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ICO North America To Launch GEO Sat Using ILS Atlas V
Reston VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2006ICO North America (ICO) announced that it has signed an agreement to launch its geostationary satellite on an Atlas V rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). The Atlas V is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, which is a partner in the ILS joint venture. Russia Says Delay In Discovery's Launch Affects ISS Working Plan 
Moscow (XNA) Mar 17, 2006The Russian Aerospace Agency said on Wednesday that the delay of U.S. space shuttle Discovery's launch would disrupt the working plan of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and affect the takeoff of Russian cargo ship Progress M-57. Celestial Sleuths Unravel Munch's "Missing Moon" Mystery 
San Marcos TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today for his iconic painting "The Scream," but a century ago the Norwegian artist's fame was firmly tied to his idyllic masterwork "Girls on the Pier." |
Agreement Between ESA And CNES For Alphabus
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Officials of ESA and CNES, the French space agency, agreed Thursday to cooperate on the development of Alphabus - Europe's next-generation platform for telecommunication satellites. Astronomers Weigh 'Adopted' Twin Brown Dwarfs Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2006 
Astronomers for the first time have precisely measured the mass of a pair of elusive brown dwarfs, and the data from the twin objects - not quite big enough to be stars, but too large to be planets � match well with theoretical predictions.Deriving The Shape Of The Galactic Stellar Disc 
Padua, Italy (SPX) Mar 17, 2006While analysing the complex structure of the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers from Italy and the United Kingdom has recently derived the shape of the Galactic outer stellar disc, and provided the strongest evidence that, besides being warped, it is at least 70% more extended than previously thought. |
NASA And New York City Museum Bring Universe Down To Earth
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2006The American Museum of Natural History in New York City, in collaboration with NASA, debuts Cosmic Collisions this week. The newest planetarium dome show transports audiences through time and space to view the evolving universe and witness galactic events that changed the course of life on Earth. Moonquakes 
Notre Dame IN (SPX) Mar 16, 2006NASA astronauts are going back to the moon and when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. That's the surprising conclusion of Clive R. Neal, associate professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame after he and a team of 15 other planetary scientists reexamined Apollo data from the 1970s. |
Integral Looks At Earth To Seek Source Of Cosmic Radiation
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: observing Earth from space. Integral Catches Stellar 'Corpses' By The Tail 
Utrecht, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA's gamma-ray observatory Integral. This discovery links these objects to the most magnetically active bodies in the Universe and forces scientists to reconsider just how dead such stellar corpses really are. |
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