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News Release: HST's 10th anniversary: ESA and Hubble - changing our vision
17-Apr-2000: To mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth anniversary, ESA is hosting a press conference at the Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich on Thursday 27 April . With the astro...
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News Release: First Light for the ASTROVIRTEL Project
12-Apr-2000: Astronomical data archives increasingly resemble virtual gold mines of information. A new project, known as ASTROVIRTEL aims to exploit these astronomical treasure troves by allowing scientists to use...
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News Release: The Heliosphere is Tilted - implications for the 'Galactic weather forecast'?
13-Mar-2000: Supersonic shock waves detected at the edge of the Solar System - a new study by European scientists clarifies conditions at our Earth's outermost shield against interstellar charged particles.
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News Release: Hubble reopens eye on the Universe
24-Jan-2000: The NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, as made dramatically evident in stunning new celestial pictures of remote galaxies and a colourful dying star released today.
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News Release: Servicing Mission 3A Summary
14-Jan-2000: After months of delays because of wiring defects, an engine swap and replacement of a crushed liquid hydrogen line, NASA launched Discovery into space on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A Monday 20 December...
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News Release: ESA's Hubble duo back on Earth after successful servicing mission
28-Dec-1999: ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Jean-Frangois Clervoy and their five fellow crew members on the Space Shuttle Discovery returned to Earth today (28 December at 0001 GMT) after a spectacular missio...
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News Release: Discovery finally lifts off on a Christmas mission to repair Hubble
20-Dec-1999: On the tenth scheduled attempt, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery at 1:50 CET Monday morning on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A. The two previous launch attempts were called off due to poor weathe...
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News Release: European astronauts set for Hubble challenge
09-Dec-1999: Two of the European Space Agency 's most experienced astronauts are preparing to board the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the international crew to be launched on an end-of-the-year mission to ser...
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News Release: HST - Telescope, Observations and Servicing Mission
25-Nov-1999: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a joint ESA /NASA project launched into a low-Earth orbit 600 km above the ground in 1990 by Space Shuttle mission STS-31. During its first nine years of operations...
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News Release: Hubble Space Telescope into safe hold as gyroscope fails
16-Nov-1999: Just 24 days before its third Servicing Mission, the Hubble Space telescope has been placed into a safe mode, triggered by a failure in one of Hubble's last three working gyroscopes.
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News Release: The 'Rotten Egg' nebula - a planetary nebula in the making
19-Oct-1999: The object shown in these ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope images is a remarkable example of a star going through death throes just as it dramatically transforms itself from a normal red giant star in...
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News Release: Starry bulges yield secrets to galaxy growth
06-Oct-1999: The Hubble Space Telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart - a bulge of millions of stars that resemble a bulbous centre yolk in the middle o...
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News Release: Closing in on distant, infant galaxies
17-Sep-1999: Detailed proposals for the construction of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) were presented during the yearly NGST meeting. Representatives from the three major participants in the project, N...
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