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Perfect 10 Image From Repaired Hubble Telescope Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going ... read moreSearching For Primordial Antimatter 
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult. Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter ... more
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atrexx Targets The North African Oil And Gas Market
Remagen, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2008atrexx has confirmed the conclusion of major contracts for the provision of satellite communications to European suppliers in the Libyan oil and gas industry. The dedicated, IP-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) will be used to provide communications to remote exploration sites and to drilling teams based in the region, which has experienced significant growth as a result of the lifting ... more Phoenix Goes Quiet 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander, with its solar-electric power shrinking due to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, did not respond to an orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Mission controllers judge the most likely situation to be that declining power has triggered a pre-set precautionary behavior of waking up for only about two hours per day to ... more New ASTRA 1M Satellite Ready For Launch On 6 November 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 31, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that its new ASTRA 1M satellite has been fully integrated into the fairing of the launch vehicle, a Proton Breeze M rocket, and is ready for launch on 6 November (local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite built by EADS ASTRIUM on an Eurostar E3000 platform will be launched by International Launch Services (ILS) into SES ASTRA's prime ... more Review Sets Nov 14 To Launch STS-126 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 31, 2008Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch Nov. 14 at 7:55 p.m. EST after NASA officials conducted an exhaustive review of the shuttle, its payload and the International Space Station. The officials met Thursday during the Flight Readiness Review, a standard session that clears the way for the launch of a shuttle mission. Agency officials evaluated the processing of Endeavour and its ... more |
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NASA, South Korea sign mutual statement
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 U.S. space agency and South Korean government officials say they've signed a statement of intent to cooperate in civil aerospace activities. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the agreement was signed Thursday in Seoul by the Director General of the South Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Munki Lee and NASA Assistant Administrator for External ... more NASA Managers Delay Hubble Servicing Mission 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2008NASA managers have announced that they will not meet a February 2009 launch date for the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The decision comes after engineers completed assessments of the work needed to get a second data handling unit for the telescope ready to fly. The unit will replace one that failed on Hubble in late September, causing the agency to postpone ... more NASA Ames Collaborates To Develop Robotic Lunar Lander 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008NASA Ames Research Center is collaborating with a commercial partner to develop a lunar lander for future low-cost missions to the moon. Under the terms of a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement with Odyssey Moon Ventures LLC, Henderson, Nev., NASA Ames will share its small spacecraft technical data and expertise with the company. In return, Odyssey Moon Ventures will reimburse NASA Ames for ... more |
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