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Europe sets launch window for maiden mission of space freighter
Paris (AFP) Jan 29, 2008The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday said it expected to carry out the maiden launch of a robot supply ship to the orbital space station between February 22 and March 8 or 9. "The ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) will be launched from the 22nd February to the 8th, 9th March," John Ellwood, mission manager in charge of the unmanned space freighter, told journalists here. ... more Crew Oxygen For ISS Loaded On Jules Verne 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 29, 2008Three weeks into delicate fuelling operations, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has also been successfully loaded with oxygen. In orbit this will be transferred to the International Space Station's atmosphere for the crew to breathe. The maiden voyage of the first European International Space Station (ISS) resupply spaceship is targeted for no earlier than 22 February. ... more Station Crew Ready For Wednesday's Spacewalk 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 30, 2008The Expedition 16 crew aboard the International Space Station wrapped up preparations Tuesday for a 6.5-hour spacewalk scheduled to begin early Wednesday. After completing a daily exercise regimen, Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani configured cameras for use during their spacewalk. They later participated in a conference with specialists in Mission Control, Houston, for a ... more Monster Storms Erupt On Jupiter 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2008As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter likes to supersize its stormy weather. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream blowing at 370 miles per hour on Jupiter in March, 2007. The storms exploded in size, growing from 250 miles across to more than 1,245 miles across in less than a day. Ice plumes from the storms towered 20 miles above surrounding cloud tops. The storms disturbed th ... more Unusual Supernovae May Reveal Intermediate-Mass Black Holes In Globular Clusters 
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2008A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole's gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause tidal forces sufficient to disrupt the stellar remnant and reignite nuclear burning in it, giving rise to a supernova explosion with an unusual appearance. Observations of such supernovae could ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on its young age it has traveled too far to have come from our galaxy. Now by analyzing its velocity, light intensity, and for the first time its tell-tale elemental composition, Carnegie astronomers Alceste Bonanos and Mercedes Lopez-Morales, and collaborators Ian Hunte ... more Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch A Nova Surprise 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae and have produced specific information about one nearby nova. This sophisticated new system, called the Keck Interferometer, combines the observing power of the two 10-meter (33 feet) ... more Russia Puts New Telecoms Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 29, 2008Russia successfully put into orbit on Monday a new Express-AM33 telecommunications satellite, the Federal Space Agency said. The satellite, designed by the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Science and Production Association to provide TV and satellite communications all over Russia, was launched on board a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan earlier on Monday. ... more Study: Lithium, beryllium may be bondable 
Ithaca, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008U.S. scientists have determined "anti-social" metals such as lithium and beryllium will bond, forming stable alloys at high density and pressure. Lithium and beryllium, the lightest known metals, don't bind under normal atmospheric or ambient pressure. But a team of Cornell University scientists predicted they will bond under higher levels of pressure and form stable alloys that might ... more Outside View: Pakistan tests its IRBM 
Moscow (UPI) Jan 28, 2008The world panics whenever Pakistan conducts a test of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. A Muslim state with nuclear weapons and extremists is also testing missiles? But this criticism is hardly justified. What should Pakistan do if it has nuclear warheads? It couldn't possibly carry them by aircraft. Needless to say, there are some risks for the world in the Pakist ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008For centuries, continental wars that included Britain tended to follow a pattern. The British would send an army to the continent; it would be defeated by the French or Germans; the British would withdraw to their island; and their triumphant European enemy would draw up a superior force on the French or Dutch Channel coast. There was little doubt about the outcome, should that army land in Br ... more Analysis: Dirty money cleanup gains speed 
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008Illegal money hurts development efforts in poor countries and may be used to fund terrorism, but new cleanup efforts offer significant hope for curbing dirty money flows. A major step began last summer, when Norway requested that the World Bank conduct a study of illicit financial flows and tax havens, which Norway offered to finance. World Bank President Robert Zoellick subsequently ag ... more Making (Accurate Predictions Of) Waves 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands - and notes that warning systems to guard at-risk populations are still lagging. Costas Synolakis, director of the University of Southern California Tsunami Research Center is co-author of "Far-Field Tsunami Hazard From Mega-Thrust Earthquakes in the Indian Ocean ... more Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950S 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century. Radiocarbon dating of dead plant material emerging from beneath the receding ice margins show the Baffin Island ... more Tsunamis: The worst may be yet to come 
Los Angeles (UPI) Jan 29, 2008A U.S. review of potential tsunami hazards suggested 2004's catastrophic tsunami was far from the worst possible scenario in Indian Ocean borderlands. The research -- conducted by Costas Synolakis, director of the University of Southern California Tsunami Research Center, and Northwestern University Professor Emile Okal -- evaluated potential tsunami-generating sources in the area betwe ... more
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