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Europe Places Spacecraft In Orbit About Venus
Paris (AFP) Apr 11, 2006The 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. The Venus Express probe slowed down and locked into Venus's gravitational field at 10:08 am (0808 GMT), said controllers at the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. NASA Seeking Lunar Exploration Ideas 
Washington (SPX) Apr 12, 2006NASA officials said Tuesday the agency is seeking new ideas for lunar exploration activities that could be pursued as part of the agency's long-term exploration goals. NASA Joins Partners For Ocean Surface Topography Mission 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2006NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international agencies to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission in 2008. The satellite, named Jason-2, will increase our understanding of ocean circulation and improve climate forecasts and measurements of global sea-level change. |
Bush Space Vision Facing Critical Juncture
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 12, 2006Another space news website has published a leaked NASA study called "LRA-0" which is spreading despair and gloom through the space community. Many people are surprised that the architecture for returning men to the Moon laid out in the famous ESAS report is declared to be totally unworkable in this new document. Russian Aims For Moon And Mars By 2030 
Moscow (AFP) Apr 12, 2006Russia could send men to the moon within nine years and launch a manned mission to Mars by 2030, an industrialist said Tuesday, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the first space flight by cosmonaut Yury Gagarin. SpaceX Achieves International Quality Standard 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2006Space Exploration Technologies said Tuesday it has attained full compliance with ISO 9001:2000, an international quality management standard. SpaceX achieved compliance by submitting to an independent audit that evaluated the design, manufacture, and testing of the company's launch vehicles, and support services. |
Satellite Maps Track Chesapeake Bay Urbanization
Falmouth MA (SPX) Apr 12, 2006Researchers have developed new high-resolution satellite maps of the urbanization and other development surrounding the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in an attempt to help guide future land-use plans and policy. Satellite Operator SES Global Buys Out Shareholders In Broadband Unit 
Luxembourg (AFP) Apr 12, 2006SES Global, the biggest private satellite operator in the world, said Tuesday it was buying out minority shareholders in its Satlynx broadband communications unit. The Luxembourg-based company said it had brought its holding in Satlynx from 77 percent to 100 percent by buying Alcatel Alenia Space's six percent stake and Israeli firm Gilat's 17 percent stake. Tenth Planet Only Slightly Bigger Than Pluto 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2006Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have resolved the size of the so-called tenth planet, nicknamed Xena, and found it is only a little larger than Pluto. |
108 Minutes That Changed The World
Moscow, Russia (RIA) Apr 12, 2006On April 12, 1961, all ears were turned to radios as Union Radio director Yuri Levitan, in his famous voice that became a symbol of Soviet victories, said: "the Soviet Union has orbited Earth's ever-first satellite vehicle, the Vostok, with a man onboard. The Vostok is piloted by Major Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin, a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." Black Holes Dance With Incredible Violence 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 12, 2006The Chandra Space Telescope captured this composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 400, which shows microwave radio jets immersed in a vast cloud of multi-million-degree X-ray emitting gas that pervades the cluster. Space Station Crews Begin Their Next Phases 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 12, 2006The Expedition 13 crew aboard the International Space Station began their first full mission day Tuesday. Commander Pavel Vinogradov and flight engineer Jeff Williams performed some maintenance to the orbiting facility. |
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