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NASA Shows Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2007
 For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. This accomplishment marks a dramatic step forward for missions like the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder, designed to hunt for an Earth twin that might harbor life. Trying ... read more
TECH SPACE
EMS Technologies Announces Anti-Jam Antenna Solutions For Commercial Satellite Customers
 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2007
 EMS Technologies announced at the 23rd National Space Symposium that its Defense and Space Systems (D and SS) Division will offer anti-jam antenna solutions to the commercial space sector. EMS D and SS, which specializes in providing beam-forming networks that enable and protect communication channels to and from communications satellites, now sees a demand for its military style anti-jam beam m ... more
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    SPACE TRAVEL
    Bill Gates Eyes Flight To Space
     Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2007
     The world's richest man, Bill Gates, is considering a flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from the International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague and space tourist Charles Simonyi. "Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space," cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told journalists during a video link-up from the space station, broadcast on state television ... more
    VENUSIAN HEAT
    One Year At Venus Makes For Some Express Science
     Paris, France (ESA) Apr 12, 2007
     One year has passed since 11 April 2006, when Venus Express, Europe's first mission to Venus and the only spacecraft now in orbit around the planet, reached its destination. Since then, this advanced probe, born to explore one of the most mysterious planetary bodies in the Solar System, has been revealing planetary details never caught before. Intensively visited by several Russian and Ame ... more
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    Water Identified In Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
     Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 11, 2007
     For the first time, water has been identified in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. Through a combination of previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, Lowell Observatory astronomer Travis Barman has found strong evidence for water absorption in the atmosphere of transiting planet HD209458b ... read more

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    Some Earth-Like Worlds May Have Foliage Of Colors Other Than Green
     Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2007
     In the next decade, when scientists are able to study Earth-sized worlds around other stars, they may find that foliage on some of the planets is predominantly yellow--or orange, or red. It all depends on the color of the star the planet orbits and the stuff that makes up the planet's atmosphere. That's the conclusion of researchers from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, a NASA-funded init ... more
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    To Land Or Orbit Is The Question About Europa
     Cameron Park CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2007
     In my last chapter, I talked about a possible augmentation of the Europa Explorer to first make multiple flybys of Io before orbiting Europa -- something not currently in its flight plan (although multiple flybys of Ganymede and Callisto already are). But whether this is done or not, the Explorer will be quite an expensive mission -- certainly over $1.3 billion, maybe rising to $2.5 billion if ... more
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     Ithica NY (SPX) Apr 11, 2007
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    China To Rely More On Cleaner Energy Like Natural Gas By 2010
     Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2007
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     Singapore (AFP) April 11, 2007
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     San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2007
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     Moscow (RIA Novosti) April 11, 2007
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     Washington (UPI) April 11, 2007
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     Berlin (UPI) April 11, 2007
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