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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2009 
On September 6, 2009, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this simulated natural color image of the Station fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles. The fire started on August 26 in La Canada/Flintridge near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (seen at the bottom of the image) ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2009The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday and began its journey back to Earth after a successful mission. Discovery undocked from the ISS at 1926 GMT and circled the space station to survey and photograph its exterior -- customary practice to end such missions -- before returning to Earth for a scheduled Thursday landing in Florida. Before ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 09, 2009The main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) started on Tuesday their final tests at a space training center near Moscow. Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket bearing the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 30. "It is a special day for the crews - they start the final test ... more  
Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 09, 2009New Horizons has sailed silently through another milestone on the way to its historic reconnaissance of the Pluto system, reaching the halfway point between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. The NASA spacecraft will reach 14.41 astronomical units from the Sun - 1.34 billion miles, or nearly 14 1/2 times the distance between the Earth and Sun - between 6-7 p.m. EDT "Only five operating space ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 09, 2009Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Madhavan Nair has said that heat alone was not the culprit as India's maiden moon mission was called off much before its scheduled lifecycle recently. A combination of factors including radiation, caused calling off of the mission. As experts from across the country and abroad began a review of the mission here on Monday, Nair ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 09, 2009XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray pulsator RX J0648.0-4418, timed to also cover the phase when the source was expected to be eclipsed by its companion, have resulted in a solid, model-independent mass estimation of this object. It appears to be a rare, ultra-massive white dwarf, whose continued study promises to provide sensitive tests for stellar evolution theories. Sandro Mereghetti and ... more  
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Microsoft, the French government, privacy advocates and other groups filed last-minute objections on Tuesday to Google's ambitious plan to scan and sell millions of books online. Batman and Superman publisher DC Comics, the National Writers Union and the National Coalition of Authors also added their voices to the growing tide of opposition to Google's book-scanning project. Coming out ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 09, 2009A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to spot weaknesses in dike structures. It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river and in the Netherlands. Dutch start-up company Miramap's instrument can 'look' into the ground and measure the amount of water in the soil. This is important in checking the stability of ... more |
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