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Azores Joins ESA's Tracking Network In Readiness For ATV Launch
Azores (ESA) Nov 01, 2005The Members of the Regional Government of the Azores have formally inaugurated the site of a new ESA tracking station on Santa Maria Island which will support the flight of Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle to the International Space Station. SSETI Express: Power Problem 
Paris (ESA) Nov 01, 2005Since Friday morning, the ground control station in Aalborg has not had any contact with SSETI Express. Analysis indicates that a failure in the electrical power system on board the spacecraft is preventing the batteries from charging, resulting in a shutdown of the satellite. Russia To Launch Satellite For World Space Observatory 
Sanya, China (SPX) Nov 01, 2005Russia is planning to build and put into orbit a satellite that will lay the foundation for the creation of the World Space Observatory (WSO), a project to explore deep space in the ultraviolet spectrum by 2008, a Russian senior space official said Monday, reports RIA Novosti. |
Hubble Spots Possible New Moons Around Pluto
Laurel MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2005The Hubble Space Telescope images above, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveal Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the planet's two new candidate satellites. Current Status of Hayabusa And Events Scheduled In November 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 01, 2005Hayabusa that arrived at the target asteroid Itokawa on September 12th of this year has performed detailed scientific observation so far by varying its relative position around Itokawa. Methane Found In Desert Soils Bolsters Theories That Life Could Exist On Mars 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the University of Arkansas. |
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Physicists Offer New Approach To Studying Antimatter
Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005What happens when two atoms, each made up of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, called the positron, collide with each other? Gates Takes A Swat At Malaria 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 01, 2005AIDS is bad, avian flu could become bad - but 2,000 children a day dying from malaria is very bad indeed. That's why Bill Gates, through the foundation set up by him and his wife, Melinda, has just given $258.3 million to help prevent and control malaria. Pakistan's Musharraf Wants Troops Out Of Quake-Hit Kashmir 
Islamabad (AFP) Oct 31, 2005President Pervez Musharraf wants Pakistan and India to demilitarize Kashmir but said Monday his country would not cut its defence budget despite the massive rebuilding costs. Scientists Gain New Insights Into 'Frozen' Methane Beneath Ocean Floor 
Victoria BC (SPX) Nov 01, 2005A team of scientists supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program has completed a unique research expedition aimed at recovering samples of gas hydrate. |
Rensselaer Researcher Awarded DARPA Funding To Improve Terrain Maps
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 01, 2005A researcher has been awarded $845,000 in funding to create improved computer representations of Earth terrain and beyond. Walker's World: Asia's New Naval Map Pearl Harbor (UPI) Nov 1, 2005 
The agreement to re-locate 7,000 U.S. Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa to the U.S. territory of Guam in the South Pacific is just one component of a far more ambitious transformation of U.S. military strategy in the Asia-Pacific theater.Elbit Systems' Part Of The Watchkeeper Program Is Underway 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Nov 01, 2005Elbit Systems has reported that its joint venture with Thales UK, has received a $500 million order, to be performed over an eight-year period for UAV systems. Iran Says Not Afraid Of War, Sanctions 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 31, 2005Iran is unfazed by the threat of war or sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme and mounting international pressure has only hardened its resolve, a senior official said Monday. |
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