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Assembling Of Moon Mission Spacecraft Begins
Mumbai, India (PTI) Mar 29, 2007India has begun assembling the spacecraft for Chandrayaan-I, its first unmanned mission to the moon scheduled for 2008, a top space agency official said today. "We have begun the integration process for the spacecraft structure and are putting in place the antennae required for tracking data from this month," S Krishnamurthy, Director of Publicity for the Indian Space Research Organisation, told ... more Next International Space Station Crew To Launch April 7 
Washington DC (USINFO) Mar 30, 2007The next crew of the International Space Station is set to launch April 7 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 15 commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, flight engineer and Soyuz commander Oleg Kotov, and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi will dock with the station April 9. The crew exchange is the first in a series of launches and docking activi ... more Amateur And Professionals Astronomers Combine Observations To Produce Double Asteroid Image 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2007Roping together observations from the world's largest telescopes as well as the small instrument of a local backyard amateur, astronomers have assembled the most complete picture yet of a pair of asteroids whirling around one another in a perpetual pas de deux. In a paper to be published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Icarus, a team of University of California, Berkeley, and Paris ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Space X Says Falcon 1 Testing Complete Ready For Commercial Services
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2007Having had several days to examine the data, the second test launch of Falcon 1 is looking increasingly positive. Post flight review of telemetry has verified that oscillation of the second stage late in the mission is the only thing that stopped Falcon 1 from reaching full orbital velocity. The second stage was otherwise functioning well and even deployed the satellite mass simulator ring at the end of flight! Actual final velocity was 5.1 km/s or 11,000 mph, whereas 7.5 km/s or 17,000 mph is needed for orbit ... more ESA Signs For Small GEO Satellite Platform 
Berlin, Germany (ESA) Mar 29, 2007ESA has signed with OHB/Germany a 100 million euro framework contract to develop a European Small Geostationary Satellite platform for telecommunication missions. This contract covers the first part of the Small Geostationary Satellite initiative aimed at the definition of a general-purpose small geostationary satellite platform which will enable European players to compete effectively on ... more Making The Discovery, Exploration And Application Of Space Science Missions Easier 
Cameron Park (CA) (SPX) Mar 29, 2007As I said in my last entry, Dan Goldin's use of the "Smaller and More Frequent" philosophy for space science missions gave the scientific exploration of space a useful second wind -- especially as applied to the Discovery and Explorer programs, in which a series of small Solar System probes (for Discovery) or Earth-orbiting scientific satellites (for Explorer) were to be very frequently launched ... more China And Russia Plan Mars Mission 
Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2007China announced Wednesday it will launch a joint mission with Russia to Mars in 2009, marking "an important milestone" in space cooperation between the two countries. A small Chinese satellite will take off on a Russian rocket, according to the agreement signed Monday between the China National Space Administration and the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Chinese space body said. Th ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Healthy Coastal Wetlands Would Adapt To Rising Oceans
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2007Tidal marshes, which nurture marine life and reduce storm damage along many coastlines, should be able to adjust to rising sea levels and avoid being inundated and lost, if their vegetation isn't damaged and their supplies of upstream sediment aren't reduced, a new Duke University study suggests. Such marshes "offer great value as buffers of coastal storms in cities such as New Orleans, wh ... more Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years 
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 29, 2007New calculations show that sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) has been consistent for the last 420 million years, according to an article in Nature by geologists at Yale and Wesleyan Universities. A popular predictor of future climate sensitivity is the change in global temperature produced by each doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. This st ... more Did Dust Bust The 2006 Hurricane Season Forecasts 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2007A recent NASA study suggests that tiny dust particles may have foiled forecasts that the 2006 hurricane season would be another active one. In June and July 2006, there were several significant dust storms over the Sahara Desert in Africa. As this dust traveled westward into the Atlantic, satellite data show that the particles blocked sunlight from reaching the ocean surface, causing ocean ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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US Missile Defense Chief Argues For Missile Shield In Space
Washington (RIA Novosti) Mar 28, 2007A senior U.S. official in charge of America's missile defense program told a congressional committee Tuesday that some elements should be deployed in space, including a "space-based layer" in near-Earth orbit. Addressing the Armed Services Committee, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, director of the U.S. missile defense program, sought to justify the need for substantial spending on th ... more US Denies Pressuring Iran Backs Britain Over Detainees 
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2007The United States on Wednesday denied that its naval exercises in the Gulf are meant to pressure Iran, and stressed US support for Britain as Tehran holds 15 of its naval personnel. "These military exercises were long planned and so there is no escalation of tension on our part," spokeswoman Dana Perino said. On Tuesday, the Pentagon said the exercise was aimed at reassuring friends and al ... more The Iran Crisis Deepens In Tit For Tat Responses 
Wasghington (UPI) Mar 28, 2007We have seen this movie before. One of the West's leading statesmen, and a powerful advocate for human rights, is deliberately humiliated by hostage-seizing Iranian radicals. Moreover, the Iranian radicals believe they can get away with it because they know perfectly well that the Western leaders are constrained by their own moral code to abide, as far as they can, by international law. An ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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