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November 18, 2009
Crew Continues Docking Preps
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
The crew has completed the set up of the Centerline Berthing Camera System that will be used during the rendezvous with the station Wednesday. With a picture-perfect launch day under their belts, Atlantis' crew members will spend their first full day in space taking pictures of what they hope will be a perfect heat shield. Pilot Barry E. Wilmore, Commander Charles O. Hobaugh and ... read more

NASA chief ready to work with China on space exploration
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 17, 2009
NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020. "I am perfectly willing, if that's the direction that comes to me, to engage the Chinese in trying to make them a partner in any space endeavour. I think they're a very capable nation," NASA chief Charles Bolden said. ... more

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Sri Lanka Signs Agreement With SSTL For Space Capability
London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have signed a landmark agreement. This agreement starts a Sri Lankan national space capability by providing an SSTL Earth Observation satellite and commencing the definition and design of Sri Lanka's first ... more

COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., COBE precisely measured and mapped the oldest light in the universe - the cosmic microwave background. COBE showed that the radiation's spectrum agrees ... more

SES Invests In O3B Networks
Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
Global satellite operator SES S.A. and Jersey, Channel Islands-based O3B Networks Limited (O3b), have announced that SES has made a minority investment in O3b to support the development of O3b's satellite-based, global internet backbone designed to reach the "other three billion" people in the developing world who today do not have access to the internet. SES joins Google, Liberty Global ... more

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  • NASA's Wise Gets Ready To Survey Whole Sky

  • Distal Rampart Of Crater In Chryse Planitia

  • Moon-man Buzz Aldrin urges Brazil to invest in space

  • Academy Space Weather Experiment Heads Into Space

  • Nanotech Experiment To Weather The Trials Of Orbit

  • Team Prepares To Uplink Commands To Spirit
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    Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Experiment
    Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
    Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the reference frame scientists use to measure positions in the sky. The National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) will be a key part of the project. For 24 hours, starting Wednesday ... more

    Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry
    Paris, France (SPX) Nov 18, 2009
    A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Using ESO's successful HARPS spectrograph, a team of astronomers has found that Sun-like stars that host planets have destroyed their lithium much more efficiently than "planet-free" stars. ... more

    NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis
    Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 16, 2009
    NASA's Atlantis shuttle blasted off Monday with a haul of spare parts for the International Space Station and some microscopic worms that could explain muscle loss in space. The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Center without a hitch for a 11-day voyage to deliver assorted gyroscopes, ammonia tanks and other equipment to the ISS. ... more

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  • Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's

  • Opportunity Approaching "Marquette Island"

  • Discovery Of A Retrograde Or Highly Tilted Exoplanet

  • Spirit's Flash Memory In Use Again

  • UK's Largest Fully-Autonomous UAS Completes Initial Flight Trials

  • US, China to step up military, space cooperation

  • Boeing Receives Study Contract For Submarine-Tracking UAS
  • Netanyahu warns of Iran threat from Israeli missile ship
  • IAEA inspects nuclear research reactor in Syria
  • Obama, Hu set for key talks in Beijing
  • N.Korea strikes milder note on eve of Obama trip to Seoul
  • India pledges full security for nuclear sites
  • Rajavi: Iran overhauls security service
  • Web security company warns of 'cyber arms race'

  • Iran defiant on nuclear as Obama warns of 'consequences'
  • Large quake strikes off Canada's Pacific coast
  • US Senate to act on climate bill in 2010
  • Obama calls for climate pact with 'immediate' effect
  • Warmer Means Windier On World's Biggest Lake
  • Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Up By 29 Percent Since 2000
  • China funds Cuban quake detection: state media
  • Cell phone use may be walking safety risk

  • US should follow France, boost nuclear power: senator
  • Downside Of Alexander/Webb Nuclear Bailout Plan
  • Google image search gets a "swirl"
  • Electricity-hungry Vietnam looks to join nuclear club
  • UAE military spending eases Dubai Airshow gloom
  • Leonid Meteor Shower To Perform Late Tonight
  • Chandrayaan Instrument Finds Magnetosphere Around Moon
  • NASA finds water on the moon



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