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 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 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 17, 2009NASA 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 |
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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London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2009The 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 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2009NASA'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  
Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Global 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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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Astronomers 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  
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 18, 2009A 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 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 16, 2009NASA'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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