Topic: Ball Corporation
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Mirrors completed for successor to Hubble telescope
Made by Ball Aerospace, the 18 beryllium mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope are ready to be delivered to NASA.
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Sentinel astroid-hunting private telescope could find half a million space rocks
That may sound ambitious, especially since only about 10,000 such asteroids have been catalogued to date.
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First-ever deep-space telescope to hunt dangerous asteroids (+video)
The private space telescope forms the heart of Project Sentinel, a deep-space mission being unveiled today in Mountain View, Calif., by a nonprofit group of scientists and explorers that advocates better space rock monitoring.
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Comet Hartley 2: EPOXI probe flyby to yield rare close-up photos
Comet Hartley 2 will get its portrait taken on Thursday by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft. NASA will snap 6,000 high-resolution images of 103P/Hartley 2, a small comet that hangs out around Jupiter's orbit.
11/03/2010 06:07 pm
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