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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory - have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. In this spectacular image, observations using infrared light and X-ray light see through the obscuring dust ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 11, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), has announced the release of the 2009 edition of the CEOS Missions, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) database. The CEOS database is the only official, consolidated statement of the Earth observation programmes and plans of all the world's civil space agencies. The database features ... 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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Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 11, 2009When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the nation. The butterfly payload was designed and built by BioServe Space Technologies in CU-Boulder's aerospace engineering department and will carry two butterfly ... more  
Aachen, Germany (UPI) Nov 10, 2009 German scientists say they have developed a way of automating the polishing work required by injection molds, now done exclusively by hand. The researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, said polishing injection molds is time-consuming and requires concentration since any blemish can render a mold useless. Up to now it has been impossible to use mac ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2009Total investment in the commercial human spaceflight sector has risen by 20% since January 2008, reaching a cumulative total of $1.46 billion, according to a new extensive study performed by the Tauri Group and commissioned by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Revenues and deposits for commercial human spaceflight services, hardware, and support services has also grown, reaching a ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 10, 2009Outer space, a place of enormous distances: for more than 30 years, unmanned spacecraft have journeyed to learn more about the depths of space, its planets and the nature of interplanetary space. Now, billions of kilometres from Earth, space probes are entering areas never before explored by humankind. At present, four of these space probes, objects created by human endeavours, are the ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 09, 2009Once upon a time - roughly four billion years ago - Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the planet and kept it warm. Living microbes might have even arisen, some scientists believe, starting Mars down the path toward becoming a second life-filled planet next door to our own. ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2009"We're back!" said Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society. "With an even more ambitious solar sail program than our last venture." The Planetary Society has announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010. The new solar sail project, boosted by a one-million-dollar anonymous donation, was unveiled at an event on Capitol Hill in ... more |
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