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Space News for April 12, 1999

Military Satellite in Incorrect Orbit Military officials have confirmed that the Defense Support Program satellite entered an incorrect orbit after…

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Stardust Passes Mars Probes The Stardust spacecraft has passed the slower moving Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander spacecraft…

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Moon to Eclipse Aldebaran Astronomers are preparing for April 18th, when the moon will pass in front of Aldebaran, one…

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Delta 3 Launch Scrubbed After three attempts to launch the Boeing Delta 3 rocket carrying the Orion 3 satellite, engineers…

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Hubble Captures Tarantula Nebula The Hubble team has released its latest photo of the heavens. This time the space telescope…

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Viking Location Wrong All Along Astronomers have incorrectly reported Viking Lander 1's location on Mars' surface for over 20 years.…

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Hardy Bacteria Proves Life Has Few Limits In order to understand how life could exist on other worlds in our…

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Mir Cosmonaut Contacts Students To help announce the opening of a new program to connect 2,000 schools through the Internet,…

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Comets an Unlikely Source for Earth's Water New data gathered by Caltech offers evidence against the long-standing theory that the…

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Hubble Views Stormy Uranus New views of Uranus by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown the planet to be colourful…

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