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Spirit Bogged In Sand: Now A Stationary Research PlatformPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2010 After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during the past several months to free it from a sand trap have been unsuccessful. The venerable robot's primary task in the next few weeks will be to position itself to combat the severe Martian winter. ... read more |
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Apple profits soar as end of paper books loomsSan Francisco (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 Surging iPhone sales worldwide have Apple riding a wave of record-high profit into a Wednesday mystery event at which it will unveil its newest miracle gadget. A doubling of iPhone sales helped Apple on Monday post record-high quarterly net profit of 3.38 billion dollars in the fiscal quarter ending December 26. "We're thrilled to report our best quarter ever," Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said in a conference call with analysts. Apple said revenue in the first quarter ros ... read more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2010University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Michael A'Hearn, leader of NASA's Deep Impact and EPOXI comet missions is vice-chair of a new report from the National Academy of Sciences on detecting and protecting Earth from collisions with comets and asteroids. In the report, "Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies," the panel says NASA cannot meet ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2010Over the past few decades NASA and other organizations have attempted to design satellites that would be capable of carrying out multiple missions. The fundamental idea is to create a single spacecraft design that could be duplicated over and over in order to reduce unit costs while satisfying several space missions and applications. To date, the results have been disappointing. The spacec ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 27, 2010It rises in the east at sunset, pumpkin-orange and brighter than a first magnitude star. You stare at it, unblinking. Unblinking, it stares right back. It is Mars. This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014. The planet's 14-arcsecond di ... more |
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SES ASTRA Signs Capacity Agreement With RAILuxembourg (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 SES ASTRA has announced that it has signed a capacity agreement with Rai. The Italian public broadcaster will use capacity on SES ASTRA's 19.2 degrees East orbital position to broadcast its new international channel Yes Italia to a European audience. The agreement follows successful test broadcasts in 2009 and also includes the delivery of uplink services from SES ASTRA's broadcasting centre in Unterfohring near Munich. Yes Italia is Rai's new theme-based channel designed to promote Italy's ... read more |
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