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Spacewalkers install probe outside space station
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 Reuters - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- A U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut completed a 5-1/2-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to install a device that monitors conditions around the orbital outpost.
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US, Russian space station crew conduct spacewalk
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 AP - American and Russian crewmen installed a probe Tuesday aimed at tracking down problems with a Russian module attached to the international space station and conducted an array of other maintenance and scientific work during a six-hour spacewalk.
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Surprise Star Formation Found Near Black Hole
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SPACE.com - LONG BEACH, Calif. — Two embryonic stars discovered
just a few light years away from the Milky Way's center show that stars can
form in the potentially destructive reach of the powerful black hole at our
galaxy's center.
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Space Shuttle Extension Options Carry High Costs
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SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - NASA could extend space
shuttle operations to 2012 by adding three flights - at a cost of roughly $5 billion - without dramatically affecting
the agency's plan to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020, according to a
draft internal report on delaying the planned 2010 retirement of the orbiter
fleet.
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SES Americom Shuts Down Satellite TV Service
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SPACE.com - PARIS - Satellite-fleet operator SES is
shutting down its IP-Prime service, which since 2007 has been selling satellite-delivered television
programming to telecommunications companies to bundle with their Internet and
telephone offering. SES's SES Americom division made
the announcement Dec. 15 saying IP-Prime's customers - predominately rural
telephone companies - were unable to win sufficient
subscriber interest in the television service to justify continued operation.
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