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GOES Satellite Sends First Signals From SpaceEl Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) built by Boeing for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite, GOES-P, is healthy and ready to begin thruster firings to move to its on-orbit test location. GOES-P is a Boeing 601 satellite that will provide enhanced Earth-observation and weather-monitoring services. GOES-P launched on a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. Eastern time on March 4 ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2010For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction. Recent research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), suggested that the impact could have occurred 300,000 years prior to the K-Pg e ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2010Keeping an infrared telescope at very cold operating temperatures isn't an option, it's an absolute necessity. For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated by stars and galaxies billions of light years away, it must be kept at cryogenic temperatures of under 50 Kelvin (-370 degrees F). Otherwise, sunlight would warm the telescope and this heat from the t ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 05, 2010For the past 12 years, ESA's Eduspace website has been a window on the world for secondary students and teachers. Now the website has been completely redesigned and updated, so that it provides an even more valuable introduction to Earth observation and its applications. The Eduspace website was developed to introduce Earth observation techniques and applications to secondary school studen ... more |
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Russia tests submarine-launched missile: space agencyMoscow (AFP) March 4, 2010 The Russian military on Thursday successfully tested a strategic missile from a submarine in the Arctic, Russia's federal space agency said. "A Sineva missile was launched on March 4 at 7:50 am Moscow time (0450 GMT) from the Tula rocket-carrying submarine in the Barents Sea. The launch was successful," the agency said in a statement. The Sineva is an intercontinental missile capable of carrying up to 10 nuclear warheads, according to the website GlobalSecurity.org. The missile, whose NATO r ... read more |
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