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Vietnam has chosen France to supply the technology for its second satellite, state media reported Thursday. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said France will also provide aid for the VNREDSat-1 project, which would be worth an estimated 100 million dollars, according the English-language Vietnam News daily. Vietnam last April celebrated the launch of its first satellite, the 300 million do ... read more 
College Park, Md. (UPI) Jan 8, 2009Two meteorites found in Antarctica are from an asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar to the Earth's continents, U.S. scientists said Thursday. The finding is the first from an asteroid with an Earthlike crust, the University of Maryland geochemists and other researchers reported in the journal Nature. The discovery also represents the oldest example of rock with this comp ... more
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Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Jan 8, 2009A mysterious extra-loud radio noise permeates the universe, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars, U.S. scientists at NASA said. The noise, picked up by a balloon-borne instrument, makes no sense, based on science's current understanding of the cosmos, the scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. "The universe really threw us ... more  
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Jan 8, 2009Pebbles that become part of clastic rocks in places like Arizona's Lower Antelope Canyon don't move with the wind but against it, a geosciences professor said. Rather than being pushed into formations, the pebbles, or clasts, have the loose sand around them removed by the wind, Andrew Leier of the University of Calgary said in the journal Geology. The sand removal causes scour-pi ... more  
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2009A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It might represent an entirely new class of stellar phenomena that has previously gone undetected in the universe, say researchers. Astronomers commonly observe intense flashes of light from a variety of ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 09, 2009Spacehab, has reached an agreement in principal with RSC Energia, Russia's largest manufacturer of aerospace and space equipment, to provide facilities and support services for its Mini Research Module (MRM1). The MRM1 will be readied for its journey aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle at the Spacehab Cape Canaveral payload processing location. Manifested to fly on STS-132 during the Space Shu ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2009The "SpaceLife" programme of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is the winning entry in response to a call for proposals by the Helmholtz Association (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft) for research scholarship programmes for early-stage researchers, beating competing entries from other Helmholtz Centres. The programme proposed by the DLR Institute of Aerospa ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2009A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences in Washington conducted the study. The resulting report provides some of the first clear economic data that effectively quantifies today's risk of extreme conditions in space driven by magnetic activity on ... more 
Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 6, 2009U.S. astronomers say planets may be able to form around certain types of binary star systems. Joel Kastner of the Rochester Institute of Technology said a disk of molecules discovered orbiting a pair of twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius suggests binary systems host planets. "We think the molecular gas orbiting these two stars almost literally represents 'smoking gu ... more |
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