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| November 24, 2008 |  |
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Two astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour completed a seven-hour spacewalk Saturday, in the mission's third scheduled spacewalk to repair the orbiting International Space Station. Americans Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, 45, and Steve Bowen, 44, cleaned and lubricated the station's three double solar antenna arrays attached to the orbiter's exterior, working in bulky spacesuits almost 220 m ... read more
Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2008The International Space Station (ISS) next year will be commanded for the first time by a European, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced here on Friday. Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne will be taken aloft next May aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, a`long with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadia's Robert Thirsk, taking the ISS's full-time crew from three to six, ESA said in a ... more
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Seoul (XNA) Nov 24, 2008South Korea plans to launch a maritime communication and weather satellite into space in June 2009, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said on Sunday. According to the ministry, the satellite was developed jointly by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and France's Astrium. It will be placed in a geo-synchronized orbit over the Korean Peninsula and be task ... more  
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 24, 2008The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a multi-institutional project involving the University of Pittsburgh. Published in "The Astrophysical Journal," the findings challenge the longstanding theory that the brig ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 24, 2008The thermal balance and thermal vacuum (TBTV) test campaign for the Planck spacecraft has been completed. During this campaign the spacecraft and payload were subjected to near-flight conditions inside a thermal vacuum chamber at the Centre Spatiale de Liège (CSL) test facilities. Over the course of about five weeks the spacecraft and payload were cooled down to operational temperatures. ... more 
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 24, 2008A recent model of the emission from ultra-magnetized neutron stars (magnetars) shows great promise in offering a unified view of the high energy emission from these objects. This is reported by Nanda Rea and colleagues in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal. The results are based on the systematic analysis of data collected with XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL. Magnetar is the name given t ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Two astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour have completed a seven-hour spacewalk as part of an effort to repair the orbiting International Space Station. Americans Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, 45, and Steve Bowen, 44, cleaned and lubricated the station's three double solar antenna arrays attached to the orbiter's exterior, working in bulky spacesuits almost 220 miles (354 km) above the Ear ... more  
Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2008With just six weeks to go before 2009, the International Year of Astronomy project is getting ready for its grand Opening Ceremony. This promises to be a spectacular event, held at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Headquarters in Paris, 15 and 16 January 2009. Hundreds of attendees are expected, including members of royal families, government mi ... more 
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 24, 2008ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is set to become the first European Commander of the International Space Station. De Winne,from Belgium,will fly to the Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in May 2009 with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk,which will bring the total number of crew on the ISS up to six for the first time. For the first four months De ... more |
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