NASA names the day for Dawn raid on asteroid belt
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Launch date pencilled in NASA has confirmed the launch date for Dawn, its mission to the asteroid belt. The space agency is aiming for a launch window that opens at 07:25 (EDT) on 26 September, and closes again 29 minutes later.â¦
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A recently rediscovered 400-meter Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) is predicted to pass near the Earth on 13 April 2029. The flyby distance is uncertain and an Earth impact cannot yet be ruled out.
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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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NASA is readying a mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and its asteroid cousin Vesta.
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NASAâs Dawn spacecraft, originally scheduled to head into space this past Saturday on a mission to visit two large asteroids, will now be launched in September.
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Nasa's Deep Impact mission, which will crash a projectile into Comet Tempel 1, is ready for lift-off.
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Scientists said the launch of NASA's Deep Impact mission has been delayed until at least January 12. The mission's goal is to smash a spacecraft into a comet on July 4, 2005.
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The Deep Impact spacecraft is undergoing final tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will blast off atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket on Dec. 30, and if all goes well, rendezvous with the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day.
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On a day of stunning news including moonbase plans and new orbital
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WASHINGTON - Flight controllers at NASA&#39;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a  Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapon.
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An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  Utahns who missed Sunday's rare planetary grouping -- and that's most of the state because of cloud cover -- will get another chance at a space spectacular early Thursday morning.
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Scientific curiosity is going to cause a minor collision in space. On January 12, 2004, NASA is scheduled to launch a spacecraft named Deep Impact.
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UK space scientists and engineers design a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
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NASA -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch on Dec. 30, 2004...
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NASA&#39;s Dawn spacecraft in fine health after rocketing into space just after sunrise today, ending a long wait for mission scientists even as the probe&#39;s own eight-year journey to two large asteroids is just beginning.
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The asteroid belt&#39;s largest bodies have drifted virtually alone since their creation about 4.5 billion years ago, but each will soon receive a visit from NASA&#39;s Dawn spacecraft.&nbsp;