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Extensive new 50cm GeoEye-1 satellite imagery is available over New Zealand.

According to tracking data from the U.S. Strategic Command, the first fragments of the destroyed Russian satellite Cosmos 2251 will be entering the atmosphere of Earth in the last half of March 2009, with more debris following in April 2009.

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On Sunday, March 1, 2009, the Chinese Chang'e 1 space probe ended a 16-month mission when ground controllers remotely performed a maneuver to direct  it toward the lunar surface. They were successful and the probe made a controlled crash into the Moon. Wham! Boom! Ting!

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