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India Not Engaged In Space Race With China Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 13, 2008 
As India prepares for its first unmanned mission to the Moon next week, ISRO chief Madhavan Nair has said that New Delhi is not engaged in a space race with Beijing, stating that the priorities of the two countries are different and there is no competition. Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar venture, is slated for launch on October 22 and India has proposed Mars mission in ... read moreOrbital Completes Work On NSS-9 Commercial CommSat 
Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2008Orbital Sciences has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite. Orbital's engineering team completed all pre-shipment procedures late last week for the NSS-9 satellite, which will be stored at the company's Dulles, VA facilities until the company is notified of the launch date. Orbital stated that the spacecraft was designed, manufactured and ... 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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Japan Maps Lunar Far Side Gravity Field
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2008Astronomers are announcing that the precise gravity field of the lunar far side and the global lunar topography map were obtained by KAGUYA spacecraft. The report is being presented by Dr. Sho Sasaki of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, in Ithaca, New York, to the 40th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The result is ... more GeoEye Releases First Image Collected By GeoEye-1 
Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2008GeoEye has released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its GeoEye-1 satellite. The satellite has been undergoing calibration and check-out since it was launched on Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. The Company will begin selling GeoEye-1 imagery products later this fall. Matthew O'Connell, GeoEye's chief executive officer, said, "We are pleased ... more A Strategy For Detecting Earth-Like Planets 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2008The Exoplanet Task Force of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee has released its report detailing a strategy for obtaining the first detection and characterization of Earth-like planets around other stars within a time frame as short as 15 years. Finding such planets would answer one of the great questions of modern science: are planets like Earth common or rare? We stand on ... more  |
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What Will Flight To Mars Reveal
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 13, 2008Deep space exploration is becoming an ever bigger part of national space programs. Currently, missions to the Moon and Mars are considered feasible. The U.S. has announced preparation for another space probe launch to collect data from the Martian atmosphere, scheduled for 2013. In Russia, Martian exploration is confined to ground tests so far. The project Mars-500, aimed at determining ... more Venus Express Searching For Life On Earth 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 13, 2008Scientists using ESA's Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy. Venus Express took its first image of Earth with its Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) ... more Smaller And More Recent Features On Mars Can Now Be Dated 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 13, 2008The crater-counting system that scientists have used since the 1970s to determine the age of large geologic features on Mars will also allow them to date small features, such as riverbeds and lava flows, according to William K. Hartmann, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute. Hartmann, who works out of PSI's Tucson office, presented the results of his study at ... more Shenzhou 7 Astronauts In Good Health 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2008The three Shenzhou 7 astronauts are reportedly recovering well after completing China's first spacewalk during the country's third manned space mission. They have been undergoing a series of physical examinations and rehabilitation in Beijing since returning to Earth on September 28th. Back from their historic spacewalk mission, the three crew members of Shenzhou 7 have undergone a ... more |
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