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An international spacecraft that will take NASA’s first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D mission will provide scientists with a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater, and climate.

Aerojet said that its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 16 billion km away from the Sun, at the edge of the solar system.
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Aerojet said that its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 16 billion km away from the Sun, at the edge of the solar system.

Globalstar, Inc. announced financial results for the year 2010.

SpaceX is likely to make an announcement regarding its planned Falcon Heavy on 5 April. Using trendy Internet services such as Twitter and YouTube, the company currently lets the public know that “something big is coming.”

Subscribers of DirecTV can check all upcoming live sports events in the listings provided by My Live Events of My DirecTV. “My Live Events” is an online portal that can be browsed and used to record or order live sports events from UFC events to featured games of NHL, NBA, NFL and others. This is a great site for sports fan to find all details of sports programs on DirecTV for a month.

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