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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 16, 2008 
China on Monday launched a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan V," from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched with a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:22 a.m., the center said. The satellite will be used for data collection and transmission involving land resources surveys, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning, crop ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008What lies beneath Europa's icy crust? Richard Greenberg has been pondering this question for 30-odd years. His new book, Unmasking Europa, describes his view that Europa's hidden ocean and the life forms it may support are not that far below the surface. A professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Greenberg was one of the first to formulate how tidal for ... more
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 16, 2008Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate vicinity. Not a single atom should remain intact. At least that's how it's supposed to work. "We've detected a stream of perfectly intact hydrogen atoms shooting out of an X-class solar flare," says Richard Mewaldt ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 16, 2008Russia will launch on January 29 a scientific satellite to study the Sun's interaction with the Earth, the federal space agency said on Monday. The Coronas-Photon satellite, designed to study solar and global warming processes, was delivered on Monday to the Plesetsk space center in Russia's Arkhangelsk region, from where it will be launched. A probe designer said 80% of its ... more  
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008Astronomy is a science of origins. "It's the ultimate exercise in archeology," said Steven Majewski, a University of Virginia professor of astronomy and lead scientist on a new project to survey more than 100,000 Milky Way red giant stars - bright, bloated stars in a late stage of their evolution. The project, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, is one of ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 15, 2008Despite the global financial and economic crisis, the Europeans have decided against cutting allocations for long-term projects in such a high-spending area as astronautics and done just the opposite. The International Space Station program may get a slightly different twist now, and Russia and the United States become outsiders. Judging from a two-day meeting of ministers from European ... more |
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Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 16, 2008Scientists are expanding the search for extraterrestrial life - and they've set their sights on some very unearthly planets. Cold "Super-Earths" - giant, "snowball" planets that astronomers have spied on the outskirts of faraway solar systems - could potentially support some kind of life, they have found. Such planets are plentiful; experts estimate that one-third of all solar systems ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 15, 2008Google on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to "net neutrality" after a newspaper reported the Internet giant was moving away from its support of the principle that all Web traffic should be treated equally. "Google remains strongly committed to the principle of net neutrality, and we will continue to work with policymakers in the years ahead to keep the Internet free and open," Richard Whitt ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2008Launchspace has received approximately 100 ideas and suggestions on cleaning up space debris. Many of these are simply not realistic for reasons ranging from violation of physical principles to excessive collateral damage. Of course, many are just too costly when compared to other approaches. It is interesting and instructive to mention one of the seemingly good ideas submitted as an ... more |
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