space Launch System Advanced Propulsion

  January 26, 2013 — To help develop the nation's future heavy lift rocket, NASA resurrected the world's most powerful rocket engine ever flown -- the mighty F-1 that powered the Saturn V rocket-- and test fired its gas ... > full story
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  NASA to Test Bigelow Expandable Module on Space Station

  January 22, 2013 — NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Jan. 16 a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology. ... > full story
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  NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated

  January 22, 2013 — NASA's next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to study the little-understood lower levels of the sun's atmosphere has been fully integrated and final testing is ... > full story
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  Hubble Focuses on the 'Great Attractor'

  January 22, 2013 — A busy patch of space has been captured in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the ... > full story
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  NASA Signs Agreement for a European-Provided Orion Service Module

  January 22, 2013 — NASA signed an agreement in mid-December for the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft's Exploration Mission-1 in ... > full story
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  NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

  January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story

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