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Arecibo Observatory Spies An Asteroid Close To The Sun
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2008The paint is dry and it's time for science: After receiving its first fresh, full coat of paint in more than 40 years, Cornell University's Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico - the scientific actor with a title role in the James Bond film "Goldeneye" - made its first observation in more than six-months at 6:36 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. The Arecibo telescope spied an asteroid called 3 ... more Companies Reach Agreement To Coordinate Spectrum Opertaions For New Constellation 
Reston VA (SPX) Jan 02, 2008SkyTerra Communications, Inc, Inmarsat plc, Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc. report that that the companies have reached a comprehensive cooperative agreement for L-Band operations in North America. The agreement is intended to enable the re-banding and efficient reuse of a substantial segment of North American L-Band radio spectrum for the benefi ... more Unveiling The Mountains Of Titan 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 02, 2008By analyzing images from NASA's Cassini Radar instrument, a Brigham Young University professor helped discover and analyze mountains on Saturn's largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes of any celestial body in the solar system. Planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh is lead author of the discovery paper in the December issue of the astronomy journal I ... more Lockheed Martin Spacecraft To Be Flown For NASA's Grail Lunar Mission 
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 02, 2008The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) newest mission will analyze the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Earth's moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission is the latest mission under NASA's Discovery Program. Lockheed Martin will design, build and operate the GRAIL spacecraft. The $375-million GRAIL mission is led by principa ... more Making It A Glast Of A New Year 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 02, 2008Everyone likes getting high-tech presents for Christmas and Hanukkah, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington received a wonderful present this year - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). GLAST arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) soon after Thanksgiving on November 28 in a large container. It was shipped by a tractor trailer truck that transported it from ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Pakistan and India on Tuesday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an agreement between the South Asian rivals to swap such information annually on New Year's Day, the foreign ministry said. The information was exchanged under a 1988 agreement on the prohibition of attacks on each other's nuclear installations, a ministry statement said. Pakistan has sparked international concern ... more Walker's World: A non-boring 2008 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 Americans may be forgiven for thinking that this new year will be dominated by one of the most intriguing and hard-fought presidential elections since the watersheds of 1968 (which brought Richard Nixon, the rapprochement with China and the great inflation) and 1980 (which brought Ronald Reagan's revolution and the endgame of the Cold War). The bizarre and ever-longer process by which t ... more Taiwan president raps China over missile build-up 
Taipei (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Taiwan's president Tuesday accused China of attempting to change the status quo in the Strait by stockpiling more than 1,000 missiles, stepping up the rhetoric against Beijing. "Over the past seven-plus years, the number of tactical ballistic missiles deployed by China on its side of the Taiwan Strait has increased from 200 in 2000 to today's 1,328, by our accounting," Chen Shui-bian said in ... more Indonesian landslide, floods toll at 107 dead: health ministry 
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 2, 2008Landslides and floods that struck Indonesia's main island of Java last week killed 107 people and left 12 missing, a health ministry official said Wednesday, as waters receded in the worst hit areas. Torrential rains across Central and East Java provinces triggered landslides that engulfed homes and floods along the island's longest river which displaced tens of thousands of people, hundreds ... more Chile's Llaima volcano erupts in smoke and flames 
Santiago (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Chile's southern Llaima volcano erupted Tuesday after 13 years of dormancy, shooting smoke, debris and flames from one of its two craters and forcing 150 people in its vicinity to be evacuated, the National Emergency Office said. "We don't know what the volcano will do next," said office director Carmen Fernandez, adding that all nearby villages and towns have been put on alert for possible ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2007The US space agency said it has once again delayed the launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis that is to carry a European space laboratory to the International Space Station. No new launch date has been set. Faulty fuel gauges on the spacecraft's liquid hydrogen tank has already forced several postponements of the launch that was initially scheduled for December 6. Until Thursday, ... more Mars Rovers Find Evidence Of Habitable Niche As Perilous Third Winter Approaches 
Cornell NY (SPX) Dec 31, 2007Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter -- and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since bouncing down on Mars for a projected 90-day mission in January 2004. Meanwhile, researchers are considering the implications of what Cornell's Steve Squyres, ... more Hubble To Get Custom-Made Blankets 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2007The Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, scheduled for August 2008, aims to complete multiple upgrades and repairs, many of which are crucial for prolonging the telescope's operational life. One of the mission's many objectives is the refurbishment of its outer thermal blankets. "Thermal blankets are to spacecraft as clothes are to people," says Mike Weiss, Hubble's technical deputy ... more NASA Glast Satellite Gets Unwrapped For The Holidays 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 31, 2007Everyone likes getting high-tech presents for Christmas and Hanukkah, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington received a wonderful present this year - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). GLAST arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) soon after Thanksgiving on November 28 in a large container. It was shipped by a tractor trailer truck that transported it from ... more NASA J-2X Powerpack Testing Commences At Stennis Space Center 
Bay St. Louis, MS (SPX) Dec 31, 2007On Dec. 18, NASA began testing core components of a rocket engine from the Apollo era on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Data from the tests will help NASA build the next generation engine that will power the nation's new Ares launch vehicles on voyages that will send humans to the moon. The test was on the engine's powerpack ... more
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