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NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST. The most technologically advanced of NASA’s heliophysics spacecraft, [...]
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Tidal Energy Funding Cut

Washington, DC — The Obama administration has proposed cutting the budget for one of the most promising energy technologies — tidal energy. At a time when earth-friendly energy sources, such as solar, wind and geothermal are getting increased funding, the President plans to cut research for tidal energy. About Tidal Energy Ocean Tidal Power Some [...]
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NASA: Launch Mishap Ends OCO Mission

from NASA Several minutes into the flight of the Taurus rocket carrying NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory spacecraft, launch managers declared a contingency after the payload fairing failed to separate.
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