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| December 12, 2008 |  |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008 
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments. The orbiter has returned 73 terabits of science data, more than all earlier Mars missions combined. The spacecraft will build on this record as it continues to examine Mars ... read more 
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 10, 2008Yahoo on Wednesday began dropping the axe on employees, following through on a promise to cut its workforce by at least 10 percent in an effort to right its financially listing ship. As Yahoo began its second round of layoffs this year, an investment firm, Ivory Investment Management, which owns a 1.5 percent stake in Yahoo, urged the firm's board to sell its Internet search business to ... more
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 12, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has set itself one more milestone to achieve, that of launching the 'W2M satellite', a communication satellite developed by the agency, from French Guyana on December 20. Built over a period of 26 months, this 3462-kilogram spacecraft is the heaviest developed by ISRO. K.R. Sridhara Murthy, Managing Director, Antrix Corporation ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Two international science projects - one led by The University of Arizona, and one with considerable UA involvement - lead Time Magazine's list of Top 10 Scientific Discoveries, crowning a year of unprecedented science achievement for Arizona's land grant university. Time ranked the Large Hadron Collider - the massive particle acclerator straddling the Swiss-French border - at the top of ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 12, 2008How can you tell when spring is in the air? The robots start showing up everywhere. And NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is happy to help make that happen. The Marshall Center will sponsor four high school engineering teams - three from North Alabama and one from Illinois - whose mechanical and engineering marvels will compete in spring 2009 in the 16th annual FIRST ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing intense radiation and searing winds of multimillion-degree gas that carve out gigantic bubbles in the surrounding cooler gas and dust. Other massive stars have raced through their ... more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Preparations for Arianespace's year-end launch of 2008 entered their final phase with the startup of payload integration on the Ariane 5 at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. During activity in the Ariane 5 Final Assembly Building this morning, the W2M satellite was installed atop the launcher's core cryogenic stage. W2M is one of two satellites to be orbited on December 20 for the ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 12, 2008The final four Europeans who are set to take part in a 105-day simulated Mars mission were presented to the media in Paris today. From March next year, two of the group will join four Russian participants inside an isolation facility in Moscow. A selection process which started with 5600 applicants has now been finalised with the presentation today of the final four participants at ESA's ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Dec 11, 2008 Space shuttle Endeavour, attached to the fuselage of a Boeing 747, will make another overnight stop Thursday, en route to Florida's Kennedy Space Center. After a Wednesday night stop at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Fort Worth, Texas, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ferry flight team decided on a second stopover before giving ... more |
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