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Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: officialMoscow (AFP) Dec 30, 2009 Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said Wednesday. "We will soon hold a closed meeting of our collegium, the science-technical council to look at what can be done" to prevent the asteroid Apophis from slamming into the planet in 2036, Anatoly Perminov told Voice of Russia radio. "We are talking about people's lives," Perminov was quoted by news agencies as telling the radio station. ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2009NASA's recently launched Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer opened its eyes to the starry sky today, after ejecting its protective cover. Engineers and scientists say the maneuver went off without a hitch, and everything is working properly. The mission's "first-light" images of the sky will be released to the public in about a month, after the telescope has been fully calibrated. ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2009Though there are no plans to investigate whether Saturn's moon Titan has a Santa Claus, NASA's Cassini zoomed close to Titan's north pole this week. The flyby, which brings Cassini to within about 960 kilometers (600 miles) of the Titan surface at 82 degrees north latitude, will take place the evening of Dec. 27 Pacific time, or shortly after midnight Universal Time on Dec. 28. The e ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 30, 2009The new year approaches with New Horizons zooming past another milestone: the NASA spacecraft is now closer to target planet Pluto than its home planet, Earth. "This is the first of several milestones over the next 10 months that mark the halfway points in our journey to the solar system's frontier, where Pluto lies. We on the mission team know we will have a long way to go, but are ... more |
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  Boeing-Built DirecTV 12 Satellite Delivers 1st Signals From Space   Voyager Makes An Interstellar Discovery   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 30, 2009At Kennedy Space Center (KSC), USA, Florida, the specialists from S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia started the next stage of prelaunch processing for Mini-Research Module MRM1 ("Rassvet"), which is to be delivered in the Shuttle payload compartment to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2010 for its subsequent operation as part of the ISS Russian Segment. On Decemb ... more  
Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2009Chinese scientists are lobbying for greater government support for a groundbreaking project that would see the launch of a satellite to investigate mysterious dark matter in space. The Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was focusing on developing China's first astronomical satellite to prove the existence of dark matter. "This wou ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 30, 2009The final Ariane 5 launch for 2009 lifted off Dec 18s from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. Flight V193 was the seventh Ariane 5 launch of 2009 and used the last of the GS version of the launcher. Liftoff of the 49th Ariane 5 mission took place at 17:26 CET/Paris (16:26 UTC; 13 ... more |
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