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Space News for April 26, 1999
Blanket Could be Blocking Surveyor's Hinge Engineers are trying to determine what's causing the malfunctioning hinge on the Mars Global…
Space News for April 23, 1999
Delta III Launch Aborted The Boeing Delta III continues to disappoint, after the latest launch attempt of the Orion 3…
Space News for April 22, 1999
Hubble Gyro Fails Known to be on its last legs for almost 3 months, an ailing Hubble gyro has finally…
Space News for April 21, 1999
Surveyor Transmitting, But Still Not Fixed Unable to fix the malfunctioning hinge on the Mars Global Surveyor's high-gain boom antenna,…
Space News for April 20, 1999
Hubble Captures Images of the Moon Designed to catch light from the dimmest stars, the immense light-gathering power of the…
Space News for April 19, 1999
Astronauts Complete Partially Successful Mir Spacewalk Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev and French astronaut Jean-Pierre Heignere spent six hours "spacewalking" outside…
Space News for April 16, 1999
First Multi-Planet Star System Discovered Astronomers have discovered a group of three Jupiter-sized planets orbiting around the star Upsilon Andromedae.…
Space News for April 15, 1999
Search Begins for Mercury Capsule Undersea salvage experts are looking for the Mercury 4 space capsule that almost drowned astronaut…
Space News for April 14, 1999
Scientists Discover Medium-Sized Black Holes Astronomers have discovered several examples of medium-sized black holes located in nearby galaxies - probably…
Space News for April 13, 1999
Hypernova Remnants Discovered Considered mere supernovas until recently, astronomers have discovered the remnants of two massive hypernovas in nearby galaxy…