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Rosetta Closing In On Earth Again For Second Gravity Boost
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 09, 2007ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on 13 November. The spacecraft's operators are leaving no stones unturned to make sure Earth's gravity gives it the exact boost it needs en route to its destination. This month's Earth swing-by is Rosetta's third major step on its 10-year journey to 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The trajectory correction mano ... more Data For The Next Generations 
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 09, 2007New Horizons is about to enter hibernation for its long trip to Pluto. It will be deep in slumber, but not forgotten, and we've taken a crucial step to ensure that its precious data will never be forgotten either. All planetary missions undergo a process called "data archiving," which protects the information against the ravages of time. These archives have proven their value -- for exampl ... more Discovery Mission Readies Station For International Partner Labs 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2007With the International Space Station's Harmony module set for docking by the European and Japanese laboratories, and sections of the station's truss and solar arrays moved and working, Space Shuttle Discovery's crew returned to Earth November 7, the shuttle glinting in Florida's midday sun. The 15-day, 10-million-kilometer STS-120 mission, which began October 23, continued construction of ... more NASA Unveils New Antenna Network 
White Sands NM (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., showcased the new 18-meter Ka Band Antenna Network, the first such system in agency history, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico on November 8. "Ka band" refers to a section within the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Much like how listeners can't pick up FM waves on ... more China to accept private funding for lunar missions 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 8, 2007China will accept private investment to help put a man and a rover on the moon, seeking outside funding for its expanding space ambitions, state media said Thursday. The funding opportunities will be open to "competent institutions and enterprises," the Shanghai Daily quoted a spokesman for the China National Space Administration as saying. "They could include scientific research organs, ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2007A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles in outer space. The infant star can be seen as a white spot toward the center of the Spitzer image. The two bubbles are shown as hollow elliptical shells o ... more Turkey To Launch New Telecommunication Satellite In April 
Ankara, Turkey (XNA) Nov 09, 2007Turkish satellite communication and cable TV operator Turksat will launch its new telecommunication satellite Turksat 3A in April next year, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday. "We have completed construction of the body of Turksat 3A," Adnan Celik, head of Turksat's training, planning and strategy department, was quoted as saying. Turkey signed an agreement with Fre ... more From Molecules To The Milky Way Dealing With The Data Deluge 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Most people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. And with DNA sequencing getting cheaper, scientists will be data mining possibly hundreds of thousands of personal human genome databases, each of 50 gigabytes. CSIRO has a new research program aim ... more Friday Spacewalk To Prepare For PMA And Harmony Moves 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 09, 2007A spacewalk to prepare for the relocation of Pressurized Mating Adaptor 2 and the subsequent move of the new Harmony node to its permanent International Space Station home is scheduled to begin about 6 a.m. EST on Friday. Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko will be in U.S. spacesuits and use the Quest airlock. Whitson, the lead spacewalker, will wear the suit wit ... more ATK Selects Avionics Contractor For Ares I First Stage 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Alliant Techsystems has selected L-3 Communications, to provide key components of the avionics subsystem for the First Stage of NASA's next-generation human launch vehicle -- the Ares I. In December 2005, NASA named ATK as the prime contractor for the Ares I first stage. In August 2007, ATK received a $1.8 billion contract from NASA to continue the design, development, test and evaluation (DDT a ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 8, 2007The United States has given Israel 155 million dollars to develop an advanced missile interception system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak's office said in a statement on Thursday. The money, which Congress approved on Wednesday, will help advance the development of a multi-layered anti-missile system that Barak presented to his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington last month, the statement ... more Israel says UN nuclear chief should go 
Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 8, 2007Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz called Thursday for Mohamed ElBaradei to be removed as head of the UN nuclear watchdog, saying he had turned a blind eye to archfoe Iran's nuclear ambitions. The call for ElBaradei's dismissal comes just days before the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to publish a new report on Iran's nuclear programme, to serve as a key part of further dis ... more Yellowstone Rising 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 09, 2007The Yellowstone "supervolcano" rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of Utah scientists report in the journal Science. "There is no evidence of an imminent volcanic eruption or hydrothermal explosion. That's the bottom line," says seismologist Robert B. Smith, lead ... more Paying Peanuts For Clean Water 
Mersin, Turkey (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, the team describes how this readily available waste material can be used to extract toxic copper ions from waste water. The ... more Western-Led Research Studies Ozone, Good And Bad 
London, Canada (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Depending on its altitude, ozone can be either friend or foe. Thanks to new research led by The University of Western Ontario, scientists will now have a better understanding of ozone, its origin and the role - good or bad - it plays in polluting our atmosphere. Ozone is a colourless, toxic gas named for the Greek word for smell because of its pungent odour. In the stratosphere, acting as ... more
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