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 Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 01, 2009 
As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way. That grisly fate is unlikely, a new study now suggests. While astronomers know that such collisions have probably occurred in the past, the new computer simulations show that instead of destroying a ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2009The US shuttle Discovery made a textbook docking Sunday with the International Space Station where a total of 13 astronauts now begin nine days together improving and supplying the orbiting outpost. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed the docking procedure, which occurred at 0054 GMT, about 10 minutes ahead of schedule. Commander Rick Sturckow guided the ... more |
Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island
Ethiopians dream of an electric car future Study warns US emissions progress may flatline Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Press Release from Business Wire: International Treatment Solutions Group Top EU court upholds nuclear green label Invasive plants and bacteria threaten Iraq's Euphrates Sweden's Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans 
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Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 01, 2009India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday. "We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities. Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission," he said. The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2, Nair said. ... more  
Xichang, China (XNA) Sep 01, 2009Indonesian communications satellite Palapa D failed to enter a preset orbit after being launched at 5:28 pm Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. The satellite was launched atop a Chinese-made Long March 3B rocket. The first and second stages of the rocket entered space normally, but the third stage failed during a second-time ignition. Experts are ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2009There is no doubt that the topic of "space debris" is hot! It is a hot subject at NASA, DARPA, Air Force Space Command, ESA and in the board rooms of all commercial satellite operators. High anxiety is running rampant among these groups. Every debris mitigation technique has been reviewed and pursued. New satellites must have the ability to either de-orbit or move out of the way ... more |
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Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 01, 2009The New Horizons mission team has closed out a successful summer workout, putting its Pluto-bound spacecraft back into hibernation on Aug. 27 after seven weeks of functional tests and system checks. The mission's third annual checkout (ACO-3), which started July 7, "went very well," says Mission System Engineer Chris Hersman, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "New ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2009Our sun does not radiate evenly. The best known example of radiation fluctuations is the famous 11-year cycle of sun spots. Nobody denies its influence on the natural climate variability, but climate models have, to-date, not been able to satisfactorily reconstruct its impact on climate activity. Researchers from the USA and from Germany have now, for the first time, successfully simulated ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2009Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout Southern California. The Station fire, which began Aug. 26, 2009, in La Canada/Flintridge, not far from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had reportedly burned 105,000 acres ... more |
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