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 Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2008 
Magnetic substorms on Earth disrupt orbiting satellites, including telecommunication satellites and global positioning systems. This mysterious phenomenon has been studied with ESA's Cluster satellites, comparing it with magnetic substorms on the giant planet Jupiter for a better understanding. How the magnetosphere gets stormy planets such as Mercury, Earth or Jupiter that have their own ... read more 
London (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Four teddy bears, fully decked out in custom-made spacesuits, were launched to the edge of space this week as part of a British university experiment. Blasting off from Cambridge University's Churchill College on Monday, they were attached to a helium balloon and fitted with multiple cameras, a GPS receiver, flight computer and radio for the two-hour nine-minute flight, which saw them rise ... more
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Hong Kong (XNA) Dec 08, 2008A deputy chief commander of China's manned space project who headed a visiting manned space delegation gave some clues on when Hong Kong could have its first astronaut. Local reporters looking anxiously for clues put forward the question on when the city could have its first astronaut shortly after the beginning of the Q and A session, and pressed on later when they did not get a response ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008The Progress M-65 cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station on September 17 and served as a temporary space lab, has been "buried" in the Pacific Ocean, Russia's Mission Control said Sunday. "The cargo spacecraft's remaining fragments fell into the ocean after re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere is 11:49 a.m. Moscow time [8:49 GMT] on Sunday," Mission Control ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 5, 2008If the Phoenix Lander comes back to life on Mars, Twitter users could be among the first to know. NASA gave the historic Space Age mission an Internet Age spin by adding a Twitter page, enabling the robotic interplanetary explorer to answer the hot micro-blogging website's trademark query: "What are you doing?" Twitter rocketed to popularity with technology that lets people use mobile ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2008NASA has assigned the crews for space shuttle missions STS-130 and STS-131. The STS-130 mission will deliver a third connecting module to the International Space Station and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. The STS-131 mission will deliver research and science experiment equipment, a new sleeping area and supplies to the station in a logistics module ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Russia on Friday signed landmark accords with its traditional ally India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as well as a cooperation accord on manned space flight. Russia becomes the ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2008March 2009 will see two European participants entering a set of modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Together with four Russian participants, they will be sealed inside these isolation chambers for 105 days. This joint ESA IBMP campaign is a preparatory study leading up to the 520-day isolation study in the form of a full-fledged simulation of a mission to Mars ... more  
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2008The Mercury-bound spacecraft MESSENGER completed the first part of a two-part deep-space maneuver today, providing the expected 90% of the velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009. A 4.5-minute firing of its bi-propellant engine increased the probe's speed relative to the Sun by 219 meters per second (489 miles per hour ... more |
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