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Ariane 5 Wraps Up 2007 With Its Sixth Dual-Satellite Launch
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Arianespace performed its sixth successful Ariane 5 mission of 2007 on December 21, orbiting another dual-satellite payload and reinforcing its position as the world's leading commercial launch services company. Lifting off from Europe's Spaceport, the Ariane 5 GS vehicle deployed its RASCOM-QAF1 and Horizons-2 satellites during a 32-minute-long flight. With this latest success, Arianespace has ... more Russian rocket delivers Christmas presents to space station 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2007A Russian Progress spacecraft blasted off Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan delivering vital supplies, as well as presents and goodies for Christmas and New Year's, to the International Space Station. The Progress M-62 carried by a Soyuz rocket took off at 0712 GMT, a spokesman for ground control outside Moscow told AFP. Packed with fuel, food, oxygen and technical gear, ... more How Mars Could Have Been Warm And Wet But Limestone-Free 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Planetary scientists have puzzled for years over an apparent contradiction on Mars. Abundant evidence points to an early warm, wet climate on the red planet, but there's no sign of the widespread carbonate rocks, such as limestone, that should have formed in such a climate. Now, a detailed analysis in the Dec. 21 issue of Science by MIT's Maria T. Zuber and Itay Halevy and Daniel P. Schrag of Ha ... more NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission To 2013 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2007NASA has decided that the next mission in the Mars Scout program, originally planned for launch in 2011, is now targeted for launch in 2013. The schedule slip is because of an organizational conflict of interest that was discovered in one of the mission proposal team's Phase A Concept Study. This was the shortest delay for the mission possible because opportunities to send spacecraft to Mars occ ... more Messenger Zeros In On Mercury 
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Messenger's nineteenth trajectory-correction maneuver (TCM-19) completed on December 19 lasted 110 seconds and adjusted the spacecraft's velocity by 1.1 meters per second (3.6 feet per second). The movement targeted the spacecraft close to the intended aim point 200 km (124 miles) above the night-side surface of Mercury for the probe's first flyby of that planet on January 14, 2008. The ma ... more |
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St. Petersburg, Russia (UPI) Dec 22, 2007 An asteroid on a likely collision course with Mars could give scientists a look at what lies beneath the surface of the red planet. The asteroid, traveling at 8 miles per second, will not affect the Earth if it hits Mars, Russian Academy of Science spokesman Sergei Smirnov told RIA Novosti in a story published Saturday. NASA scientists have reduced the chance of an impact between ... more Global Map Reveals Mineral Distribution On Mars 
Laurel, MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Scientists are getting a clearer image of mineral distribution on the surface of Mars, thanks to the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), one of six science instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently circling the planet. More than 200 just-released "spectral maps" reveal the distribution of various minerals on the surface of Mars -- the first installmen ... more In Search For Water On Mars Via Clues From Antarctica 
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars -- by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth. In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of sediment. Those sites closely resemble places where water flows today in the McMurdo Dry Val ... more Taiwan handheld device shipments to surge: consultancy 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Taiwan likely shipped 6.2 million smart handheld devices in the fourth quarter, up 81.7 percent on last year partly because it produces Apple's iPhone, an IT consulting firm said Sunday. The country would also ship a similar amount of the devices over the first three months of 2008, which would be more than 150 percent up on the same period this year, the Market Intelligence Centre said in a ... more Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction chief lauds progress 
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 23, 2007When Kuntoro Mangkusubroto dashed in to lead reconstruction of Indonesia's Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it was with little immediate help from his own government. Despite leading an organisation set up by presidential decree in May 2005, Mangkusubroto was forced to go cap in hand to Australia's aid agency for the money to fly his team out to the flattened provincial cap ... more |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 21, 2007By working in synergy with a ground-based telescope array, the joint Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/NASA Suzaku X-ray observatory is shedding new light on some of the most energetic objects in our galaxy, but objects that remain shrouded in mystery. These cosmic powerhouses pour out vast amounts of energy, and they accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But very l ... more Christmas Eve Sky Show 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2007It's Christmas Eve, and you're snuggled cozily in your den. A glowing fire gently crackles and pops in the fireplace, and your head starts to droop as you nod off. Just then, something cold and wet nudges your cheek. You open your eyes to stare directly into a large black nose. It's time to take the dog for his walk. Grumbling in vain, you put on your coat, snap the leash onto the wiggling ... more International Group Plans Strategy For Mars Sample Return Mission 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 21, 2007ESA, NASA and an international team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars mission to bring soil samples back to Earth. The ability to study soil from Mars here on Earth will contribute significantly to answering questions about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. Returned samples also will increase understanding of the useful or harmful properties ... more Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Launched From Cape Canaveral 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2007A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle. Designated GPS IIR-18M, the satellite is the fifth in a series of eight Block IIR-M spacecraft that Lockheed Martin Navigation Systems has ... more Dutch cops to ditch helicopters for airships in green bid: agency 
The Hague (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Dutch police Thursday said they would do their bit to fight climate change by using airships instead of helicopters to monitor protests and port security in Rotterdam. "We want to do our little bit," the Police Chief for Rotterdam, Aad Meijboom, told the ANP news agency. The German-made airships will be equipped with cameras and will be deployed from next year, he said. They will also be ... more
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