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Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2007Astronauts at the International Space Station completed a seven-hour space walk hundreds of miles above Earth on Saturday, fixing up equipment to develop the orbiting laboratory, the US space agency NASA said. Two US astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Dan Tani, completed the spacewalk at 1654 GMT after moving and wiring up heavy hardware to a recently-installed module called Harmony, the National ... more Opportunity Peers Beneath Surface Of Bathtub Ring 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007Opportunity remains parked at the rock layer known as "Smith" -- part of the "bathtub ring" of rock layers beneath the edge of "Victoria Crater - - at "Duck Bay," the alcove where the rover entered the crater. During a test of the wire brush on the rock abrasion tool in a new mode of operation developed to work around recent encoder failures, Opportunity was mistakenly commanded to rotate the br ... more Mars Doubles In Brightness 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007During the past month, Mars has doubled in brightness and it is putting on a nice show for backyard stargazers. "Mars is starting to look really nice through my 10-inch telescope," reports amateur astronomer Friedrich Deters of LaGrange, North Carolina, who took the picture at right on Nov. 17th. "Very nice!" agrees Dan Peterson of Racine, Wisconsin, who captured a similar snapshot the next nigh ... more ESA And Inmarsat Sign Innovative Alphasat Satellite Contract 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 26, 2007ESA and Inmarsat Global announce on Friday 23 November in Paris the formal signature of the contract for Alphasat satellite, one of the world's largest telecommunications satellites. The Alphasat programme is a major cooperation between the public and private sectors. With Alphasat, Inmarsat will be the first commercial customer for the Alphabus platform, the new European high-power teleco ... more The Sea Launch Project Resumes Operations 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 26, 2007The space industry has lived up to its reputation. The fact that the international Sea Launch program has been able to survive its appalling January 30 disaster that badly damaged the Odyssey floating platform and is back in action less than a year later is worthy of respect. It does not matter that the launch of a multi-ton Arab communications satellite - the first since the accident - has been ... more |
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Cambridge, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2007New research led by a University of St Andrews astronomer has found evidence for what might be the raw material for the beginning of shrunken versions of our Solar System - miniature worlds in the making. In their study Dr Alexander Scholz, SUPA Advanced Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and Professor Ray Jayawardhana, from the University of Toronto, challenge the assumption that other pla ... more Mars Express - 5000 Orbits And Counting 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 26, 2007On 25 December 2003, Europe's first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other data. Today, the spacecraft reached another milestone in its remarkable career by completing 5000 orbits of Mars. During its mission to investigate martian mysteries, the orbiter has ... more US 'listens' to Russian concern on missile defence: Putin 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 22, 2007Russian concerns about US plans to base missile defences in eastern Europe are being heard by Washington, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "I talked about this with President Bush on the phone the other day," Putin told journalists after a Kremlin meeting with visiting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. "It seems that our concerns are being listened to" in Washington, he said. ... more Russia dismisses US offers on missile defence: reports 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 23, 2007Russia is not satisfied with written US offers aimed at allaying its concerns over planned missile defences in eastern Europe, news agencies quoted a foreign ministry source as saying Friday. "They have sent concrete proposals. We are continuing to study them, but our first impression is that they do not meet our expectations. This is not what was promised orally" in recent talks on the subj ... more Russia studying US missile defence proposals: agencies 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 22, 2007Russia is studying a set of written proposals it has received from Washington on missile defence, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying on Thursday. The proposals are a follow-up to a visit to Moscow last month by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said the spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin, quoted by Interfax. ... more |
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Tacoma WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months. Such episodic tremor-and-slip events typically last two to three weeks and can release as much energy as a large earthquake, though they are not felt and cause no damage. Now University of Washington researchers h ... more Interest in sub-glacial waters global 
College Station, Texas (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 The study of Antarctica's sub-glacial environment will be the next focus for polar research, predicts a Texas A&M professor who led several Antarctica studies. The scientific knowledge learned from the world beneath the ice sheets will change how humans understand the planet, oceanography professor Mahlon Kennicutt II said in a news release. The international scientific community ... more Bangladesh cyclone like 'mini-tsunami': UN official 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 23, 2007The impact of cyclone Sidr on Bangladesh can be compared to a "mini-tsunami" and there is a continued urgent need for international aid, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office said Friday. "It's essentially a mini-tsunami," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "When you see the damage caused on the coast, they are just ... more Life's Lubricant 
Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 26, 2007For the first time, scientists have directly observed how water lubricates the movements of protein molecules to enable different functions to happen. Scientists are now one step closer to understanding how proteins move when they perform functions essential for supporting life. In a paper published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ohio St ... more Evolutionary Comparison Finds New Human Genes 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 26, 2007Using supercomputers to compare portions of the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes, and found extensions of several hundred genes already known. The discovery is based on the idea that as organisms evolve, sections of genetic code that do something useful for the organism change in different ways. Th ... more
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