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Dawn One Step Away From Asteroid Belt Trip
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2007The Dawn spacecraft completed the 25-kilometer (15-mile) journey from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to Pad-17B of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:10 a.m. EDT today. The launch period for Dawn, NASA's eight-year, more than 5-billion-kilometer (3.2-billion-mile) odyssey into the heart of the asteroid belt, opens Sept. 26. "From here, the only way to go is up," said ... more NASA Collaborates With Russia On Foton-M3 Mission 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2007NASA is collaborating with Russia on a new robotic mission to conduct biological studies. The Russian Foton-M3 mission is scheduled for launch Sept. 14, 2007, from Kazakhstan, and NASA scientists will participate in several of the mission's experiments. NASA scientists hope the data obtained from the Foton-M3 mission will improve research techniques. The experiments will increase ... more Lumpy, Bumpy, Fluffy And Layered 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 12, 2007Observational and theoretical studies of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of ESA's Rosetta mission, are building a detailed portrait of the comet's nucleus as it travels around the Sun. Observations of the comet using the 8.2 m-ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) show an irregularly-shaped object that is about 4.6 kilometres in diameter with a rotational period of 12 hours 49 minutes. ... more Partners Sought For Singapore Space Venture 
Singapore (AFP) Sep 11, 2007A proposed Singapore spaceport, announced last year, has yet to get off the ground because the company is still looking for local partners to finance it, a US space travel company said Tuesday. Eric Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Space Adventures, said his company has received interest from potential space travellers across the region -- including Japan, China and Malaysia ... more Cluster And Double Star Pinpoint The Source Of Bright Aurorae 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 12, 2007Colourful aurorae and perturbations of GPS signals are just some of the effects of a magnetospheric phenomenon known as a magnetic substorm. Up to now, the onset of this phenomenon has been explained by two competing models: current disruption and near-Earth reconnection. A new study published 20 January 2007 in Geophysical Research Letters challenges this binary vision of substorm onset. ... more |
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White Sands NM (SPX) Sep 12, 2007QinetiQ's Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has exceeded the official world record time for the longest duration unmanned flight with a 54 hour flight achieved during trials at the US Military's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The flight trials were funded through the Ministry of Defence (MOD) research programme. The duration of the flight ... more Accused China says it's a cyber-victim too 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 11, 2007China on Tuesday said it also was a "frequent victim" of cyber-attacks, amid accusations from several Western governments that its military had been linked to hackings of their websites. "Cyber-hacking is a global issue and China is a frequent victim of hacking," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference, but stopped short of giving specifics. ... more Three times more parking spaces than drivers in US: study 
Washington (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Urban dwellers will find this hard to believe as they drive around the block an umpteenth time hunting for a spot to park, but a study published Tuesday said parking spaces in the United States outnumber drivers by three to one. Not only that, but the study conducted by researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, also found that car parks are bad for the environment, as they tend to ... more Toddler And Ape Study Reveals Higher Social Skills Are Distinctly Human 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 12, 2007Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, toddlers are more sophisticated in their social learning skills than their closest primate relatives, according to a report published in the 7 September issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS ... more Mediterranean's rich marine life under threat: study 
Rome (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Climate change has warmed up the Mediterranean Sea and threatens its rich animal and plant life, Italy's Institute of Marine Research (ICRAM) warned in a new report Tuesday. The alarm bell came a day before the start of a national conference on climate change in Rome. The experts said a cold current emanating from the Gulf of Trieste off northern Italy, which allowed the waters of the ... more |
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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 11, 2007The best way of tackling greenhouse gas emissions is for countries to pass laws that enforce the use of existing energy-efficient technology, a UN climate change expert said Monday. "Most of the technology needed to achieve significant reduction of greenhouse gases actually exists, doesn't have to be invented and actually is competitive commercially," said Marcel Alers from the UN ... more Iran nuclear cooperation will be 'positive' for oil market: minister 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Iran's cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog will have a "positive impact on energy markets," the Iranian oil minister said at a conference of petroleum-exporting countries Tuesday in Vienna. "Recent developments regarding the proactive cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which led to a mutual understanding, is an essential step towards ... more Iran FM to visit Russia 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to leave for Moscow late on Tuesday amid delays to the completion of Iran's first nuclear power plant which is being built by Russia, the state run news agency IRNA reported. It quoted an unnamed informed source as saying that Mottaki is due to meet Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Duma President Boris Gryzlov and Russia's atomic energy ... more Japanese nuclear plant reports radioactive water leak 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2007A Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tuesday reported a small leak of radioactive water, amid growing public concern about the country's nuclear industry. About 200 litres (52 gallons) of water leaked from a tank in a building adjacent to a reactor facility at the Satsuma Sendai plant on the southern island of Kyushu, a spokesman for Kyushu Electric Power said. The leak was contained ... more UN nuclear chief walks out on EU speech on Iran: diplomats 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 11, 2007UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei walked out on an afternoon session Tuesday of his IAEA to protest an EU speech which did not fully support his deal for new inspections in Iran, diplomats told AFP. "He walked out because the EU did not support the Secretariat," a diplomat who was at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors said. ... more
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