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Saturday, October 6, 2012

See the cosmos 24 hours a day


Forthcoming astronomy is now possible, thanks to virtual planetarium that is installed in the Mall yesterday Arousa until 4 November. A journey during the cosmos and enjoy the most famous constellation or the operation of the solar system.

Curiosity log 15 (playing in Rocknest)


Curiosity is already near the area known as Glenelg. On October 2 (Sun 56) arrive at the area known as Rocknest, where there are some small sand bank. Curiosity will spend two or three weeks at this site while making the first sample collection with robot arm systems. As of today, our rover has already surpassed the 400 runs, which is not bad.

Launch GPS IIF-3 (Delta IV M +)


On Thursday, October 4 at 12:10 UTC, the company ULA (United Launch Alliance) launched a Delta IV M + (4, 2) from SLC-37 slope to Cape Canaveral. On board was the GPS IIF-3 satellite (USA-239) global positioning system GPS. Apparently, the motor RL-10 of the second stage experienced some problems during power up.