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NASA expects Hubble to be up and running by week's end Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2008 
NASA said Tuesday it will make an attempt to revive the space telescope Hubble, idled since september 27 by an equiment failure, officials said on Tuesday. Hubble was put out of service last month because of a technical problem with Side-A of its Science Data Formatter -- the unit that allowed the powerful telescope to collect data, format it and relay it back to Earth, yielding spectacular ... read moreExpedition 18 Crew Docks With Space Station 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2008Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-13 to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module at 4:26 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Hatches between the two spacecraft were opened at 5:55 a.m. A welcome ceremony and a safety briefing for the new arrivals followed. The new crew launched ... 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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Russian Space Tourist To Lose Out To Kazakh Astronaut
Mission Control (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2008A Russian space tourist hopeful is to miss out on a trip to the stars in the autumn of 2009, with a Kazakh astronaut likely to take his place, a Russian space agency official said on Tuesday. Roscosmos announced in 2007 that businessman and politician, Vladimir Gruzdev, would become the country's first Russian space tourist, most likely in November 2009. "There is not yet an ... more Rosetta Encounters Asteroid (2867) Steins 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 15, 2008The Rosetta spacecraft has performed a successful close fly-by at main-belt asteroid (2867) Steins, which belongs to the rare class of E-type asteroids that had not been directly observed by an interplanetary spacecraft before. The fly-by started on 4 August 2008 with optical navigation on the asteroid itself. This technique was used for the first time in the history of ESA spacecraft ... more Astronomers Peer Through Cosmic Dust To See Origins Of The Universe 
Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Oct 15, 2008Astronomers using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii are set to make major new discoveries about the origins of the planets, stars and galaxies with the start of a new survey to map the Universe. The JCMT Legacy Survey, made up of 7 projects, makes use of two sophisticated new instruments - SCUBA-2 and HARP - which will allow the astronomers to detect and probe clouds of ... more  |
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The Day The World Didn't End
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 15, 2008Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th: The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it devoured the Earth, as sensationalist news reports had suggested it might ... more Mobil Satellite Technologies Expands In The Americas With Intelsat 
Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Oct 15, 2008Intelsat has announced that Mobil Satellite Technologies has signed a multi-year contract for satellite capacity that will enable the network operator and communications provider to expand its services offering throughout the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. Mobil Satellite Technologies uses capacity on Intelsat's Galaxy 26 and Horizons 2 satellites to provide ... more NASA To Webcast IBEX Spacecraft Launch 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 15, 2008The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space will be launched on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 1:48 p.m. EDT, during a launch window that extends from 1:44 p.m. to 1:52 p.m. The two-year mission will begin from the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Marshall Islands in the ... more NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Off Launch Pad Monday 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 15, 2008Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, to await launch on its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. First motion of the shuttle is scheduled for 12:01 a.m. EDT. Atlantis' targeted launch on Oct. 10 was delayed when a system that transfers science data from ... more |
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