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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 060.04 From AMSAT HQ
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** The next attempt to launch Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta
will take place early next week, the launch operator Arianespace said Friday
after liftoff was postponed for the second time in 24 hours. The Ariane 5
rocket was being brought back into final assembly building at the European
Space Agency's launch pad here, where technicians would replace an
insulation tile that broke off from its main fuel tank, Arianespace Director
General Jean-Yves Le Gall told the press. The rocket will be brought back
on to the launch pad and a second launch attempt will take place "overnight
Monday or overnight Tuesday" depending on how the repair work and inspection
proceed, he said.. --SpaceDaily
** Using radio telescopes on Earth and another optical scope in space, a
team of astrophysicists says it's detected a tiny galaxy that is the
farthest known object from Earth. California Institute of Technology
astronomer Richard Ellis says the galaxy is roughly 13 billion light-years
from Earth. --Newsline
** Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kalery and US astronaut Michael Foale
early Friday interrupted the first spacewalk to involve the entire crew of
the International Space Station (ISS), due to a fault in Kalery's suit,
Russian space officials said. Foale and Kalery had managed to complete much
of the planned work when the temperature control in Kalery's suit went out
of order, forcing the cosmonaut to return to the station, said the head of
Russian mission control center's press service Valery Lyndin.. --SpaceDaily
** Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA's Solar Radiation
and Climate Experiment (Sorce) satellite has hit its stride. In concert with
other satellites, Sorce's observations of the sun's brightness are helping
researchers better understand climate change, climate prediction,
atmospheric ozone, the sunburn-causing ultraviolet-B radiation and space
weather. Having accurate knowledge of the sun's brightness variations on
all time scales, from flares to centuries, at all wavelengths heating the
Earth's atmosphere, land and oceans is essential to understand, model and
predict impacts of the sun on Earth. --SpaceDaily
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