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Europe Places Spacecraft In Orbit About Venus Paris (AFP) Apr 11, 2006 
The European space probe Venus Express went into orbit around the planet on Tuesday after a 400-million-kilometer (250-million-mile) trip from Earth, mission controllers said. "Fantastic moment. We are finally around Venus," said mission chief Don McCoy at 0808 GMT during a video broadcast at ESA headquarters in Paris |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Xtar And Arrowhead Global Solutions Sign Master Service Agreement
Rockville MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2006XTAR and Arrowhead Global Solutions have announced the signing of a master service agreement that will allow Arrowhead to market and lease X-band capacity on XTAR's XTAR-EUR or XTAR-LANT satellites to a wide range of U.S. and allied government agencies. Mitsubishi Picks Arianespace To Launch SUPERBIRD-7 
Evry, France (SPX) Apr 11, 2006Arianespace said Monday it has been chosen by electronics giant Mitsubishi to launch the SUPERBIRD-7 telecom satellite for Japanese operator Space Communications Corporation. SUPERBIRD-7 is the first commercial telecom satellite to be built in Japan, as Mitsubishi attempts to challenge U.S. and European primacy in the market. JCSAT-9 Satellite Ready For Launch 
Newton PA (SPX) Apr 11, 2006Lockheed Martin said Monday its JCSAT-9 telecom satellite, designed and built for JSAT is ready for its planned launch at sea on April 12. The launch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time, aboard Boeing's Zenit-3SL rocket, which will lift off from the company's Odyssey semi-submersible platform, located at an equatorial site at 154 degrees West longitude. |
New NASA Ames Spacecraft To Look For Ice At Lunar South Pole
Washtington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2006NASA officials said Monday the agency has chosen a smaller, secondary payload spacecraft to accompany its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the Moon in 2008. China To Launch Shenzhou-7 In 2008 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 11, 2006China has begun production of the rocket carrier for the launch of Shenzhou-7 spaceship in 2008, a senior project official has announced. Jing Muchun, chief designer of the launch vehicle system of China's Manned Space Program, told China Central Television that procurement and production of the parts for the rocket carrier had commenced. Two Supermassive Black Holes Spiraling Toward Collision 
Charlottesvile VA (SPX) Apr 11, 2006A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. |
Mars Express Captures 'Happy-Face' Crater
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 11, 2006Mars Express captured this image showing the Galle Crater, a feature 230 kilometers (143 miles) wide located on the eastern rim of the red planet's Argyre Planitia impact basin. Strange Shape In Saturn's Cloudtops 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2006Cassini's latest close pass by the ringed planet shows a bright, somewhat distorted feature in Saturn's southern hemisphere. Touchdown! Landing The First Shuttle Flight From Space 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2006The landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia on April 14, 1981, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., capped what was perhaps the greatest test flight in history. |
Plants Used To Detect Gas Leaks, From Space
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Apr 11, 2006Gas leaks can be potentially life threatening in the home, but the presence of gas stresses out plants too. Professor Mike Steven and colleagues from the University of Nottingham have found that changes in the physical properties of plants can act as an early warning of leaks in natural gas pipelines. Satellite Instrument Helps Tackle Mysteries Of Ozone-Eating Clouds 
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 11, 2006An instrument aboard ESA's Envisat is monitoring polar stratospheric clouds to explore their role in ozone depletion. Germany's Gateway To The World 
Hamburg, Germany (UPI) Apr 11, 2006The scene resembles that of an Orwellian science fiction film -- without a single human being around, the giant Chinese container ship Shenzhen is unloaded in Hamburg Harbor, a port in Germany. |
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