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(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The last of five instruments slated to fly on the upcoming NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite have been successfully integrated, according to NASA officials. The polar-orbiting satellite is scheduled to launch in late 2011.

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(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Storm Chanthu came ashore in southeastern China and continues to move inland. NASA captured both visible and infrared satellite data that showed the storm is weakening in both form and cloud temperatures.

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(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The GOES-13 satellite has kept an eye on System 97L all week, and it has now developed into a tropical depression. NASA's GOES Project has created a movie showing its development over the last three days, and will continue to monitor it.

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(Rochester Institute of Technology) Rochester Institute of Technology scientist Don Figer is developing detector technology funded by NASA's Technology Development for Exoplanet Missions Program and designed to directly image and characterize exoplanets. The two-year funded project will result in a detector array that can withstand the radiation in space, count individual photons or light pulses -- thereby eliminating noise that could obscure the faint signal -- and characterize exoplanets in one-third the time it takes using existing methods.