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US shuttle mission to ISS extended
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station. The decision was taken by the director of the orbiting space lab, Mike Suffredini, on Monday and relayed Tuesday to the Discovery crew by mission control in Houston. As the US sp ... more Spirit Continues Studies Of Rocks On Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Spirit is healthy and continues to investigate "Home Plate." After completing extensive studies of "Site 3" using the Moessbauer spectrometer and other instruments, the rover proceeded toward "Site 4." Meanwhile, it's already time for Spirit to start thinking about winter again. Over the coming weekend, the rover was scheduled to acquire long-baseline stereo images of Home Plate and surrounding ... more Sun Cuts Into MESSENGER's Dance Around The Solar System 
Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2007MESSENGER entered solar conjunction on October 26, when the spacecraft's trajectory moved it behind the Sun and out of clear view from Earth for several weeks. The team has just a limited time left before the Sun's interference with the probe's radio transmission severely limits communication with mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. ... more Hubble - Graceful Dance Of Interacting Galaxies 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 31, 2007Two galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful dance choreographed by gravity, as seen by Hubble. The pair of galaxies collectively known as Arp 87 is among the hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby Universe. The Arp 87 pair was originally discovered and catalogued by astronomer Halton Arp in the 1970s. The 'Arp's Atlas of Peculiar ... more South Korean Rocket To Make First Launch In 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 31, 2007The first launch of a South Korean rocket from the Naro space center, 450 km south of Seoul, built with Russia's participation is set to go ahead in 2008, the Russian Space Agency said Tuesday. "The first launch of the South Korean Launch Vehicle [KSLV] from the Naro space center is scheduled for 2008," reads a report on a recent visit to South Korea by Anatoly Perminov, Russian space agency chi ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time. The 45.9-second burn nudged the spacecraft just the right amount to put it on a course to arrive at the red planet seven months from today. At Mars, Phoenix will face a challenging 7-minute descent through the atmosphere to land in the far no ... more Black Hole Record Shattered 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007In athletic events such as swimming or running, a world record will often stand for several years before it's broken. The same thing usually holds true for astronomical records as well. But in the case of black holes that form when their parent stars explode as a supernova, a record established less than two weeks ago has just been shattered. Black holes are objects with such strong gravity that ... more Washington University Scientists Analyze Solar Wind Samples From Genesis Mission 
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 31, 2007As reservoirs of valuable information go, nothing beats the sun. This sphere of heat and energy holds 99.9 percent of the solar system, saved in all original proportions after planets and meteorites formed. Analyzing the mix of hydrogen, oxygen and noble gases found in the sun can answer one of the biggest questions of the universe: How did our solar system evolve? Scientists at Washington ... more Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2007What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the center of the galaxy. The shells' presence indicates a titanic clash with another galaxy in the relatively recent past. The coll ... more A Proton Rocket Lifts Off Once Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 31, 2007On October 26, a Proton heavy launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian republic. Although this can hardly be described as breaking news, Moscow had every reason to be worried because Kazakhstan had suspended all Proton launches after one crashed on September 6. The unsuccessful launch of the most reliable Russian rocket came as a blow to the n ... more |
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San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed the world's most complex "phased array" -- or radio frequency integrated circuit. This DARPA-funded advance is expected to find its way into U.S. defense satellite communication and radar systems. In addition, the innovations in this chip design will likely spill over into commercial applications, such as automotive satellite systems for direct br ... more Europeans face mob anger over child 'abductions' in Chad 
Abeche, Chad (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Sixteen Europeans charged over the alleged abduction of 103 children faced abuse from angry protesters in eastern Chad Tuesday, as a row escalated in France over the government's failure to prevent their operation. Nine French nationals, including six members of the charity Zoe's Ark and three journalists, were charged late Monday with "kidnapping minors" and "fraud" for trying to fly the ch ... more Acoustic Sensor Being Developed In New Anechoic Chamber 
Tuscaloosa AL (SPX) Oct 31, 2007The University of Alabama College of Engineering is developing a new acoustic sensor to be tested in UA's new hemi-anechoic chamber. This new sensor could one day be used to help locate individuals trapped in collapsed buildings, such as after natural or man-made disasters. Typically, multiple microphones are used to measure the location of an acoustic source, but this project is aimed at ... more Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming. Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating glaciers of Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 km) north of Vancouver, Brit ... more How Did Chemical Constituents Essential To Life Arise On Primitive Earth 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Experiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building blocks of DNA, the key component of all life forms. These processes might have taken place on primitive earth, but how they occur is an unsolved puzzle. Chemists at the University of Georgia have now proposed the first detailed, feasible mechanism to explain how adenine, one of the f ... more
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