March 20, 2006

March 20, 2006

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Engine Fumes

By DAVID A. FULGHUM,DOUGLAS BARRIE,ANDY NATIVI7 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

A Tale of Two Comets

By CRAIG COVAULT6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Earning Its '0'

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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Engine Fumes

British fault U.S. handling of industrial partnership, while Pentagon claims problems are close to resolution

By DAVID A. FULGHUM,DOUGLAS BARRIE,ANDY NATIVI7 min

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A Tale of Two Comets

Stardust samples amaze researchers, as mothership is eyed for recon at Deep Impact site

By CRAIG COVAULT6 min

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Earning Its '0'

MRO brings new propulsion design and more redundancy to Mars

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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Cash Pile

Thales’s takeover plans to zero in on Asia-Pacific, U.S.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA5 min

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Piggyback Ride

U.S. instruments on India’s lunar orbiter could pinpoint future lunar base locations

By FRANK MORRING4 min

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Spring Cleaning

Plant closures, vast restructuring effort planned at MBDA

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA,DOUGLAS BARRIE3 min

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Newer Life?

Relatively young Martian meteorite assessed for life

By CRAIG COVAULT3 min

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Carried By the Wind

British solar-powered UAV sets a course for more flight trials after its U.S. success

By DOUGLAS BARRIE2 min

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Get Smart

HOUSTON The European Space Agency Smart-1 lunar orbiter continues to acquire innovative science data as the U.S. is beginning a major restoration of Apollo-era lunar data to prepare for the new Exploration Initiative. As the U.S., India, China and Japan all prepare to launch new lunar orbiter missions over the next two years, often over-looked is Europe’s lunar orbiter which is already at the Moon where it has been acquiring science data since mid-2005.

By CRAIG COVAULT2 min

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Fly in July

HOUSTON The delay of the STS-121 space shuttle launch to no earlier than July 1-19 will enable the program to clear a number of issues that had been threatening the May schedule even before the decision that engine cutoff (ECO) sensors had to be replaced forced the slip.
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