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| December 15, 2008 |  |
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 Cape Canaverla FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2008 
Space shuttle Endeavour and the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft shimmered in the Florida sun Friday afternoon as the shuttle returned to its home spaceport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Atlantic coast. The modified 747 provided the muscle to lift and fly Endeavour from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to Kennedy. The ferry flight began Wednesday and made overnight stops in Texas and ... read more 
Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Dec 15, 2008Vietnam plans to launch its first remote sensing satellite by 2012, the local newspaper Vietnam News Agency reported Friday. The country is now carrying out its satellite-launching project, worth about 100 million U.S. dollars. The announcement was made on Thursday by chairman of the national Research Program on Space Science and Technology NguyenKhoa Son at the 2008 Asia-Pacific Regional ... more
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The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 15, 2008SES NEW SKIES has announced that Satlynx has agreed to a multi-year deal for the provision of 20 Mbps on the Africa IPsys/DVB platform aboard the NSS-10 satellite at the orbital position of 322.5 degrees East. Satlynx is a GE (General Electric) company specialising in two-way satellite broadband communication services. IPsysis a service from SES NEW SKIES that directly connects the Points ... more  
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2008New research suggests that turbulence plays a critical role in creating ripe conditions for the birth of planets. The study, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the prevailing theory of planet formation. Using three-dimensional simulations of the dust and gas that orbits young stars, the study demonstrates that turbulence is a significant obstacle to gravitational ... more  
Macao (XNA) Dec 15, 2008The Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST) Friday unveiled its lab of applied research of moon and planetary exploration science, which will analyze the data obtained by China's first moon probe Chang'e-1. The lab is co-established by MUST and the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC). Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist for China's moon exploration ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2008Moons outside our solar system with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect, thanks to research by an astronomer at University College London (UCL). David Kipping, whose work is funded by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity of the planets they orbit. ... more |
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Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 15, 2008One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously thought. If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter's gravitational pull could be creating powerful waves in Europa's ocean, according to Robert Tyler, an oceanographer with the ... more  
Sofia, Bulgaria (XNA) Dec 15, 2008Harvard's Minor Planet Center for the Solar System has acknowledged the existence of a new asteroid discovered by Bulgarian astronomers at the end of last week, a Bulgarian research body said Friday. The object, in the constellation Taurus, is two km in diameter and presently situated in the inner parts of the main asteroid belt, making its full turn around the Sun for a period of 3.2 ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2008Combining a double natural "magnifying glass" with the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinised the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away. They were able to study the disc with a level of detail a thousand times better than that of the best telescopes in the world, providing the first observational confirmation of the ... more |
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