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Amendment 102: Due Date Delays for Several Astrophysics Programs

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Field testing was performed at NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, prior to liftoff. To do this, the 3D-printed magneto-electric dipole antenna was mounted to a ladder.

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A white and blue test rover on sandy red Martian-simulated terrain traverses over large boulders, testing shape memory alloy spring tires.

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A close view of the central area of a dwarf galaxy. A huge number of stars fill the whole galaxy as tiny glowing points. They are brightest around the galaxy’s shining core. Thick clouds of gas and dust billow out across the scene, curling like moving flames. They glow in warm colours following their location: orange around the galaxy’s core, and around glowing star clusters in the bottom-left, and dark red elsewhere.

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Field testing was performed at NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, prior to liftoff. To do this, the 3D-printed magneto-electric dipole antenna was mounted to a ladder.

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X-2 Drops Away from Boeing B-50 Mothership

X-2 Drops Away from Boeing B-50 Mothership

The Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership.

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