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Changing Seasons On The Road Trip To Planet Nine
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 22, 2006As both summer and September end, the weather in Colorado is noticeably changing. And so is the pace and character of mission operations on New Horizons. We're now completing the major commissioning activities for our instrument payload, and beginning to turn our attention to Jupiter: our first planetary flyby target. Champagne Supernova Challenges Ideas about How Supernovae Work 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2006An international team of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a supernova more massive than previously believed possible. Hubble Finds Hundreds Of Baby Galaxies 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2006Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These galaxies thrived when the cosmos was less than 7 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years. |
Atlantis Lands After Successful ISS Mission
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Florida, Sept 21, 2006The Space Shuttle Atlantis made a flawless landing here Thursday after a successful 12-day mission that NASA officials hailed as proof their troubled space program is back on track. NASA chief Michael Griffin said the agency would be able to finish building "humanity's first really long-term outpost in space," the International Space Station (ISS), on time. Nigeria To Launch 2nd Earth Ob. Satellite In 2008 
Abuja (XNA) Sep 22, 2006Nigeria has started work on the design and construction of its second earth observation satellite billed for launch in 2008, Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency Robert Boroffice said here on Thursday. India Space Agency Dreams Of Lunar Ice Mines 
Ambedkar, India (PTI) Sep 21, 2006India Has a date with the moon in 2008. Preparations are on for the unmanned lunar mission to be carried out by the Indian Space Research Organisation. Chandrayaan will be launched by a modified version of polar satellite launch vehicle that would revolve around the moon at a distance of 100 km and probe into the possible existence of water and other resources on the moon. |
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Managing Mars Missions
Moffett Field (SPX) Sep 22, 2006Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, spoke at the recent Viking anniversary celebration. In part two of this edited transcript, Meyer provides an overview of upcoming martian missions. Like the Viking mission thirty years ago, these future missions all aim to improve our understanding of the Red Planet and its potential for life. MarsExpress Exposes The Face Of Mars 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 22, 2006ESA's Mars Express has obtained images of the Cydonia region, site of the famous 'Face on Mars.' The High Resolution Stereo Camera photos include some of the most spectacular views of the Red Planet ever. Mars Society To Hold University Mars Rover Competition 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2006The Mars Society is holding an International Mars Rover Challenge Competition. The contest, which is open to student teams from universities around the world, will require students to build prototype rovers and operate them remotely in an undeveloped desert area in the American west. |
Latest GPS Bird Ready For Launch From Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral Fl (SPX) Sep 22, 2006The second modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force is set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket on Sept. 25, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Surrey Delivers On-Board GPS Receiver To SpaceDev 
Guildford UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2006Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), Guildford, UK, has delivered the first of four flight SGR-10 GPS receivers to SpaceDev, Poway, CA. Surrey's Space GPS Receiver (SGR) is a 24-channel C/A code multi-antenna receiver designed for positioning, timing and orbit determination of low Earth orbiting spacecraft. Iridium Satellite Names Matthew Desch As New CEO 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2006Iridium Satellite LLC, the global supplier of mobile satellite communications services, today announced that it has named Matthew J. Desch, 48, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. |
Branson Pledges Three Billion Dollars To Develop Cleaner Energy
New York (AFP) Sep 21, 2006British mogul Richard Branson pledged Thursday to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The founder of the Virgin Group of companies made the announcement in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative headed by former US president Bill Clinton and aimed at tackling key global problems. Meet the Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 20063.3 million years ago, a three year old girl died in present day Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika. Though a baby, she provides researchers with a unique account of our past, as would a grandmother. Her completeness, antiquity, and age at death combine make this find unprecedented in the history of paleoanthropology and open many new research avenues to investigate into the infancy of early human ancestors. South Pacific Faces Intense Cyclone Season While Northwards Tokyo Faces Typhoon 
Wellington (AFP) Sep 21, 2006South Pacific island nations, particularly Fiji and Tonga, face a rough cyclone season in the coming months, a senior New Zealand climate scientist warned Thursday. Jim Salinger, of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa), said weak to moderate El Nino conditions were likely to increase the chances of tropical cyclone activity. Ten Years Needed To Recover From Pakistan Quake 
Islamabad (AFP) Sep 21, 2006Pakistan will need at least 10 years to fully recover from the damage wrought by last year's devastating earthquake, a top United Nations official warned Thursday. CONTENT PARTNERS
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A Dream Month For Ballistic Missile Defense
Washington (UPI) Sep 21, 2006September has turned out to be a banner month for the U.S. ballistic missile defense program. First, on Sept. 1, a Ground-Based Midcourse Interceptor fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California successfully hit and destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile fired from Kodiak, Alaska. China, Russia Skip Meeting On North Korea 
New York (AFP) Sep 21, 2006China and Russia stayed away from a US-organised ministerial meeting here Thursday on how to draw North Korea back to talks on its nuclear weapons program, officials said. US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said the Chinese and Russians provided no explanation for their absence, though he said the countries' foreign ministers had met earlier this week with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Ahmadinejad Says Nuke Talks 'On The Right Path' 
United Nations (AFP) Sep 21, 2006Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that talks on his country's nuclear programme were "on the right path" and insisted that Tehran did not need an atomic bomb. Iraq Study A Long Way From Over 
Washington (UPI) Sep 21, 2006After six months of research, including a recent trip to Iraq, the Iraq Study Group has made no recommendations. The two co-chairmen, former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., wouldn't discuss during a press briefing Monday what might be included in their final report or when it might be released. Hackers Offer Stealth Internet Surfing 
San Francisco (AFP) Sep 21, 2006A group calling itself "Hacktivismo" launched a web browser Thursday that promises to protect the privacy of Internet surfers from "hostile governments" or "data thieves." "Torpark," a modified version of the popular Mozilla Firefox browser, enables computer users to travel the Internet in a way that "leaves no tracks behind," Hacktivismo said in a statement. |
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