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MESSENGER Returns Images From Mercury Fly-By Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2008 
MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On Oct. 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year. During the encounter, the probe swung just 125 miles (200 kilometers) above the cratered surface of Mercury, snapping hundreds of pictures and collecting a variety of other data from the planet as it gains a critical ... read moreOrbital Announces Long-Term Commitment To Arizona 
Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 08, 2008Orbital Sciences has announced a major long-term commitment to the City of Chandler by unveiling its plans for an expansion of its launch vehicle research and development, engineering, manufacturing and testing facilities under a "build-to-suit" agreement with Gilbane Development Company on land adjacent to its current location on South Price Road. Orbital is also renewing the lease on its ... more |
Nations at odds over major UN climate science report
US pipeline case heads to court in high-stakes free speech fight Cuba opens solar park hoping to stave off blackouts Pre-vote fears for Germany's bumpy green energy shift Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in scorching Pakistan city Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in Pakistan's hottest city Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032 Australia seeks to turn failing steel plant into 'green' hub SpaceX debris enters atmosphere over Poland: agency 
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NASA spacecraft soars past Mercury
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2008A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said. The spacecraft MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) flew past the innermost planet at an altitude of 201 kilometers (125 miles) at a speed of 23,818 kilometers per hour ... more NASA Tracks Meteorite's Entry Into Atmosphere For First Time 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 08, 2008NASA said Tuesday that its scientists had calculated a meteorite's trajectory and tracked its entry into Earth's atmosphere for the first time in the history of space exploration. The 2-meter meteorite entered the atmosphere over Sudan at about 02:46 GMT Tuesday and broke into fiery fragments seconds later. "We estimate objects this size enter Earth's atmosphere once every few months ... more KVH Announces Pacific Ocean Coverage For Mini-VSAT Broadband Service 
Middletown RI (SPX) Oct 08, 2008Taking a major step toward expanding availability of the mini-VSAT Broadband service, KVH Industries has announced that it has signed a 5-year agreement with GE International Holdings to lease satellite capacity on its GE-23 satellite to provide coverage in the Pacific Ocean via the satellite's North Pacific Ku-band Beam. Expected to go live in December 2008, the new coverage area will ... more  |
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Human error likely caused atom-smasher breakdown: CERN
Geneva (AFP) Oct 7, 2008Human error was likely to blame for the breakdown of the world's largest atom-smasher, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday. One of the 10,000 connections that join the 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) likely overheated and made a hole that leaked helium into the tunnel, the head of the project at CERN, Lyn Evans, told a press conference. ... more Gadget sales thrive during economic storm: CEA 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 7, 2008The Consumer Electronics Association said Tuesday that sales of gadgets are thriving as people hunker down in their homes to weather the brutal economic storm battering world markets. Sales of flat-panel televisions are up an unwavering 40 percent from last year and the videogame industry is poised to do more business this year-end holiday season than it did in 2007, said CEA economist Shawn ... more Chinese Scientists Start Studying Samples From Shenzhou-7 
Lanzhou, China (XNA) Oct 08, 2008Chinese scientists on Monday unsealed a box of solid lubricant samples that were aboard the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft. They will study the material for the next six months. "Two types of solid lubricant samples, after being exposed to outer space during the Shenzhou-7 mission, had shown obvious changes," said Liu Weimin, head of the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy ... more Ariane 5 Is Readied For A Dual-Payload Mission 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 08, 2008The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace's sixth mission of 2008 is completing its initial build-up in the Launcher Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport as preparations continue for a late November liftoff. This flight will carry two multi-role telecommunications satellites for European operator Eutelsat: HOT BIRDT 9 and W2M. The November mission was rescheduled from its original ... more |
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