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 Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2009 
NASA gave a final green light to continue the countdown to the launch of the shuttle Discovery Tuesday toward the International Space Station, carrying a crew of seven including a Swede. Mission officials said at a press briefing Sunday they saw no likely technical hurdles to takeoff August 25 at 0136 am (0536 GMT) from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... read more 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Aug 21, 2009 The United Arab Emirates, a key U.S. ally in the Gulf locked in a territorial dispute with Iran, is working on developing an indigenous surveillance satellite program that will have strategic implications for the seven-state federation. The U.A.E., a regional leader in the telecommunications sector, launched its first remote-sensing satellite, DubaiSat-1, on July 29 from the Baikonur ... more |
G20 billionaires could end world poverty in one year's earnings: Oxfam
Australia set to cede COP31 hosting rights to Turkey COP30 dragged into clash over gender language Brazil's Lula hunts for deal at Amazon climate summit EU states back new delay to anti-deforestation rules Lula lands in Amazon to press for climate deal To combat climate anxiety, COP negotiator recommends meditation Nations 'still far' from deal at UN climate talks: France Nearly a third of women face partner or sexual violence: WHO Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies 
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Sydeny, Australia (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Whoever does it, and whenever it happens, spacecraft from Earth will be touching down on the Moon in the near future. Several nations have already announced plans for robot landers, and more could be announced in the years ahead. It's difficult to find safe ground to land on, as the crew of Apollo 11 can tell you. But one thing that also constrains landings is the need for a communications ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Wow! Launchspace received a large number of emails regarding last week's commentary by George Jeffs. Most were in agreement with some or all elements of Launchspace's suggested solar system architecture approach. Many said it was a common sense way to structure affordable exploration while maintaining a continuous human space flight capability. There was considerable concern about the over ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Arianespace is keeping up its mission pace as three Ariane 5s are now in process at French Guiana - including the vehicle for tomorrow night's flight (August 21), which has rolled out to the launch pad with a payload of two telecommunications satellites. A total of seven Ariane 5 missions are targeted for 2009 - making it the busiest year of activity since Arianespace's commercial ... more |
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Corvallis OR (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A team of researchers says it has largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis. In a publication to be released Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Oregon State ... more  
Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2009The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently announced the launch of an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). "By funding this collaborative research with NASA, Purdue and The Pennsylvania State University, AFOSR continues to promote basic research breakthroughs for the future of the Air Force", said ... more  
Hanover NH (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the Physical Review Letters, the flagship journal of the American Physical Society, Dartmouth researchers propose a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory on a much-tinier scale ... more |
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