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Weather delays Discovery space shuttle launch: NASACape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 Foul weather has delayed the scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery until Friday, NASA said. "There is a no go for 24 hours because of the weather," a spokesman at Kennedy Space Center said, as heavy rain fell on the space center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch is now set for 3:03 pm (1903 GMT) Friday, with weather forecasts showing a 60-percent chance of favorable conditions, the US space agency said. ... read more |
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  Did Earth Encounter Pieces Of An Alien Visitor Last Night Did Earth encounter pieces of an alien visitor last night? Apparently so! It appears tiny pieces of Comet Hartley 2 may have presented a spectacular and startling sky show across the country yesterd ... more | .. |
  Neutron Stars May Be Too Weak To Power Some Gamma-Ray Bursts A gamma-ray burst is an immensely powerful blast of high-energy light thought to be generated by a collapsing star in a distant galaxy, but what this collapse leaves behind has been a matter of deba ... more | .. |
  Virtual Flight On A Robotic Arm Only Andreas Knoblach's legs hang out from under the cover of the 'cockpit'. They are dangling five metres above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality 'capsule ... more | .. |
  Work On ISS Could Continue Until 2020 The International Space Station (ISS) could remain operational until 2020 if experts agree on the program of future on-board scientific experiments, a Russian cosmonaut said on Tuesday. The se ... more |
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  Last Tango In Space Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again - for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Find Evidence Of Cosmic Climate Change A team of astronomers has found evidence that the universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. They measured the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies, and fou ... more | .. |
  India Plans Two Rocket Launches Next Month India is planning two rocket launches next month that would carry on board home-made communication and remote sensing satellites, along with a Russian payload and a Singaporean micro spacecraft. ... more | .. |
  Flyby Observations To Offer Insight On Comet Nucleus Recent ground-based telescope observations by Planetary Science Institute researchers have offered new insights into the nucleus of a comet that will be the target of a NASA spacecraft flyby this we ... more |
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 Purdue Unveils Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator Purdue University has unveiled "Impact: Earth!" a new website that allows anyone to calculate the potential damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit the Earth. The interactive website ... more | .. |
 The Man Behind Comet Hartley 2 Over the last 40 years, Malcolm Hartley has done just about every possible job for Siding Spring Observatory's UK Schmidt telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The British-born, Scottish-educated ... more | .. |
  Acceptance Testing On Second R-4D Development Engine Completed Aerojet, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA ... more | .. |
 Cometary Poison Gas Geyser Heralds Surprises As NASA's Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe approaches Comet Hartley 2 for a close encounter on Nov. 4th, mission scientists are certain of only one thing: "We're about to be surprised," says principal inve ... more |
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  Israel to boost Tel Aviv's missile shield Israel's military has begun constructing a third battery of long-range, high-altitude Arrow anti-missile interceptors near Tel Aviv to boost defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. ... more | .. |
  50th Anniversary Of SETI Commemorated With New Observing Project This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of observati ... more | .. |
  Space Fence Program Completes Critical Milestone Raytheon Company has completed a successful system design review (SDR) for the Space Fence program. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to track and de ... more | .. |
 Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more |
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  New type of moon rock identified U.S. scientists say a new type of rock on the moon, the first new variety identified in decades, is probably ancient material born deep inside the moon. ... more | .. |
 Big Bang to be recreated in miniature Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider say they are planning to recreate the big bang, which many scientists say began the universe, on a miniature scale. ... more | .. |
 Samsung aims to sell 1 million Galaxy Tabs by year's end South Korea's Samsung Electronics Thursday launched its tablet computer in the domestic market and said it aims to sell more than a million of the Galaxy Tabs worldwide by the end of this year. ... more | .. |
  National Space Society Announces The Kalam-NSS Energy Initiative The National Space Society will hold a press conference Thursday, November 4 at the National Press Club to reveal one of the first initiatives ever undertaken by a non-profit American organization a ... more |
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 British watchdog says Google 'Street View' broke law Google committed a "signficant breach" of British law when its Street View cars grabbed personal data but the Internet giant will not be fined, the country's information commissoner said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Holographic video takes step forward with updated display Optical scientists said Wednesday they had taken an important step nearer towards 3-D holographic video, a technology with innumerable outlets in entertainment, conferencing, telemedicine and advertising. ... more | .. |
  GPS maker Garmin hanging up on smartphones GPS maker Garmin is abandoning the smart phone business after failing to find its way in the highly competitive sector with a handset released a year ago. ... more | .. |
  British government refers NewsCorp's BSkyB bid to regulator British Business Secretary Vince Cable said on Thursday that he has referred News Corp's bid for control of pay-TV giant BSkyB to media regulator Ofcom over concerns about concentration in the media sector. ... more |
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