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Ariane 5 Launches Over Nine Tonne To GEO Transfer Orbit
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 15, 2007Ariane 5 achieved another heavy-lift record tonight (November 14), successfully placing a U.K. military relay platform and Brazil's new multi-mission telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The mission's total payload delivery weight was 9,535 kg., which included 8,735 kg. For the two satellites, along with the associated installation/interface hardware and Ariane's SYLD ... more Europe's comet-chasing probe completes key flyby 
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A billion-euro (1.45-billion-dollar) European scout craft completed a crucial fly-by of Earth to pick up speed on its 10-year mission to rendezvous with a distant comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. "An important milestone has just been accomplished," the Paris-based agency said after the Rosetta probe raced over the Pacific Ocean southwest of Chile late Tuesday at 45,0 ... more Rover Finds Way To Brush Rock Surfaces Despite Setbacks 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2007Opportunity is still parked in front of the rock layer known as "Smith" inside Victoria Crater. The rover has now lost two encoders that operate motors on the rock abrasion tool during the grinding and brushing of surfaces. Science team members and engineers have been working in test beds and computer sequencing rooms to devise creative ways of using the rock abrasion tool without the grind and ... more NASA Tests Lunar Habitat In Extreme Antarctic Environment 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2007NASA will use the cold, harsh, isolated landscape of Antarctica to test one of its concepts for astronaut housing on the moon. The agency is sending a prototype inflatable habitat to Antarctica to see how it stands up during a year of use. Agency officials viewed the habitat Wednesday at ILC Dover in Frederica, Del., as it was inflated one last time before being packed and shipped to Antarctica ... more Record-busting supernova prompts new ideas on death of stars 
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Astronomers analysing the brightest supernova ever detected say the titanic flare has reshaped thinking about the death struggle of gigantic stars. Supernova SN2006gy, located 240 million light years away in galaxy NGC 1260, entered the record books in September last year when it dramatically brewed into an explosion 50 billion times brighter than the Sun. It was about 100 times brighter ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2007 The seesaw battle between the Democratic 110th Congress and the Bush administration over whether to build an anti-ballistic missile interceptor base in Poland looks like staggering on for years to come. A key Democrat overseeing key elements of ballistic missile defense planning on Capitol Hill has come out strong against the plan. ... more Spy Sat Lessons Part One 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2007 The problems afflicting the U.S. space reconnaissance program are not only or primarily Boeing's fault: They go to the heart of the way Congress and the U.S. government do business and the lack of an adequate hard engineering base in American high-tech industry. On Sunday, New York Times reporter Philip Taubman published an important article detailing the long road of overestimations, ... more Cyclone poised to slam into Bangladesh, eastern India 
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A cyclone packing high winds and heavy rains could slam into Bangladesh as early as Thursday and India a day later, forecasters said. Bangladesh went on alert on Wednesday as weather officials said Tropical Cyclone Sidr, hovering over the Bay of Bengal, could hit the southeastern coast of the disaster-prone country within 24 hours. "The cyclone is approaching the coastal area of Banglad ... more Bangladesh delta is key buffer against global warming, says study 
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007The Bay of Bengal is an unexpected weapon against global warming as it helps store vast quantities of terrestrial carbon brought down by the Ganges-Brahmaputra river systems, a study says. Rivers bring down to the sea carbon in the form of soil and vegetal debris, washed down from slopes, fields and banks. But little is known about what happens to this carbon-rich sediment once it reaches th ... more Cyclone closes in on Bangladesh, India
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 15, 2007Authorities in Bangladesh and eastern India raced Thursday to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from vulnerable coastal areas as a powerful cyclone closed in. Cyclone Sidr, currently moving north over the Bay of Bengal and packing ferocious winds and torrential rains, is expected to hit land around midnight (1830 GMT). The first area to be lashed will be around the Sunderbans, a v ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Scientists in Britain said Wednesday they were able to slow and then stop a squirt of light in what they described as a key step towards the future of ultra-fast computing. The technique, called "trapped rainbow," would help optical data storage, with light replacing electrons to store information, according to their paper, released by the British science journal Nature. Controlling ligh ... more KAGUYA Captures The Earth Rising Over The Moon 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 14, 2007The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise* by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007 (Japan Standard Time. Following times and dates are all JST.) The Apollo project w ... more Boeing Completes Prototype Heat Shield For NASA Orion Spacecraft 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 14, 2007Boeing has completed a developmental heat shield for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) that is designed to protect future astronauts from extreme heat during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere following lunar and low-Earth orbit missions. NASA Ames Research Center last year awarded Boeing Advanced Systems a contract to deliver a Thermal Protection System (TPS) Manufacturing Demonstration ... more Opportunity's Rock Abrasion Tool Shows Anomalous Behavior 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2007During the past week, Opportunity continued to investigate the rock layer known as "Smith," the second of three "bathtub-ring" layers of rock inside "Victoria Crater." The vehicle is mostly healthy, except for a recent anomaly involving the rock abrasion tool. Planned operations with the rock abrasion tool failed on Martian day, or sol, 1334 (Oct. 25, 2007), during both the calibration and ... more Spirit Continues Drive As Power Levels Decline 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2007Spirit has been gradually losing power, with energy levels dropping to 320 watt-hours per Martian day (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour). Measurements of atmospheric dust, known as Tau, have been averaging 0.65. That dust level is typical of levels measuring throughout most of the mission, but power levels are lower than in previous years becaus ... more
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