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Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded To Unstow Arm
Tucson (LPL) May 29, 2008Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today. The Phoenix lander sent back new sharp color images from Mars late yesterday. Phoenix imaging scientists made a color mosaic of images taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on landing day, May 25, and th ... more Phoenix Coming Into View 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 29, 2008The Phoenix lander sent back new sharp color images from Mars late yesterday. Phoenix imaging scientists made a color mosaic of images taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on landing day, May 25, and the first two full "sols," or martian days, after landing. The panorama, now about one-third complete, shows a fish-eye perspective from the camera, a view from the lander itself all th ... more NASA restores radio contact with Phoenix Mars lander 
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008NASA has cleared up a malfunction that for several hours caused a rupture in communications between Phoenix Mars Lander, the US space agency said Wednesday. NASA said a "transient event" had knocked out UHF radio transmissions between Phoenix and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which relays data and instructions between the Phoenix and Earth. A statement early Wednesday from NASA' ... more Listen To Phoenix Descend To The Surface Of Mars 
Paris, France (ESA) May 29, 2008With data recorded on board Mars Express, you can hear Phoenix descend on to the surface of the Red Planet. After being processed by the Mars Express Flight Control Team, the sounds of Phoenix descending are audible, loud and clear. The data from the Mars Express Lander Communication system (MELACOM) that tracked Phoenix was received on Earth soon after the Phoenix landing. ... more India To Launch First Lunar By Year End 
Kolkata (IANS) May 28, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch its first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-I, between October and December, a top official said yesterday in Kolkata. "We are hopeful of launching the spacecraft in the third quarter of 2008-09. The mission would be targeted to capture images of the lunar surface," ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair said. "The objectives of t ... more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 29, 2008Arianespace is keeping up the mission pace for its workhorse Ariane 5, with the upcoming flight cleared for liftoff this Friday, and another being prepared for next month. The launch readiness review for May 30's dual-payload mission was conducted today (May 28), clearing the way for Ariane 5's transfer to the launch zone at the Spaceport in French Guiana tomorrow. This flight will o ... more DLR Scientists Produce An Atlas Of Saturn's Moon Dione 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2008Like the cartographers of old, scientists working with images from the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's icy airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future explorers across the surfaces of these remote bodies. A team of DLR scientists alongside colleagues from the Freie Universit�t Berlin has produced an atlas of Dione, a moon of Saturn. In charting the fract ... more Amateur Astronomer Discovers Fastest Rotator In The Solar System 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) May 29, 2008A British amateur astronomer has discovered the fastest rotating natural object known in our Solar System. His observations, made using a telescope normally shared by school students and professional scientists, have proved that the newly-discovered asteroid, 2008 HJ is revolving once every 42.7 seconds, classifying it is as a 'superfast rotator'. His discovery will boost our sparse knowle ... more Trimble Introduces GNSS Reference Sensor For Infrastructure And Network Applications 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) May 29, 2008Trimble has introduced an innovative Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reference sensor for infrastructure and network applications -- the Trimble NetR3 GNSS reference sensor. Designed to seamlessly integrate into any Trimble VRS (Virtual Reference Station) network or other infrastructure application, the Trimble NetR3 offers a new option for tracking and streaming data. Using Trim ... more Universal Receiver Tester Offers Innovative GPS Test And Simulation Capabilities 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2008Global RF and telematics test solution provider Averna today announced that it has successfully implemented a GPS Constellation Simulator software solution for the Universal Receiver Tester (URT), the company's commercial RF test platform. The solution provides live signal emulation for up to 12 satellites, and is immediately available in pre-release form. The final release will be availab ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) May 28, 2008Pakistan hailed the tenth anniversary of its first nuclear tests on Wednesday, saying it marked a decade of "responsibility and restraint" by the Islamic world's only atomic power. The foreign ministry issued a statement marking the anniversary of the detonations on May 28, 1998, which were carried out in response to nuclear tests by regional rival India and caused worldwide alarm. ... more Troops Scramble To Blow Quake Lake As More Evacuations Ordered 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Troops armed with dynamite scrambled Tuesday to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people. With the May 12 earthquake death toll already standing at more than 65,000, officials desperate to avoid another disaster sent 1,800 troops and engineers to try to reduce the dangerously high water lev ... more Walker's World: Russia's 'hypermortality' 
Paris (UPI) May 27, 2008 An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death. It jumps from the first page of the U.N. Development Program report entitled "Demographic Policy in Russia." "The Russian phenomenon of hypermortality comes to be observed primarily in working-age populations," it says. "Compared to the majority of countri ... more Thunderstorms may add to woes of China's quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Survivors of China's earthquake huddled inside tents near their devastated homes Tuesday as they awaited a predicted thunderstorm, wondering how they would cope. In Renjiaping, a village near the quake's epicentre in southwest China's Sichuan province, people made homeless by the disaster said their biggest concern now was rains predicted to deluge the area in the days to come. Wang Sufe ... more 420,000 houses collapse in China aftershocks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008More than 420,000 houses collapsed in quake-hit Sichuan province in southwest China after two fresh aftershocks hit the area on Tuesday afternoon, state media reported. Xinhua news agency, quoting local disaster relief headquarters, said the houses were in Qingchuan County and added 63 people had been injured there as a result, six of them critically. Southwest China has been rocked by ... more
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