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ESA Gives Go-Ahead To Build BepiColombo
by Staff WritersParis, France (ESA) Feb 27, 2007 BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' by the Agency's Science Programme Committee (SPC) last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in August 2013. NASA Set Flight Readiness Review For STS-117 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 27, 2007NASA managers will hold the traditional Flight Readiness Review at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 27-28 -- the next major milestone for mission STS-117. Before each mission, the review is conducted by top-level NASA officials, space shuttle program managers, engineers and contractors approximately two weeks prior to the opening of the launch window. They examine the readiness of the space shuttle, flight crew and payloads to determine if everything is set to proceed for launch. Grand Theft Pluto 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 27, 2007When New Horizons, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, swings by Jupiter on Feb. 28th, it will pick up a few souvenirs along the way - photos, data, and an extra 9000 miles per hour courtesy of the largest planet in our solar system. |
Russia Does Not Need The Moon
Moscow (UPI) Feb 27, 2007We are probably doing it just to remind ourselves of the maxim that the new is the well-forgotten old. There is no other explanation for this year's focus on the lunar subject. Many, if not the majority, do not see it as a problem at all. Everything is perfectly clear. The Murky Ethics Of Implanted RFID Chips 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2007What if your boss asked you to have a chip implanted in your arm? Would you do it? What if it meant getting a higher salary? Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, small circuits consisting of a microchip and an antenna that generate a radio signal when triggered by a reading device, are implanted in millions of pets and livestock to keep track of them and return them to their owners if they are lost. Malaysia Launches World's Smallest Microchip With Radio Chip 
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 25 (AFP) Feb 25, 2007Malaysia over the weekend launched what it said is the world's smallest microchip with radio technology in a quest to position itself as a leading high-tech chip producer for a global market. The Malaysia Microchip was released after more than two years of research and development. The smallest version measures 0.7 millimetres by 0.7 millimetres, according to officials. |
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Where Is Beagle 2
Swindon UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2007NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has used its onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) to take a colour image of a region of Mars in the vicinity of the intended landing site of Beagle 2. First Test Of New Autonomous Capability On Mars Is Promising 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 27, 2007Autonomous navigation software developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) drove the NASA Mars Rover "Opportunity" last week in the software's first live test on the Red Planet. Sensor Being Developed To Check For Life On Mars 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2007NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything alive. |
Defining Planets
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2007In 2005, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and his team discovered a large body in the outer solar system. It was not the first distant object that had been found in the Kuiper Belt -- the region is composed of hundreds of icy objects. Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Ready To Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 27, 2007Within a few weeks, ESA will invite the scientific community to propose the first missions for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The first medium-class mission should be launched in the 2016-2017 timeframe at the latest. The first large mission is targeted to launch in autumn 2018. DLR Founds The Institute Of Aerospace Systems In Bremen 
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2007The German Aerospace Center (DLR) founded the new DLR Institute of Aerospace Systems in Bremen on 26 January 2007. |
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