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Watching A Planetary Death MarchSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 An international group of astrophysicists has determined that a massive planet outside our Solar System is being distorted and destroyed by its host star - a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the planet, WASP-12b. It's a discovery that not only explains what's happening to WASP-12b; it also means scientists have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to observe how a planet enters this final stage of its life. "This is the first time that astronomers are witnessing the ongoing disrupt ... read more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2010Boeing and its customer NASA have announced that the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) K-L program successfully completed its system-level Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) in El Segundo on Feb. 19. When TDRS satellites K and L join the operational TDRS constellation on orbit, they will provide voice, data and communications relay services to Earth-o ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2010Astrium has successfully completed qualification testing on the Dispenser for the second-generation satellites of the Globalstar constellation. The qualification commission headed by Arianespace has ended the Dispenser's development phase, making it possible to finalise series production for the first flight modules that were developed in parallel.. The Dispenser is the structure that hold ... more 
Kourou, French Guianad (SPX) Feb 25, 2010Both payloads for Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 flight of 2010 are now in French Guiana, following last week's arrival of COMSATBw-2 at Rochambeau International Airport near the capital city of Cayenne. COMSATBw-2 is a secure relay platform that will deliver key services for the German Bundeswehr (German armed forces), and is a follow-on spacecraft to COMSATBw-1 - which was orbited by Ari ... more |
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Alien Invaders Pack The Milky WayMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2010 Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy are invaders from other galaxies, according to a team of scientists from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. In a paper accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Swinburne astronomer Professor Duncan Forbes has shown that many of our galaxy's globular star clusters are actually foreigners - having been born elsewhere and then migrated to our Milky Way. "It turns out that m ... read more |
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